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The Physics of PPC: Why Google Ads Revenue Has a Natural Limit, but Campaign Waste Has No Bottom

Kirk Williams
Team Zato
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Google Ads
Learn why Google Ads is primarily a demand capture channel and how understanding the limits of search-based growth can prevent wasted spend and drive true business scaling.
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Let's Talk Google Ads Bid Floors (or Reserve Prices)

Kirk Williams
Team ZATO
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Google Ads
Kirk discusses a the concept of auction reserve prices, and whether that should be applicable in a search marketing context (and what it means for your business CPCs on Google!).

When Your Poor PPC Performance is a Positioning Problem, Not a Targeting One

Kirk Williams
Team ZATO
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Google Ads
A trap I see some brands fall into in PPC, is to label a positioning problem as a targeting problem.

What is Google Merchant Center Next?

Kirk Williams
Team ZATO
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Google Merchant Center Next
In this article, we discuss what Google Merchant Center Next is, and what's potentially changing as Google transitions to an updated product for product feed management.

A Pondering on the Potential Downsides of chatGPT

Kirk Williams
Team ZATO
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Marketing Principles
chatGPT is amazing as a tool, but there are things to consider that should cause at least a little hesitancy in adoption and wisdom in widespread usage. Some of those are...

Help! I Can't Access a Supplemental Feed in Google Merchant Center! - Merchant Center Mastery Video

Kirk Williams
Team ZATO
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Google Merchant Center
Inherit a messy Google Merchant Center account? PPCKirk shows you how to safely audit, detach, and reclaim supplemental feed data when you don't have access to the original source files.

Campaign Auction Eligibility and Performance Max Behavior

Kirk Williams
Team ZATO
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Performance Max
Why do you sometimes see Search keywords showing in Performance Max campaigns, even if you've specifically targeted those keywords?

Should You Always Exclude Brand from Performance Max Campaigns? It's Complicated.

Kirk Williams
Team ZATO
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Performance Max
What if excluding brand in every Performance Max campaign isn't the best route to go? Kirk discusses why in this article.

The Problem of Platform Transparency

Kirk Williams
Team ZATO
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Marketing Principles
An analogy for those who don't know Google ad buying: PPC is like buying a car...

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