--- title: "What is Google Ads optimization, and how often should I do it?" description: "How to optimize a Google Ads account and its campaigns as a routine: what to check each day, week and month, and where to find it in Google Ads." canonical: https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization last-updated: 2026-10-04 --- Guide # What is Google Ads optimization, and how often should I do it? How to optimize a Google Ads account and its campaigns as a routine: what to check each day, week and month, and where to find it in Google Ads. In short - Google Ads optimization is a routine: read what your account spent and what that bought, change one thing, and give the change time to show before the next. - Each day, read what changed and what broke: Change history, each campaign's Status column, yesterday's cost and clicks, and whether your conversions still record. - Each week, read where the money went: the search terms report, campaigns limited by budget, ads Google disapproved or rates low, and its recommendations. - Each month, read what the structure costs you: targets, keywords and match types, who sees your ads, landing pages and conversion tracking. Google says to allow 1 to 2 conversion cycles after a major change to bidding or a budget. - Goldbeater runs its 163 checks on your account every day, and reads the last 7 days of your change history for a change to the campaigns and keywords that spend the most. Goldbeater checks this every 24 hours - Changes made to your biggest campaigns and keywords Each week Goldbeater's AI agent follows up on the findings. A free first look shows how many problems this and 162 other checks find on one of your accounts, and what they cost. No card. [Get a free first look](https://goldbeater.ai/app?start=look) [or start the 7-day trial](https://goldbeater.ai/app?start=trial) 1. [01 Google Ads optimization is a routine, not a one-time fix.](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#what-it-is) 2. [02 The Google Ads optimization routine: daily, weekly and monthly](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#routine) 3. [03 Your daily Google Ads checklist: what changed, and what broke](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#daily) 4. [04 How to read Google Ads change history, worked on one week](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#change-history) 5. [05 Your weekly Google Ads checklist: where the money went](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#weekly) 6. [06 Your monthly checklist: how to improve Google Ads performance](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#monthly) 7. [07 Optimizing Google Ads one change at a time](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#one-change) 8. [08 What it looks like when Goldbeater finds it](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#in-goldbeater) 9. [09 Questions](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#questions) Contents 1. [01 Google Ads optimization is a routine, not a one-time fix.](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#what-it-is) 2. [02 The Google Ads optimization routine: daily, weekly and monthly](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#routine) 3. [03 Your daily Google Ads checklist: what changed, and what broke](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#daily) 4. [04 How to read Google Ads change history, worked on one week](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#change-history) 5. [05 Your weekly Google Ads checklist: where the money went](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#weekly) 6. [06 Your monthly checklist: how to improve Google Ads performance](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#monthly) 7. [07 Optimizing Google Ads one change at a time](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#one-change) 8. [08 What it looks like when Goldbeater finds it](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#in-goldbeater) 9. [09 Questions](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#questions) The manual way comes first, in Google Ads itself. Then the same problem as Goldbeater finds it, every day, without anyone asking. ## Google Ads optimization is a routine, not a one-time fix. Google Ads optimization means reading what your account spent and what that bought, changing one thing, and reading again. Google’s own page on optimizing a Search campaign has three parts: your bids, your keywords and your ads. A whole account adds four more: budgets, landing pages, who sees your ads, and whether your conversions are counted right. How often to look depends on when Google’s numbers are ready. Google says that in most cases clicks, impressions and cost are refreshed hourly, and that some metrics are only updated once a day. In its own example, Sunday’s search terms are ready at 6:00 AM on Monday in San Francisco, and Sunday’s Search impression share at 4:00 PM on Wednesday, though another of its pages says impression share is updated within 1 to 2 days. Conversions come in later still: Google says some take days or even weeks after the click, so your most recent days look weaker than they were. So the routine runs at three speeds: - Each day, what changed and what broke. A paused campaign or a broken tag costs you every day nobody notices it, and yesterday’s figures are in. - Each week, where the money went and what it bought: the searches, the budgets, the ads Google turned down, and what Google recommends. - Each month, what the account’s structure costs you: targets, keywords, audiences, landing pages and conversion tracking. Google itself says a bid strategy is clearer judged over a month. The help pages read for this guide give no figure for how often to look at an account. The three speeds follow from what those pages say about when a number is ready and how long a change takes to show. ## The Google Ads optimization routine: daily, weekly and monthly Each row is a step in the sections below, done by hand in a sentence or two, with the guides that teach it in full. | When | What to look at | Where in Google Ads | The guide | | ------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Daily | What changed since you last looked | Campaigns › Change history | [Alerts](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-alerts) , [learning phase](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/bid-strategy-learning) | | Daily | Campaigns that stopped showing ads | Campaigns › Campaigns | [Alerts](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-alerts) , [Limited by budget](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-limited-by-budget) | | Daily | Yesterday’s cost, impressions and clicks | Campaigns › Campaigns | [Alerts](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-alerts) , [budget pacing](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-budget-pacing) | | Daily | Whether conversions still record | Goals › Conversions › Summary | [Not converting](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-not-converting) , [conversion tracking](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/conversion-tracking-check) | | Weekly | The searches you paid for | Campaigns › Insights and reports › Search terms | [Wasted search terms](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/wasted-search-terms) , [negative keywords](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-negative-keywords) , [finding keywords](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/find-keywords-for-google-ads) | | Weekly | Campaigns limited by budget, and the month’s pacing | Campaigns › Campaigns, Campaigns › Insights and reports › Insights | [Limited by budget](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-limited-by-budget) , [budget pacing](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-budget-pacing) | | Weekly | Ads Google disapproved, or rates Poor or Average | Tools › Troubleshooting › Policy manager, Campaigns › Ads | [Disapproved ads](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-disapproved-ads) , [ad strength](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-ad-strength) | | Weekly | Google’s recommendations, and what auto-apply applied | Campaigns › Recommendations | [Optimization score](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization-score) , [common mistakes](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-mistakes) | | Weekly | The week against the week before | Campaigns › Campaigns | [Not converting](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-not-converting) , [experiments](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-experiments) | | Monthly | Each bid strategy against its target | Tools › Budgets and bidding › Bid strategies | [Target CPA](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-target-cpa) , [Target ROAS](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-target-roas) , [Smart Bidding](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-smart-bidding) | | Monthly | Searches lost to Ad Rank, and to budget | Campaigns › Campaigns | [Search impression share](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/search-impression-share) , [Auction insights](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-auction-insights) | | Monthly | Keywords, match types and Quality Score | Campaigns › Audiences, keywords, and content › Search keywords | [Keywords](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-keyword-optimization) , [broad match](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-broad-match) , [Quality Score](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-low-quality-score) | | Monthly | Who sees your ads: devices, places, hours, audiences | Campaigns › Insights and reports › When and where ads showed, Campaigns › Audiences, keywords, and content › Audiences | [Targeting](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-targeting) , [locations](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-location-targeting) , [ad schedule](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-ad-schedule) | | Monthly | The pages your ads send clicks to | Campaigns › Insights and reports › Landing pages | [Landing pages](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-landing-page-experience) , [destination not working](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/destination-not-working) | | Monthly | Each conversion action, and what bidding counts | Goals › Conversions › Summary | [Conversion tracking](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/conversion-tracking-check) , [attribution](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-attribution-models) | | Monthly | Performance Max asset groups, and Shopping products | Campaigns › Asset groups, Campaigns › Products › Products | [Performance Max](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/performance-max-optimization) , [Shopping ads](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-shopping-ads-optimization) , [Shopping feed](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-shopping-feed-optimization) | Google Ads can email you any of its tables. Select the download icon above the table, then Schedule, and choose how often the report is sent: daily or weekly, for instance. The [audit checklist](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-audit-checklist) is the long form of this page, with every problem worth looking for and where each is in Google Ads. ## Your daily Google Ads checklist: what changed, and what broke Read yesterday, not today. Google’s explanations for a change in performance aren’t shown for a date range that includes today, because there may be more data for the day. 1. Go to Campaigns › Change history and set the dates to the days since you last looked. Read the changes to budgets, bids and statuses first, and who or what made each. [The next section](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization#change-history) works a week of it. 2. Go to Campaigns › Campaigns and read the Status column. Eligible means the campaign is active and can show ads. Not eligible means it has nothing left to show: no ad groups, or all its ad groups, ads or keywords paused or deleted. Eligible (limited) means it’s showing ads only occasionally, because of its budget or a limited bid strategy, which the [Limited by budget guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-limited-by-budget) covers. 3. On the same page, set the date range to yesterday. Google compares it with the day before, and a value shown in blue with a dotted line has an explanation: hover over it and select View explanations. Read cost, impressions and clicks for a campaign that spent far more than usual or lost its traffic. 4. Go to Goals › Conversions › Summary and read each conversion action’s Status. Active means it’s working as intended. Needs attention means there are things to fix and it hasn’t stopped recording. Misconfigured means conversions have stopped recording entirely, because of a setup error or a broken tag. Google Ads can email you about some of this. An automated rule can send an email when a condition is met: under Type of rule, select Send email. Google’s own example emails at 12:00 PM if a campaign with a daily budget of $100 has spent more than $50 that day. The [alerts guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-alerts) has the steps, and what a rule can’t compare. If conversions fell and no status explains it, the [not-converting guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-not-converting) tells a tracking fault from a campaign that stopped converting, and the [conversion tracking guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/conversion-tracking-check) has the test of a tag. ## How to read Google Ads change history, worked on one week Change history lists the changes made to your account, campaigns and ad groups over the past 2 years, on a timeline beside your impressions, clicks, conversions and cost. Changes made by automated rules, through the Google Ads API and in Google Ads Editor are listed with the ones made in Google Ads itself. 1. Go to Campaigns › Change history and select the dates in the upper right corner: the last 7 days, if you look weekly. 2. Filter the list by the type of change. Start with Budget and Status, then Bidding and Keyword. 3. For each campaign that changed, set the week’s first change against its last. A budget raised and set back is where it began, and a campaign paused and turned back on is running. 4. Read the User column for who made each change. It shows an email address for one made through Google Ads, and Google Ads API or a tool’s name for one made by a tool. The Tool filter narrows the list to one of them. 5. Weigh what still stands by what the campaign carries. On Campaigns › Campaigns, which opens on the last 30 days, sort by cost: a change to one of the campaigns that spend the most is the one to ask about. 6. To put a change back, select Undo in the User / Date & Time column of its row. Google says you can undo most types of changes made in the last 30 days. Changes, last 7 days Sample data | Day | Campaign | Change | Made | | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------ | ------------------ | -------------------- | | Tue Sep 29 | Rugs — Broad $1,260 in 30 days | Budget $45 → $55 | By an automated rule | | Wed Sep 30 | Performance Max — All products $3,444 in 30 days | Budget $160 → $140 | In Google Ads | | Thu Oct 1 | Rugs — Broad $1,260 in 30 days | Budget $55 → $45 | By an automated rule | | Fri Oct 2 | Competitors $504 in 30 days | Paused | In Google Ads | | Sat Oct 3 | Competitors $504 in 30 days | Turned on | In Google Ads | | Sun Oct 4 | Performance Max — All products $3,444 in 30 days | Budget $140 → $120 | In Google Ads | Cedar & Pine’s budget and status changes for the week. An automated rule raised Rugs — Broad’s budget and set it back, and Competitors was paused one evening and turned on the next morning, so both end the week where they began. The budget of Performance Max — All products was cut twice, and each cut is under a fifth of the budget it changed. Together they take 25% off the daily budget of the campaign that spent $3,444 of the account’s $8,400, and nobody set it back. Row by row, nothing here looks large. Set the budget the week began with against the one it ended with, and $160 a day became $120: $40 a day less, or $1,200 over 30 days. The campaign spent about $115 a day, so the new budget still covers a usual day and leaves little above it. Whether that was meant is a question for whoever made it. It may be a tidy-up of budget the campaign never spent. A campaign that leaves budget unspent is often held back by its target, which the [Target CPA guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-target-cpa) covers, and the [learning phase guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/bid-strategy-learning) covers a target or a strategy changed too often to settle. ## Your weekly Google Ads checklist: where the money went A week is the span Google’s own tools read. Its recommendation to raise a budget rests on the traffic you missed last week, its Insights page shows the last 7 days or the last 28, and its explanations set the last 7 days against the week before. 1. Go to Campaigns › Insights and reports › Search terms. The report lists the searches a significant number of people made that showed your ads. Tick the ones you don’t sell and select Add as negative keyword: in a Search campaign they’re added as negative exact match by default. The [wasted search terms guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/wasted-search-terms) shows which to block without blocking your own, the [negative keywords guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-negative-keywords) covers match types and lists, and the [find keywords guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/find-keywords-for-google-ads) covers the searches worth adding as keywords. 2. Go to Campaigns › Campaigns, select the filter icon, then Status, tick Limited by budget and select Apply. Then open Campaigns › Insights and reports › Insights, where budget pacing insights give each campaign one of three statuses for the month: limited by budget, budget remaining, or on track. The [Limited by budget guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-limited-by-budget) says which campaigns earn a raise, and the [budget pacing guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-budget-pacing) projects the whole month. 3. Go to Tools › Troubleshooting › Policy manager, where Google lists the ads a policy affects and tracks your appeals. A disapproved ad can’t run until the violation is fixed and the ad is reviewed again. Then on Campaigns › Ads, read the Ad strength column, which rates each ad from Incomplete and Poor to Excellent. The [disapproved ads guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-disapproved-ads) has the fix and the appeal, and the [ad strength guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-ad-strength) what moves a rating. 4. Go to Campaigns › Recommendations and read what’s new: Google says it regularly discovers recommendations for you. Then select Auto-apply settings and the History tab, which says how many times each type was applied in the past week. The [optimization score guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-optimization-score) shows how to judge a recommendation before you apply it. 5. On Campaigns › Campaigns, set the date range to the last 7 days and read cost and conversions against the week before. Where a value is shown in blue, its explanation names what moved it: a bid, a budget, a conversion setting, a change in your change history, or a rise or fall in searches. If conversions fell while clicks held, start with the [not-converting guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-not-converting). To try a change on part of a campaign first, see the [experiments guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-experiments). Google sends an email when it disapproves an ad, with a View and fix policy issues link, so the weekly pass through Policy manager is for the whole account at once. Ad Strength is a prompt to read the ad, not a score to chase: Google says it isn’t used to calculate Ad Rank. ## Your monthly checklist: how to improve Google Ads performance A month is the span Google names for judging how you bid. Its page on measuring Smart Bidding says to set a time frame of at least 2 full conversion cycles, and that it can help to assess over longer periods, like a month, or at least 50 conversions. A month also gives a keyword, an audience or a page enough clicks to judge. 1. Go to Tools › Budgets and bidding › Bid strategies and select the link in the Bid strategy type column to open a strategy’s report. Read what it achieved against its target, once all its conversions have been reported. Google recommends measuring a target CPA over the last 30 days, including at least 30 conversions. The [Target CPA guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-target-cpa), the [Target ROAS guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-target-roas) and the [Smart Bidding guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-smart-bidding) say what to set. 2. On Campaigns › Campaigns, select the columns icon, open Competitive metrics and add Search impr. share, Search lost IS (rank) and Search lost IS (budget). The last two are the percentage of time your ads weren’t shown because of poor Ad Rank, and because of insufficient budget. The [search impression share guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/search-impression-share) says which lost searches are worth winning back, and the [Auction insights guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-auction-insights) who you lost them to. 3. Go to Campaigns › Audiences, keywords, and content › Search keywords. Read each keyword’s cost beside its conversions, and add the Quality Score columns from the columns icon. Quality Score is a diagnostic: Google says it is not an input in the ad auction. The [keyword guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-keyword-optimization) shows which keywords to pause or bid down, the [broad match guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-broad-match) covers match types, and the [low Quality Score guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-low-quality-score) each of the score’s parts. 4. Go to Campaigns › Insights and reports › When and where ads showed and read its Devices and Matched locations tabs, and your ad schedule’s days and hours. Then open Campaigns › Audiences, keywords, and content › Audiences for your audience segments and demographics. The [targeting guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-targeting) shows how to tell a device or an audience that pays from one that doesn’t, with the [location targeting guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-location-targeting) and the [ad schedule guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-ad-schedule) beside it. 5. Go to Campaigns › Insights and reports › Landing pages, which breaks your performance down by the page your ads send clicks to. Google says to check regularly how your landing pages are performing. The [landing page guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-landing-page-experience) shows how to compare one page with the rest, and the [destination guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/destination-not-working) how to find a page that doesn’t load. 6. Go to Goals › Conversions › Summary again, this time for every action and not only its status. An action set as Primary is included in the Conversions column and used for bidding, so one counted twice bends every bid. The [conversion tracking guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/conversion-tracking-check) has the check, and the [attribution models guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-attribution-models) covers how each conversion is credited. 7. For Performance Max, go to Campaigns › Asset groups and read each asset group’s Ad Strength, which Google says to review regularly. For Shopping, go to Campaigns › Products › Products and read the Issues column. The [Performance Max guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/performance-max-optimization), the [Shopping ads guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-shopping-ads-optimization) and the [Shopping feed guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-shopping-feed-optimization) take it from there. ## Optimizing Google Ads one change at a time What the routine finds is a list. Make the change with the most money behind it first, then wait: two changes made together can’t be told apart afterward. Google’s pages say how long to wait. - A bid strategy or a budget. Google says to allow 1 to 2 conversion cycles for the system to stabilize after major changes to bidding or budget before you make further adjustments. A conversion cycle is the time it takes for a click to result in a conversion. - A target. Google’s page on how bidding learns says changing a target won’t trigger a Learning status, and to evaluate after 1 to 2 conversion cycles. Its page on the learning period lists a setting change among the reasons for one. The [learning phase guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/bid-strategy-learning) gives both. - A Performance Max campaign. Google says to run a new one for at least 6 weeks, and after a significant change to allow 1 to 2 weeks, or at least one full conversion cycle. - A recommendation you applied. Google reads the result a week after you apply a bid or budget recommendation, on the Recommendations page’s Results tab. Recent days undercount. Google says conversion lag affects recent data more than old, and marks a date range it affects. So compare whole weeks that ended a few days ago, not the last three days with the three before. To try a change before it reaches a whole campaign, an experiment splits the budget or traffic between the original campaign and the change: the [experiments guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-experiments) has the steps. And most changes that turn out wrong can be undone from Change history within 30 days. ## What it looks like when Goldbeater finds it Goldbeater runs its 163 checks on your account every day, for 270 problems. The routine’s weekly and monthly rows are read daily too. What a check reads stays as long as its question needs: 30 days for a search term, and 13 weeks for a keyword against its campaign. For the routine’s first step, Goldbeater reads the last 7 days of your change history for a change to what spends the most: one of the ten campaigns that spent most in 30 days paused or removed and still so, one of the top three whose daily budget stands changed since the week began, or one of the ten keywords that spent most paused or removed and still so. It reads medium where the change carries a thousandth of your account’s spend, for a budget where it moved by a fifth or more, and low otherwise. Finding Sample data Medium Medium severity Your call Performance Max — All products' daily budget was cut from $160.00 to $120.00 on Sunday, Oct 4 Performance Max — All products What Goldbeater saw It's your number 1 campaign by spend, $3,444 in the 30 days, and its budget was cut in Google Ads. - Daily budget before $160 - Daily budget now $120 - Budget moved, 30 days $1,200 - Spend, 30 days $3,444 - Changes, 7 days 2 | | | | | | ----------------- | ---- | ---- | ------------- | | Wednesday, Sep 30 | $160 | $140 | In Google Ads | | Sunday, Oct 4 | $140 | $120 | In Google Ads | Why it matters From the last seven days of Google's change history: one of the ten campaigns or keywords that spend the most paused or removed, or the daily budget of one of the three biggest campaigns changed, and still so. A change to what carries the account moves its results, whoever made it. The finding says how it was made, what a paused campaign was bringing, and what else changed in the same minutes; a budget change's value is what it moves a month. What to do A change someone made rather than a fault: if it was meant, dismiss this. A cut on one of your biggest campaigns can hold back what it sells. If it wasn't meant, set it back. What would change Set the budget back Only where the change wasn't meant. Goldbeater offers this change without recommending it, so nothing is drafted until you pick it. It reaches your account when you approve it in the change set and press Apply. This is “Changes made to your biggest campaigns and keywords” on a sample account. Goldbeater runs it on yours every 24 hours, and your AI analyst answers what you ask about any finding. [Get a free first look](https://goldbeater.ai/app?start=look) Sample data. Cedar & Pine Interiors is an invented account, and its figures are made up. That is the week worked above. Goldbeater set the budget the week began with, $160, against the one it ended with, $120, so two cuts that each read as a nudge are raised as the 25% they add up to, with both in its table. The rule’s raise on Rugs — Broad and the night Competitors was paused raise nothing, since neither still stands. Had anything else changed within two minutes of the cut, the finding would list it. The finding is a notice. Someone made the change on purpose or by mistake, and only you know which, so setting the budget back is offered and never recommended. A change you applied through Goldbeater says so, reads low and offers nothing. The rest of the routine, as Goldbeater reads it: - Each day’s breaks: a campaign that showed ads on each of the 14 days before and none yesterday, a campaign spending at least twice its highest day of the four weeks before, impressions or clicks under a quarter of their usual for that day of the week or over four times as many, and a conversion action that recorded on each of 14 days and then stopped. Goldbeater emails your workspace’s owners and admins the day a daily pass finds a new one. - The week’s money: a search that cost $20 or more in 30 days and converted nothing, a campaign losing a fifth or more of its searches to budget and more to budget than to rank, an ad Google disapproved, an ad group whose best ad Google rates Poor or Average, and auto-apply switched on for a recommendation that changes bidding, a budget, targeting or ads. - The month’s structure: a target CPA or ROAS that no week of the last 13 with five or more conversions reached, a keyword that bought under half the conversions its spend would at the rate of its campaign’s other keywords, a device, an audience or a landing page doing the same over 30 days, each only where chance doesn’t explain it, and a conversion action your bidding counts that recorded before and nothing in 30 days. Where a setting fixes a finding, Goldbeater drafts the change. It reaches your account when you approve it in the change set and press Apply, and an applied change can be undone. The [audit checklist](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-audit-checklist) has every check, line by line, and the [common mistakes guide](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-mistakes) the ten to rule out first. ## Questions - How often should I optimize my Google Ads account? Look every day at what changed and what broke: change history, each campaign’s status, yesterday’s spend, and whether conversions still record. Once a week, read where the money went: search terms, budgets, disapproved ads and Google’s recommendations. Once a month, read targets, keywords, audiences, landing pages and conversion tracking. Google’s help pages give no figure for this; the three speeds follow from when its numbers are ready. - What should I check in Google Ads every day? Four things, each for yesterday. Change history, for what was changed and by whom. The Status column on the Campaigns page, for a campaign that stopped showing ads. Cost, impressions and clicks against the day before. And the Status of each conversion action, for one that stopped recording. - How long should I wait after a change before making another? Google says to allow 1 to 2 conversion cycles after a major change to bidding or a budget before adjusting again, where a conversion cycle is the time a click takes to result in a conversion. For Performance Max it says 1 to 2 weeks after a significant change, or at least one full conversion cycle, and at least 6 weeks for a new campaign. - Which Google Ads optimization tips matter most? Three, in this order. Check that your conversions are counted right, since bidding and every judgment read them. Read the search terms report each week and add what you don’t sell as negative keywords. And change one thing at a time, so you can tell what each change did. Google’s own page on optimizing a Search campaign names bids, keywords and ads as the places to work. - Where do I see who changed my Google Ads account? Go to Campaigns, then Change history. It lists the changes made to your account, campaigns and ad groups over the past 2 years, and its User column shows the email address of the person who made a change through Google Ads. Most types of changes made in the last 30 days can be undone there. - Should I apply Google’s recommendations to optimize my account? Read each one for what it changes. Google says the Recommendations page doesn’t predict whether your ads will do well: it uses data from the past to give you an idea of how a recommendation might improve your performance. Apply the ones that fit your goals, dismiss the rest, and read each week what auto-apply applied. - Is Google Ads optimization different for Performance Max? The routine is the same and there is less to set. You read its asset groups and their Ad Strength, the search terms that led to conversions, and the products it advertises, and you steer it with its assets and audience signals. Google says to run a new Performance Max campaign for at least 6 weeks, and to avoid frequent changes to its budget or bid strategy in that time. How Goldbeater checks this ## This check runs every day, and whenever you ask. Each finding shows its evidence, an estimate of what it costs a month where it costs money, and, where a setting fixes it, a change drafted for you to approve. A check is code that runs the same way every time, so a new finding means your account changed. Each week Goldbeater's AI agent follows up on what the checks find, and your AI analyst answers any question about your account. Check A finding is worth - Changes made to your biggest campaigns and keywords Your call [Get a free first look](https://goldbeater.ai/app?start=look) [Start the 7-day trial](https://goldbeater.ai/app?start=trial) No card for the first look. [See every check](https://goldbeater.ai/checks). Google's own pages ## Where the manual method comes from. 1. [Optimizing your Search campaign for online sales (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6165592?hl=en) 2. [About data freshness (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2544985?hl=en) 3. [About change history (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/19888?hl=en) 4. [Review your account history (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2454137?hl=en) 5. [About campaign statuses (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/1722131?hl=en) 6. [About explanations (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/9000655?hl=en) 7. [Account, campaign, and ad group performance (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2404036?hl=en) 8. [Troubleshooting conversion tracking status (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/troubleshooter/13455130?hl=en) 9. [Manage conversion goals from the conversions summary (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/10993988?hl=en) 10. [Common ways to use automated rules (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2497710?hl=en) 11. [About the search terms report (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2472708?hl=en) 12. [Get negative keyword ideas using the search terms report (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7102466?hl=en) 13. [Fix “Limited by budget” status (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6385220?hl=en) 14. [About budget pacing insights (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/13685469?hl=en) 15. [About the Insights page (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/10256472?hl=en) 16. [Fix a disapproved ad or appeal a policy decision (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/9338593?hl=en) 17. [About Ad Strength for responsive search ads (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/9921843?hl=en) 18. [About recommendations (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/3448398?hl=en) 19. [Types of recommendations (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/3416396?hl=en) 20. [Manage auto-apply recommendations (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/10276359?hl=en) 21. [About the Results tab in Google Ads Recommendations (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/16904315?hl=en) 22. [How to find your bid strategy reports (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7074568?hl=en) 23. [Bid strategy report for automated bidding strategies (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7074566?hl=en) 24. [Tips on measuring Smart Bidding performance (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6268633?hl=en) 25. [About Target CPA bidding (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6268632?hl=en) 26. [How our bidding algorithms learn (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/10970825?hl=en) 27. [Duration of the learning period for campaigns and what affects it (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/13020501?hl=en) 28. [Get impression share data (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7103314?hl=en) 29. [About Quality Score for Search campaigns (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6167118?hl=en) 30. [Navigate Insights and Reporting (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/13326985?hl=en) 31. [About device targeting (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/1722028?hl=en) 32. [View matched locations and distance reports (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7492954?hl=en) 33. [About Audience reporting (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/10566573?hl=en) 34. [Evaluate the performance of your landing pages (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7543502?hl=en) 35. [About the "Landing pages" page (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7450207?hl=en) 36. [About asset group reporting for Performance Max (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/13872527?hl=en) 37. [Optimization tips for Performance Max campaign for all business types (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/11385582?hl=en) 38. [About Product issues (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/12409964?hl=en) 39. [Monitor and optimize your Shopping campaigns (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/3455573?hl=en) 40. [About the "Experiments" page (formerly drafts and experiments) (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/10682377?hl=en) 41. [Find your conversion lag reporting data (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/9347065?hl=en) 42. [Create, save, and schedule reports from your statistics tables (opens in a new tab)](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2404176?hl=en) More guides ## Other things worth checking by hand. - [How do I audit a Google Ads account? Work through 163 checks, area by area, conversions first.](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-ads-audit-checklist) - [Why is my Google Merchant Center account suspended? Find the reason, fix it, then request a review.](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-merchant-center-suspended) - [What is Google Shopping feed optimization, and what do I fix first? Fix what stops a product showing, then its title.](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-shopping-feed-optimization) - [How do I optimize Google Shopping ads and campaigns? Read each product group against the rest of its campaign.](https://goldbeater.ai/guides/google-shopping-ads-optimization) [All 64 guides](https://goldbeater.ai/guides) 7-day trial · nothing charged for 7 days ## Try it for a week. 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