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The Amazon PPC Ad Placement ROAS Blind Spot You Are Ignoring
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Episode 75 of Performance Marketing with Fexingo: Paid Ads, ROAS, and Direct Response Conversations. Lucas and Luna drill into a specific, overlooked lever inside Amazon PPC — ad placement modifiers for Top of Search, Product Pages, and Rest of Search. Most advertisers set and forget placement premiums based on early campaign data, but Lucas shows how a mid-size home goods brand found that Top of Search placement was actually underperforming for their highest-converting keywords. They walk through the exact analysis: pulling placement-level ROAS from the campaign manager, comparing it to overall campaign ROAS, and discovering that a 50% premium on Top of Search was cannibalizing organic sales. The episode centers on a concrete before-and-after: brand had 3.2x blended ROAS, but Top of Search placement ROAS was 2.1x — worse than Rest of Search at 3.8x. By dialing back the Top of Search premium to 20% and reallocating budget to Product Page placement, they lifted blended ROAS to 3.6x in three weeks. No theory — just numbers, a clean audit process, and a tactical path to stop paying extra for clicks that don't convert.