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Plain-language guides from a senior strategist: Google Ads costs and structure, Performance Max, Local Services Ads, switching agencies, and showing up in AI search.

Written by the strategist who runs the accounts, updated when the platforms change, and built to answer the question in the first paragraph.

These are the questions prospects ask us on the first call, answered the way we answer them on the call: what Google Ads management costs and what the fee models hide, when Performance Max helps and when it burns budget, how to move agencies without losing your account history, why one big campaign underperforms five themed ones, whether Local Services Ads or Google Ads belong in a law firm or home services plan, why leads go bad and how tracking causes it, and what it takes for a local business to be cited by ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews. Every guide is written by Shane K. Penrod, links to its sources and shows the date it was last reviewed.

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