Question

I have multiple campaigns running for my cleaning company. Some are Target CPA and a manual. They are basically duplicate campaigns, just different strategies. Since we are targeting the same KWs, locations, etc. Does that make it counterproductive and they compete against each other?  

Answer 1

You're definitely competing against yourself here. Best way to do this is to create an experiment.  

Answer 2

Correct Different campaigns or ad groups compete

Answer 3

As @manumit said, a/B test them and after the best deactivate the one that performs less good

Answer 4

It will compete with each other

Answer 5

Welp, I feel like a proper idiot. I had this thought earlier this week when I disabled two of them and started doing better with just 1 running.  

Answer 6

I disagree with most of the above. Google will only ever choose one keyword per account to go into the auction. A quick search on the Google Ads support site will answer this for you