Amazon alerts sellers to improve the classification of a listing when a listing is not correctly classified on the website. Either these listings are missing a category (Item-type) or are assigned a category that is too broad. For example, when listing a digital SLR camera, you should use the item-type as "digital-SLR-Camera" and not "digital-camera".
To identify the right classifications for your products, use the Product Classifier.
Correctly Categorized Listings | Incorrectly Categorized Listings |
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This listing is shown in the Digital SLR Camera browse node and all locations above this. A buyer would be able to easily find this listing in the Digital SLR Camera browse node.
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This listing is shown in the Digital Camera browse node. A buyer would not find this listing in the Digital SLR Camera browse node, even though that is the correct node for this product.
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Identify and fix the listings that are not correctly classified by using the following features:
The Recommendations API section of Amazon MWS enables you to programmatically retrieve Amazon Selling Coach recommendations by recommendation category. Read the instructions on how to access the Recommendations API.