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How Automated Ad Bidding Can Help You Reach Your Campaign Goals

Unbounce

Google’s four Smart Bidding strategies—Maximize Clicks, Target Impression Share, Target CPA, and Target ROAS—are all automated ad bidding options available in Google Ads. Target CPA. Target cost-per-action (CPA) bids for traffic that’s most likely to result in a conversion. Target ROAS.

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4 Crucial Tips for Using Google’s Smart Bidding in SaaS Marketing

Directive Agency

The first principle of using an automated bid strategy with a conversion-based target (CPA or ROAS) is good conversions in = good conversions out. Smart Bidding works by seeing which searchers lead to “primary” conversion actions set in Google Ads (and which ones don’t) and then curates bids based on that information moving forward.

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How to control Performance Max campaigns

Martech

For example, maintain different campaigns based on profit margins so you can set different target ROAS values to maximize overall company profits. Set Conversion Value Rules to better represent your conversion values, or use offline conversion imports for even more precise data. Campaign budgets.

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Manual Bidding is Inefficient: Why You Need Automation for Paid Search Optimization

QuanticMind

Improve Your CPA. Calculating the optimum cost-per-click (CPC) for each keyword is time-consuming, to say the least. Advertisers that rely on manual bidding can simplify things using keyword filters or automated rules to make changes when necessary. Expand Your Account with Better Budget Spend. Select + NEW DRAFT.

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UTM Parameters: Why and How They REALLY Help You

Optinmonster

Gives you valuable metrics to calculate things like cost-per-click (CPC), return on ad investment (ROAS), cost-per-acquisition (CPA), and much more. Set up some teamwide rules for creating UTMs, including things like: Capitalization. Use of spaces. Adding hyphens.

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A/B Testing: The ABCs of Paid Social Media

Anyword

However, we found that while the startup had a high CTR and a low CPC, the best engagement and return on ad spend (ROAS) came from women over 35. For example, if you have a target CPA of $8, you can use that as your benchmark. Doing the math ($8 CPA x 50 conversions) gives you a test budget of $400.

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Why is My PPC Performance Bad? Part I: How to Identify Root Cause

QuanticMind

So it also might come as no surprise if you find your boss breathing down your neck, asking “Why has our ROAS dropped from 150% to 130% over the past month?!” More often than not, you’ll find your campaign structure follows some variation of the 80/20 rule; 80% of spend will come from 20% of campaigns.

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