Zack Bowlby

CEO @ROIAmplified | USA Today Top Emerging Entrepreneur | $100M+ ad spend managed | AI & Digital Marketing Expert | Helping brands grow in the AI era

[Zack Bowlby @ROIAmplifiedCEO]

Negative keywords are a subscription, not a setup task. Search behavior drifts every month. New products, new slang, new junk. The account you cleaned in January is collecting garbage by June. Monthly cadence, fifteen minutes, forever.

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Google Business Profile drives calls that never touch your website. Without a tracking number on the profile you cannot tie those calls to your local SEO work. One setting. Do not let your best channel report zero.

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We still write blog posts for AI SEO pushes, but the real secret is building service pages with real answers and internally link them.

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HubSpot attribution reports answer the question your CMO actually asks: which channel started the deals we closed? Not clicks. Deals. If you have revenue reporting turned on and never opened it, that is tonight's homework.

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Broad match with smart bidding is a strong dog on a thin leash. It works, but only with guardrails: real conversion data, weekly search term reviews, and negatives added like clockwork. Skip the guardrails and the dog walks you.

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New research says Google AI Mode sends fewer clicks and delivers a poor user experience. Roger Montti (@martinibuster) has the writeup at Search Engine Journal.

Operator move: chart impressions against clicks in Search Console. Rising impressions with flat clicks is the whole story in one graph.

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Two CRMs means zero CRMs. If sales lives in one system and marketing in another, every report is a negotiation. Pick a system of record. We pick HubSpot, but pick one.

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Google Analytics now supports Include data filters for hostnames, per @MattGSouthern at Search Engine Journal. Instead of banning spam domains one at a time, you approve your own. A guest list beats a bouncer trying to memorize every face. Go look at your GA4 data filters.

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Barry Schwartz reports Google is emailing Merchant Center users: if your ecommerce platform supports UCP, your products are now eligible for native checkout in AI Mode and Gemini.

Auto enabled. If you want checkout on your own site, you turn it off yourself.

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@max_mtwx Neither. It pays on Google's own judgment that your page contributed significantly to generating the answer, which happens before any citation or click exists. GSC just shows a monthly earnings number with no breakdown, and publishers in the pilot are calling it a black box.

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Google's AI contribution pilot is live. It pays invited publishers through Search Console.

Citations and links in AI answers do not qualify for payment.

Check Search Console. Visibility is not a check.

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AI Overviews are showing more external links, per Malte Landwehr's chart.

Think of a SERP going from three ad slots to six. More ways in, same real estate.

Audit the pages already getting cited and treat them like money keywords.

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Google just dropped a new Ads Decoded on offline conversions. Operator translation: bidding on raw form fills is like grading a sales rep on business cards collected. Push closed revenue from your CRM back into Ads and Smart Bidding finally optimizes toward money, not volume.

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Google Ads optimizes toward whatever you feed it. Feed it form fills and it hunts form fillers. Feed it closed revenue through offline conversion imports and it hunts buyers. Same budget, different appetite.

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Watch how AI answers talk about your category. They name 2 or 3 businesses and move on. There is no page two in a ChatGPT answer. The question is not whether you rank. It is whether you are one of the three names.

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The average HubSpot portal uses about a third of what it costs. Workflows nobody opened since the last admin left. Lists built on deleted properties. Sequences with 2019 copy. An hour of portal cleanup beats most new tools you are about to buy.

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@GoogleAds @adsliaison The CRM isn’t locked. The click ID never made it in. If GCLID isn’t stored on the lead the day the form submits, there is nothing to send back when the deal closes. That’s the first 30 minutes of the job, not the integration.

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@annatonger @TaylorLorenz @Forbes Hi Anna! I run a Florida digital marketing agency. For our ticketing client we drop in a concert ticket link and an agent builds the whole promo package: announcement, captions, Meta ads and targeting. Another audits how other ticketing companies show up in ChatGPT and Gemini

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Call transcripts are keyword research nobody reads. Your customers describe their problem in their own words on every tracked call. That language belongs in your ads, your service pages, and your AI SEO strategy.

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Per Search Engine Roundtable: some links in Google AI Overviews now drop users into AI Mode rather than onto a web page. Bottom of the overview, styled like any other link.

It is an exit sign in a store that opens into another aisle.

Pull GSC and check CTR on your AI Overview queries.