The archiving feature described in this article is available only for Tracked Campaigns. If you have a draft campaign, start tracking it to be able to archive it and restore it at a later date, if necessary. Learn more.
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Not only do we not restrict your access to it through exports or API, nor charge you extra for having more users accessing it, but we also don’t force you to delete it when you don’t need it all tracked anymore. We keep it available for you as archived, so you can use it at a later time.
How does this work?
For campaigns
Go into the Campaign Settings section, open the Settings sidebar on the campaign, and then use the Archive Campaign option:
Click on the Bin icon to view the Archived campaigns at a later point, and click on the Play button against the campaign that you would like to start tracking again.
For keywords
If you don't want to track some keywords on a daily basis anymore, you can archive them, and unarchive them at a later point, if you need to track them again. This is particularly helpful if you would like to remove the keywords from daily tracking temporarily to save cost. To do this, Enter Edit mode, select the keywords that you want to remove from daily tracking, and press the Bin button:
Archived keywords are automatically added to a list in the Keyword Vault in Research, and will be updated with ranking data every month. This helps you keep an eye on these keywords without investing in daily tracking.
You can opt for the Visibility metric to be recalculated for the groups these keywords were a part of. This group-level metric is then recalculated without these keywords (as though they were never tracked) after the keywords are archived. If you want the historical Visibility to remain the same, you can disable this option.
Anytime later, you can find them under the Archived Tracked Keywords folder in the Keyword Vault (monthly data), and bring them back to the Rank Tracker (daily data) or archive them (no data updates).
If you want to restore them after you've archived them, you will then find them in the Archived keywords “trashcan”. Mark the keywords you want to restore, and click on Restore, to bring them back to the Rank Tracker and track them on a daily basis again:
Use-cases
The campaign archiving option comes in handy if, for example, your customer churned or paused the contract, or when you lost a client pitch.
During the keyword research stage of a campaign, your keyword portfolio would usually be bigger than what the customer would later commit to. To avoid losing the hard work you’ve put in, you can archive some keywords and revisit them at a later stage, if needed.
FAQs
How does archiving impact billing?
When you archive the campaign, we stop tracking ranks on all of the keywords in the campaign.
From the moment you archive a keyword, we stop tracking the ranks for that keyword.
This means that you don't have to pay for the resource anymore, unless it was added since the last invoicing (last month) – and you are only invoiced for it once.