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Google Ads - Negative Keywords

6 skills Claude can run against your live accounts through MCP Ads. Each one lists who it is for and the phrase that triggers it.

Negative keyword skills are the most-used skills in the library, because search term mining is the one job every Google Ads manager does every week and nobody enjoys. The weekly search term review runs on a Monday, or daily for accounts spending heavily on broad match. The converter and the shared list builder are run right after a mining session, or when an agency takes over an account and finds thirty campaigns each carrying a different copy of the same negatives. You need the Google Ads account connected through MCP Ads; if the account sits under a manager account, connecting the MCC lets Claude build shared lists that apply across every client at once. Claude pulls the search terms report for the period, separates terms that have already converted from those with spend and no result, and applies the skill's rules for deciding match type and level: obvious junk goes as phrase negatives at campaign level, near-miss competitor or job-seeker terms go at the right ad group, and anything that appears in more than one campaign is proposed for a shared list. The output is a formatted negative list grouped by campaign and match type, plus a short list of search terms that surprised the skill because they converted and are not yet keywords. Claude adds the negatives only when you confirm, and reports exactly what it wrote.

Prompt
Mine last week's search terms for the Harbour Dental account and add negatives for anything irrelevant.
Claude runs gads_get_search_terms_report for the last seven days and reads through every query with spend. It groups the irrelevant ones by theme, for example free, jobs, course and a handful of city names outside the service area, and proposes each as a phrase or exact negative at campaign level with a reason. It separately lists queries that converted but are not in the account as candidates for new keywords. After you approve the list, it writes them with gads_add_negative_keywords, then reads the account back to confirm the count. The summary notes the total spend those terms consumed in the week, framed as what would have been saved had the negatives been in place.
Google Ads Industry Negative List - Pre-Built Negative Keywords for Your Sector

Generates a sector-specific negative keyword list for your industry. Legal, real estate, finance, SaaS, eCommerce, healthcare, education, automotive, home services, hospitality, and more all have known wasted-spend patterns. This blocks them from day one with the right match types.

For: Everyone

Generate a negative keyword list for [industry]

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Google Ads Negative Keyword Audit - Are You Blocking Enough Irrelevant Traffic

Reviews all existing negatives for completeness, accuracy, conflicts, and freshness. Finds missing negative categories still letting irrelevant traffic through, outdated negatives that no longer apply, and over-aggressive negatives blocking good traffic. Gives a completeness score and a priority fix list.

For: Agencies, Business Owners

Audit our negative keywords — are we blocking enough irrelevant terms

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Google Ads Negative Conflict Check - Make Sure Negatives Are Not Blocking Good Keywords

Cross-references all negative keywords against active keyword lists. Finds negatives that are accidentally blocking good keywords from serving — a common and invisible cause of low impression share. Run after every large negative upload or when impression share drops unexpectedly.

For: Agencies, Business Owners

Check if our negatives are blocking any keywords they should not

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Google Ads Negative Keyword Builder - Block Irrelevant Searches From Day One

Builds a comprehensive negative keyword list tailored to your industry. Covers all common wasted-spend patterns: job seekers, DIY intent, wrong product variants, informational searches, student research, and competitor exclusions where relevant. Prevents obvious waste before it happens.

For: Everyone

Build a negative keyword list for [industry/business]

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Google Ads Search Term to Negative Converter - Instantly Format Irrelevant Queries as Negatives

Paste in a list of irrelevant search terms from the search terms report and this skill converts them into properly formatted negative keywords at the right match type and the right campaign level. Saves manual formatting time and prevents match type errors when adding negatives.

For: Agencies, Business Owners

Convert these search terms into negatives: [paste list]

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Google Ads Shared Negative Lists - Manage Negatives Efficiently Across Campaigns

Builds shared negative keyword lists and applies them across multiple campaigns. Instead of adding the same negatives to every campaign manually, one shared list covers all of them. Recommends the right list structure for the account and which campaigns each list should apply to.

For: Agencies

Set up shared negative keyword lists for our account

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Download the whole category as a bundle, or copy a trigger phrase above into Claude once the MCP Ads connector is connected.

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These skills call the google-ads MCP tools. See the connect guide to link the account first.

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Frequently asked questions

How does Claude decide between phrase and exact match for a negative?

The skills default to phrase match for single-theme junk terms and exact match when a word is only bad in one specific combination. Each proposed negative shows its match type so you can change it before anything is written.

Can it add the same negatives across all my client accounts?

With a manager account connected, the shared negative list builder creates one list and attaches it to the campaigns you choose. Updating that list later applies everywhere it is attached.