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.