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We wrote yesterday an important tip about negatives, which is that Google will not automatically add the plurals and misspellings of the keywords you add as negatives. You will need to add them manually. Here is our next negatives tip.
Many times, people add negative keyword phrases to Google Ads. For example, if a store only sells fiber optic networking devices, they might add the negative keyword: “ethernet networks”.
However, this keyword would not prevent the ad from showing up on the keyword phrase search: “ethernet solutions”. That is because solutions is not in the negative keyword phrase: “ethernet networks”. A better strategy is to use the negative keyword: “ethernet” alone.
That will eliminate all keyword phrases with the word ethernet in it. The one disadvantage is that if people searched on “Ethernet vs Fiber Optic Networks” our ad would not show.
1. There may be many less instances where our ad will not show when we want it to vs. instances where our ad shows when we do not want it to
2. The Ethernet vs Fiber optic keywords are lower down on the sales funnel and therefore not that valuable to us
Bottom line, when adding negative
keywords to Google and Microsoft Ad campaigns use one word keywords whenever it’s
possible.
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