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Starting April 2008, google adwords is mandating that the new ads will be required to have the same URL (both in destination and display). But what was not mentioned, is about the status of the existing advertisements and whether the display and quality score will be affected, and whether what kind of impact this new policy change is going to bring to old advertisements.

Many ads will show display url as microsoft.com or google.com or even competitors site and the landing url will be of someother local company website. This has drawn many visitors to easily pull towards their business or site, most users were unhappy about this practice and some companies too.

Isn’t it common sense not to allow in the first place to make sure that the display and destination page to be the same. Many people earned through affliate commissions as the destination page url will be with affliate id and pointing to a different business site, whereas the display url will be giving an impression that it will lead to an informative site.

I guess certain malpractices will stop because of this action.

I check for promotion codes when there is an option to use so in a site. But that I didn’t do when I was creating an Adwords account for me. So, if you are a new user follow through this link so that you can benefit from the promotion.

New user adwords promotion code

Below is the conversation that I had with google minute after creating the adwords account and didn’t succeed in getting that promotion code I missed.

Me to google:

After I signed up today for adwords I saw this url in google http://services.google.com/marketing/links/awo_welcome which gives 50$ coupon. Kindly provide me the promotion code or apply that credit to my customer id. As I am new to the system this will help me to track and start in right direction.

Google to me:

Thank you for your email. I understand that you would like to have a promotional credit. I have escalated this issue to our concerned team. They’re currently investigating the situation, and we’ll contact you as soon as we’ve found a resolution. We thank you for your patience and apologize for any inconvenience.Thank you for your patience while I consulted your request to our team.
Our team has reviewed and found that you have already created an AdWords account. Unfortunately, only new accounts that have signed up for Google AdWords through the link that you have mentioned in your email are eligible for a promotional credit. Therefore, AdWords Specialists aren’t able to offer you another credit at this time.

We appreciate your understanding and apologize for any inconvenience.

me to Google:

The account was created like 5-10minutes before I see the promotion code url and they are not in days or months. I think Google had to be fair enough and they shouldn’t do the same like how dishnetwork guys do for new customers. I really do not understand the point of annoying the existing customers in this way. Thanks for understanding.

Google back to me:

Thank you for your email. I understand that you would like to have further clarification regarding the promotional coupon. As I have mentioned in my previous email, we are unable to give you a promotional credit as your AdWords account was not created using the promotional link that you mentioned in your email. We apologize for any inconvenience.

I just played with adwords again after a year, this time for a fun reason and writing this post right away. For quite long time I focussed on Organic SEO and my eyes didn’t move from the search results area.

And after Organic SEO played with adsense in few sites and focussed on content and what would make a visitor click an adsense.

Then now, just for couple of hours now - spent time and energy on getting this site SEO Expert in PPC area for google and after a tenseful, nail-biting session, achieved what I wanted to learn and then lost 5 dollars in 1 click.

But for spending 2 hours and then losing 5 dollars, great lessons were learnt. Do you want to know the story? (Believe me I lost that five dollars at the last minute - you know it was not even last minute - just last second!). But then, that is what going to make my next post just for you, and for many seo experts, adword experts and normal users - what kind of business competition fight happens behind the scenes.

Until the next post - good night!!