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Welcome to this week’s PPC Pulse. This week’s news centers around quite a few Google updates. Google rolled out campaign total budgets in open beta, introduced a new Direct Offers pilot inside AI Mode, and confirmed several Shopping promotion policy updates taking effect in early 2026. The updates affect how advertisers manage fixed promotional spend, […]

Remarketing lists continue to be one of the more dependable tools inside PPC accounts, especially for search campaigns. They give advertisers clearer control over who sees ads, how bids are adjusted, and how messaging aligns with prior brand interaction. As tracking becomes more constrained and audience signals less granular, first-party data carries more weight in […]

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has published its annual predictions report based on a survey of 280 senior media leaders across 51 countries and territories. The report suggests publishers are preparing for two potential threats: generative AI tools, and creators who attract audiences with personality-led formats. Note that the Reuters Institute survey […]

“Build a brand” has become one of the most repeated phrases in SEO over the past year. It is offered as both diagnosis and cure. If traffic is declining, build a brand. If large language models are not citing you, build a brand. If organic performance is unstable, build a brand. The problem is not […]

Social media is an integrated part of life in the U.S., with usage growing among adults. Pew Research Center reports that YouTube (84%) and Facebook (71%) remain the most widely used platforms for U.S. adults, followed by 50% of adults using Instagram. What we should pay attention to is that people’s trust levels have changed. […]

Right now, we’re dealing with a search landscape that is both unstable in influence and dangerously easy to manipulate. We keep asking how to influence AI answers – without acknowledging that LLM outputs are probabilistic by design. In today’s memo, I’m covering: Why LLM visibility is a volatility problem. What new research proves about how […]

This post was sponsored by uSERP. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Let’s get real. Most link building agencies are selling you an outdated playbook from 2015. Volume. Guest posting on dead sites. Chasing domain ratings at all costs. But if you’re a marketing leader in 2026, you know the game […]

The popular WooCommerce Square plugin for WordPress vulnerability enables unauthenticated attackers to uncover credit cards on file and make fraudulent charges. The vulnerability affects up to 80,000 installations. WooCommerce Square WordPress Plugin The WooCommerce Square plugin enables WordPress sites to accept payments through the Square POS, as well as synchronize product inventory data between Square […]

In my last post, I referenced how there is now a growing split between the “human” web and the “agentic” web, where AI agents are becoming an additional audience/profile alongside the “traditional” human visitors we have been optimizing for for years. This shift is now becoming more aggressive, especially when it comes to the transactional web […]

Google announced tools that let shoppers complete purchases directly within AI Mode and chat with branded AI agents in Search results. Users can purchase from eligible product listings on Google. Retailers are still the seller of record, while the checkout happens on Google surfaces instead of the retailer’s website. Universal Commerce Protocol Powers AI Mode […]