Negative keywords

The searches your campaign refuses to pay for, from day one.

Most campaigns discover their negative keywords the expensive way - by paying for junk clicks first. Campaign Creator generates a campaign-level negative list before launch, organised by category, so the obvious waste is blocked from the first impression.

What it blocks

Categories like job-seeker terms, DIY/free/how-to intent, unrelated meanings of your keywords, and anything matching the product exclusions you set in Discovery.

Reviewing them

  1. Scan by category - the grouping makes it a two-minute read.

  2. Remove any negative that's actually legitimate traffic for this business (the classic: "jobs" is junk for a plumber and core revenue for a recruiter).

  3. Add any known waste terms from your experience with the account.

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Good to know. After launch, Clicc's Search Terms analyzer keeps this list growing from real query data - the launch list handles the predictable waste; Search Terms catches the unpredictable kind.

RELATED ARTICLES

The Review step

What to check, in what order, before setting a budget.

Keywords & the quality gate

How keywords are found, enriched, and ruthlessly filtered.

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