Amazon Ads Cleanup Plan Dashboard for Search Term Review

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Quick answer

A Cleanup Plan dashboard is a structured Amazon Ads review layer that groups underperforming search terms into negative keyword candidates and bid reduction opportunities. It compares each query against campaign-specific signals such as spend, sales, and return on ad spend, then ranks which terms are wasting budget. Sellers and agencies use this workspace to review flagged terms before making manual campaign changes, supporting a controlled Amazon auto campaign harvesting workflow.

Amazon Ads Cleanup Plan Dashboard for Search Term Review
Amazon Ads Cleanup Plan Dashboard for Search Term Review

This review layer helps you move from a raw search-term export to a short, prioritized list. Instead of applying changes automatically, a Cleanup Plan dashboard keeps the final decision with you or your team, which matters when a term is borderline.

What the Cleanup Plan dashboard shows

A Cleanup Plan dashboard works by ranking search terms against the performance that matters inside each campaign, rather than forcing one account-level threshold. For example, Amazon Negative Keyword Tool by Todoza uses spend, sales, and ROAS to classify terms as negative keyword candidates or bid-reduction opportunities. The workspace typically surfaces:

  • Impressions, clicks, spend, and sales for each term
  • ROAS compared with the campaign target
  • Negative keyword candidates where spend builds without meaningful orders
  • Bid reduction opportunities where a term is relevant but not efficient at its current bid

That turns campaign harvesting into a review task instead of a spreadsheet hunt.

Amazon Ads Cleanup Plan Dashboard for Search Term Review
Amazon Ads Cleanup Plan Dashboard for Search Term Review

How to review negative keyword candidates

The value of the dashboard depends on how carefully you review the candidates. A term with only a few clicks is usually not ready for a negative match unless the query is clearly irrelevant. A stronger signal is a term that has accumulated enough spend to matter and still misses the campaign ROAS target.

A practical review sequence looks like this:

  • Sort candidates by wasted spend or spend volume first
  • Check whether the search term is relevant to the product
  • Negate clearly irrelevant or repeated non-converting terms
  • Lower bids on relevant terms that need more efficiency before being harvested

When a Cleanup Plan dashboard matters most

This type of dashboard is most useful when Amazon auto campaigns generate more search terms than you can review comfortably in a weekly report. It also fits teams that need a shared review space, because role-based access lets different people own negative keyword decisions or bid adjustments without giving everyone full campaign permissions.

If you manage only a few campaigns, a manual export may still work. The dashboard becomes the better fit when you need a repeatable, documented way to decide which terms are ready for action.

Amazon Ads Cleanup Plan Dashboard for Search Term Review

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Used consistently, a Cleanup Plan dashboard turns Amazon auto campaign harvesting from a reactive cleanup into a repeatable review cadence. It keeps you focused on underperforming search terms while leaving final campaign changes in your control. For a deeper look at deciding when a search term is truly ready to move, start with the Amazon Auto Campaign Harvesting guide.