• PPC

  Need Help with Google Ads Script

  Posted by seohelper on March 5, 2020 at 2:09 pm

  Hey all,

  I have a campaign with several ad groups, one of which tends to use most of the budget on a daily basis. I’m trying to set up a script so that will pause the ad group when it exceeds a certain spend threshold, and then enables it the next day.

  Sadly, I’m not great with JavaScript. The script successfully paused the ad group, but never turned it back on. Could someone kindly point out what’s wrong with my script?

  function main() {
  //update the value of dailyBudget based on your requirement

  var dailyBudget = 30;
  var campaignNameContains = [“Smaller”];
  var ignorePausedCampaigns = ‘ENABLED’;
  var ignorePausedCampaigns = ‘ENABLED’;

  var adGroupIterator = AdWordsApp.adGroups()
  .withCondition(‘CampaignName CONTAINS ‘+campaignNameContains)
  .withCondition(‘CampaignStatus = ‘+ignorePausedCampaigns)

  .withCondition(‘CampaignStatus = ‘+ignorePausedCampaigns)

  .get();

  while (adGroupIterator.hasNext()) {
  var adGroup = adGroupIterator.next();

  Logger.log(“AdGroup Name : %s”, adGroup.getName());

  //use TODAY to get data for today
  var adGroupCost = adGroup.getStatsFor(‘TODAY’).getCost();
  Logger.log(“AdGroup Cost: %s”, adGroupCost);

  //if adGroupCost reached the defined dailyBudget, pause the current adgroup

  if (adGroupCost >= dailyBudget){
  adGroup.pause();
  }
  //if adGroupCost is less than the defined budget
  else if(adGroupCost < dailyBudget){
  adGroup.enable();
  }
  }
  }

  germandutchman1 replied 5 years, 1 month ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  germandutchman1

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  March 5, 2020 at 3:17 pm

  The scripts works fine for me, enabling and pausing adgroups according to the rules set – even though you’re repeating the variable “ignorePausedCampaigns” and condition twice, which is not necessary.

  Budget Control sits on the Campaign level for a reason – why not just split out this particular high budget adgroup into it’s own campaign?

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