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Best Practices Guide: Optimizing Google Business Profile for Paid Ad Success In Local Service Ads Campaigns

Google is moving its local service advertising entirely into the main Google Ads platform. With this upgrade, your Google Business Profile acts as […]

Google Local Services Ads Are Moving to Performance Max: What Businesses Need to Know

If you are a business that depends on phone calls and booked jobs from Google search – think contractors, plumbers, HVAC companies, lawyers, […]

Wondering How to Improve Website AI Visibility? It Starts (But Doesn’t End) with SEO

Generative AI is really a misnomer. This technology doesn’t generate new answers so much as it reconfigures existing information. So if you’re trying […]

What Generative AI Adoption Statistics Straight From the Horse’s Mouth Say About AEO/GEO and Whether You Need to Be Doing It

Generative AI adoption for 18-24 year-olds and 25-34 year-olds is almost double that of the next largest user group, 35-44 year olds. For […]

ChatGPT Ads are Officially Now a Thing, and For Advertisers, They’re Cheaper Than Ever. Here’s What You Need to Know.

Since ChatGPT ads were introduced about a year ago, the costs associated with it limited the pool of advertisers to the select few […]

Is SEO Still Worth It Amidst the Zero-Click Chaos? A Case Study Featuring Our Own Data.

At Sonar, we put our money where our mouth is as much as possible. Given all the upheaval in marketing, and very valid […]

Creative-Driven Advertising: Adapting to the AI-Powered Future of Paid Media

Digital advertising is evolving quickly as platforms like Google and Meta increasingly rely on artificial intelligence to determine how ads are delivered, who […]

Want to Understand How to Optimize for AEO/GEO? Understand How AI Search Works First

GEO or AEO is essentially a marketing challenge that started with, well, marketing. This technology has been presented to us as “answer engines,” […]

What are “Generative Engine Optimization (GEO),” “Answer Engine Optimization (AEO),” “AI search” and Why they are so Important to Your Marketing in 2026

It’s pretty exciting to be witnessing the birth of a marketing discipline, so much so that we don’t seem to even have a […]

Ask for Proof: Why We Don’t Ask for Citations in LLMS, and Why We Should

Is the marketing of LLMs as “answer engines” determining user behavior?Unless you’re already in the habit of asking for citations in LLMs you […]