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Audit checks / G-KW-08

Search campaign with no negatives

A Search campaign with no negatives pays for every query its keywords match, wanted or not. Even a small shared list of the usual suspects (free, jobs, reviews, how to) pays back in the first week.

Fires when
A live Search campaign with spend has no negative keywords of any kind.
What to do
Attach a negative keyword list.
How the impact is estimated
risk = the campaign's 30-day spend, with no filter on what it matches
Platform
Google Ads
Severity
medium
Looks back
30 days
Autopilot
Never applied automatically.

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