Hello, I don't have a credit card and I promised myself that I would never get one. However I am about to sign up for adwords and before I was about to sign up for the free $50 coupon someone said that you need a credit card to use the account. Now, is the credit card only needed for the special coupon offer or do you need a credit card for ALL Adwords accounts? Thanks heaps!
No, you don't have to use credit card to sign up for adwords and redeem your voucher. You can verify your account using bank transfer. That's what i did last week. I had 50 EUR adwords voucher but i didn't have a credit card, so i signed up and choose to verify my account using bank transfer. The next day, i transferred the money to google's bank account and after two days google activated my campaign and it's still active today. But this option depends on a couple of things you choose when you sign up: 1. What currency you wish to pay google. 2. The country of your billing address. 3. Type of payment (prepay or postpay). Go to this link http://adwords.google.com/select/AfpoFinder to help you find out what to choose when you sign up. For example, I live in Indonesia thus the country of my billing address is Indonesia and i want to pay using bank transfer but i don't know what i should choose regarding the currency and Type of payment so i go to that link and choose Indonesian currency, and Indonesia as billing address. Then google show me the type of payment i should choose so i can use bank transfer to verify my account which is prepay type, and google also show me the minimum payment i should send for prepay type. But when i change my currency to USD, google doesn't give me the option to pay using bank transfer. So when sign up i should choose Indonesian currency, and Indonesia as billing country, and prepay as the type of payment, and then bank transfer as the form of payment.
I think you have to buy it from other DP members, go to voucher section. The price is about $6-$7 for $50 voucher. sircoulson is one of the best sellers i could find, i bought some from her. Just PM her. But if you don't want to buy, you can sign up through this link https://adwords.google.com/select/main?cmd=Login&sourceid=Yh91503. But i never tried it though so i don't know if it works.
You can request it to google using one of these links: 30 GBP services.google.com/marketing/links/uk_adwordsvoucher/redeem_start services.google.com/marketing/links/advertising-freetest services.google.com/marketing/links/advertising-coupon services.google.com/marketing/links/adwords-testcode/ services.google.com/marketing/links/adwords-vouchertrial/ services.google.com/marketing/links/advertising-promoadwords google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/localheroes/index.html 50 EUR services.google.com/marketing/links/tegoedbon/ (in Dutch) services.google.com/marketing/links/google-nl-heroes (in Dutch) services.google.com/marketing/links/it-awo-oa-repubblica-1 (in Italian) services.google.com/marketing/links/it-parole (in Italian) 4000 JPY (38 USD) services.google.com/marketing/links/JP-OA-PRED (in Japanese)