What no one is telling you about free advertising credits
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They are not free. These days you see most of the WebHosts offering in their hosting packages free advertising credits with Google, Yahoo, Bidvertiser and more. Now the thing with these credits it that they are not entirely free.
A friend of mine wanted to start a blog and he got his internet space from a hosting company that also gives you a lot of free advertising credits, $80 worth of advertising to be exact. $30 from Google Adwords and $50 from Yahoo Publisher.
These free credits are not instantly deposited into your account. They don’t put the money into your Adwords account, they give you codes to redeem the money. The thing with these codes is that they have a 15 or 30 days validity period. So if you don’t use them quickly you may lose them. And you can’t use them with your AdWords/YP account, you’ll have to create a new one.
Newing this my friend Chris first created a new Yahoo Publisher account (first one for him) because the Yahoo coupon was worth $50 and to him was the most important. But surprise surprise, he found out that in order to get the FREE $50 the must first deposit at least $75. So that is not $50 free it’s more like 66% OFF but not FREE. So that was that. Next he moved on the the Adwords free credits - $30 worth.
He already had a AdWords account but when he tried to use the coupon it didn’t work, saying that the account is too old for this coupon. Bad luck. So he created a new account. As you may now, Adwords accounts are not free - they cost $5 - not much but still, the meaning of the word free disappears. He spends $5 to create a new account, he uses the coupon but again, another surprise, instead of $30 he gets $25. Again this is not a problem regarding money, $5 is nothing, but why do they say $30 when in reality it’s $25? But wait, it doesn’t end here. The money is in his account but he cannot use them yet. In order to use the $25 credits he has to deposit at least $10. So that is $5 registration + $10 min. deposit = $15 to get $25. So you don’t get $30 FREE AdWords credits you just get 60% OFF - which is NOT free.
The only FREE advertising credits that you get (and are FREE) are the ones from Bidvertiser (click on the link on my site - no coupon, no min. deposit, no nothing). Just create an advertiser account from the link on my site and you get $20 FREE (the only thing required is a valid credit card - but no deposit required).
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