Search Engine Marketing

Google Ads Performance Max gets new controls, reporting, creative insights

Google is rolling out a trio of updates to Performance Max, aimed at giving advertisers more control and optimization power across campaigns. Here’s what’s new. Sharper targeting tools. Campaign-level negative keyword lists are now live, allowing bulk management across multiple PMax campaigns – good for protecting brand suitability at scale. Search theme limits are doubled

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How generative answers are changing the user journey

The traditional marketing funnel is breaking – and your content is losing its place in it. For years, marketers built strategies around a linear journey: Awareness → Evaluation → Consideration → Purchase → Retention.  At every stage, content played a pivotal role – fueling discovery, educating buyers, and driving conversion. SEO was the engine that

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‘Search everywhere’ doesn’t mean ‘be everywhere’

“Search everywhere” sounds like a content marketer’s dream, a rallying cry, and a vision of omnipresence.  Lately, it’s become a catchphrase in marketing meetings, pitch decks, and agency roadmaps. But here’s the problem: Too many brands are mishearing it as “search everyone, everywhere.”  They spread content thin – across every channel, for every audience –

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Google to restrict political ads in the EU under new policy

Google will ban most forms of political advertising across its platforms in the European Union, in line with the EU Regulation 2024/900, starting in September. Driving the news. Google’s updated Political Content policy prohibits: Ads by, for, or on behalf of political actors (e.g., candidates, parties, campaign groups). Ads intended to influence election outcomes, referenda,

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