More than one AdWords account permitted

With same payment method?

[farmboy]

Please excuse my AdWords-newbie question.

Does AdWords permit more than one AdWords account with the same payment method?

FarmBoy

[netmeg]

I had a client doing this some years ago, and they made him merge the accounts. So I tend to think not.

[rocknbil]

I don't see why not, if the accounts are for two different businesses/sites (?) May be speaking out of turn, but I have run the adWords for my wife's business for almost a year and have recently opened a second adWords account for my "other projects." The two account logins are distinct and point to different web sites, but I'm using the same cards on both.

If it turns out to be a problem I suppose I can merge them.

[netmeg]

My customer had three different sites with three different companies, around the same topic but different aspects of it - and we had to merge. Things may have changed by now.

[rocknbil]

Although email excepts are not allowed on this board, I'm pretty sure this one will be allowed as it an authoritative answer posed directly to the adWords team:

"You can have two unique accounts funded by the same credit card. However, if these two accounts serve multiple ads simultaneously for the same or related keyword, website, and/or business, it is ensured that not more than one ad from the following accounts will appear at the same time on Google or the Google Network."

In essence, it's the ad content that is restricted, not how you pay for it.

[admagix]

One of my client have 2 different accounts for the one unique website but not the same keywords and no problems yet from Google.

[Zealot]

Or perhaps a separate account for the content network..