Google Adwords Certification and Google Analytics Certification is one of the important certifications for a digital marketer as it is immensely recognized by expert Digital Marketers also by the companies who are recruiting digital marketing professionals. This certification is a brilliant way to test your knowledge in Google Adwords and let the world know that you are pro at it by passing the exams. As you clear the exams you get a certificate and also a Google Partner status that you can proudly showcase on your resume or website.
Honestly, I write these exams just to test my knowledge and you should write it for same purpose too! You cannot claim to become a PPC expert or Google Analytics expert just by cracking these exams – you need to prove the point by running some absolutely fantastic search / display campaigns. Use this article as an opportunity to learn about Google Adwords and also take up examinations at the later part of your learning process.
Google Adwords and Analytics exam wasn’t free before, you had to pay US $ 50 to US $ 100 in order to take the examination! It’s completely free now. You can re-attempt the examination even if you fail – you just have to wait for a week. Log on to Google Partners using your Gmail Id to begin your Google Adwords Certification journey.
In order to get the certification you need to clear 2 out of 6 exams listed below:
Subject 1: Google Adwords Fundamental is a mandate online test that you need to crack. The test has about 100 multiple choice questions. You will have to crack these questions in 120 minutes with a minimum score of 80. If you fail, don’t worry you can give your exam again! This test has a validity of 12 months.
How to prepare for Google Adwords Fundamental Exam?
- Follow the Exam Study Guide: This chapter has 3 lessons.
- Lesson 1: Introduction to Adwords Guide (Learn about the benefits of online advertising and adwords)
- Lesson 2: Google Adwords Campaign Management Guide (Learn About Adwords campaign structure, bidding and budgets)
- Lesson 3: Measurement and Optimization Guide (Learn about metrics and tools to measure and optimize your performance)
- Lesson 4: Download Adwords Fundamental PDF Guide (If you feel like downloading the entire study guide because you find it very difficult to read online, use the PDF and take a print)
- Take Google Adwords Fundamental Examination Practise Test.
Subject 2: Google Adwords Search is a little detailed subject, but this is one of the most important subjects from the list of 6 mentioned. You might find other ones easy to crack and clear, I would recommend you to crack this one as it is crucial to have knowledge in search advertisement for you to become a Digital Marketing Expert. Search Test has 98 questions and can be cracked in 120 minutes with 80% passing score. This test has a validity of 12 months.
How to prepare for Google Adwords Advanced Search Advertising Exam?
- Follow the Exam Study guide: This chapter has 8 lessons.
- Lesson 1: Search Fundamentals review (Review adwords and search engine marketing essentials for better understanding of search marketing)
- Lesson 2: Ad Formats (Select the right formats or advertisements and learn abut extensions to reach marketing goals)
- Lesson 3: Ad and Site Quality (This will help you improvise the quality of search ads and the quality of websites that you plan to advertise)
- Lesson 4: Adwords Tool (Discover about adwords tool and adwords editor)
- Lesson 5: Adwords Report (Analyzing performance and deriving conclusions out of it)
- Lesson 6: Optimizing Performance (Learn about optimizing opportunities for greater conversion)
- Lesson 7: Performance Profitibility and Growth (Implement budget and bidding strategies to tweak the performance for better results)
- Lesson 8: Adwords API
- Download Complete Advanced Search Adwords PDF
- Take Google Adwords Advanced Search Ads Practise Test
By cracking the above two examinations I received my Google Adwords Certification. You can take a printed version of the same from your Google Partners account. You can also link your online profile to your Google profile that displays your certification.
Just for my satisfaction, I will also be taking the rest of the 4 exams:
Subject 3: Display Advertising – This exam covers advanced concepts, including best practices for creating, managing and optimizing Display campaigns as per Google Partners. You are given 120 minutes to crack 100 questions. 80% is minimum passing score and the validity of this examination is 12 months. By learning about Google Display Advertising you can make your advertisement copy super creative for re-targeting which can help in strong brand recall.
How to prepare for Google Display Advertising Exam?
- Follow The Exam Study Guide. This Chapter has 5 Lessons:
- Lesson 1: Google Display Network (Benefits of Display Network and the complete process of how it works)
- Lesson 2: Setting Up a Display Network Campaign (Step by step process of how you can execute a display campaign, design wonderful advertisements and set a bid)
- Lesson 3: Showing your ads on the Display Network (Discover how to target on websites and mobile and choose your placements)
- Lesson 4: Reaching your audience on the Display Network (choose your desired target audience and decide placement of advertisements in the website of your choice)
- Lesson 5: Measuring and optimizing performance on the Display Network (Evaluate the performance of display advertisement campaign by learn this lesson)
- Download the complete Display PDF
- Google Adwords Practise Test.
Subject 4: Video Advertising is one of the best things to learn on internet today as Video ads are becoming more prominent as it comes along with an entertainment factor or they are visually appealing and engaging. There are more NLP factors associated with video advertisements. YouTube ads which comes along with Skip buttons or without skip buttons – everything about it can be learnt using this subject.
How to master Video Advertising Exam?
- Follow The Exam Study Guide. This Chapter has 3 Lessons:
- Lesson 1: About Video Advertising (Learn how the advertisement feature on YouTube and Google Ad Display Network works)
- Lesson 2: Creating ads and campaigns (Develop, execute, and manage your video advertising campaigns)
- Lesson 3: Measuring and optimizing performance (Measure results and fine-tune your campaigns to improve your return on investment)
- Mobile Advertising Exam Sample Questions.
Subject 5: Shopping Advertising is a great thing to learn, especially if you are interested in ecommerce marketing. Product listings, image specifications are few crucial things to discover from these lessons. The shopping advertising exam just has 63 questions which needs to be cracked in 90 minutes with 80% passion score.
How To Prepare for Shopping Advertisement Examination?
- Follow the Exam Study Guide. This Chapter has 4 Lessons.
- Lesson 1: Overview of how Product Listing Ads work (Review how you can use Google Merchant Center, Google Shopping, and AdWords to promote your product inventory using Product Listing Ads)
- Lesson 2: Create a Google Merchant Center account (Learn how to set up and navigate your Google Merchant Center account)
- Create your product data feed (Learn the fundamentals of building a high-quality product data feed and uploading it to Google Merchant Center)
- Create Shopping campaigns in AdWords (Understand how to use Shopping campaigns in AdWords to create Product Listing Ads and optimize their performance)
- Sample Google Shopping Advertising Exam!
Subject 6: Mobile Advertising is a crucial subject to learn if you have invested heavily in a mobile site or run an application on Google App Store. Today 80% of traffic for most of the websites come from mobile website and it becomes extremely important for you to create interesting mobile advertising campaigns in order to attract the mobile internet surfers. Mobile Advertising has 70 questions to be cracked in 90 minutes with 80% passing score.
How to Prepare for Mobile Advertising Exam?
- Follow the exam study guide. This chapter has 4 lessons:
- Mobile overview (Learn how mobile advertising works using google platform and discover the importance of investing on mobile site and mobile applications)
- Bidding and targeting (Learn how you target, re-target and bid for mobile marketing campaigns)
- Mobile ad formats (Learn about the best mobile ad formats for your campaign strategy across Display, Search, and YouTube)
- Measurement and optimization (Learn about measurement solutions and how you can track conversions especially when the traffic is coming from mobile)
- Sample Questions for Google Mobile Advertising Exam (Video)
I sincerely hope you have taken the above exams of planning to take! When we recruit people at echoVME for the post of Digital Marketing executives or Digital Marketing Head, such certification helps us build a trust factor. So, please do take up these exams and start working towards becoming a ‘Digital Marketing Expert’.
Do you have any questions for me? Please feel free to ask, I would love to answer your queries.
