Deleting Adwords

Deleting adwords to free up space.

[garethr]

Hi- Newbie post so dont shoot me if this is ovbious.

When you delete an adgroup is it gone forver? Or does Google keep a tag and allow you to recover the Adgroup?

Another one, How long does it take Google to refresh and re-allocate campaign space for new words?

Cheers

G

[eWhisper]

You can click on the deleted adgroup, and there will be a link at the top of the page for 'undelete group'. Note, you can not undelete a group in a paused campaign.

The same goes for campaigns, if you delete one, you can go into campaign settings and undelete the campaign as well.

If you delete a campaign, then the space is immediately available (max 25 campaigns per account).

[AdWordsAdvisor]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, garethr!

It is also worth knowing that you can always choose to see, or not see, paused or deleted stuff within your account.

To be more specific, at each level of your account (i.e. Campaign level, Ad Group level, and for keywords) you have the option to see (or not see) things that have been paused or deleted.

Please note, though, that this is a 'sticky setting' - and will always default to your latest setting, until you change it again.

(Disclaimer: This comment sort of falls under the category of 'housekeeping' rather than 'freeing up space', however.) ;)

AWA

[patient2all]

max 25 campaigns per account

ewhisper,

In that 25, are we only talking active campaigns? I have 31 total now, none deleted, 19 paused and only 12 active at this moment, though the active # fluctuates quite a bit. I expect at some point to grow above 25 active, what does one do then?

Thanks,

patient2all

[eWhisper]

25 active campaigns is the limit.

You can ask AdWords to link multiple accounts together and spread the campaigns across accounts if you outgrow just one.