Search Engine Marketing

How to win the gatekeeper’s ‘Yes’ with stakeholder co-citation gap analysis by Citation Labs

In May 2025, Google brought 25 of us into a closed-door room at I/O to talk about the post-click SERP. The instruction we left with was short: create non-commoditized content. Here’s the uncomfortable part: For 15+ years, we never commoditized content. We commoditized the sale. We built billions of pages that took a messy human […]

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Google Ads automatically enrols advertisers in conversion-based customer lists

Google Ads is automatically enabling conversion-based customer lists for eligible advertisers starting, with data processing scheduled to begin on Aug. 18. The update applies to advertisers already using both Enhanced Conversions and Customer Match but who have not yet activated conversion-based customer lists. Why we care. As privacy changes continue to reshape digital advertising, Google

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Google Ads brings back Target CPA and Target ROAS naming

Google Ads is changing how Smart Bidding strategies are labeled, separating target-based bidding strategies from volume-based bidding strategies. Starting this month, “Maximize conversions with a Target CPA” will once again be called Target CPA, while “Maximize conversion value with a Target ROAS” will return to Target ROAS. Why we care. The change is designed to

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Laura Abreu talks about a client experience that made her quit Google Ads

Watch this video on YouTube One of the hardest lessons in PPC has nothing to do with bidding strategies, keywords, or campaign structure. It’s knowing when to walk away from a client. On a recent episode of PPC Live The Podcast, performance marketing strategist Laura Abreu shared how taking on the wrong client early in

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