{"id":7560,"date":"2023-01-04T17:54:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T17:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/04\/googles-remove-redundant-keywords-recommendations-have-changed\/"},"modified":"2023-01-04T17:54:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T17:54:13","slug":"googles-remove-redundant-keywords-recommendations-have-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/04\/googles-remove-redundant-keywords-recommendations-have-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s \u201cRemove redundant keywords\u201d recommendations have changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advertisers running PPC ads on Google may have woken up to an email this morning outlining its new policy regarding redundant keywords. <\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s changed. <\/strong>The \u201cRemove redundant keywords\u201d recommendations suggest redundant keywords within the same ad groups. You may see the notification at the top right side of your ads dashboard. But starting January 19, the recommendation can include keywords across different match types.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, Google will start removing redundant phrase and exact match keywords in favor of broad. <\/p>\n<p>Robert Brady first noticed this and posted it on Twitter. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p>Check your email. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoogleAds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@GoogleAds<\/a> just changed the &#8220;Remove redundant keywords&#8221; recommendation to prefer broad match. It will remove a phrase match or exact match keyword if a broad match keyword covers it. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ppcchat?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ppcchat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert Brady (@robert_brady) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robert_brady\/status\/1610650317800243200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 4, 2023<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Why Google is making the change.<\/strong> In their email, Google said:<\/p>\n<p>Redundant keywords are equivalent to higher-performing keywords or keywords in broader match types. Removing these redundant keywords and consolidating your keywords across match types will help you manage your account more easily. It doesn\u2019t negatively impact your performance, and still allows your ads to appear on the same searches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stop auto-apply. <\/strong>You can (and should, IMO) turn off auto-apply recommendations in both Editor and the Ads front end by clicking \u201cdisable\u201d in your recommendations section. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Dig deeper. <\/strong>You can review Google\u2019s recommendations guidelines <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/google-ads\/answer\/3416396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t received the email from Google, I\u2019ll paste it below. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Why we care.<\/strong> This is another attempt by Google to shift accounts to broad-match keywords only. Advertisers and brands should only make the change if they have tested and determined if broad-match keywords work best for their accounts. If you\u2019re unsure bout broad-match, turn off auto-apply and test. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/googles-remove-redundant-keywords-recommendations-have-changed-390939\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google\u2019s \u201cRemove redundant keywords\u201d recommendations have changed<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Search Engine Land<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advertisers running PPC ads on Google may have woken up to an email this morning outlining its new policy regarding redundant keywords. What\u2019s changed. The \u201cRemove redundant keywords\u201d recommendations suggest redundant keywords within the same ad groups. You may see the notification at the top right side of your ads dashboard. But starting January 19, the recommendation can include keywords across different match types.\u00a0 Now, Google will start removing redundant phrase and exact match keywords in favor of broad. Robert Brady first noticed this and posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-seo-blogs"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}