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Keyword blacklist: protect your store from VERO, brand, and copyright violations

Prevent copyright, trademark, and brand violations by using a keyword blacklist.

Protecting your store from potential trademark violations is essential to maintaining a healthy seller account. While AutoDS provides a comprehensive VERO protection list containing thousands of restricted brands and keywords, you can enhance this protection by adding your own specific keywords and brand names to your personal blacklist.

This article explains how to add your own keywords to the blacklist. To learn more about VERO protection, check out this article.

AutoDS includes a built-in VERO Blocklist that is updated periodically. However, brand and copyright violations are highly dynamic, and no system can guarantee full protection against eBay’s VERO restrictions.

To minimize risk, we strongly recommend that you manually maintain your own Keywords Blacklist, adding any specific brands, terms, or keywords relevant to your store.

This ensures better protection, especially against newer or niche violations that automated systems may not catch in real time. This article explains how to use the Keywords Blacklist feature to help with that.


Benefits

  • Protect your store from listing products with copyrighted, trademarked, or brand-restricted terms.

  • Prevent eBay VERO violations and potential restrictions from other selling channels.

  • Avoid uploading products with high risk of takedown or intellectual property claims.

  • Save time by automatically filtering out unwanted or risky listings before they’re imported.

  • Customize your protection by blocking specific brands, terms, or sensitive keywords relevant to your business.

Quick Jump

 

Set up your Keywords Blacklist

Follow these steps to block or filter products based on specific keywords or brand names:

  1. Go to Settings > Keywords in your AutoDS account.

  2. Click the + Add Keywords button.

  3. Enter each keyword or brand you want to restrict.
    → Add one per line when entering multiple terms.

    Define an action for each keyword based on where it appears in the product content (title or description):

      • Do nothing – The product will be uploaded without any changes.

      • Don’t upload the product – The system will block the upload entirely.

      • Delete from uploaded text – The keyword will be removed from the title before upload.

    • Click Save to apply the blacklist rules.

    • To edit or delete a keyword, use the action buttons next to each entry in your blacklist.