Learn how to pause ads, keywords, campaigns, and ad groups in your Google Ads account without losing your data or performance history. In this step‑by‑step tutorial, I’ll show you exactly where to click in the Google Ads interface to pause at each level (campaign, ad group, ad, and keyword) and how to resume them later.

What you’ll learn:
- How to pause a Google Ads campaign
- How to pause an ad group
- How to pause individual ads
- How to pause keywords (search and display)
- How to batch‑pause multiple items at once
- Why pausing is better than deleting (for testing & budget control)