If you purchased your web hosting through HostGator, you may have noticed
that along with your hosting, you get a free $100 Google Ads Credit... that you can
use for marketing your business. In this video I'm going to show you how to claim
that credit and get it into your Google Ads Account - so that you can get busy
using it. Let's do this!
Welcome it's Kevin at Tru Lift Digital Marketing
where our aim is to help YOU provide "Value" to your customers and clients
through solid marketing, so that you can HELP more people. I want to get into
showing you how to get your ad credits, but before I do, I'll just make a few
very quick points. First off... in September 2018 Google did a rebrand of Google
Adwords and changed the name of the ad platform to Google Ads... so if you've
heard of Google AdWords or simply Adwords or see any reference to AdWords
in my videos... just know that Google Ads is the same thing as Google AdWords. I
also want to point out that the hundred dollar credit offer from HostGator is
available as of the upload date of this video... and hopefully will still be there
when you view this video - but you will want to verify that. And also note that
as of the upload date of this video... this offer is only available (to my knowledge)
to those that have Google Ads Accounts registered in either the United States
or Canada. If you are in other countries, you'll have to look into whether or not
a similar offer exists for you. Perhaps it does, but just doesn't show up on my
account because my browser tells HostGator I'm from Canada... but in this
video I will show you how to find the fine print area where you can find out
for yourself. I've made the following assumptions... to get this offer you have
to already have a hosting account with Hostgator. If you don't yet, there's a
link on your screen right now and/or in the video description area... to
a video on How To Choose Your Hosting Account that you can check out... and
lastly, I've also assumed for this video that you have already set up an AdWords
or Google Ads Account... but if you haven't yet you can check out a video on how to
do that by clicking the link in the cards on your screen right now, or in the
description area of this video. Let's get at it. The first thing that you want to
do is to log in to either your Hostgator cPanel or your Customer Portal. I'll show
you both ways quickly. To log into your cPanel put your unique control panel URL
in the URL field and hit enter. Then enter your username and
password and click login. This will take you to the website section by default. Simply
scroll down to this "special offers" area where you will find your Google Adwords
Free $100 Credit link. Simply click on that. Alternatively, if you want to log in
through your Customer Portal... input portal.hostgator.com into the URL field...
Enter the email address you created your HostGator account with... click Next. Enter
your password and click login. Once your Customer Portal page loads... simply click
on the hosting tab (toward the top) and then in "special offers" you will see the
Google Adwords Free $100 Credit link. Simply click on that... and they will both
take you to the same place... which is this page here. You may get a similar pop-up
to this one, which is just an offer for a service where they will help you with
your Google AdWords ads or Google Ads for a fee You can check that out (of
course) if you want, but I'm just going to click on "no". Here are the steps that I
will walk you through quickly in this video. Feel free to scroll down the page
if you want. One thing I want to highlight is the fine print here at the
bottom. Like I mentioned in the opening part of this video, this offer is only
available (to my knowledge) to customers in the US and Canada, but if you are
logged into Hostgator and you are from another country... perhaps this section
here will say something different for you. There is a limit of one promotional
code per advertiser as you can see here. There is a time restriction on how long
you have to enter your promotional code. I should also point out that I recorded
the video portion of this video a while ago, so all date references will be quite
a ways in the past... but just know that the user interface of Google Ads (for
what I will be going through in this video) is still accurate as of the upload
date of this video. But I'll give my standard reminder: user interfaces always
change but even if they have by the time you see this video there's a very good
chance that you will be able to accomplish the steps in this video.
Certain links etc may just be located in a slightly different place. As it says
here... once you enter your promotion code you have 30 days to spend 25 dollars in
your account (after the date you enter the promo code) in order to earn the
hundred dollar credit. Although, having said that, I think I actually got 60 days.
Just to be clear... in this video I'll show you how to get your promo code inserted
into Google Ads (formerly Google Adwords), but know that in the first 30 days after
entering that promo code you are required to spend at
least $25 on ads before the hundred dollar credit is available to you. Now
you don't have to spend that $100 worth of credit as well in the 30-day period
after entering your promo code... it will sit as a credit in your account
indefinitely (I think) but there is a small fifteen cent per month charge or
something like that for activity related to the credit. Kind of strange. Anyway...
Let's keep going. The credit will typically be applied five days after you
complete steps two and three. Credits only apply to future ad costs, in other
words, you don't get reimbursed for prior ad costs. You won't receive notification
once you use up your credit. Your account has to be in good standing with Google
Ads... and your payment on the first twenty five bucks spent, has to actually go
through. And if you want to check out the full terms you can enter the URLs down
here into your browser depending on what country you have your account registered
in. We good??? Okay... let's head back up to the top. If you're ready to go... click on
the "get started" button now. Just highlight and copy the promotional code
to place it into your clipboard (Command C on a Mac or ctrl C on a PC) is the
fastest way to do that... or you can definitely go old-school and write it
down. Then if you click on "redeem your one hundred dollar credit", you will be
taken to this page. Now from here, if you don't already have a Google Ads account...
you can click on the "start advertising today" button and then either go through
the guided setup by following the directions and fill in email address web
site etc., or you can click on the "skip the guided setup" link... which will allow
you to bypass having to set up an actual ad right away. Like I mentioned earlier...
there's a link (either on your screen right now and/or in the description area
of this video) to another video on how to set all of that up. So for those of you
that already have a Google Ads account (like I do), just open up a new tab in your
browser and type either AdWords.Google.com which will redirect you to the new
ads.google.com page or simply enter ads.Google.com and hit enter. Remember even
though this page here says Google AdWords... this video was recorded prior to
the rebrand of Google Ads so your page will say Google Ads. I know I'm saying
the same thing over and over again. It's just that if you're new to this kind of
stuff... little differences like that - can actually throw you off. I know. Then you
just need to log into your Google Ads account by clicking on "sign in" at the
top right of the screen enter your proper email address. Click
next. Enter your password. And click Next again.
I'll just let that sucker load... Okay. You should see something similar to this on
your screen (depends where you left off your last session), but either way, you
need to click on the "wrench" icon up at the top right of the gray bar. And then
under "setup" (on the right side of the drop-down), click on "billing & payments".
Once that summary page loads, you can either click on the "Settings" link on the
left side of the screen, or scroll down to the bottom... and in the settings box...
click on "manage settings". Scroll down to the very bottom (or just in case the user
interface changed), look for the box or area that says "promotional codes" and click on
"manage promotional codes" and then simply click on the area below promotional
codes and either paste that promotional code that you copied earlier...(assuming
that you still have it saved in your clipboard) Command V on a Mac or Control V
on a PC... or if you wrote it down somewhere, manually enter it here. And
then click "apply". You should be taken to a page similar to this. Now... I'm in Canada,
so it already has converted the dollar amounts to Canadian dollars... but if you
are in the US, your top line will say get 100 dollar credit for spending $25 on
Adwords (or Google Ads). You'll notice that the offer expires on June 25th 2018, but
I actually recorded the video portion of this video on April 26, 2018... meaning that
it gave me 60 days to spend that first $25 us or $32.18 Canadian... and I would
guess that you would be extended the same time period even though it said
earlier you only have 30 days. Just take note of what your says here so you spend
it in time. Okay... so that's really all there is to claiming your $100 credit
from HostGator which brings us to the question of the day... which is simply: did
you even know that you had a free credit available in Hostgator? And are you gonna
take advantage of it? I'm curious. Leave a comment below the
video. Before you go, if you were anxious and wanted to start on creating a new ad
inside of Google Ads right now... simply click on the arrow at the top left of
the gray bar, to take you back to the overview page. You'll want to start at
the campaign level by clicking on "campaign"... and then the big blue plus sign
to create a new campaign. I'll go over how to do that in another video where
I'll show you How I Set Up A Video Remarketing Ad - directed to those that
have visited my Tru Lift Digital Channel...which you can link to you by
clicking the link on your right now. And if you still need to set
up your Google Ads account remarketing lists, link Google Ads to analytics, link
YouTube to analytics, etc ....click the link on your screen right now to do that. As
always... all links are also available in the description area below the video.
Thanks for watching!! Take care of yourself, and your loved ones. :-)
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