After notifying advertisers about the upcoming change last week, Google has now officially confirmed on the Google Ads Developer Blog that Local Inventory Ads (LIA) will be enabled by default for all Shopping campaigns beginning August 31st. Why we care. Advertisers using Shopping campaigns will no longer be able to disable Local Inventory Ads through […]

During the latest episode of PPC Live the Podcast, Google Ads specialist Heather Robinson shared how a Meta campaign intended to spend just £50 over a weekend accidentally spent more than £1,000 after the budget was set as daily instead of lifetime. Because the campaign wasn’t revisited after launch, it continued running for three weeks […]

My 8-year-old daughter desperately wanted a Nintendo Switch. Her evil parents refused to buy it for her. She was too young to get a job, so she did what any resourceful kid would do: she set up a lemonade stand in front of our house. But she didn’t just put out a table and a […]

If you’re walking into budget meetings with rankings, traffic, and keyword reports, you’re making the wrong case. CFOs don’t approve SEO budgets based on channel metrics. They approve investments that reduce risk, improve commercial outcomes, and justify capital allocation. As AI changes search economics and customer acquisition costs climb, translating SEO into business risk is […]

SMX Next returns online Nov. 18, focusing on navigating today’s complex search landscape and mastering the tactics that will define success in 2027 and beyond. Search marketing isn’t just changing; it has evolved into an entirely new beast. SEO has shifted to mastering AI Overviews, search everywhere optimization, and consideration for autonomous AI agents that […]

OpenAI rolled out a new feature to let ChatGPT Ads generate ads for you – I suspect using AI. The feature is available under the “Add new ad” option, and says “generate ads for you.” The advertiser or marketer can then opt to let ChatGPT create the ad, and then review, edit and approve the […]

After several days of complaints from businesses, Google has confirmed it is investigating reports of missing reviews from Google Local listings and has paused the ability of Google Business Profile listings to receive reviews. What Google said. A Google spokesperson told us: “When our systems detect suspicious reviews, we take a range of actions including […]

ChatGPT’s high-reasoning mode acted like a different search surface for brand visibility in a Semrush analysis with Kevin Indig. It cited different domains than in minimal reasoning mode and ran nearly five times as many web searches. By the numbers. Only 25.6% of cited domains overlapped between minimal and high reasoning for the same prompts. […]

Every PPC professional has a story they wish they could erase. For Danny Gavin, founder of Optidge, it wasn’t a failed bidding strategy or a campaign that overspent. It was something far simpler—and arguably much more painful. Danny joined me on PPC Live The Podcast, to talk about the technical issue that meant leads generated […]

We’ve all seen dashboards that don’t make sense when you look into the numbers, but now that same data could be training your campaigns to spend your budget chasing the wrong people. As automation takes over more of the ad-buying process, from creative generation to bidding, data has become one of the last inputs advertisers […]