Negative keywords
In plain terms
The searches for which you refuse to let your Google ad appear.
Technical meaning
They exclude queries with no buying intent or off-topic ones (“free”, “jobs”, “rental” for a development for sale). Without them, a Search campaign spends part of its budget on clicks that cannot become customers. The list is built before launch and extended every week from the search terms report.
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