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[doconnor]

Anyone else receive the $100 Adwords Coupon from Hostgator? Awesome. It totally made my day.

[adamcroshaw]

Yes it is pretty cool! It seems like a lot of web hosts offer $100 Adword Coupons and Yahoo credit.

[Konrad4]

Was this when you registered or did they send them to existing customers? I believe they give you one with a new account.

[Corster]

They sent it to existing customers via postal mail.

[Christian Little]

Probably only US customers. I'm in Canada and didn't receive one.

But you should read the fine print. The $100 coupon is only good for new accounts, you can't add it to an existing Adwords account. But they are quite handy, there's actually a big market for them on webmaster forums.

[ScottSwezey]

Originally Posted by Christian Little

But you should read the fine print. The $100 coupon is only good for new accounts, you can't add it to an existing Adwords account. But they are quite handy, there's actually a big market for them on webmaster forums.

I get code's like this from Google all the time. I wish I would have thought to see if they were resellable. Awesome idea.

[Dougy]

Originally Posted by ScottSwezey

I get code's like this from Google all the time. I wish I would have thought to see if they were resellable. Awesome idea.

I just hand them out to clients all the time.

[Christian Little]

Originally Posted by ScottSwezey

I get code's like this from Google all the time. I wish I would have thought to see if they were resellable. Awesome idea.

I doubt they are officially resellable, but Google doesn't seem to link the code to a specific email address/account. If you go onto internet marketing forums you'll find people selling them for like $10 each lol.

I don't think the coupons say they aren't resellable, but they don't say they are either. But I've never heard of Google raising a fit about somebody else using the coupon than who it was given to.

[sherone]

I'm wondering how most of the web hosting companies are getting free Google Adword coupons.

[Christian Little]

Originally Posted by sherone

I'm wondering how most of the web hosting companies are getting free Google Adword coupons.

There's 2 ways that I know of presently.

The first is that Google hands them out randomly. If you have an Adsense, Adwords, or Webmaster account with them you will get them once in a while (my webmaster account seems to get one every 6-9 months).

The second is to partner with them in their program called Google Website Services as a hosting provider. If accepted, they let you send out those coupons to your customers. The catch is that you have to have a minimum of 1,000 customers in your hosting company to even get started, and it's a length process to get involved and they don't accept everybody that applies. I'm 99% sure that this is how HostGator and GoDaddy get their coupons that they give out.

[Corster]

On the back of the letter there is terms and conditions and it says that the code is non-transferable and may not be sold or bartered.

Originally Posted by Christian Little

I doubt they are officially resellable, but Google doesn't seem to link the code to a specific email address/account. If you go onto internet marketing forums you'll find people selling them for like $10 each lol.

I don't think the coupons say they aren't resellable, but they don't say they are either. But I've never heard of Google raising a fit about somebody else using the coupon than who it was given to.

[Christian Little]

Originally Posted by Corster

On the back of the letter there is terms and conditions and it says that the code is non-transferable and may not be sold or bartered.

Ahhh. I've only ever gotten the digital ones, which don't have that wording on them.