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Google Limited By Budget (Conspiracies & Opinions)
Posted by on October 9, 2020 at 11:12 pmYo, what are your conspiracies or opinions on the below:
Limited by budget crossed 8/10 campaigns in the account. Those 8 campaigns that are limited by budget never actual hit the daily cap for spend making “limited by budget” a false statement by Google. There is a part of me that wants to apply the recommended amount to let google and algorithm do it’s thing and see if anything changes performance but at the same time being very cautious and aware of google spending every penny of it while I see low conversion and a high CPA.
Go for it?
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Personally, I prefer to use bids to control spend, not daily campaign budgets
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Totally get that. Campaigns never hit bid cap as it’s still labeled “limited by budget”. Do I just open this up and trust tcpa to control budget?
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I view “Limited by budget” as limited by optimization… no conspiracy but a push to get a layman to give them more $$$$. However, raising the daily budget without changing the structure & settings aren’t going to make it instantly spend 50% more the next day.
Is that a typo, you have 900k budget allotted monthly – even if you are only doing 10% of the spend, that’s 100k? If so, how the hell is a restructure not possible? There is plenty of budget in there to hire an agency if you do not have the time to do it yourself. With all that historical data, and broadmatch blasting everywhere (even with a hearty negative kw list) the amount of money you would likely save with efficiency at that amount could happen very quickly with a more advanced and granular build out.
SKAG’s are my recommendation, when the time comes. 5-10 ad groups max, optimize for clicks and enhanced cpc. If you are feeding off historical conversion data, using this to control the budget, there is minimal risk to see waste due to how tightly SKAG’s are structured when done right. Optimizing your Top Converters towards 100% Impression share is a lot easier this way. We will build a thousand campaigns if that’s what our client needs.
This is where I can understand how tcpa might be a better fit if your time to optimize is limited. However, if you have time wouldn’t you want more control in your hands with optimization? You could even be mistracking a conversion, including a micro- conversion (pages-per session), and that stuff will make the system optimize for things that may not be the ultimate goal for the business or worse, give you false conversion data. If it’s a typical lead gen biz, Phone Call, RFQ, Contact Form are only what we include in our conversions, we still setup micros but select no to not include them into or bidding strategy. Last is your attribution model for each conversion. Linear or time-decay cause issues with automated approaches like tcpa.
My advice, have an expert review your build before you change anything – happy to help, I audit at least an account a weekday and have been with my agency 7 years now. Google might still have a program called “Pinnacle” for the top 10% of spending companies in Google Ads and they actively manage campaigns with you, likely you qualify at that monthly spend and could go that route too.
Happy Optimizing!
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