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Negative keywords in contextual advertising are keywords that exclude your ads from appearing in irrelevant search queries. You should use negative keywords when you want to reduce the number of untargeted visitors, lower your cost per click, and increase the overall effectiveness of your advertising campaign. This is especially true for words that have multiple meanings or can be associated with topics that are not related to your offer.
Negative keywords help filter out unwanted search queries, thereby increasing the relevance of ads to user requests. This is important for improving the quality of traffic to your website, reducing advertising costs, and improving conversions. Using negative keywords allows you to target your audience more accurately and exclude traffic that is unlikely to lead to a purchase or other targeted action.
● Free (if you do not offer free goods or services)
● Jobs, work (to filter job searches if this is not your offer)
● Download, upload (if you sell products and do not offer free downloads)
● Reviews, testimonials (if you do not want to appear in queries related to reviews)
This list can contain thousands of negative keywords.Carefully select ready-made lists of negative keywords so as not to cut your advertising reach.
You can start collecting negative keywords by analyzing search query reports in Google Ads. Look through the queries for which your ads were shown and identify irrelevant queries. It will also be useful to work with your sales or support team to identify words that are often used by non-target visitors. Additionally, you can use SEO tools to analyze keywords and find potential negative keywords.
Using different types of matches allows you to customize your advertising campaigns more flexibly and avoid losing potentially profitable traffic due to the overuse of broad match negative keywords. Careful selection of the type of match and constant monitoring of campaign performance will help you optimize the use of negative keywords and increase the ROI of your advertising campaigns.
Use negative keywords to exclude traffic for queries that are completely irrelevant to all your campaigns (this type of application level also applies to Performance Max campaigns).
Add negative keywords to refine targeting for a specific campaign.
Here, negative keywords allow you to customize ad impressions within a single campaign in even more detail.
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