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Every AI PPC Copilot Is Reading a Redacted Report. Here Is How to Benchmark One Yourself.
Every AI copilot pointed at a Google Ads account reads the same privacy filtered search terms report that you and I read, and not...
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Google Already Opened the Performance Max Black Box. Here Is the Audit Nobody Runs.
Most of the advertisers who tell me Performance Max is a black box have never opened the page where Google breaks it open. Campaigns,...
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Broad Match Isn't a Strategy. It's a Tax on Weak Account Structure
Two settings in your account are about to change themselves, and nobody is going to ask you first. Google emailed advertisers the date on...
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The AI Bid Strategy Everyone Is Copying, and the One Signal It Cannot See
"Google will not automatically adjust your bidding targets or budgets." That sentence sits in a Google Ads help page describing a change that takes...
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Performance Max asset automation: what the AI nailed, and where query level truth still beats it
Google's own Ad Strength score is negatively correlated with the thing you actually care about. In roughly 20,000 accounts that Optmyzr looked at in...
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Google's Aug 17 bidding change: what budget capped accounts lose
Google's August 17, 2026 bidding change does not fix broken bid targets. It punishes the accounts that set targets loose on purpose, and it...
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Autopilot Isn't Strategy: The Google Ads Automation Problems Your Dashboard Hides
Google Ads automation tends to look good on the dashboard, and the search terms report is usually where the problems show up. The most...
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Is Over-Reliance on Google Ads Automation Slowing Your Paid Search Growth?
Over the past two decades working in the trenches of paid search, I've seen firsthand the dramatic evolution of Google Ads. In the early...
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