Amazon pay-per-click audit services that find every dollar your ad account is wasting right now
A 72-point audit across campaign structure, keyword coverage, bid strategy, match types, negative keywords, and attribution. You receive a scored report and a prioritized waste-elimination roadmap in 5 business days.
Submit ad spend data → call within 48 hours → audit delivered in 5 business days
Most Amazon ad accounts waste 20 to 30% of their budget on problems that are invisible without a structured audit
The spend happens every day. The waste compounds every week. A pay-per-click audit makes every problem visible and gives your team a specific fix for each one.
Broad match campaigns spend against hundreds of irrelevant search terms. No one has reviewed the search term report systematically in months.
Negative keyword lists are thin or missing entirely. Your campaigns are cannibalized by your own products competing against each other.
Bids are set by rules that were created at launch and never reviewed against actual conversion data by keyword or placement.
Your total advertising cost of sales is rising but you cannot identify which specific campaign, ad group, or keyword is the driver.
Campaign structure has grown organically with no architecture. Duplicate keywords across campaigns fight each other and inflate your cost per click.
Every wasted search term is identified, categorized by severity, and added to a prioritized negative keyword list your team can implement the day the report arrives.
Campaign cannibalization is mapped. Every ASIN competing against itself across campaigns gets a restructure recommendation.
Bid opportunities are ranked by estimated total advertising cost of sales reduction impact, not by campaign name or alphabetical order.
Total advertising cost of sales contribution by campaign type is isolated. Your team knows exactly which budget line is driving the blended increase.
Campaign architecture gaps are documented with a recommended restructure plan organized by implementation priority.
How much is your unaudited pay-per-click account costing you per day?
Across 120+ pay-per-click audits, we find an average of 23% wasted spend in unaudited Amazon ad accounts. Enter your monthly ad spend and see how much is likely being lost while you are still waiting to act.
Your current Amazon ad spend
Based on 23% average waste found across 120+ pay-per-click audits. Accounts unaudited for longer accumulate more compounding inefficiency through duplicate keywords, growing negative keyword gaps, and uncorrected match type drift.
Estimated daily ad waste (ticking live)
Amount your account is likely wasting every day without a structured audit
Total estimated waste since last audit
Across 6 months of unaudited ad spend
Monthly waste estimate
At 23% average waste rate. A pay-per-click audit identifies the specific campaigns and keywords driving this.
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See Amazon Audit PricingFive audit categories, every one an active source of wasted spend
Each category covers a specific layer of your Amazon pay-per-click account. Issues compound across layers. Fixing one without the others is why accounts stay inefficient despite ongoing management.
Campaign structure and architecture
Your campaign structure determines whether your budget is controlled or chaotic. This category audits how your campaigns are organized, whether ASINs are isolated correctly by match type, whether auto and manual campaigns are structured to work together, and whether your campaign names follow a consistent logic that allows actual analysis.
- ASIN isolation by match type: exact versus phrase versus broad in separate ad groups
- Auto-to-manual harvest pipeline: whether winning auto terms are promoted correctly
- Cross-ASIN cannibalization: products competing against each other in the same auction
Keyword coverage and match type distribution
Keyword coverage gaps mean you are invisible to buyers who are ready to purchase. This category maps your keyword coverage against the actual search terms driving traffic to your category on Amazon today, identifies match types that are over- or under-weighted, and flags keywords in your top ad spend that are converting poorly relative to organic rank.
- High-volume category terms missing from all match types and campaigns
- Keywords defended by paid where organic rank is already top 5. Spend can be redirected.
- Match type distribution analysis: whether broad is being used as a research tool or as a conversion tool
Negative keyword coverage and search term waste
Negative keywords are the fastest source of recoverable wasted spend in any Amazon ad account. This category reviews your 90-day search term report, identifies irrelevant and low-converting terms that are consuming budget, categorizes them by wasted spend volume, and outputs a ready-to-upload negative keyword list. Most unaudited accounts are missing hundreds of obvious negatives.
- Search terms with spend above target advertising cost of sales and zero conversions in 90 days
- Category-irrelevant terms driving impressions but no clicks, wasting relevance signals
- Competitor brand terms where your product is not a genuine alternative. Qualified buyers leave immediately.
Bid strategy and placement performance
Placement-level conversion rates on Amazon differ significantly. Top of search, rest of search, and product pages each convert differently for your category and your ASINs specifically. This category analyzes your bid modifiers against actual placement-level performance data, identifies where you are over-bidding relative to conversion rate, and recommends placement-specific adjustments.
- Placement-level return on ad spend and advertising cost of sales by campaign type: top of search, rest of search, product pages separately
- Bid modifier recommendations calibrated to actual conversion rate differentials by placement
- Dynamic versus fixed bid strategy review against your total advertising cost of sales target and organic rank position
Budget allocation and attribution audit
Budget allocation problems are invisible until you have attribution data across the full funnel. This category audits whether your budget is proportionally allocated across campaign types relative to their actual revenue contribution, whether your Sponsored Products budget runs out mid-day on peak shopping days, and whether your attribution window settings are producing accurate or misleading return on ad spend numbers.
- Budget exhaustion timing: whether campaigns go dark during peak buying windows
- Revenue attribution accuracy: whether your reported return on ad spend includes branded organic sales being credited to paid
- Portfolio-to-campaign budget ratio: whether money is stuck in high-level rules and not reaching individual campaigns
Data-driven paid campaign optimization scaled revenue to $15 million
Across 120+ pay-per-click audits conducted by the Redefine team, recoverable through negative keyword addition, bid adjustment, and campaign restructuring
Every check covers a specific field, campaign setting, or data pattern that is a known source of ad spend inefficiency on Amazon
From submitted access to full scored report with prioritized fix roadmap. Your competitive landscape on Amazon does not wait.
Global provider of security camera systems for residential and commercial customers, running a high-volume ecommerce operation across multiple international markets.
Marketing efforts required improved targeting, reliable performance tracking, and return on investment optimization across multiple paid channels to support growth in a competitive security market while expanding globally. Without structured campaign analysis, budget allocation was driven by habit rather than data.
A structured multi-channel paid advertising strategy was implemented across paid search and social advertising, with continuous campaign monitoring, conversion tracking, and performance-based budget optimization. GA4 attribution was configured to measure what was actually driving revenue, enabling accurate spend decisions rather than reporting return on ad spend that included organic attribution.
Annual revenue through data-driven campaign execution. Revenue scaled through structured optimization, not by increasing spend indiscriminately.
GA4 attribution configured to provide accurate cross-channel revenue measurement, enabling budget decisions based on actual conversion data rather than estimated attribution
Continuous monitoring of user engagement, conversions, and return on investment across paid search and social, with weekly budget reallocation based on actual performance, not campaign age
Three things that separate a real pay-per-click audit from a campaign performance screenshot
The fix roadmap is ordered by estimated total advertising cost of sales reduction, not by problem category
Most pay-per-click audit reports group findings by category: negative keyword issues, bid issues, structure issues. That is logical but useless for prioritization. Your team needs to know which fix to implement first based on how much total advertising cost of sales it reduces, not which tab it falls under in the audit spreadsheet. Every fix in our roadmap comes with an estimated total advertising cost of sales impact so you can sequence implementation by financial return.
We check attribution before reporting return on ad spend. Most audits do not.
A significant portion of the return on ad spend reported by Amazon's ad platform reflects organic sales that happen after an ad impression but are attributed to paid. Before we report your account's actual performance, we check your attribution window settings, your branded search cannibalization rate, and whether your conversion data is being measured accurately. Return on ad spend built on flawed attribution is not a metric. It is noise.
The negative keyword list ships as a ready-to-upload file, not a list to copy manually
Negative keyword recommendations are only useful if they get implemented. We deliver the negative keyword output as a properly formatted bulk upload file for your ad account: campaign name, ad group, keyword text, match type, all correctly formatted so your team can upload it directly on the day the audit arrives. No reformatting, no copying from a PDF into the platform interface, no opportunities for implementation errors.
What brands ask before ordering a pay-per-click audit
What ad account access do you need to conduct the pay-per-click audit?
We request read-only access to your Seller Central advertising console. Read access gives us visibility into campaign structure, keyword data, search term reports, bid settings, placement data, and budget pacing without the ability to make any changes. We can also accept a data export from your account if you prefer not to grant platform access. For a 90-day search term report analysis, you can export directly from Amazon's Campaign Manager and share as a file. Access is removed or expires after the audit is delivered.
Does the audit include implementing the fixes or just identifying them?
The pay-per-click audit delivers findings and a prioritized fix roadmap including a ready-to-upload negative keyword file. Implementation of structural changes, bid adjustments, and campaign restructuring is scoped separately as a pay-per-click management engagement. Many clients implement the quick wins from the audit independently and then engage for full management to maintain ongoing optimization. The audit cost is applied against the management quote if you proceed within 30 days. See Amazon Pay-Per-Click Management Services for what ongoing management covers.
How is this different from Amazon's built-in campaign recommendations?
Amazon's built-in recommendations are generated by an algorithm that is optimized for one outcome: increasing your total ad spend on their platform. Those recommendations consistently push toward broader keyword targeting, higher bids, and more ad types, regardless of whether those changes benefit your total advertising cost of sales. Our audit is structured around your specific total advertising cost of sales target and revenue goals. Every recommendation is evaluated against whether it reduces waste or improves return on ad spend for your account, not whether it increases Amazon's advertising revenue.
How much ad spend do we need to benefit from a pay-per-click audit?
A pay-per-click audit requires enough historical data to make the analysis meaningful. We recommend a minimum of $3,000 per month in active Amazon ad spend and at least 60 days of campaign history. Below that threshold, the sample size for search term and conversion data is too small to draw reliable conclusions. Accounts below that spend level are better served by a campaign setup or restructure engagement than by an audit of existing performance. For accounts above $5,000 per month, the recoverable waste identified in the audit exceeds the audit cost within the first month of implementing the negative keyword list alone.
How often should we run a pay-per-click audit?
Amazon pay-per-click accounts accumulate inefficiency faster than most other ad platforms because your organic rank, competitor landscape, and category search volume all change continuously. We recommend a structured pay-per-click audit every 6 months for accounts in active management, and immediately after any major campaign expansion, product launch, or budget increase. If your total advertising cost of sales has risen more than 3 percentage points over 60 days without a clear demand-driven explanation, that is also a signal that an unscheduled audit will find actionable waste.
Who an Amazon pay-per-click audit is built for
- You are spending $3,000 or more per month on Amazon advertising and your total advertising cost of sales is rising without a clear explanation.
- Your campaigns were set up at launch and have grown organically with new keywords and campaigns added without a structured architecture review.
- You want to scale ad spend but need to confirm your current account structure is not already wasting a significant portion of what you spend.
- You manage the account yourself or with a small team and have not had an external structured review in 6 months or more.
- You are spending less than $3,000 per month. There is not enough data for the search term and conversion analysis to be meaningful.
- Your account was restructured and audited within the last 3 months with no significant product launches or budget changes since.
- Your primary issue is low listing conversion rate rather than ad efficiency. An audit of your ad account will not fix a listing that cannot convert the traffic it receives.
Not sure which situation fits? Tell us your monthly ad spend, total advertising cost of sales, and how long since your last structured review and we will tell you what the audit is likely to find.
Submit your account and get your audit started
Tell us your monthly ad spend, your current total advertising cost of sales, and how long it has been since your last structured pay-per-click review. We will confirm the audit scope within 48 hours.
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We will review your ad account details and confirm the audit scope and delivery date within 48 hours.
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120+ audits done
72-point audit
72 checks. 5 days. Every dollar of wasted spend found.
A scored report across campaign structure, keyword coverage, negative keywords, bids, and attribution, plus a prioritized fix roadmap and a ready-to-upload negative keyword file. No commitment. No pitch. Audit scope confirmed within 48 hours.
No commitment. No pitch. Scope confirmed in 48 hours → full report in 5 business days.