Note: Google Ads does not support completely removing sitelinks from an account. That is, you can remove sitelinks from ad groups and campaigns, and they will no longer appear in your ads. However, the removed sitelinks will remain within your account. You can apply them to campaigns or ad groups again at a later time or leave them unused.
To use a bulksheet to remove sitelinks from campaigns or ad groups:
- Sign in to your new Search Ads 360.
- Navigate to a Google Ads client account.
- Click Ads & assets from the left navigation panel and then click Assets.
- Click the Sitelink tab at the top of the reporting table.
- Optionally use a filter to display only the sitelinks you want to remove from campaigns or ad groups.
- Click the download icon
, above the reporting table and either select the type of file to download or click on More options and make the following selections:
- Type of file
- Add segments
- Include:
- Title and date range
- Totals
- All editable columns for Bulk Upload
- Save to reports
- Click Download.
- Search Ads 360 generates the report and either downloads the file to your browser's download directory or sends an email, depending on the delivery option you selected.
- If you selected to download a report and the report is very large, it may take a while for Search Ads 360 to generate the report. You can still use Search Ads 360 while the report is generating. A status bar indicates the progress of the report generation. When it's complete, a Download link appears in the status bar. Click the link to download the report.
- Find the item IDs of the sitelinks you want to remove:
- Find the rows that specify sitelink in the Row type column.
- Look in the item ID column for each sitelink row. The column contains a numeric ID that Search Ads 360 generated for the sitelink.
- Remove the item ID from campaigns or ad groups:
- Find rows that specify campaign or ad group in the Row type column.
- Remove the item ID from the Sitelinks coIumn for each campaign or ad group row. Leave IDs in the Sitelinks column for any sitelinks you still want to use.
- Upload the file to Search Ads 360.
Example
Here's an example bulksheet that contains a campaign, ad group, and sitelink. (The example displays only relevant columns. The bulksheet that you download will have many more columns.)
| Row type | Sitelink text | Sitelinks | Item ID |
| campaign |
33700000031319700 | 33700000031319703 |
||
| ad group | (inherited) | ||
| sitelink | Yellow carrots | 33700000031319703 |
To remove the "Yellow carrots" sitelink from the campaign and ad group, remove | 33700000031319703 from the campaign's Sitelinks column. Leave the other item ID in the campaign's Sitelinks column if you still want to use it:
| Row type | Sitelink text | Sitelinks | Item ID |
| campaign | 33700000031319700 | ||
| ad group | (inherited) | ||
| sitelink | Yellow carrots | 33700000031319703 |