About automated bidding
Automated bidding takes the heavy lifting and guesswork out of setting bids to meet your performance goals. Each type of automated bid strategy is designed to help you achieve a specific goal for your business. This article outlines the 6 different types of automated bid strategies and when to use them.
Before you begin
If you’d like to automate your bidding for a Shopping campaign, read About automated bidding for Shopping campaigns.
Example
Let’s say you want to increase conversions across your campaigns at a CPA goal, but don’t have the time to set an individual max. CPC for each individual keyword. By adding those keywords to a portfolio Target CPA bid strategy and setting a CPA goal you want to hit, you allow Google Ads to automatically optimize bids across keywords using advanced machine learning to get you more conversions within your performance target.
Types of automated bid strategies
| Goal | Bid strategy | Range |
|---|---|---|
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Increase site visits. |
Maximize Clicks automatically sets your bids to help get as many clicks as possible within your budget. Maximize Clicks is available as either a standard strategy in a single campaign or portfolio bid strategy across multiple campaigns, ad groups and keywords. Learn more about Maximize Clicks. Learn more about Maximize Clicks for Shopping campaigns. |
Campaigns |
| Increase visibility. |
Target Impression Share automatically sets bids with the goal of showing your ad on the absolute top of the page, on the top of the page, or anywhere on the page of Google search results. Target Impression Share is available on the Search Network only, as either a standard strategy in a single campaign or portfolio bid strategy across multiple campaigns. Learn more about Target Impression Share. |
Campaigns |
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Get more conversions with your target CPA. |
Target CPA automatically sets Search or Display bids to help get as many conversions as possible at the target cost-per-acquisition (CPA) you set. Some conversions may cost more or less than your target. Target CPA bidding is available as either a standard strategy in a single campaign or portfolio bid strategy across multiple campaigns and ad groups. Target CPA bidding was previously referred to as “Conversion Optimizer.” Learn more about Target CPA. |
Campaigns, ad groups |
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Increase conversions while staying in control of your keyword bids. |
Enhanced cost-per-click (ECPC) automatically adjusts your manual bids to help you get more conversions, while trying to achieve the same cost-per-conversion. ECPC is available as an optional feature with Manual CPC bidding or as a portfolio bid strategy. It is fully compatible with third-party bidding systems, including those that automate your bids. Learn more about Enhanced CPC. Learn more about ECPC for Shopping campaigns. |
Campaigns, ad groups, keywords |
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Meet a target return on ad spend (ROAS) when you value each conversion differently. |
Target ROAS automatically sets bids to help get as much conversion value as possible at the target return on ad spend (ROAS) you set. Some conversions may have a higher or lower return than your target. It's available as a portfolio bid strategy and a standard strategy for individual campaigns. Learn more about Target ROAS. Learn more about Target ROAS for Shopping campaigns. |
Campaigns, ad groups, keywords |
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Get more conversions while spending your budget. |
Maximize Conversions automatically sets bids to help you get the most conversions for your campaign while spending your budget. It's available as a standard strategy for individual campaigns, but not as a portfolio bid strategy. Learn more about Maximize Conversions. |
Campaigns |
The power of Smart Bidding
Smart Bidding is a set of conversion-based bid strategies—Target CPA, Target ROAS and Enhanced CPC—that use advanced machine learning to help you tailor the right bid to each and every auction. It factors in a wide range of auction-time signals including device, location, time of day, remarketing list, language, and operating system to capture the unique context of every search.
For more information on how Smart Bidding works, read About Smart Bidding or download our Display Smart Bidding Guide.
* Nguồn: Google