How to delete Adwords campaigns completely

If you’ve ever run Adwords campaigns, you’ve probably come to a situation where you’ve needed to delete a campaign. If you’ve done this, you’ll know how annoying it is that you can’t permanently delete a campaign from your account and therefore your displays gets horribly filled up (see yellow circled items).

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There is a fix for this and it’s actually really straight forward. If you look at the red circle on the image above, you’ll see a link called “all but deleted”, simply click this option and you’ll see all the deleted campaigns vanish – nifty hey?

It’s obvious, but I bet you that hundreds of Adwords users have run into this problem before!

Christopher is the founder of iMod - Most of his time is spent building websites and pushing the limits with Search Engine Optimization. You can follow him on Twitter @ChristopherM

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8 Comments on "How to delete Adwords campaigns completely"

  1. Eugene says:

    Hey

    Thanks for the tip! I’m fixing mine straight away!

  2. Chris M says:

    Sure thing Eugene – makes a massive difference doesn’t it?

  3. Eugene says:

    Yip – All those campaigns of no use are now gone…thanks again!

  4. Chris M says:

    Absolutely, made my life a hell of a lot easier!

  5. Berry says:

    {Yip – All those campaigns of no use are now gone…thanks again!}

    There aren’t gone, they are hidden.

  6. Chris M says:

    Ye Berry, as I mentioned in the post “you can’t permanently delete a campaign from your account”, I think Eugene was just referring to the fact that they arne’t cluttering his dash :)

  7. How to delete google adwords account permanantly?

    Can anbody help me? Even google dont have answer for this

  8. Chris M says:

    @Vishal – You probably can’t, but I see no harm in just deleting the campaigns and leaving it as is, nothing will happen to it..

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