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Target keyword: negative keywords google ads · Shark Coast Media · 4 min read

Audit any self-managed Sarasota County ad account and you’ll find the same leak: money spent on searches that were never going to buy. Negative keywords are the least glamorous, highest-ROI hour in paid search.

"Free," "DIY," "jobs," "salary," "how to" — plus the wrong towns and the wrong services. Without negatives, a Venice plumber pays for Bradenton job-seekers and DIY researchers all month.

The search terms report shows the real queries behind your clicks. Ten minutes a month adding negatives compounds: accounts we take over often shed a meaningful share of pure waste in the first cleanup.

Universal negatives (employment, DIY, cheap/free) belong in shared lists applied to every campaign, so each new campaign starts clean instead of relearning the same expensive lessons.

• Junk queries silently consume local ad budgets.
• Review the search terms report every month.
• Maintain shared negative lists across all campaigns.

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