About Maximize clicks bidding

30/11/2019

Maximize clicks is an automated bid strategy that sets your bids to help get as many clicks as possible within your budget. This article explains how the automated Maximize clicks bid strategy works and what its settings are.

Before you begin

If you don’t yet know what type of automated bid strategy is right for you, read about automated bid strategies first.

Note: Automatic bidding is now Maximize clicks

Since the bid strategy known as “automatic bidding” is just one of many ways to automate your bids in Google Ads, we’re giving this strategy a more descriptive name: Maximize clicks. A Maximize clicks bid strategy works the same way as automatic bidding, with the additional option of being set up as a portfolio bid strategy. Learn more about portfolio bid strategies 

How it works

Google Ads focuses on increasing clicks for your campaigns while spending a target amount. If you don't specify a target spend amount, Google Ads will attempt to use the remaining daily budget of any campaigns using this bid strategy.

You can set up custom ad scheduling to show your ads on certain days or during specific times, and use the “maximize clicks” strategy to focus on increasing clicks during those days and times.

You can use  Maximize clicks for a single campaign, or you can set it up as a portfolio strategy. Portfolio strategies group together multiple campaigns into a single strategy. Learn more

Settings

Maximum CPC bid limit

You can set a cap on bids when using a Maximize clicks bid strategy. It lets you control the maximum amount you're willing to pay for each click. If you don't enter a maximum CPC bid limit, Google Ads adjusts your bids to try to get you as many clicks as possible while spending your target spend amount.

Target spend

This is the amount you're willing to spend each day on all of the keywords, ad groups, and campaigns that use a specific bid strategy. Google Ads will try to stay within your target spend, but may spend more or less depending on your remaining budget and fluctuations in click costs. It's distributed across any keywords, ad groups, and campaigns that share the strategy, which could span multiple campaign daily budgets.

If you don't enter a target spend amount, Google Ads attempts to meet your bid automation goals while staying within your daily budget (or budgets, if you've applied your strategy to multiple campaigns with different budgets).

Even if you set a target spend that's higher than your daily budget, your total spend for each campaign will be capped by its daily budget as usual (subject to standard overdelivery).

Example

Let's say you have a $100 daily budget. You're using manual bidding to manage some of your campaigns, but using the "Maximize clicks" bid strategy to manage the rest. If you don't set a target spend amount, Google Ads will first spend whatever amount is required by your manually managed campaigns. Then it will try to get as many clicks as possible while spending whatever is remaining from your $100 budget.

In other words, the amount of budget that's consumed by this bid strategy, whether you've set a certain target spend or not, always yields to any other bidding. Let's use the example of a $100 daily campaign budget again. Say you have a campaign that includes both manual bidding and a flexible bid strategy with a target spend of $50. If the manual bidding campaigns would typically spend $80, the effective target spend will be limited to $20 (although you'll still see the target spend set at $50 in your account).

* Nguồn: Google