A few month ago i came across a Google advertisement in my blog which claimed to  give RM100 Advertising Offer on Google AdWords. As the promotion end at December 31, 2009, Google is once again offering RM150 Advertising offer on Google Adwords to Malaysian. I have received a letter from Google today which inside the envelop there is a promotion voucher worth RM150.

It’s a good news to all Malaysian which is using Google Adwords in promoting website/products. You can now have this promotion code added in your Adwords account and immediately enjoy this FREE RM150 bonus from Google. I have tried to use this voucher to rectify it but unfortunately, in order to activate a new  Adwords account, i need to pay RM20 (for Malaysia) one-time activation fee. As i have no purpose to buy ads with Google, i abandon the activation of Google Adwords account. So, for those who are using Google Advertising service now, you are so lucky to have this FREE RM150 promotion code from Google.

For your information, this RM150 promotion code will expire on 7 May 2010. After 7  May, 2010, the offer drops to RM100, valid until May 28, 2010.

3 reasons to advertise your business on Google:

i) RM150, For FREE. Use it to drive potential customers to your website. For example, if your average cost-per-click was 50 cents, RM150 could deliver 300 visitors to your site.

ii) Reach your exact customers. Show your ads on Google only when potential customers search for your products and services.

iii) No risk, No obligation. There is no contract to sign or minimum spending requirement.

Try it , compare it with other advertising service.

Today i receive an email from Google Adsense Team which in the email, it stated that Google Adsense is now serving multiple ad networks including ad networks from third party.

Here is the message conveyed:

Hi,

We have launched a new capability in AdSense allowing Google-certified ad networks compete directly within AdSense, which means that advertisers from these third-party networks will be able to compete with AdWords advertisers to show on the Google Content Network.
These new capabilities will automatically be enabled for your account, and you’ll see a new section in your Ad Review Center where you can allow or block specific ad networks or all networks except AdWords. Please note that we’ll gradually be adding new ad networks to AdSense accounts over the next few months, so you won’t see any immediate impact on your ads or your earnings.

To ensure the quality of the ads that appear on AdSense publisher websites, Google will certify all participating ad networks for adherence to our standards for user privacy, ad quality, and speed. Some participating ad networks use targeting methods similar to Google’s interest-based advertising to show more relevant ads to users on the sites they visit. These ad networks won’t be permitted to collect data from your site for the purpose of subsequent interest-based advertising, but we’ll allow networks that comply with user privacy guidelines to show ads using these tools. Publishers can opt out of user interest targeting from these ad networks, and Google has changed our requirements for third-party ad serving to reflect this.
We are currently only accepting ads from Google-certified ad networks in North America and Europe, but we will make this feature available to ad networks in additional parts of the world in the future.

To learn more and manage the ad networks appearing on your pages, visit the AdSense Help Center at https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=13522 and visit our blog post at http://adsense.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-certified-ad-networks-now.html.

Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team

What is the effect of opening the competition to third party ad networks? Isn’t to increase the Adwords sales OR merely to help Adsense publisher to increase their earning? Who knows?

If you are not satisfied with certain advertisement, you have the right to block the advertisement from merging in your blog/website as it’s stated by Google Adsense. To block the advertisements, simply log into your adsense account. Under Adsense setup tab, go —-> Ad Review Centre. Click the change button beside  “ Google Certified Ad Networks: Google certified ad networks always blocked” to view the active advertisers of Google Certified Ad Networks. After done with all the blocking, submit it.

PS: You may also made the setting of automatically block new Google Certified Ad Networks in Ad Review Centre.