Month: March 2015
Google Cuts “AdWords Fundamentals” Exam Validity Period in Half
March 26, 2015Having just completed updating our company’s AdWords certification last week by taking the “Search Advertising” exam, we expected to be Google AdWords certified through March 7, 2016. We were surprised to learn when we logged in this morning that we were no longer certified. We had received no notice of this certification suspension, and a brief search on the matter yielded no returns. Even the AdWords blog page and New AdWords features page were lacking information regarding what had happened.
With a little additional digging, we finally discovered the “AdWords Fundamentals” exam that was set to expire on March 7th next year was no longer valid, and needed to be retaken. But this wasn’t the only hidden change, as the exam details portion now reflects a validity period of 12 months.
Google declares: a mobile presence now significant ranking factor
March 4, 2015Customers are no longer the only ones demanding a mobile presence for your website. Following a recent post on Google’s Webmaster Central Blog, it is now clear that Google expects a mobile presence for any site that hopes to achieve top rankings. If you’ve been following our blog, or are an SEO client of ours, you know we’ve been encouraging our clients to have a user-friendly mobile presence for the past several years. And now, for the first time ever, Google is making public a change to their search algorithm, advising website owners and webmasters, developers, and others in the website building business that they have until April 21st to make their sites mobile friendly, or they may suffer search consequences: