Allow me to explain in brief about my scenario. According to Google mentioned at https://adwords.google.com/support/select/professionals/bin/answer.py?answer=12241, one needs to "Build and maintain at least US$1,000 (or your local currency equivalent) total spend for your or your team's My Client Center account during the 90-day period." and "Pass the Google Advertising Professional Exam. We suggest that you take the exam after you meet the above requirements. However, you can take the exam at any time." - I started and maintained a client's account in My Client Center for more than US$1000 during a 90-day period. After that, I started learning and reading more to appear for the examinations. When I thought, I was ready to appear for the examinations, I logged in my Pro Center and to my horror, I found that the system told me that I haven't even met my account requirements. I started communicating with Google Adwords Support and talking to Adwords Specialists. It was difficult to make them understand this problem properly and they always mailed back with standard answers. Later, I took this issue with some senior specialists out there and I was asked to call them. I did that and spoke to one of them - she said that it seemed that I was correct and they would rectify the status of the account requirements but she will need to talk to someone in the technical department. A day after, I got a mail saying that one needs to maintain the account during the MOST RECENT 90-day period - I pointed them to the page where Google mentions during the 90-day period and not during most recent 90-day period - I asked her if that means that if I need to appear for the examination on the 91st day or else how could we completed. She replied saying that both the requirements have to be completed together - how is this possible? When Google on the above given page suggest that you take the exam after you meet the account requirements, here she was suggesting otherwise. This is very unethical on part of Google and really frustrating. The same company coming up with two different answers for the same problem. I want to know if someone else has faced the same problem and if so, how was it solved? I have asked them to take this up seriously since this means so many of them would maintain the account for 90-days for more than US$1000 and then study for examinations for a few days and appear later only to find out that the account requirements are still nto met since they did not appear immediately on the 91st day - absolutely frustrating. I'll appreciate if some specialist who understands this well can answer this or if anyone who can help me to solve this issue. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Nir
Can someone help? Any clue on why does Google speak differently? Keep checking Google Terms and Conditions - they might change soon.. HELP!