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Lead Story · OCT 12

How to Identify Bad Clicks and Fraud with PPC Monitoring

Paid search can feel like it’s printing money right up until it doesn’t. One week your campaign is calm, conversions are steady, and reporting looks clean. Then a handful of clicks appear out of nowhere, CPCs climb, conversion rate drops, and your dashboard starts to look like a crime scene you don’t have time to investigate. That’s the real job behind PPC monitoring: not just watching metrics, but separating “normal volatility” from suspicious activity. When you do it w

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Analysis · OCT 11

How a Paid Media Agency Can Reduce Cost per Acquisition

Cost per acquisition is one of those metrics that sounds simple until you watch it move. One week it drops, the next it spikes, and suddenly it feels like you are paying for the privilege of learning. That is exactly where a paid media agency earns its keep. Not by promising miracles, but by systematically tightening the chain between spend and outcomes, from targeting and messaging to landing pages and offer design. When I see businesses get better CAC, the pattern is u

Dispatch · OCT 11

How to Build an Effective Negative Keyword List

A negative keyword list is one of those PPC fundamentals that looks simple until you try to maintain it at scale. At the start, it feels like busywork. You add a few obvious terms, conversions improve, and everyone relaxes. Then you run for a few months, expand campaigns, swap landing pages, and suddenly spend creeps up while lead quality drifts. The search terms report becomes a daily audit instead of a quick check. That is usually the moment the negative keyword list s