How do you guys import your keywords to AdWords when you have 10k+? From what I've read you can only have 1000 keywords per ad group? So I've been going through all my excel spreadsheets and copying and pasting 1000 keywords at a time. It sucks. It's taking forever. I checked out the AdWords tool for Windows, but it doesn't work like the website does, as it detects my phrases and exact matches as broad matches and then gives me errors. Is there an easier way to do this? I think I have upwards of 30,000 keywords I generated.
Yeah I tried to paste like 5k keywords in just to see what would happen and it said the limit was 2k. So thats a LITTLE better. But it still kinda sucks. Also, I added like 40k just to see what would happen and AdWords wont let me add any more now?! I thought that you could do 200k since you can have 100 ad groups x 2k keywords each? WTF? I think I am going to go back and only do phrase matches. That will take a huge chunk out of my extremely long lists.
Nice slogan NAte. The big G recommends a limit of . . .wait for it . . 20 keywords/adgroup. Why? You should be targetting. If you have lots of keywords you should use the content/site options.
Haha I saw that while I was importing 2000 keywords at a time. There is so much search volume for what I'm bidding on that its worth gathering all these terms. Otherwise I would probably only do a couple hundred to a couple thousand. What I've decided to do was go back in and generate all my keywords again using the phrase match, instead of broad+phrase+exact. Phrase seems like it will work a lot better than broad and *almost* as good as exact, so I went with that.
Can't see the point in that many keywords. All that would do is rack up the bill in a great hurry. Col
AdWords Editor If you're talking about the adwords editor it works fine...you must have done something wrong if it's throwing errors.
It doesn't work like the web site does though! If you paste in phrase or exact match keywords as one big long list it thinks they are all broad match keywords and gives errors! You would think that the program would detect that the words are in quotes and brackets and assign it the correct match type, but it doesnt.
Just run filters in Excel and apply a column with match type next to the appropriate keywords, then find and replace '[]' or '""' with nothing and upload. Although I agree, [] and "" should be auto recognised, buts its not perfect.