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  "company": "Walmart Connect",
  "headline": "Walmart added negative keyword exclusion to sponsored-products campaigns.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ STEEL · Negative keyword feature rollout · Walmart Connect\n\nWalmart added negative keyword exclusion to sponsored-products campaigns.\n\nif you run Walmart sponsored-product campaigns, audit your search-term report immediately. Look for high-spend keywords with zero conversion or low AOV. Add those to your negative-keyword list. You will see improved efficiency within two weeks. Negative keywords are not exciting, but they are the fastest efficiency gain available—free money sitting in your account. Build a 50-term negative list from competitor names, mismatched categories, and low-intent modifiers (e.g., 'cheap', 'free').\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/walmart-connect-2026-08-12t06-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/walmart-connect-2026-08-12t06-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/walmart-connect-2026-08-12t06-5",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ STEEL · Negative keyword feature rollout · Walmart Connect\n\nWalmart added negative keyword exclusion to sponsored-products campaigns.\n\nif you run Walmart sponsored-product campaigns, audit your search-term report immediately. Look for high-spend keywords with zero conversion or low AOV. Add those to your negative-keyword list. You will see improved efficiency within two weeks. Negative keywords are not exciting, but they are the fastest efficiency gain available—free money sitting in your account. Build a 50-term negative list from competitor names, mismatched categories, and low-intent modifiers (e.g., 'cheap', 'free').\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/walmart-connect-2026-08-12t06-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/walmart-connect-2026-08-12t06-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/walmart-connect-2026-08-12t06-5",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ STEEL · Negative keyword feature rollout · Walmart Connect\n\nWalmart added negative keyword exclusion to sponsored-products campaigns.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/walmart-connect-2026-08-12t06-5",
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      "title": "Walmart added negative keyword exclusion to sponsored-products campaigns.",
      "body": "✍️ YOUR NOTE — write 2–3 lines to ONE person so they feel: \"this is about me… I could actually do this… I could make money from this.\" Energize them, make it yours. (This is the part that gets the opens.)\n[ your take… ]\n———\nHere is a real one you can run this week 👇\nWalmart Connect announced the ability for advertisers to exclude specific search terms from sponsored-products campaigns, via 'negative keywords' functionality.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you run Walmart sponsored-product campaigns, audit your search-term report immediately. Look for high-spend keywords with zero conversion or low AOV. Add those to your negative-keyword list. You will see improved efficiency within two weeks. Negative keywords are not exciting, but they are the fastest efficiency gain available—free money sitting in your account. Build a 50-term negative list from competitor names, mismatched categories, and low-intent modifiers (e.g., 'cheap', 'free').\nWhat that means for you: if you run Walmart sponsored-product campaigns, audit your search-term report immediately. Look for high-spend keywords with zero conversion or low AOV. Add those to your negative-keyword list. You will see improved efficiency within two weeks. Negative keywords are not exciting, but they are the fastest efficiency gain available—free money sitting in your account. Build a 50-term negative list from competitor names, mismatched categories, and low-intent modifiers (e.g., 'cheap', 'free').\nIf you make, sell, or gift anything with your name on it — this is yours to run. You can do this.\n(Real, not theory — Digiday: https://digiday.com/marketing/walmart-finally-lets-advertisers-exclude-certain-search-terms/.)\n———\nOr — want it built FOR you? Your logo, your products, your own private room, priced and ready, in about five minutes. That's literally what we do →\nhttps://www.pops4.com/vip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=stash",
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