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The Worst Google Ads Bidding Strategy (Study Note)

When you get into the bidding section, Google will recommend you to focus on clicks. It will never be a good bidding strategy for most businesses. Why is it so bad? Clicks are not a key metric that we should focus on, and it is not important to what is the good of advertising. We should focus on the metrics that impact our profits such as conversion rate or conversion values.  When Google offers you this Maximize Clicks bidding strategy, it means that Google is going to try to get the maximum amount of clicks for your daily budget. Spend is capped at the campaign daily budget. If it's the very beginning of a campaign, and your client really wants a lot of data to see certain behavioral objectives without worrying about the cost per clicks. It might be helpful.  It is very important to understand how much you want to pay for a click, and it is very important to take control of your campaign by yourself instead of letting Google control it.

Three Highly Recommended Google Ads Bidding Strategies (Study Note)

After you have done all the basic campaign settings, it's time to think about what is the bidding strategy for your ads. There are several bidding strategies that Google offers: Target search page location Target CPA (cost per acquisition) Target ROAS (return on ad spend) Target outranking share Maximize clicks Maximize conversions Manual CPC Enhanced CPC Which strategies are effective or recommended by Google Ads experts? According to the Udemy course, the instructor highly recommended the three most effective bidding strategies: Target CPA, Enhanced CPC, and Manual CPC. Target CPA: The objective of the target CPA is to get as many conversions as possible of your target cost per acquisition. The cost of the click doesn't matter. As long as you are getting clicks that convert at a profitable cost, business is going to grow.  When you choose this strategy, Google will predict which clicks will convert and how much it will cost that click to covert.  ...