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Dynamic landing pages: What works, what fails, and how to test

Dynamic landing pages: What works, what fails, and how to test

Most PPC marketers still default to static landing pages, whether it’s one catch-all page or a growing library of customized versions.  You might already have dozens of static pages built for different campaigns, audiences, and offers. This is a proven approach:  Create a page. Personalize it. Launch it. Optimize it. Repeat. The question isn’t whether […]

How To Make More Customers Click, Choose You

How To Make More Customers Click, Choose You

How do you turn local searches into real foot traffic? If your business relies on being found locally, clicks alone aren’t enough. You need future customers to choose you and show up. Whether you’re managing search visibility, local listings, or digital customer experience, this session will help you turn more searches into measurable visits and […]

Rethinking Meta Ads AI: Best practices for better results

Rethinking Meta Ads AI: Best practices for better results

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a bold claim about the future of advertising in a recent interview (emphasis mine): “You’re a business, you come to us, you tell us what your objective is, you connect to your bank account, you don’t need any creative, you don’t need any targeting demographic, you don’t need any measurement, […]

Google Ads Performance Max image optimization now rolling out

Google Ads Performance Max image optimization now rolling out

Google started rolling out new image optimization tools for Performance Max (PMax) campaigns. The feature, first announced last month, gives Google’s AI more control over how images appear in your ads. The shift to default-on image enhancements signals deeper AI involvement in creative decisions, potentially affecting ad look, feel, and performance without advertiser awareness. What’s […]

How To Boost Google Discover Visibility: Ranking Signals That Win

How To Boost Google Discover Visibility: Ranking Signals That Win

This post was sponsored by RollerAds. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Want more visibility in Google Discover? Not sure how to get into Google’s personalized news feeds? Discover isn’t like search. You don’t rank for keywords. You get selected. And that means the best way to get featured isn’t to […]

Value-based bidding: Why it’s key to boosting your Google Ads

Value-based bidding: Why it’s key to boosting your Google Ads

In the world of Google Ads, profitability remains the ultimate goal, driving PPC advertisers to constantly refine bidding strategies. In recent years, value-based bidding (VBB) has helped businesses optimize for high-value actions.  But the economic pressures of 2025 – marked by volatile markets and shrinking margins – demand a sharper focus: profit-based bidding (PBB). In […]

Google’s ABC ranking signals: What top search engineers revealed

Google’s ABC ranking signals: What top search engineers revealed

The U.S. Department of Justice has released several new trial exhibits as part of the ongoing remedies hearing. These exhibits include interviews with two key Google engineers – Pandu Nayak and HJ Kim – which offer insights into Google’s ranking signals and systems, search features, and the future of Google. Key Google search ranking system terminology […]

Relevance is the new ranking signal: How AI search redefines optimization

Relevance is the new ranking signal: How AI search redefines optimization

For years, SEO professionals have obsessed over rankings.  What position are we in? Did we move up or down? Can we get back to Position 1?  But as AI-driven search continues to reshape how information is retrieved and delivered, we need to ask a different question: Are we relevant enough to be included at all? […]

Google faces $13 billion in EU civil claims after Shopping antitrust fine

Google faces  billion in EU civil claims after Shopping antitrust fine

Google is facing a legal reckoning across Europe, with at least €12 billion ($12.9B) in damages sought by price comparison sites who say the tech giant abused its dominance in search to siphon traffic and revenue. The civil suits stem from the EU’s landmark 2017 decision to fine Google €2.4B for antitrust violations related to […]