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Well it's for adwords, so you are guaranteed traffic. You pay per click until your credit runs out. Running adwords campaigns is as much an art as it is a science. You aren't going to see sustained traffic increases: just until your money runs out.

Yes, it's no obligation and no commitment. There is no reason not to use it. It's $100 worth of free traffic, at worst.

KyleAAA said:

You aren't going to see sustained traffic increases: just until your money runs out.

 

THanks for this — it's a good point. I had a big bump in traffic once from a post that got a lot of Reddit hits; but after a day or two, its was over and my traffic was back to normal. Sounds like the same deal here!

They sent me this offer a couple of times.  The first time I used it with no problems.  The second time they decided my site was a bridge site and froze my ads.  My site doesn't come close to fitting the definition of a bridge site, but even after I appealed they insisted it was a bridge site.  Most of that credit expired unused.  Google made sure I won't be an adwords customer.

I threw out the first offer I got a few months ago because I thought there would be a catch, but the 2nd time they sent it I used it without a problem! I set my budget at $10/day (because it will go over that a little) and I still have $40 credit remaining.

When I first entered the code the credit didn't initially show up but after a day it did. Give it a try TB! You've got nothing to lose.

I definitely will now, it sounds like I have almost nothing to lose! Thanks for the suggested $/day too, that helps.

WorkSaveLive said:

I threw out the first offer I got a few months ago because I thought there would be a catch, but the 2nd time they sent it I used it without a problem! I set my budget at $10/day (because it will go over that a little) and I still have $40 credit remaining.

 

When I first entered the code the credit didn't initially show up but after a day it did. Give it a try TB! You've got nothing to lose.

I went ahead and tried it. I set the payments to "manual" so that they wouldn't start charging my credit card or bank account money after the free trial was over, and I set it to $3/day maximum becuase I thought 1 month of a traffic spike sounded good (at $3/day set limit, it should take a month to blow through the free $100 trial offer). And it's been working great. Setting up the ad using their program was pretty easy and I"ve been getting some traffic every day from it (but with only $3/day set up it hasn't been a huge spike, just moderately more visitors a day). When the free trial money ends I won't continue though, only because I don't want to pay. But I"m glad I tried it, free site traffic for a month, can't lose on that. 

All good info to know. I have an offer for $100 Google AdWords. I'll probably use it once I get the rest of my pages up and running to increase traffic. Thanks for asking the question so the rest of us can learn along with you.