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Passing The AdWords Fundamentals and AdWords Advanced Search Advertising Exams.
If you want to be a Google AdWords Certified Partner, it’s now a requirement that you pass at least 2 separate exams. So, if you are the sort of person that finds revising for and taking online exams doesn’t come as second nature to you, then you could do a lot worse than check out the Google Advertising Fundamentals Exam, and Google Search Advertising Advanced Exam Revision here:-
PPCNI – Google AdWords Certified Partner – Northern Ireland
Jordan McClements, owner of PPCNI.com, today took the Google AdWords Search Advertising Advanced exam, and scored 98%…
This means (I think) that PPCNI is the first Google AdWords certified partner in Northern Ireland!
(Certified AdWords Partner logo to follow within a few days once Google actually make it available to me) 
Update – it has finally arrived!:-
PPCNI is the first company in Northern Ireland to attain Google AdWords Certified Partner status.
New AdWords Broad Match Modifier In Testing…
This is something they should have had a long time ago :-
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/022196.html
Free AdWords vouchers…
I’ll have a few more to give away soon, but rather than just giving them away to the first person to comment on each ‘Free AdWords Voucher’ blog post, every so often, I’ll select a non-spammy (and preferably relevant) comment from some recent posts, and send the voucher to them….
So if you want one, be sure to comment on any new posts on this blog (but please don’t be spammy, and do try and say *something* relevant)..
Do also remember they are only worth a maximum of £50 and can only be used on AdWords accounts that are 14 days or less old…
Thanks!
New Google AdWords Certification Program 2010
Looks like I’ll have to sit at least one more Google AdWords exam in the near future!
Also, it looks like PPCNI will have no problems meeting the new ad spend requirement ($10,000 in a 90 day period):-
Rather than reinvent the wheel and explain all the details on this here are some related links:-
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/26/google-agencies/
http://www.google.com/intl/en-GB/adwords/professionals/
https://adwords.google.com/professionals/search/
https://adwords.google.com/support/select/professionals/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176006
