Enhanced CPC (ECPC): Definition

A bid strategy that adjusts your cost-per-click (CPC) to help maximize conversions or conversion value. ECPC combines manual bidding with a Smart Bidding strategy, like Target CPA or Target ROAS. This strategy raises your manual bids in situations that seem more likely to lead to a sale or other conversion on your website, and lowers your bid for situations that seem less likely to lead to a conversion. You can also test ECPC along with third-party bidding systems to give you a limited degree of Smart Bidding.

When you set ECPC to optimize for conversions:

  • ECPC adjusts your bid each time your ad is eligible to appear, based on how likely that click is to lead to a conversion.
  • ECPC can help you get more conversions while maintaining or reducing your cost per conversion.

When you set ECPC to optimize for conversion value:

  • ECPC adjusts your bid each time you ad is eligible to appear based on how likely that click lead is to lead to a conversion and its relative conversion value. Learn more about conversion values
  • ECPC can help you get more high-value conversions while maintaining or reducing your cost per conversion.
  • ECPC for conversion value is only available for Search campaigns.

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