Zinn® Ads reads the searches that triggered your ads every day and blocks the ones that cost money and can never sell what you sell. It does this on every network you connect, and it never blocks a search that brings you sales.
Negatives from the first day
Every campaign Zinn® Ads builds or runs starts with a starter negative set: the usual waste classes (free, jobs, tutorials, downloads and the like) plus the intents that are waste for your kind of product. Simple mode adds the starter negatives for each market when it researches your keywords. The standard junk set (searches for free hosts and free website builders, for example) is written once per ad account as one account-level negative list on Google Ads (up to 1,000 entries) and one shared negative list on Microsoft Advertising, instead of a copy in every campaign.
The daily search-term review
- Off-intent searches: each new search is judged against what you sell from its first click. A search that is clearly not for your offer is blocked within 24 hours, with an exact negative and, where many searches say the same thing, one cluster negative.
- Shared patterns: small searches that share one pattern (free, how-to, student, another brand, the wrong language) are judged together on their total spend, so waste spread thinly across many one-click searches is still caught.
- Generic head terms: a niche product's campaign that serves bare generic searches (for example the name of a platform on its own) is flagged and the terms are blocked.
- Free seekers: a conversion from a searcher looking for something free never counts as value, so it cannot protect the junk search that brought it.
- During learning: a search that is waste from the first click (for a hosting campaign, a search for a blog platform or for buying backlinks) is blocked even while the campaign is still learning.
- AI Max for Search: searches Google matched by itself are reported apart from the ones your keywords matched, blocked the same way when they waste money, and compared on measured return.
- The same judge on every network: Microsoft Advertising searches and the search terms of every other network are judged with the same rules as Google's.
What is never blocked
- A search that converted, or one that shares a meaningful word with your own keywords, ad-group or product names, is never blocked by the autopilot on its own. It can only be suggested to you.
- Before any negative or keyword is added, by the autopilot or because you pressed Apply, the change is replayed against your last 30 days of search terms and every keyword you bid on. It is refused if it would block one of your own keywords or a search that sells.
- A negative that already blocks one of your own keywords is a conflicting negative. Zinn® Ads finds them at every level (campaign, ad group, shared list, account and Performance Max) and shows each one for you to decide, even when automatic changes are off.
- Campaigns never compete with each other: a country with its own campaign is excluded from the campaign above it, and keywords and negatives never overlap across campaigns.
- A search is judged only after it has had the clicks to expect a sale (the maturity gate), so a young search is not cut too early.
Keyword sanity
No keyword that is only a fragment (a stopword, a comparison word or a generic word on its own) is ever written to your account, by anything. The daily audit pauses such keywords already in an account, and flags a keyword whose phrase match takes more than 30% of its campaign's searches.
You decide how automatic it is
Blocking wasted searches is one of the change kinds in your autopilot settings: Ask me first (each block waits under Needs you), Automatic (made and listed under Changes, with an Undo) or Never. Every block is in the daily e-mail with its spend.
Step-by-step guide
Review negative keywords from search terms on zinnads.com walks through it with screenshots of the real screens. Every Zinn® Ads guide: zinnads.com/kb.