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    <title>How to Audit a Google Tag Manager Container Against What Is Actually Live</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>A field-tested Google Tag Manager audit method for live versions, firing order, conversion deduplication, consent, naming, and safe API automation.</description>
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    <title>GA4 Engagement Rate vs. Bounce Rate: Why Neither Measures Page Quality</title>
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    <description>Learn how GA4 engagement rate and bounce rate differ from Universal Analytics, why both are session-scoped, and how custom scroll-depth events and heatmaps reveal page behavior.</description>
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    <title>Building a Marketing Mix Model That Cannot Silently Lie</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>A technical postmortem of an MMM allocation pipeline: observed-attribution floors, exact reconciliation, fault-injected validators, cohort maturity, source splicing, and the defects still left to solve.</description>
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    <title>How to Use Exact, Phrase, and Broad Match in Google Ads</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Compare exact, phrase, and broad match in Google Ads, add negative keywords safely, and govern broad match with conversion data, scripts, and weekly AI-assisted query reviews.</description>
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    <title>Google Ads Conversion Counting: One vs. Every, Primary vs. Secondary</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Audit Google Ads conversion actions by separating One vs. Every counting from Primary vs. Secondary optimization before inflated events train bidding.</description>
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    <title>How to Improve Google Ads ROAS Without Optimizing the Wrong Number</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Improve Google Ads ROAS by governing conversion value, bidding, search intent, ads, landing pages, and margin—not by polishing a misleading platform ratio.</description>
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    <title>How to run a negative keyword sweep without blocking good demand</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Build a defensible negative keyword review queue across Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, and Apple Ads without treating every costly query as irrelevant.</description>
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    <title>When an Advertising API Is Worth the Extra Machinery</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Decide whether a manual export, formula, Apps Script, connector, or direct advertising API is the smallest system that can reliably support the marketing decision.</description>
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    <title>How to Build an MMM Without Starting With the Model</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Define the decision, row grain, outcome, media inputs, controls, and validation plan before choosing a Marketing Mix Modeling framework.</description>
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    <title>Define campaign taxonomy before building the dashboard</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Build campaign naming rules that keep platform exports, analytics data, CRM records, and executive dashboards comparable.</description>
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