diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 18a0f23..f387c22 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Project created overnight, to prove that management of semantic versioning is NO
 ### Important changes
 
 * From version `1.4.2+` as pointed out in [issue #12](https://github.com/lukaszraczylo/semver-generator/issues/12) commits from merge will not be included in the calculations and commits themselves will bump the version on first match ( starting checks from `patch` upwards ).
+* Added support for blacklisting terms to ignore specific commits, branch names, and merge messages from version calculations.
 
 ### Usage
 
@@ -172,6 +173,11 @@ force:
   minor: 0
   patch: 1
   commit: 69fbe2df696f40281b9104ff073d26186cde1024
+blacklist:
+  - "Merge branch"
+  - "Merge pull request"
+  - "feature/"
+  - "feature:"
 wording:
   patch:
     - update
@@ -190,10 +196,11 @@ wording:
 * `version`: is not respected at the moment, introduced for potential backwards compatibility in future
 * `force`: sets the "starting" version, you don't need to specify this section as the default is always `0`
 * `force.commit`: allows you to set commit hash from which the calculations should start
+* `blacklist`: terms to ignore when processing commits. Any commit containing these terms will be skipped in version calculations. Useful for ignoring merge commits, feature branch names, and other unwanted triggers.
 * `wording`: words the program should look for in the git commits to increment (patch|minor|major)
 
 ### Good to know
 
 * Word matching uses fuzzy search AND is case INSENSITIVE
 * I do not recommend using common words ( like "the" from the example configuration )
-* You can specify env variable `LOG_LEVEL=debug` to see what exactly happens during the calculations
\ No newline at end of file
+* You can specify env variable `LOG_LEVEL=debug` to see what exactly happens during the calculations
diff --git a/cmd/main.go b/cmd/main.go
index ea6a298..2d784be 100644
--- a/cmd/main.go
+++ b/cmd/main.go
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ type Setup struct {
 	Semver              SemVer
 	Generate            bool
 	UseLocal            bool
+	Blacklist           []string
 }
 
 type CommitDetails struct {
@@ -96,12 +97,17 @@ type TagDetails struct {
 }
 
 func checkMatches(content []string, targets []string) bool {
-	if fuzzy.MatchNormalizedFold(strings.Join(content, " "), "Merge branch") {
-		logger.Debug(&libpack_logger.LogMessage{
-			Message: "Merge detected, ignoring commits within",
-			Pairs:   map[string]interface{}{"content": strings.Join(content, " ")},
-		})
-		return false
+	contentStr := strings.Join(content, " ")
+	
+	// Check against blacklist terms first
+	for _, blacklistTerm := range repo.Blacklist {
+		if fuzzy.MatchNormalizedFold(contentStr, blacklistTerm) {
+			logger.Debug(&libpack_logger.LogMessage{
+				Message: "Blacklisted term detected, ignoring commit",
+				Pairs:   map[string]interface{}{"content": contentStr, "blacklist_term": blacklistTerm},
+			})
+			return false
+		}
 	}
 	for _, tgt := range targets {
 		r := fuzzy.FindNormalizedFold(tgt, content)
@@ -354,6 +360,7 @@ func (s *Setup) ReadConfig(file string) error {
 	}
 	viper.UnmarshalKey("wording", &s.Wording)
 	viper.UnmarshalKey("force", &s.Force)
+	viper.UnmarshalKey("blacklist", &s.Blacklist)
 	return err
 }
 
diff --git a/config.yaml b/config.yaml
index ebbc077..3d2559b 100644
--- a/config.yaml
+++ b/config.yaml
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ force:
   major: 1
   existing: true
   strict: false
+blacklist:
+  - "Merge branch"
+  - "Merge pull request"
+  - "feature/"
+  - "feature:"
 wording:
   patch:
     - update