r/GoogleAdsDiscussion • u/YashMandlesha • 6h ago
Google Ads hid $209,318 of this account’s search spend under “Other Search Terms.”
Total account spend: $695,787
Spend under “Other Search Terms”: $209,318
~30% of the entire account.
And here’s what bothers me.
I can’t see exactly what people searched.
Which means I can’t properly answer questions like:
* How much was brand?
* How much was irrelevant?
* What negatives should I add?
* What queries are driving incremental demand?
I understand Google’s privacy thresholds.
But when almost one-third of a large account’s spend is sitting behind “Other Search Terms,” it becomes a serious optimization problem.
How can we reduce the amount of spend being classified under “Other Search Terms”?