Marketing & SEO

Uncover proven tactics in digital marketing, content strategy, and search engine optimization. This category highlights actionable insights, case studies, and tools that help brands grow online visibility.

SEO vs. PPC vs. AI: The visibility dilemma

Marketers have debated SEO versus PPC for years, usually shaped by whatever has worked – or failed – for them in the past.  Organic search promises compounding visibility, while paid search delivers immediate control.  Most teams ultimately favor one over…

3 GEO experiments you should try this year

Last month, I asked ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini the same question about three of my clients: “Who is [Brand Name] and what do they do?” Two out of three got it wrong. Wrong services. Outdated office locations. One even suggested…

Google and Microsoft: How their Performance Max approaches align and diverge

Performance Max (PMax) campaigns have become the cornerstone of AI-driven advertising.  Both Google and Microsoft offer advertisers a way to consolidate creative assets, audience signals, and automation into a single campaign type. (Disclosure: I work as Microsoft’s product liaison.) While…

New web standards could redefine how AI models use your content

In recent years, the open web has felt like the Wild West. Creators have seen their work scraped, processed, and fed into large language models – mostly without their consent. It became a data free-for-all, with almost no way for site…

Dale Olorenshaw speaks about a £15,000 landing page error

On episode 331 of PPC Live The Podcast, I speak to Dale Olorenshaw, Head of Paid Media and Search at StrategiQ, who shares a painful but valuable experience involving a high-budget test campaign and a critical oversight. The costly PPC…

YouTube Marketing Strategy: Grow Your Channel

If you’re getting into video marketing, there’s no better channel than YouTube. It’s right behind Google, and the No. 2 social media platform after Facebook. Oh, and it reaches more than 2.5 billion monthly active users (MAU). That’s a lot…