Over three weeks in July, I ran a survey asking people who work on AI search visibility what they think of the platforms built to measure it. 163 responses. This is a self-selected sample recruited through my own network and its re-shares (as well as paid ads on LinkedIn and X), so it describes engaged […]
The PPC Clean-Up: How to Audit and Fix ‘Value Inflation’ in Google Ads
Many paid ads accounts have a problem in the settings and with values. On the surface, nothing looks broken with the ad account. The campaigns run, keywords match intent, reporting appears healthy. But underneath all of that sits a corrupted value signal feeding Smart Bidding the wrong story and data. When advertisers notice the discrepancy, […]