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Topic: Affiliate marketing
Limited Ad Serving: Why Google Ads suddenly show less often
Google can limit ad serving without disapproving your ads. Learn what puts accounts at risk, how to spot a limitation, and how to appeal.
How to measure the true value of creators and review content
Learn how to separate meaningful engagement from vanity metrics using practical evaluation methods and performance benchmarks.
Google updates Merchant Center with cross-platform reporting
Merchant Center is updating its reporting with new YouTube traffic classifications and expanded product-level performance insights.
How to find who’s using your brand in paid search
A step-by-step guide for spotting competitors, affiliates and misleading advertisers in your branded search queries.
The overlooked business value of SEO and affiliate alignment
SEO and affiliate teams affect the same revenue, rankings, and LLM visibility. Alignment can reduce costs and strengthen brand performance.
Brad Geddes on 20 Years of Paid Search Evolution
Brad Geddes reflects on the evolution of search marketing and why human creativity will remain essential in an AI-driven future.
Where PPC and SEO teams lose control in branded search
Hidden SERP shifts may be draining your brand performance. See how aligning PPC and SEO shows what’s stealing clicks and driving up costs.
What incrementality really means in affiliate marketing
Some affiliates claim incremental sales but only intercept checkout customers. Learn how to spot partners that drive real revenue.
Own your branded search: Building a competitive PPC defense
Competitors and review sites are bidding on your brand. Here's how to structure PPC campaigns that protect revenue and high-intent traffic.
Google’s spam update vs. AI affiliate sites: An SEO experiment
An experiment with AI affiliate sites shows how Google’s spam systems treat low-trust, programmatic SEO — and why it can’t stand alone.
Where affiliates can get traffic beyond Google search
As organic search sends fewer visitors to publishers, affiliates are finding traffic through communities, courses, and partnerships.
Brand protection in PPC: How to protect your brand and prevent risks
Read this PPC protection guide to learn how to build a strong brand-protection strategy in paid search – and how to stop brand bidding and prevent ad hijacking.
Shopify launches Product Network to blend items across merchants
Shopify’s Product Network lets advertisers reach shoppers across multiple merchant sites with contextually relevant products.
How amplifying creator content strengthens trust and lowers media costs
Paid amplification makes creator content work harder by boosting trust, cutting media costs, and drawing in new partners.
Unmasking affiliate fraud: Protecting growth in 2026
Learn the most common types of affiliate marketing fraud and how modern tools help brands protect growth, reputation, and spend through smarter affiliate fraud detection strategies.
Black Friday 2025: The affiliate PPC compliance playbook
Protect your Black Friday revenue: spot and prevent coupon fraud, monitor brand bidding and secure your affiliate traffic before losing budget.
Brand protection is growth protection in an AI Search world
Brand protection fuels growth. Discover three hidden PPC pitfalls wasting your budget and how AI can turn defense into ROI.
Affiliate cloaking is behind 45% of fraud – here’s how to beat it
Affiliate cloaking fakes results and drains your ad spend without a trace. Learn how to uncover the fraud affiliates don't want you to see.
Best strategies to fight trademark abuse in paid search
Trademark abuse hits your numbers and steals your money. Learn how to counter this with advanced automated monitoring tools.
How to save $150,000 in brand CPC costs: Brand bidding explained
Brand bidding silently drains your budget. Learn how to spot it and turn lost clicks into sales.
$84 billion lost to ad fraud: What you missed about affiliate abuse in 2025
Your top affiliates might be stealing from you. Discover the hidden tactics behind $84 billion in ad losses: cloaking, fake coupons, ad hijacking, and others.
The best affiliate networks by need and use case
Explore the best affiliate networks for ecommerce, SaaS, lead gen, and enterprise brands, with detailed pros, cons, and real-world insights.
Your guide to easy affiliate marketing for beginners
New to affiliate marketing? We cover everything you need to know—from how it works to choosing programs, building content, and earning your first commission.
Ad hijacking: Understanding the threat and learning from Adidas
Affiliate ad hijacking steals your traffic and trust. Learn how to spot it, stop it, and protect your budget with smarter monitoring.
Coupon sites: The hidden threat to your brand
Explore the risks of coupon sites for brands and discover how to mitigate these challenges effectively.
Google Search demoting content that is starkly different from the main content of the site
A Google spokesperson told Glenn Gabe, "Our systems aim to understand if a section of a site is independent or starkly different from the main content of the site. This helps us surface the most useful information from a range of sites."
Brand Protection: The complete guide
Discover essential tactics to catch click theft, protect brand integrity and maximize ROI.
2024 holiday marketing: Top SEO and PPC tips for a short shopping season
Start preparing for the condensed 2024 holiday season. Optimize for multiple holidays across various channels to maximize your marketing.
Why are so many affiliate sites losing organic traffic?
Here’s why smaller affiliate sites are losing rankings after Google's core update and how brand search can turn the tide.
What is ad hijacking and how do you protect your brand from it?
In this guide, you'll learn how ad hijacking works, how to spot it and tips for PPC brand protection.
Small review site lost 91% of its Google traffic to affiliate-focused SEO content
Google's search results are dominated by big brands. SEOs for smaller sites are complaining. It's like 2003 all over again.
4 YouTube Shopping updates, including Collections and Affiliate Hub
The platform is introducing new features and capabilities to offer creators fresh ways to enhance conversions and efficiency.
Reddit shown excessively in Google product review search results, study finds
Google has a severe diversity issue in Search results as Reddit absolutely dominates the Discussions and forums SERP feature.
75% of top brands fall victim to fraud in Google Search Ads
Google is being urged to do more in safeguarding brands' reputations and preventing online shoppers from becoming victims of fraud.
New research study asks if Google Search is getting worse
It seems more like a game of Whac-A-Mole, where the results get better, than worse, and then better as Google releases updates.
YouTube updates Product Drops tool for enhanced accessibility and control
The live shopping stream feature is expanding to more creators, and will offer increased flexibility in terms of timings.
Google’s Florida update: 20 years since the SEO ‘volcanic eruption’
Dive into the 2003 Google algorithm update's seismic impact on SEO and its lasting effects on the industry.
Lifting the lid on Google’s black box to find growth
Proven tactics to uncover the blindspots: Performance Max, CPC inflation and affiliate growth.
Hosting third-party content: What Google says vs. the reality
Money-making strategy or SEO pitfall? Learn how to make the most of third-party content partnerships while staying within Google's guidelines.