Newsletter: Google told us how it ranks. Almost nobody read it.


3 ranking laws, 8 offer secrets, and the TikTok method selling books with $0 ads.

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Hey Guys,

Here's something wild. Google published exactly how it ranks websites, in its own patents and a leaked API file, and 99% of marketers are still guessing. One agency owner read all of it, tested it across 1,000 client sites, and boiled it down to 3 laws. That's just 1 of the 10 videos I've broken down for you today.

We've also got a $2,000,000 ad campaign dissected by AI, an offer masterclass from a guy who did $9.8 million in 8 days, and a publisher selling books daily without spending a cent on ads.

Let's get into it.


TL;DR

This edition covers: the 3 landing page sections that actually convert (Mr Phem), OpenAI's new Soul, Terra, and Luna models explained (Julian Goldie), Google's 3 ranking laws pulled from patents and the 2024 API leak (StudioHawk), Claude Cowork landing on web and mobile from 2 angles (Paul J Lipsky and Tristen O'Brien), NotebookLM turning PDFs into 60-second vertical videos (Nick Ponte), the zero-ad-spend TikTok method for KDP books (Dave at Elevate Publishers), 8 secrets for building killer offers (Jason Fladlien), Google Ads auto-enabling conversion-based customer lists (Surfside PPC), and what AI found inside a $2M Google Ads campaign (Powerhouse Affiliate).


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1. The 3 Landing Page Sections Doing 90% of Your Selling

No sales does not mean a bad product. It usually means a broken landing page. Mr Phem shows the only 3 sections that need real effort: hero, benefits, and testimonials.

What you'll discover:

  • Why your hero section has 1 job, and how a clear headline, short description, product mockup, and a strong CTA let visitors get your offer in seconds without scrolling
  • How benefit cards with a short headline, simple description, and an icon each answer "what's in it for me" for scanners, not readers
  • The starter move if you've got zero customers: give the product away free, collect honest feedback, and use those first testimonials with names to build trust

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2. Soul, Terra, Luna: Which GPT 5.6 Model Should You Actually Use?

OpenAI stopped shipping 1 model and dropped a family of 3. Julian Goldie breaks down the tiers, plus the honest benchmark picture most channels skip.

What you'll discover:

  • The routing rule: Luna for high-volume small jobs, Terra as your everyday default, and Soul for the hard 20%, the big builds, and long agent runs
  • What the new Max and Ultra settings do, including Ultra running 4 agents in parallel on the same job for stronger results faster
  • The honest scorecard: Soul hits 80 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, about 2.8 points above Claude 5, while Fable 5 still edges ahead on broad intelligence, so test on your own work

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3. Google's 3 Ranking Laws, Straight From the Patents and the API Leak

StudioHawk read hundreds of Google patents plus the 2024 API leak, then tested it all across 1,000+ client sites. Everything Google does comes down to 3 laws.

What you'll discover:

  • Law 1, people first: NavBoost scores good clicks vs bounces, so your first 100 words must deliver your title's promise, and your name, address, and phone number must be word-for-word identical everywhere online
  • Law 2, content: the site focus score and the 0 to 127 original content score are real fields, and 1 client pruned 47 off-topic pages and grew traffic 34% in 60 days
  • Law 3, the site-wide quality modifier that lifts every page at once: JobAdder used original research and 58 media placements to jump from position 66 to number 1 for "ATS software" with a 361% organic traffic increase

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4. Claude Cowork Hits Web and Mobile (Here's the Catch Nobody Explains)

Cowork now runs on the web and your phone, but "cloud-based" comes with rules. Paul J Lipsky maps exactly when tasks sync and when they stay trapped on your desktop.

What you'll discover:

  • The 3 steps to make tasks sync: update every app, sign out and back in everywhere, and select "manually approve" on new tasks, because "skip all approvals" locks tasks to your device
  • How to read the icons: a cloud icon means the task syncs to web and phone, a computer icon means it's local only
  • The power move: start a task on desktop linked to your main work folder, leave your computer on with Claude open, then run local file jobs from your phone anywhere

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5. Master Cowork on Mobile in 8 Minutes (Stop Using Claude as a Helper)

Tristen O'Brien has 1,000+ hours inside Claude and says most people use 10% of Cowork. His framing: Cowork isn't a helper, it's an employee. Hand it whole jobs.

What you'll discover:

  • The 6 things that matter: the chat/Cowork toggle, cloud sandbox sessions, cross-device notifications, /schedule tasks, approval settings, and the local file limits
  • The job-hunt workflow: screenshot a LinkedIn posting, have Cowork research the company and rewrite your resume against it, then trim the whole thing into a skill that fires automatically next time
  • The scheduled-task play: a Sunday 8pm run that reads every unanswered email and drafts replies in your voice, so Monday's email debt is already written

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6. NotebookLM Now Turns Any PDF Into a 60-Second Vertical Video

Google quietly turned its research tool into a short-form video machine. Nick Ponte shows the new short video overviews, and the smarter way to use them before everyone floods the feed.

What you'll discover:

  • How the feature works: open a notebook, hit the studio panel, pick the short format, and generate a 60-second vertical clip powered by Nano Banana 2 Light with 4-second image generation
  • Why the custom prompt box is everything: feed it your own angle, stat, or surprising detail instead of letting the tool pick, then generate 5 or 6 clips from 1 source
  • The business angle: turn client press releases, reports, and case studies into a steady stream of vertical clips while the window is still wide open

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7. The TikTok Method Selling KDP Books With Zero Ad Spend

Dave has sold books for 3+ years without spending a cent on Amazon ads. His argument: Amazon takes roughly 40% of your sale, then sells you ads on top, and pays you 2 months later. There's a better way.

What you'll discover:

  • The reframe: treat Amazon as your supplier for printing, shipping, and refunds, but own how people find you through daily TikTok content
  • The hook formula behind a 1.9 million view video: impersonate your exact buyer ("me and my boyfriend completing it in less than a year") and be the friend recommending, never the seller cashing in
  • The volume system: 10-minute videos, 2 to 3 posts a day, riding TikTok's 500 to 1,000 viewer test groups, plus the reply video that shows viewers finding the book on Amazon and sells the warm audience twice

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8. 8 Secrets Behind Killer Offers (From the Guy Who Did $9.8M in 8 Days)

Jason Fladlien has designed offers doing $9.8 million in 8 days and $57 million in 226 days. These 8 moves speak the value language of your customers.

What you'll discover:

  • Short circuit the anchor: when every AI costs $20 a month, 1 client bundled access to all of them for the price of 1 and built a company valued over $50 million in under 16 months
  • Safe is sexy: a "complete the course, get your money back" guarantee paid back 5% of customers and doubled conversions, and reimbursing up to $5,000 in ad spend removed the real risk of buying
  • Hack effort and status: Typeform's 1 question per screen, Netflix killing late-fee shame, and GitHub's green squares all show how reducing mental, emotional, and physical effort while boosting status sells

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9. Google Ads Is Auto-Enabling Conversion-Based Customer Lists (Do This Now)

Announced June 17: if you're running customer match plus enhanced conversions, Google switches on conversion-based customer lists automatically, with data processing starting August 18. Surfside PPC explains what to do before then.

What you'll discover:

  • What's changing: Google builds audience lists from your conversion actions (calls, checkouts, bookings) and feeds them into smart bidding and optimized targeting
  • Where to plug them in: add the lists to your Performance Max audience signals and layer them into search campaigns as observation audiences
  • The proactive play: create engagement-based conversions like 60-second or multi-minute sessions so Google builds richer lists from your best visitors, and why there's no real reason to opt out

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10. AI Examined a $2,000,000 Google Ads Campaign. The Problem Is in Your Account Too.

Powerhouse Affiliate fed years of real data from a campaign that's generated over $2 million in commissions into Claude's Fable model with 1 instruction: forget the checklist, find what's actually happening. The verdict stings.

What you'll discover:

  • The diagnosis: "you aren't being out-optimized, you're being priced out." Conversion rate more than doubled from 3.1% to 6.86%, yet profit margin halved from roughly 21% to 9% as CPCs climbed against fixed affiliate payouts
  • The hidden waste: 58% of spend hid inside "other search terms," while a proven keyword core converted at roughly $14 CPA and "free" queries burned 17.1% of visible cost at a $44 CPA
  • The survival plan: negotiate higher payouts (even $5 more per conversion can change whether a campaign scales or dies), diversify traffic sources, add a retargeting layer, collect emails, and build funnels you own

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Before You Go

Pick 1 video, watch it today, and apply 1 thing today. My pick? Start with StudioHawk's 3 ranking laws, then run the "what does this page contain that doesn't exist anywhere else" test on your last 3 blog posts. That single question will change what you publish next.

Talk soon,

- Tony

P.S. If you run customer match and enhanced conversions in Google Ads, that conversion-based lists switch flips on around August 18 whether you're ready or not. Get your audience signals set up in Performance Max before Google does it for you. That's weeks away, not months.

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