A comprehensive guide to protecting your budget in Performance Max campaigns in 2026. Covers brand exclusions, negative keyword implementation, audience signal optimization, campaign structure strategies, and the monitoring systems required to prevent PMax from cannibalizing branded traffic and wasting spend on irrelevant queries.
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