If your Google Ads Smart Bidding is underperforming, switching strategies is not the fix. Signal quality, the accuracy and relevance of the conversion data you feed Google, determines whether any automated bidding strategy can work. This article covers the five most common signal quality failures that break Smart Bidding and explains what actually moves performance when you fix the data instead of changing the bids.
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