Lead Search Blacklist allows you to exclude specific parameters (e.g. company names, job titles) from your lead searches. This feature helps you save time by preventing unwanted leads from appearing in your results.

👉 For a refined Lead List, we recommend the following workflow:

Lead Search
Refine Lead Search using Lead Search Blacklist (see below ⬇️)
Reuse Lead Search to run the same search without blacklisted parameters.

How to use Lead Search Blacklist:

Exclude Company Names from Lead Searches

Access Lead Search Blacklist:

Go to AI Lead Search in the menu and click on Lead Search Blacklist.
Select the Company Name tab at the top.

Add New Company Name:

Click on Add new company name.

Choose a Blacklist Option:

You have two options to blacklist a company name
- Blacklist exact company name: Excludes specific company names (e.g., Siemens AG).
- Blacklist keywords for company name: Excludes all companies containing the keyword (e.g., Siemens, Siemens Energy, Siemens Mobility).

Choose one option and click on Enter manually at the bottom right.

Enter Company Names:

Choose an option and click on Enter manually at the bottom right.
Enter one company name or keyword per line.
Click Add companies to blacklist when done.

👉 Tip: You can also upload a CSV-file with the company names you want to blacklist. The CSV file must only contain names of companies, nothing else!

Exclude Job Titles from Lead Searches

Access Lead Search Blacklist:

Go to AI Lead Search in the menu and click on Lead Search Blacklist.
Select the Job Title tab at the top.

Add New Company Name:

Click on Add new job title.

Choose a Blacklist Option:

You have two options to blacklist a job title:
- Blacklist exact job titles: Excludes specific job titles (e.g., manager operations).
- Blacklist keywords for job titles: Excludes all job titles containing the keyword (e.g. for the keyword operations: operations manager, head of operations, manager operations)
Choose an option and click Enter manually at the bottom right.

Enter Job Titles:

Enter one job title or keyword per line.
Click Add to blacklist when done.

👉 Tip: You can also upload a CSV-file with the job titles you want to blacklist. The CSV-file must only contain job titles, nothing else!

👉 Tip for German users: Make sure to include the masculine and feminine versions of a job title (e.g. Leiter, Leiterin) as well as gender neutral titles (e.g Leitung).

Exclude Company Sizes from Lead Searches

Access Lead Search Blacklist:

Go to AI Lead Search in the menu and click on Lead Search Blacklist.
Select the Company size tab at the top.

Add Company Size:

Click on Add new company size.

Choose a Company Size:

Click into the search bar.
From the drop down menu, choose the company sizes you want to exclude.
Click on Add to blacklist.

Exclude Industry from Lead Searches

Access Lead Search Blacklist:

Go to AI Lead Search in the menu and click on Lead Search Blacklist.
Select the Industry tab at the top.

Add Industry:

Click on Add new industry.

Choose Industries:

Use the search bar to filter available industries:
- By main category, e.g. Manufacturing.
- By sub-categry, e.g. Automotive
- By industry, e.g. Audi Dealer.

Add an industry to your lead search blacklist by ticking the box.
All your selections are shown in the selection boxes.

💡 If you do not want to filter by specific industries in the category, check Select all in the industries dropdown menu.

View blacklisted Leads

In the Lead Search Blacklist, you can finde archived leads that you have removed from your lead lists. For privacy reasons, only the LinkedIn profile link is stored, not the entire lead profile.

You can find these archived leads in the Lead tab. Use the search bar to easily find specific leads within the archive.

Go to AI Lead Search in the menu and click on Lead Search Blacklist.
Select the Leads tab at the top.
Use the search bar to find specific leads within the archive.

👉 Learn how to delte and archive lead lists in this article.

Remove parameters from Lead Search Blacklist

Click on Lead Search Blacklist in the sidebar menu.

Click on the a parameter tab, depending on what you want to remove.
In the Lead Search Blacklist overview, locate the parameter you want to remove.
Click the three dots at the end of the row.
Select Delete.
The parameter title will no longer be excluded in future searches.