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Audit checks / MS-WST-01

Keyword wasting money

A keyword that has cost twice the price of a conversion and brought none is unlikely to start. Pausing it moves its budget to keywords that convert.

Fires when
A keyword spent at least 2.0x CPA_t with no conversions in 30 days.
What to do
Pause the keyword.
How the impact is estimated
waste = the keyword's spend with no conversions over 30 days, normalized to 30
Platform
Microsoft Advertising
Severity
high
Looks back
30 days
Default thresholds (a workspace can change them)
  • days: 30
  • spend_x_cpa: 2
Autopilot
Never applied automatically.

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