Why All Marketing Should Be Performance Marketing

“Why do we still treat brand and performance as two different jobs?” It’s a strange question when you consider how people actually make decisions. A customer doesn’t think, “First I’ll see a brand campaign, then I’ll encounter a performance ad.” They see a video on social media, notice a billboard, hear a recommendation, search Google, visit a website, read reviews, see a retargeting ad and eventually buy. To the customer, it’s one journey. To marketers, it can be multiple campaigns, teams, budgets and agencies, each measured against different goals. This is one of marketing’s biggest contradictions: we organise marketing around…

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Google Ads Suspension Guide

Your Google Ads campaign was running this morning. Now it is not. Your ads have stopped serving, your traffic may have dropped, and you have received a notification saying your Google Ads account has been suspended. For any business that relies on paid search to generate leads or sales, this can be a serious disruption. The first instinct may be to make changes immediately, create a new account, or submit an appeal without fully understanding the problem. Those actions can make the situation harder to resolve. A Google Ads suspension does not always mean your account is permanently closed. Google…

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Google Jail: Circumventing Systems Policy in Google Ads

Getting suspended from Google Ads is more than an inconvenience. For many businesses, it becomes a revenue emergency. Paid search may drive a large share of incoming leads. A sudden suspension can stop that flow almost instantly. For businesses operating in competitive markets, the impact can be even greater. This is why this one policy deserves particular attention: circumventing systems. Google classifies this as an egregious policy violation. They say accounts found violating this policy can be suspended upon detection without prior warning. Affected advertisers may no longer be allowed to advertise with Google Ads. This policy differs from a…

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The Future of SEO: Featured Snippets, Voice Search Optimization, Page Speed

The world is evolving to a point where people's attention spans are incredibly shortened. Psychologists have found that people only focus on their screens, especially when it comes to reading, for an average of 47 seconds. For you as a business owner, this means that when people go on the internet looking for answers in your field, they are going to leave your site early if you don't provide it fast. So your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts have to go beyond keyword stuffing and formatting and feature three important optimizations: featured snippets, voice search optimization, and page speed. These…

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