Google Ads tool for daily negative keyword control
A Google Ads tool from NegativeKeywords reviews reported search terms, flags irrelevant intent and recommends supported negative keywords. It combines daily monitoring, conflict checks, approval controls and waste reporting for Search, Shopping and Performance Max where the platform allows.
Give search-term review a consistent place in account management
A new query can be irrelevant even when it contains the keyword you intended to target. Job seekers, DIY searches, unsupported locations and wrong product requests can enter the same report as useful demand. When review depends on an occasional export, these patterns can stay unnoticed between account meetings.
NegativeKeywords sweeps reported search terms daily on Starter and Growth. Agency sweeps every 6 hours and Enterprise hourly. The classification considers what the account sells, then attaches a reason to every flagged query. A wrong-product explanation gives the reviewer something concrete to check.
The product handles search-term control while your team owns bidding, budgets, ads and conversion strategy. Use the PPC management software comparison when deciding how this focused workflow fits your existing account tools. The aim is a repeatable review process with evidence for each exclusion.
Review Search, Shopping and eligible Performance Max traffic
Search campaigns support negative broad, phrase and exact match, applied at the appropriate supported level. The recommendation must preserve the difference between those negative rules and positive keyword matching. Google negatives do not automatically expand to close variants, including plurals and misspellings.
Shopping campaigns accept negative keywords at campaign and ad group level and through supported shared lists. Shopping does not need positive search keywords for irrelevant query traffic to appear. Review search-term evidence alongside the feed and advertised products before selecting exclusions.
Performance Max supports account-level negatives and campaign-level negative keyword lists where the platform allows. NegativeKeywords uses supported destinations and the search-term data Google makes available. These controls affect eligible search inventory and do not exclude a word from every Performance Max channel. The Performance Max negative keywords guide explains the scope to verify in your account.
See the reason, match type and destination together
Each recommendation connects a flagged search to an intent group and an exclusion choice. Recruitment, education, competitor support, wrong location and secondhand intent can be irrelevant in one account and valuable in another. The account's offer determines the judgment, rather than a word being universally unwanted.
NegativeKeywords recommends exact, phrase or broad where the platform supports them, plus an ad group, campaign, account or shared list destination as appropriate. Use narrower scope for an offer-specific mismatch. Reserve account-wide exclusions for intent that is wrong across all eligible campaigns.
The Google Ads negative keywords guide explains the mechanics with query examples. Shared list management across accounts is included on Growth and above, with industry starter libraries available to support review. A library entry still needs a relevance and conflict check before it becomes an applied rule.
Keep useful searches eligible while reviewing junk
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A negative that overlaps an active keyword can remove traffic the account deliberately targets. A phrase can also catch a converting query that was outside the first report view. NegativeKeywords checks proposals against active keywords, products and converting queries in the reviewed data before recommending an exclusion.
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Starter uses approval only. Review the reason, wording and destination, then decide whether to apply the recommendation. Growth and above also support autopilot rules you set, so repeatable irrelevant intent can follow an agreed policy while ambiguous searches remain review decisions.
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Every negative added has an audit log entry and one-click undo. Connect through the platform's OAuth flow and revoke access at any time. Read the workspace security details when evaluating connection and access controls for an in-house team or an agency-managed account.
Check the account structure as well as new queries
The Google Ads negatives coverage audit checks reported search-term coverage, missing intent groups, conflicts, duplicates, missing query variants and shared lists that are not applied to intended campaigns. It also checks supported Performance Max exclusion controls. A long list does not establish that the right campaigns receive it.
The waste dashboard separates flagged spend from blocked spend and shows trends. Flagged spend still needs a review decision. Blocked spend connects historical reported cost to applied exclusions, rather than measuring future auctions prevented or guaranteeing cash savings. Email and Slack alerts surface new expensive junk queries.
Use the Google Ads audit checklist to review structural coverage and Google Ads reporting to explain the resulting work. Google Ads Editor CSV export supports an Editor-based change process, with platform preview and import checks before changes are treated as completed.
Starter includes the Google Ads review workflow
Starter costs 49 USD per month, or 24 USD per month billed yearly at 288 USD. It covers one Google Ads account and up to 10 000 USD in monthly ad spend, with one seat, daily sweeps, approval-only changes and 30 days of audit history. Ongoing monitoring is a paid subscription.
| Plan | Monthly billing | Yearly billing | Coverage and sweep |
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| Starter | 49 USD per month | 288 USD per year, equivalent to 24 USD per month | 1 account, up to 10 000 USD spend, daily |
| Growth | 149 USD per month | 888 USD per year, equivalent to 74 USD per month | 5 accounts, up to 75 000 USD spend, daily |
| Agency | 499 USD per month | 2 988 USD per year, equivalent to 249 USD per month | 50 accounts, up to 500 000 USD spend, every 6 hours |
| Enterprise | 999 USD per month | 5 988 USD per year, equivalent to 499 USD per month | Unlimited accounts and spend, hourly |
Spend coverage refers to combined monthly advertising spend across connected accounts. Growth and above add Microsoft Advertising and Amazon Ads, autopilot rules and shared lists across accounts. Agency and Enterprise include white-label client reports. Compare PPC software pricing for seats, retention and access controls. Cancel any time, with access through the end of the paid period.
Try the Google Ads optimization tool on your own export
Open the home demo and paste a CSV or TSV containing search term, clicks, cost and conversions. Describe what you sell and select Google Ads. If you want to inspect the workflow first, choose Dental clinic, B2B SaaS or Running shoes store from the ready dataset chips.
Want recurring decisions handled without a click? Read how negative keyword automation splits autopilot rules from the approval queue, or compare scripts and software first.
Select Find wasted spend to see the report on the analysis page. The first 8 negatives are visible, with the rest unlocked after account creation. Review the reasons, proposed match types and destinations against the offer you entered. The demo runs in your browser, the report is never stored and no card is required.
This one-off analysis lets you inspect the recommendation format before choosing a subscription. Ongoing monitoring connects the ad account, reviews new reported queries and keeps the decisions in an audit trail. Use the result to judge whether the review process fits the way your team manages exclusions.
Start with the search terms your account already paid for
Bring a current export and a clear description of the offer. Review what is flagged, inspect why it is irrelevant and check the proposed scope before moving to daily monitoring. Starter includes Google Ads, and you can choose a broader plan when the account portfolio or network coverage grows.