I see many people just like to open new adwords accounts with coupons to get free money to advertise. considering $2-$3 average bids - it's possible to get only 2-30 clicks... and then rinse and repeat... considering time spent and cost of bids - is it worth it?
Yes, absolutely it is worth opening a NEW account. Make sure that you didn't advertise that domain earlier while using coupon code. It is definitely possible to get clicks with free advertising credit. So you can go ahead. Happy Advertising
yes, but how many? 20 clicks? ho much time to setup campaigns.. i think it's well tuned campaign is the best way to advertise.. set i up, add $$$ and forget.. for a while.. isn't it?
No, it's not worth it. You think Google is going to let you get away with it? It's right there in their TOS for one thing and they have ways to find you out. It may work for the first two or three but you'll soon find they'll ban you completely. Forever. You mention the time factor involved. Really, don't you have better things to do with your time? Like, maybe use that time to grow a legitimate business. I think trying to scam a company for a few dollars and risk not being able to leverage traffic from the largest search engine in the world is stupid.
Yes, that worth it. I see this is a good way to test campaigns and then spend "real" money on successful ones. This is not true at all as there is no way to ban a user "completely. Forever". I have spent about 15k$ with coupons, maybe less maybe more. I think if Google could, it would ban me wouldn't it?
You people who use Google Vouchers need an education. Your time spent on creating ad campaigns just to use a free $100 Adwords voucher is worth MORE than the return itsself. 100% of you guys that just use random vouchers have absolutely no business model to generate profit intact. Instead of wasting your time sending a few pointless visitors to your site invest your time on coming up with a BUSINESS PLAN to profit from your traffic. Once you have a solid business model then you can use ONE adwords account and REAL money to make REAL money. No point in using adwords if you can't profit from it.
thanks Netstar.. that's what I was trying to explain... time on search for free vouchers.. plus time to open new account.. plus plus... all makes me think that people don't make or maybe have no profit from ad-words at all...
Well said Netstar. You really believe you are smarter than hundreds of programming guys and math geniuses who've been working on and improving this system for the last ten years?
That's just a "system" and not a human. Panda has nothing to do with Adwords. If I would use the "real" money in Adwords my profit would be maybe 10 times less, so I see no point in giving that money to Google.
That's where you are greatly mistaken. If you are setting up a new account for every $100 voucher you are restricting yourself from benefiting from the luxury of tweaking your campaign and tracking your conversions. I have contracts with franchise dealers and sub-prime lenders where I generate leads for them through my special finance web sites. Each dealer or lender has a monthly budget from $3,000-$15,000. Each account ALWAYS starts off with an expensive CPC and less traffic. After tweaking the ads and improving my CTR slowly each CPC becomes less expensive and the cost per conversion decreases. I would say the first month of a $5,000 budget I can generate 60-90 finance leads. Then over the course of the next few months improve that number to over 150 local leads. If I have a $200 budget set each day I may spend $125 with no conversions then all of a sudden 3-4 people fill out the application. Out of a $5,000 budget the lender or dealer ends up with a great return. 8-10% of the leads will end up buying with an average copy of $2,000-$2,500. I couldn't imagine any sort of REAL success by abusing Googles system and using vouchers across hundreds of accounts. Based on your response I can tell you AREN'T in to Marketing and you clearly have no idea how to make money with adwords. Perhaps it's true your return would be greater if use 50 $100 coupons consistently and effectively but who cares if the return is $30,000. I value my time. Set up the account and do it the right way. If you had a business model to generate profit you wouldn't need to go through the extreme of setting up 50 accounts just to use a voucher. If you are doing such a thing then you probably aren't planning to profit much more than $50 per $100 of credit.