Adsense team sends me an adwords coupon

Lol?

[johnnie]

Hmmm... It would appear we have a classic matter of the head not knowing what the tail is doing.

Today, I received a letter from the adsense team telling me of a fantastic way to attract more people to my website... Adwords! Hurray! Along withn the letter came a shiningly beautiful orange coupon, with a code that my adwords account ofcourse refuses to acknowledge (your account has been active for too long, blah-dee-blah).

So... Now the adsense team wants me to put my account on the line by driving paid traffic to my adsense-sponsored site? And why am I getting this invitation at al? I've had an adwords account for years now...

[jstevens]

@ken_b - thanks for the welcome, and the info :)

@lame_wolf - Haha I'll take your word for it... does that mean you raise rabbits? :D

[Lame_Wolf]

does that mean you raise rabbits

I used to. Chickens this year. Plenty of wild rabbits around here atm.

[Lame_Wolf]

Yesterday I received an email from adwords offering $100 coupon.

Thing is, the email address they sent it to has never been used for adsense or adwords. In fact it has never been attached to Google in any shape or form.

Therefore, the email Google sent was spam.

[vordmeister]

Sounds like it was phishing rather than spam. The adwords vouchers normally arrive by letter.

[Lame_Wolf]

Sounds like it was phishing rather than spam. The adwords vouchers normally arrive by letter.

It was from Google. I checked the headers. My client also received one (her email is attached to Google).

It was a reminder to use the coupon.

[rj87uk]

I was pretty happy at getting £75 couldn't have came at a better time - I just started my own Ecom shop.