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The basics: Google is rolling out a unified verification badge that will replace the multiple LSA badges starting October 20th, 2025. This is part of Google’s moves which will also discontinue their Money Back Guarantee certification associated with the Google Guarantee badge. This certification badge meant that — prior to October 20th — any customer who wasn’t satisfied with the service they received could submit a form to request reimbursement so long as it was within 30 days of the initial service date. The good news is that, if you […]
What is Performance Max channel reporting? PMax channel reporting is a new report that breaks your Performance Max results down by channel — search, shopping, YouTube, display, discover, GMail, and Google Maps. Instead of reporting being all lumped together, now you can see the individual channels and compare. This is currently being rolled out as of 2025 — its availability may still show as “beta” in some accounts — and is designed to show how each channel is contributing to your conversion goals. It also includes visualizations and a channel distribution […]
AI overviews are one of the most — and arguably the most — eventful changes to search engines that have happened in the last many years. Although some users will end search queries with “-ai” or use tools like the https://udm14.com/ code to block Google’s generative AI functions on search engine results pages, the vast majority don’t — so the top result they see on Google’s SERP is an AI LLM-generated answer to their query. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. First, AI overviews: a search feature providing AI-generated answers to many […]
First thing’s first: Unlike many AI products being rolled out recently, AI Max is an opt-in tool so you can use it or not depending on if you feel it’s right for you. Launched in May 2025, it encompasses a range of tools based on machine learning. This includes generative AI like asset optimization, but also more traditional machine learning to optimize ads with search term matching and final URL expansion. Theoretically the aim of these is straightforward: to improve ad relevance and expand reach. While much of Google’s AI […]
Google’s Performance Max campaigns are becoming an increasingly present part of the online marketing ecosystem as more businesses use them to work alongside their traditional search campaigns. When you’re working with Performance Max, you’ll be segmenting ads into different asset groups. These are essentially the component parts of what can make up your ads — headlines, images, URLs, audiences, videos (in certain cases), other copy, and so on — which are thematically related and can be arranged in different ways and formats depending on the platform on which they’re being […]
When it comes to creating a sustainable customer base, Google Ads can be a critical asset. Along with being useful for growing your business, they’re perhaps even more valuable for driving new customers to a website who will, over time, provide a reliable foundation and the stability that comes with that. That being said, the quality of the site traffic from Google Ads isn’t a given. Depending on your campaign and the stage of business development you are in, that might be less big of a deal than for others, […]
Local Services Ads are a format that allows you to not just advertise on Google, but also, receive leads to your business from potential customers on these ads, either as phone calls or messages. This platform also comes with a Local Services Ads app through which you can reply to messages, track bookings, and manage leads (although we should mention that messaging is currently only available in the US and Canada). There are a few different types of Local Services: Google Screened ads are tailored for professional services firms in […]
When it comes to Google advertising, the Google Search Partners Network is probably one of the more under-discussed tools it offers. Businesses and brands often wonder — with good reason — if the pros are worth it for the potential cons. After all, there is a certain level of ambiguity to it, and there’s far less control over ad placement on Google Search Partners than on Google proper. This uncertainty is exacerbated by the fact that Google doesn’t give a full list of sites or apps within this network, meaning […]
In manual bidding you tell Google how much you’re willing to pay for each click, automated bidding adjusts bids on your behalf to optimize for your goals. Automated bids are tweaked by Google in response to their performance and other insights, which in theory should make them more efficient. Within the automated bidding category is the further optimized Smart Bidding option. This is an automated bid setting that optimizes specifically for conversions or conversion value — that means it’s more specialized and better-suited to some goals, but you shouldn’t use […]
We’ve talked a lot about Google Ad extensions at Fujisan — today, we’re gonna dive into sitelink extensions. Sitelinks are a type of extension that create additional links you can include in your PPC ads. For example, if a user falls upon a sitelink on your PPC ad and clicks on it, they will be taken to a specific part of your website. Let’s dive in: More about sitelinks, identifying them, and why to use them Sitelinks appear as additional links on your Google ad right below your description text. […]
