Performance Max was pitched as the campaign type you set up once and let run. Five years into its existence, that pitch has aged badly. PMax only performs when someone is actively steering it, and left alone it burns budget on exactly the impressions that don’t convert. The setup producing the most consistent results for […]
Google’s March Core Update Shifted Visibility Away From Aggregators
An analysis from Amsive found that aggregators and user-generated content platforms lost US search visibility after Google’s March core update, while first-party brand sites, government domains, and content originators gained. Lily Ray of Amsive examined over 2,000 domains using SISTRIX Visibility Index data and categorized them with Google Product Taxonomy tags via the DataForSEO API. […]