Duplicate keywords

Understand duplication options for search results campaign keywords

In search results campaigns, you can duplicate keywords from one ad group to another, or to multiple ad groups whose search results campaigns are within the same campaign group. The keyword type (either category or phrase) and the bid amounts will be duplicated. If you want to change the bid amounts, you can edit them after duplication.

How to duplicate keywords

  1. Go to the Keywords tab within a search results ad group.
  2. Select the individual keywords you want to duplicate.
  3. Click the Duplicate button in the toolbar, which is to the right of the Edit button.
  4. Select the brand, campaign, and ad group that you want to duplicate the keywords into.
  5. Click Duplicate.

Note that an ad group can have up to 1,000 keywords. If the number of selected keywords to duplicate exceeds this limit, you can’t duplicate this list of keywords. Select up to the number of keywords recommended in the error message, and try again.

Specific keywords can’t be duplicated if they already exist in the destination ad group with the same keyword type, or if the bid amount exceeds the campaign’s budget.