{"id":76,"date":"2007-05-15T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=76"},"modified":"2012-03-04T19:17:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T23:17:04","slug":"google-adwords-recertified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2007\/05\/15\/google-adwords-recertified\/","title":{"rendered":"Google AdWords Recertified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just completed and passed my testing to <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">re certify<\/span> my Google AdWords Qualified Individual credentials for another two years.<\/p>\n<p>Google has changed the exam and I found it easier than the first, but they have not updated all of the information in the exam to reflect new account improvements.  Plus I studied so hard on Google Analytics and AdWords Editor and there were no questions on the exam on that topic.  For example the information on invoicing does not match the test.  The training module states that an account with three months of activity of $1500 per month would qualify but the exam had two case studies that matched that and yet it <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">appeared<\/span> that they were looking for an answer for $5000 a month and that was the old figure.  There were also questions on how to calculate quality score with case studies and no training modules on that specific topic.  <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Hmm<\/span>, Google you need to update to be fair.<\/p>\n<p>The training modules need to more closely match the exam as I wondered how some of the questions could possibly be answered given the training information.  Well so much for griping, I will not have to look at the training program unless something new is released for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just completed and passed my testing to re certify my Google AdWords Qualified Individual credentials for another two years. Google has changed the exam and I found it easier than the first, but they have not updated all of the information in the exam to reflect new account improvements. Plus I studied so hard on Google Analytics and AdWords Editor and there were no questions on the exam on that topic. For example the information on invoicing does not match the test. The training module states that an account with three months of activity of $1500 per month would qualify but the exam had two case studies that matched that and yet it appeared that they were looking for an answer for $5000 a month and that was the old figure. There were also questions on how to calculate quality score with case studies and no training modules on that specific topic. Hmm, Google you need to update to be fair. The training modules need to more closely match the exam as I wondered how some of the questions could possibly be answered given the training information. Well so much for griping, I will not have to look at the training program unless something new is released for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-adwords","category-news-trends"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google AdWords Recertified | The Web Authority<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2007\/05\/15\/google-adwords-recertified\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google AdWords Recertified | The Web Authority\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have just completed and passed my testing to re certify my Google AdWords Qualified Individual credentials for another two years. 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