Beyond looking at overall campaign performance, how can you tell whether your PPC agency is doing a good job? That can be a difficult question to answer. In this article, I'm going to provide you with 5 ways to assess your PPC agency. This applies to small and large agencies as well as freelancers. 1. Transparency In order to assess your agency's performance, you must be able to see what's going on. This starts with transparency. Don't ever work with [...]
Congratulations, you have a well-performing Google Ads search campaign up and running. What comes next is typically a scaling phase, where you try to boost conversion volume or value while controlling your CPA or ROAS figure. In this article, I'll go through a myriad of ways you can potentially scale Google Ads while not killing your margins. Before You Start Before scaling you should first ensure you're using non-last-click attribution. Ideally, you should set your attribution model to data-driven, which [...]
It's very often the case that a prospect approaches my agency for SEO (search engine optimization) and ends up with Google Ads, or vice versa. Unless you're a search marketing expert it can be difficult to choose what's best or when you should be running both. So, Google Ads vs. SEO, what's best? In this article, I'll run down the pros and cons of each venerable marketing channel. Furthermore, I'll look at some common scenarios where one option is clearly [...]
Google has announced that Universal Analytics (UA) will stop collecting data on July 1st, 2023. That means you have an unlucky 13-months from the original post date of this article to get sorted with Google Analytics 4 (GA4). And while one option is to flip the switch in about a year from now, that means you won't have any access to historical data in your GA4 account. In this article, I'm going to explain what we're doing in cooperation with [...]
There are many different types of click fraud and whether or not it's a problem for most PPC advertisers is hotly contested. In this article, I'll explore the many varieties of click fraud, how native platforms handle it, what 3rd party tools do, and whether they are worth the money. Note: This article was updated on July 9th, 2025 Ad Inventory Types Click fraud occurs to some degree on all ad platforms and placement types. For the purposes of this [...]