If building a brand is the new SEO cliche, then how visibility compounds is the part that rarely gets explained. We can all agree, at least on principle, that repeated brand exposure matters. Brands become familiar because they appear consistently over time and across contexts. What is less well understood is how search visibility builds…
Let me see if I can convince you! I’ve shared a bunch in this video and summarized my thoughts in the article below. Also, this is the second blog post I’ve written on this topic in the last week. There is much more information on user data and how Google uses it in my previous blog post.…
Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! Agentic commerce transforms organic search from a source of cheap traffic into the mandatory gatekeeper of AI verification. Marketing arbitrage dies; product truth wins. Image Credit: Kevin Indig This week, we’re covering: Why agentic commerce filters out marketing-first brands and rewards granular product…
Google Analytics has never been perfect, but it used to feel familiar. The shift to Google Analytics 4 forced PPC marketers to rethink how they pull insights, not just where to click. Reports that once lived front and center now take more effort to find. Some require extra setup. Others feel less intuitive than before…
I found some interesting things in the latest document in the DOJ vs. Google trial. Google has appealed the ruling that says they need to give proprietary information to competitors. Image Credit: Marie Haynes Key Takeaways: Google has been ordered to give information to competitors so as not to be an illegal monopoly. Google does…
Over the last few years, Reddit has risen in influence to be a social channel that Google elevated in it’s search engine results for it’s user-generated content and also a source of valuable reviews for users. Reddit is constructed as a network of smaller communities, known as Subreddits. The value of these Subreddits is in their…
Google is rolling out Personal Intelligence, a feature that connects Gmail and Google Photos to AI Mode in Search, delivering personalized responses based on users’ own data. The feature, announced in a blog post by Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google Search, is available to Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers who opt…
A quick note up front, so we start on the right foot. The research I’m about to reference is not mine. I did not run these experiments. I’m not affiliated with the authors. I’m not here to “endorse” a camp, pick a side, or crown a winner. What I am going to endorse, loudly and…
This post was sponsored by Channable. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. If you’ve ever watched your best-selling product devour your entire ad budget while dozens of promising SKUs sit in the dark, you’re not alone. Google’s Performance Max (PMax) campaigns have transformed ecommerce advertising since launching in 2021. For many…
SEO died as a traffic channel the moment pipeline stopped following page views. Traffic is either down for many sites, or its growth nowhere near reflects growth rates of 2019-2022, but demos and pipeline are up for brands that shifted from chasing clicks to building authority. What you’ll get in today’s memo: Why traffic and…