Google's Smart Bidding is powerful at setting bids, but it cannot fix account structure, ad quality, conversion tracking, or post-click performance. This article breaks down the four critical limitations of relying on Smart Bidding alone and explains why the best-performing Google Ads accounts in 2026 combine autonomous engine execution with senior human strategy to control the inputs that bidding algorithms depend on.
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