Notes, Stories & Thoughts on Marketing & Growth

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11
Apr

The Ads-to-GA4 Gap's Hidden Bidding Cost

The ads-to-GA4 gap degrades Smart Bidding performance — every unmeasured click is a missing conversion signal.
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10
Apr

Why GA4 Data Always Lies

* GA4 data accuracy degrades across four compounding layers: browser blocking, consent gaps, thresholding, and sampling * Each layer multiplies the previous
4 min read
26
Mar

Three Parts or Nothing

Here's what AI Overviews actually do with your page: scan for entity, attribute, value, then move on if
1 min read
25
Mar

Split Signal Problem

Stacking Smart Bidding, PMax, and AI Max on the same audience doesn't multiply learning. It splits it. Each
1 min read
24
Mar

The Citation Flywheel

Most businesses will lose 18% to 64% of organic traffic in 2026. That's Kaushik's projection. The
1 min read
23
Mar

Someone Else's Map

Your topical map is probably someone else's. Most people build them the same way: open Google, find competitors,
20
Mar

The Forty Percent

Nearly 40% of GA4 properties have misconfigured events compromising their data. Everyone is layering AI analytics on top of GA4
1 min read
19
Mar

The Nine Percent

Only 9% of organizations can intervene before an AI agent completes a harmful action. 57% have agents in production. 89%
1 min read
18
Mar

Clarity Beats Position

Source: Margarita Loktionova, Semrush Blog — https://www.semrush.com/blog/ai-tools-the-modern-buyer-journey-study/ Half of U.S. consumers who have used AI
2 min read
17
Mar

Rules Eat Context

Somewhere in your project there's a plain text file that your AI reads before it reads anything else.
1 min read