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With search themes, you can add the words and phrases your customers use to find your offerings to help Performance Max campaigns reach the right audience.
By combining your expertise with Google AI, you’ll be able to expand your reach to relevant customers across Google channels, including Search.
Here’s how it works:
- Search themes
let you indicate queries that you know your customers are looking for.
- Search themes are optional and additive to the queries and placements Performance Max predicts will perform well based on your assets, feeds, and landing pages.
- Add up to 50 search themes per asset group.
- Exclusions and negative keywords still apply.
- Search themes will have the same prioritization as your phrase match and broad match keywords in your Search campaigns.
Instructions
- Go to Asset groups
within the Campaignsmenu
.
- Select the Summaryicon
to switch to the “Summary” view.
- Select the pencil icon
next to "Signals" on the right side of the asset group card to edit signals.
- On the “Signals” card, select Search themes.
- Add up to 50 unique search themes. For example, avoid “car” and “automobile,” as they’ll reach the same audience.
- Press "Enter" on your keyboard after typing each search theme.
- Select Save.
Learn more about how to Unlock new relevant traffic on Performance Max with search themes .

