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asserts: Local-service Google Ads accounts can prevent irrelevant city-intent clicks by adding broad U.S. city lists as negative keywords.

Even with geotargeting set, your ads can still show up for searches in other cities. Someone in Dallas searching Plumber Chicago can trigger your ad and you pay for the click. But don't actually type out 19,500 cities...
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