Location Targeting Question

[Robert P.]

Hi there, 

I read that an included location like a city or state gives the exclusion location rule priority over the inclusion but does that also happen for a defined radius location? 

I have noticed that when both were defined that the excluded location was still receiving traffic.

"Exclusion conflict
If an area is both included and excluded in your location targeting settings, exclusion takes priority. For example, if you exclude the state of California but target the city of Los Angeles, Los Angeles will be excluded because it is located in California. If you target and exclude Los Angeles, Los Angeles will not receive traffic because of the exclusion."

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/1722040?sjid=16750485242390609858-NC#zippy=%2Chow-to-exclude-individual-areas

Also, I cannot find the equivalent NegativeGeoTargetType settings in the Google Ads UI just in the API. Is this still able to be set in the interface? 

Thanks Robert.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi,

Thank you for reaching out to the Google Ads API support team.

Since you are having questions related to the NegativeGeoTargetType settings in the Google Ads UI, these questions are out of the scope of our team, as this support channel specializes in and is dedicated to Google Ads API-related concerns and technical implementations only. With this, kindly provide the Google Ads customer ID of your account so that we can route you to the appropriate support team. 

You can send the details via the Reply privately to the author option or direct private reply to this email.

Thanks,
 

Google Ads API Team

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[2025-09-25 23:41:26Z GMT] This message is in relation to case "ref:!00D1U01174p.!500Ht01u7aKi:ref" (ADR-00333747)