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Yandex.Direct automatic strategies

The advertising manager than never needs a break

Automatic strategies in Yandex.Direct can optimize conversions, ROI or the number of clicks. They analyze more than 350 factors along with data unavailable to third-party tools. Most importantly, it takes seconds for automatic strategies to perform tasks that would take you hours to complete.
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How do I launch a campaign with an automatic strategy?
Find the answers to the most important questions on this page
How do I set up and launch?
Log in to your account in Yandex.Direct or register.
Select a strategy: Optimize clicks, conversions or ROI.
If you need to, set additional parameters like budget limits and a maximum bid (a CPC limit at the moent of the auction).
Launch ads
Who can I trust to help me set up my strategies?

We have verified partners — you can choose from our list of private specialists or ad agencies

If you have any questions, contact the customer service department and we will be glad to help.

Automatic strategies help you

Increase conversions and sales
Our data show that automatic strategies bring 20% more conversions than manual bid management, for the same price.
Optimize ROI
Select your target ROI and the user actions that matter to your company, and Yandex.Direct will find you customers.
Save time on setup
Leave the bid management to our algorithms, and spend your time developing your business.

Advertisers trust algorithms to manage more than half of the budgets in Yandex.Direct

Automatic strategies and external systems (bidders) manage the bids in campaigns, where 50% of Yandex.Direct ad budgets is spent. This should not come as a surprise: the larger the business, the more important automation becomes — it would be impossible to manually account for huge amounts of bids and optimize ad purchasing according to KPIs. It is quite likely that your competitors are among the companies already trusting algorithms to manage their bids.

How to choose a strategy

If you need more conversions, and you only want to pay for them*

Optimize conversions. This strategy set bids to maximize the number of targeted site visits, while maintaining the set CPA, weekly budget or both at the same time. You can use the strategy with classic per-click payment model or use the pay-per-conversion model, where you set a fixed price for achieving a goal and pay only for targeted visits.

To set it up, you need to determine the optimal conversion price or use the “Optimize conversions” strategy with a weekly budget limit. This will help you understand the price that will bring your type of business conversions. In this case, the system will try to buy the maximum conversions within the budget, i.e. to purchase them at the lowest price.

If you have several goals or need to optimize your return on investment*

Optimize ROI. This strategy allows you to get the maximum number of conversions for the goal selected, while simultaneously maintaining your set ROI. Add priority goals with set values to your campaign settings or set up e-commerce. Find out more about priority goals and about how to calculate ROI.

This strategy is also worth choosing if your business has two or more goals on one or more levels of the sales funnel.

If you need more traffic

Optimize clicks. Select this strategy if you want to optimize traffic on your site or increase your group’s audience in social networks. If necessary, you can set limits: a weekly budget, average CPC or the number of clicks you expect to get over the course of a week.

* Optimize conversions or ROI work even if your site gets less than 10 conversions per week, if you determine which goals to optimize, e.g. on-site purchase, and link your Yandex.Metrica tag to your campaign to track them.

How to compare strategies

Experiments in Yandex.Direct help assess the performance of manual and automatic strategies. To check which brings more conversions for your investment in practice, make sure you set comparable budgets: weekly for automatic strategies and daily for manual ones. Here are some real cases:

Optimize conversions with an average CPA limit brought more conversions than manual bid management, and lowered their cost as well.

Optimize conversions with a set weekly budget and no CPA limit made it possible to get more conversions at a lower price than with manual bid management.

Optimize ROI in ad networks helped reach their target return on investment. The set ROI is reached only with small expenditures, so the strategy lowered the CPC, leading to less traffic on the site and fewer conversions.

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