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Remember which search terms I have already looked at and decided to keep

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Marta Silva Asked Aug 27, 2025
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When I review search terms I make three kinds of decision: this is junk (add a negative), this is good (maybe add it as a keyword), and this is fine as it's (do nothing). The first two leave a trace. The third leaves nothing, so next month the same term is back in the list looking exactly as unreviewed as it did before, and I make the same decision again. Across a big account that's most of my review time spent re-deciding things I already decided. What I would like is for "I have looked at this and it's fine" to be a recordable outcome, so the list I see is the terms I haven't yet judged rather than every term that exists. Ideally with an expiry, because a term I judged fine at 3 clicks might deserve another look at 300.

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K Keyword Ninja Team · Jun 22, 2026
This is built, and it went in more or less as specified here. The search terms review now tracks what you have already seen. Terms you have judged and left alone drop out of the queue rather than reappearing, and there are two flavours: skip for now, which comes back after a short period, and skip permanently for the ones that are genuinely never relevant. Neil's point about expiry shaped the default. The temporary skip is the default action precisely because a permanent hide on a term that later grows is the failure mode that costs you money quietly. Ten months from request to release isn't fast, and this thread is why it exists at all. Thank you both.
N Neil Ashworth · Aug 28, 2025
Strongly agree, and the expiry point is the part I would not want dropped. A permanent dismissal would eventually hide something that grew into a problem, which is worse than the repetition it fixes. For us a "not now, ask me again if it changes materially" state is the useful one.
M Marta Silva · Aug 28, 2025
Exactly that. The state I want is "reviewed, no action, tell me if this changes" rather than "hidden forever".

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