Content
- What are negative keywords?
- Types of negative keywords
- How to find negative keywords?
- How to add negative keywords on different levels of Google Adwords account?
What is a negative keyword?
We guess that the best definition of negative keywords is published in Google Answer and it sounds like this: “A type of keyword that prevents your ad from being triggered by a certain word or phrase. Your ads aren’t shown to anyone who is searching for that phrase. This is also known as a negative match. For example, when you add “free” as a negative keyword to your campaign or ad group, you tell AdWords not to show your ad for any search containing the term “free.” On the Display Network, your ad is less likely to appear on a site when your negative keywords match the site’s content.” The main goal of using negative keywords in Adwords campaigns is reducing the number of unrelevant visitors and as a result, reducing the Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) from this channel.
Types of negative keywords
We can distinguish the following types of negatives. Depends on types of campaigns, where keywords are using:- Search network campaign
- Display network campaign
- Video campaign
- Campaign level
- Ad group level
“This type is the default for your negative keywords. For negative broad match keywords, your ad won’t show if the search contains all your negative keyword terms, even if the terms are in a different order. Your ad may still show if the search contains only some of your keyword terms.”For example, negative keyword in broad match should be added to the list as running shoes
Phrase match negative keywords
“For negative phrase match keywords, your ad won’t show if the search contains the exact keyword terms in the same order. The search may include additional words, but the ad won’t show as long as all the keyword terms are included in the search in the same order.”Negative keyword in phrase match should be added to the list as: “running shoes”
Exact match negative keywords
“For negative exact match keywords, your ad won’t show if the search contains the exact keyword terms, in the same order, without extra words. Your ad may still show if the search contains the keyword terms with additional words.”Negative keyword in exact match should be added to the list as: [running shoes]
How to find negative keywords?
There are exist follow ways to collect a comprehensive list of negative keywords: 1. Google Keyword Planner Google Adwords Keyword Planner is the most used on the first steps before launching campaigns. It helps to add some the most popular negative keywords, but it’s not enough. 2. Google Search Console Search Console is the second important source. If you have much organic traffic, it’s a big chance that you’ll find many valuable queries in Console for improving negative keyword lists in Adwords. 3. Google Adwords search terms statistics All queries, that launch your keywords in ads, are collected in your account. So, every day, week or month you can expand your negative keywords list with new words, phrases.
4. Kparser
Kparser helps to find a big list of negative keywords depends on a specific query. Generation of long-tail keywords is one of the fastest methods to gather a list of negatives for the ad group or campaign. For example, after collecting results for query running shoes, we’ve got 1170 phrases and 834 unique words. And your purpose is to collected as big as possible list of informational (not commercial) words to expand the list of negatives in Adwords. Look at the screen below. It’s really easy to check all the words you find as negative keywords and press ‘Copy Negatives’. One click and all terms are in your clipboard, ready to be added to Adwords.
5. Templates
You can find many interesting templates of lists with negative keywords on the web. The main proses of such lists follow:
- You can add it before launching campaigns
- Basically such lists already divided into some categories (employment, education, research etc.)
How to add negative keywords on different levels of Google Adwords account?
You can add negative keywords in Google Adwords using two main ways:- Create lists of negatives on account level and add specific list for campaign, ad group
- Create specific lists within campaign, ad group
What the way is better? The most convenient path is to create the list of the most general negatives on the account level and add it to campaigns. Lists those are specific only for some campaign, ad group would be added on this specific level.
Kparser is a free keyword research tool that can come in handy. It takes some time to run, but you’ll be amazed by the variety of keywords it returns. It’s easy to use and doesn’t require registration.
– Ann Smarty, author on contentmarketinginstitute.com
(6 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)
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