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Nick GrantJune 16, 202620 min read

How Product Returns Erode Your Google Ads ROAS

Google Ads bids on gross checkout revenue, ignoring returns — inflating ROAS and scaling your highest-return products. Feed retained ...
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Nick GrantMay 11, 202618 min read

What Happens When Performance Max Captures Your Brand Keywords (and How to Stop It)

Performance Max quietly bids on your brand terms, inflating ROAS and brand tax. See how exclusions, negatives, and holdback tests stop it.
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Nick GrantApril 30, 202623 min read

What Google AI Mode Means for Your Branded Search Campaigns

Google AI Mode is quietly cutting clicks on informational brand queries. The fix isn't slashing brand spend — it's reallocating it by ...
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Nick GrantApril 23, 202626 min read

How to Use Claude to Audit Your Google Ads Account

Manual Google Ads audits miss the patterns that waste spend. See how to use Claude to analyze full account exports in one pass — and ...
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Nick GrantApril 13, 202621 min read

Why Your Google Ads AI Bids Against Itself on Brand

PMax, Broad Match, and AI Max all chase your brand queries, quietly inflating CPCs. The fix is structural: give one campaign full ownership ...
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Nick GrantApril 2, 202619 min read

Proving How Brand Awareness Lowers Your Google Ads Acquisition Costs

Brand awareness directly lowers your Google Ads acquisition costs by improving CTR and conversion rates. Learn how to prove it with blended ...
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Nick GrantApril 1, 202619 min read

Bidding on Offline CRM Stages Instead of Unqualified B2B Leads

Smart Bidding optimizes toward cheap form fills — it can't see your CRM. Feed pipeline stages back into Google Ads and bid on real revenue ...
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Nick GrantMarch 24, 202615 min read

Restructuring Google Shopping Feeds to Bid Strictly on Gross Margin

Google Shopping bids on revenue, not profit. It scales your low-margin products. Add COGS to your feed and restructure campaigns by margin ...
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Nick GrantMarch 19, 202616 min read

Adjusting Revenue Forecasts for Zero-Click Generative Search

AI Overviews answer queries before users click, making demand look like it's declining when it isn't. Rebuild forecasts with view-through ...
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Nick GrantJanuary 23, 20267 min read

Unifying Google Search and Shopping Ads for Maximum Portfolio ROI

Branded Search and Shopping bid against each other, inflating your CPCs. Unify them with synergistic bidding to dominate the SERP for less.
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Nick GrantJanuary 23, 202612 min read

Turning Defensive Ad Spend into Offensive Growth Capital

Your branded search plays defense 24/7, trapping capital that could fund growth. Reclaim it and ring-fence it as a self-funding growth ...
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Nick GrantJanuary 23, 202612 min read

How to Turn Ad Spend Inefficiency into Unlocked Growth Capital

Stop banking your branded search savings. Ring-fence reclaimed capital and redeploy it as a self-funding growth budget for non-brand and ...
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