Introduction

When viewing the Negative Keywords sub-tab within the main Keywords tab, you may find that you want to delete multiple keywords without selecting each one individually within the grid.

At present the platform does not support the deletion of negative keywords via bulk upload, so you can follow the process below to achieve the same thing.

How to delete multiple negative keywords

You cannot delete negative keywords in bulk. However, you can delete large numbers of negative keywords in the following way:
 

1. Navigate to the main Keywords tab.
    
2. Click the Negative Keywords sub-tab.
    
3. Use the ‘filter’ icon at the top of each column to filter the grid so that it only displays the negative keywords you’d like to delete.
    
4. Use the super-select function (the uppermost checkbox on the left of the grid) to select all keywords, then click Delete at the top of the grid. You may need to do this for multiple pages until the keywords are deleted.
    
5. Otherwise mark the checkbox next to the negative keywords you would like to delete.

Additional information

• Having a lot of negative keywords (over 2 - 3 million) will naturally cause the grid to load more slowly. Find out more about app slowness from our Help article.
   
• Note that you cannot current select to delete All keywords on all pages. This functionality may be added in a future release. As a workaround, you can navigate to the Show XX rows option near the upper-right corner of the grid and pull in a higher number of rows so that your view includes all or most of the negatives that you would like to delete.
   

• As mentioned above, deleting negative keywords in bulk is not supported by the platform as of yet. This functionality may be added in a future release.

  • As a workaround, you can delete negative keywords at the publisher level then sync down to the Platform.