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The 30-Minute Google Ads Audit That Beats Most Agency Reports

A Google Ads audit checklist with 100 items is mostly a stalling tactic. The fastest 80% of an account audit takes 30 minutes and looks at six things: conversion source, network opt-ins, the search terms report, Smart Bidding signals, Performance Max channel split, and asset group thinness. Everything else can

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Target ROAS vs Target CPA: Order-Value Spread Decides It Before You Do

Target ROAS optimizes for revenue at a return target. Target CPA holds a flat cost-per-conversion regardless of what each conversion is worth. The deciding factor isn't your industry or your spend, it's the variance in your average order value. If your products swing more than 2-3x

Pop art illustration of a Google Ads conversion goals dashboard with primary and secondary toggles, a bidding strategy dial, and an offline upload feedback arrow.

Smart Bidding Is Optimizing for the Wrong Conversions. How to Fix Your Signal.

Smart Bidding learns from whatever you mark as primary. If that list includes raw form fills, PDF downloads, or newsletter signups, the algorithm spends your budget finding more of them instead of buyers. Google's own 2021 benchmark, cited in Optmyzr's value-based bidding guide, clocks a 14%

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Smart Bidding Is Optimizing for the Wrong Conversions. Here's the Fix.

Smart Bidding learns from whatever you tell it counts. If your primary conversion is a raw form submission, the algorithm will spend your budget finding people who fill out forms, not people who buy. Value-based bidding advertisers see an average 14% lift in conversion value at a similar ROAS once

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Google Shows Where Your PMax Budget Goes. Not What It Bought.

Google rolled out a Performance Max channel performance timeline in April 2026 that shows weekly spend across Search, YouTube, Display, Discover, Gmail, and Maps. Across 61 advertiser accounts studied by BMG360, the average PMax campaign puts roughly 58% of spend on Shopping, 34% on Search, and 4% each on YouTube

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Google's SpamBrain Update Made Link Building Harder (and Better)

Google's March 2026 spam update completed in under 24 hours and devalued three common link building tactics: sponsored guest posts on high-DA news sites, niche edits on aged domains, and AI-refreshed private blog networks. SpamBrain now evaluates link patterns at the network level, not individual URLs. The shift

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The Technical SEO Checklist You Can Run Without an Engineer

Seventy-two percent of websites fail at least one critical technical SEO factor, according to Semrush's 2025 Website Health Benchmark Report. Most published checklists respond with 40+ items that require a developer to implement. This guide covers the 11 checks a marketing team can run in under two hours