keyword match types help to control which searches trigger your ad. Each match type, which is specified by a special symbol, will trigger your ad to show for a customer's search in different ways.
The chart below serves as an introduction to the different match types, ordered from broad to narrow.
Match type | Special symbol | Example keyword | Ads may show on searches that | Example searches |
Broad match | none | women's hats | include misspellings, synonyms, related searches, and other relevant variations | buy ladies hats |
Broad match modifier | +keyword | +women's+hats | contain the modified term (or close variations, but not synonyms), in any order | hats for women |
Phrase match | "keyword" | "women's hats" | are a phrase, and close variations of that phrase | buy women's hats |
Exact match | [keyword] | [women's hats] | are an exact term and close variations of that exact term | women's hats |
Negative match | -keyword | -women | are searches without the term | baseball hats
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