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average cost per click
CPC stands for Cost Per Click. It measures how much you pay on average each time someone clicks your advertisement.
If a campaign spends 2,500 and generates 5,000 clicks:
Not necessarily. A lower CPC means traffic is cheaper, but the quality of those clicks still matters. CPC should usually be reviewed alongside conversion rate, CPA, revenue and ROAS.
How to use CPC in account decisions
CPC is useful when you are diagnosing why traffic volume changed, comparing auction cost across campaigns, or estimating how many clicks a fixed budget can buy. It is especially useful alongside CPM and CTR because those three metrics explain different parts of the same delivery chain.
A cheaper click is not automatically a better click. Keyword intent, placement quality, audience mix and landing-page performance can make a higher-CPC campaign more efficient downstream.
Campaign A has a 0.50 CPC and a 1% conversion rate, implying roughly 50 in media cost per conversion. Campaign B has a 1.20 CPC but converts 5% of clicks, implying roughly 24 per conversion. CPC improved in Campaign A, but acquisition efficiency is still worse.