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Google AdWords

Last night my partner was creating his first AdWords account, and when he had to enter his credit card details for post pay his card was declined without any clear reason.

The Google AdWords advice center suggests that you should call your bank and make sure your card is working correctly, but this is rarely the case. AdWords has been declining cards without reason since 2004 that I am aware of.

Out of interest we decided to try using the Internet Explorer browser rather than Firefox – and upon log in it showed that his credit card had actually been approved.

It seems that Firefox has some issue with cookies or the cache – we cant pin point exactly where the issue lies, but I can tell you that if you sign in using IE after getting repeated declined messages when signing up for AdWords with a working credit or debit card that it does seem to fix the problem.

I appreciate that this post doesn’t strictly relate to making money online, however I know for the past (almost) 6 years many people have had this issue, and no one has suggested this, including Google themselves, as being a solution. I will be back to regular money making posts shortly, so check back in – but please remember this advice as it seems to be a frequent problem and I hope this could save a whole lot of people a whole lot of trouble.