Google Professional Certification

Types of Certification

Companies or individuals can seek AdWords certification. The certification program is for those wanting to show expertise in managing AdWords programs. Successful candidates earn the right to post a Google “Certified Partner” badge on their websites. Google also certifies people as experts in Google analytics, and has an Apps Education Admin certification in the works as of July 2010.

Company Applications

Companies wanting AdWords certification need at least one certified individual on staff. They also need proof that their business has spent at least $10,000 on advertising in the last 90 days. That’s down from $100,000 under the previous GAP certification.

Individual Applications

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Passing scores vary from exam to exam, but are in the range of 75 to 85 percent.

Applicants wanting AdWords certification must pass the mandatory online Google Advertising Fundamentals exam as well as one other advanced exam of their choice - search advertising, reporting and analysis, or display. Each exam features 110 to 120 questions that must be completed within two hours. There’s a single exam for analytics certification, and a series of six exams being developed for the new Apps Education Admin certification.

Costs

All exams cost $50 each with the exception of the six Apps Education exams, which are $15 each as of July 2010.

Updating Certification

The new certification was introduced in April 2010. Those certified under the old program have six months to meet the new criteria if they want to maintain certification. Companies will require at least one individual on staff who also meets updated qualifications.

How to Create a Website Get Sponsors

1. Go to WordPress.com or Weebly.com, and sign up for a website. Start building your website by choosing a template, uploading your content and pictures. Make sure that you have a lot of high-quality content, as articles will eventually attract website visitors through the search engines.

2. Apply to put ads on your website through Google and AdBrite by signing up at Google.com/adsense and AdBrite.com. After your accounts are approved, both ad companies will give you a few lines of code to implement so that ads will appear on your website. Every time a surfer clicks on an ad, you'll get money.

3. Find sponsors for your website. Go to your favorite search engine and type in a keyword phrase that best relates to your web page. Browse each website that appears on the first page of the search engine results. Find each company's phone number, and call them about the advertising spots available on your website. You can start by charging a flat monthly fee for an ad. In addition, you can continue using the Google Adsense and AdBrite code on your website.

How to Change Your Digg Name

1. Check that another Digg user isn't already using your desired new user name. Log out of your Digg account and click the 'Join Digg!' button at the top of the screen. Type your email address, new user name and click on the password field. Do not click the 'Create Account' button. When you click the password field, Digg automatically checks to see if the user name is available. If another user has already registered your desired user name, Digg will post a message on the screen notifying you the user name is not available. Keep trying variations of your user name until you find one no other user has registered.

2. Visit the Digg Contact page found at digg.com/contact. Enter your current user name and email address in the form.

3. Fill out the form requesting a user name change. Select 'Digg Support & Site Help' from the 'Reason for Contacting Us' drop-down menu, and select 'Login/ Registration' in the 'Bug Category' field. Complete the CAPTCHA accurately, and in the 'Comments' field, tell the Digg support team you'd like to change your user name. Include your preferred new user name in your comments.

4. Click the green 'Send Message' button at the bottom of the form.

5. Follow any email instructions you receive from Digg. If prompted, confirm via email before they confirm the change.

How to Set Up a Sheet Music Web Site Business

1. Establish a business plan. Research your competition and come up with a plan to offer something different or better. Decide whether you will be charging for your sheet music or offering it for free, in which case you will need to put your main focus on advertising. You can sell banner space, advertise affiliate programs or pay-per-click (PPC) programs such as Google AdSense.

2. Purchase a domain name and select a hosting service. A domain name is simply your website address. A host is the company that provides you with space for your website. When choosing a host, consider factors such as reliability, access speed, bandwidth, maximum space, technical support and advanced features. If you choose to charge your clients for the sheet music, you will need a host that will provide you with features such as shopping carts and file transfer protocol (FTP) service.

3. Build your website. Add important business information for your visitors such as an FAQ page, an 'About' page and an easy way to contact you. Give your website a professional look using HTML code or a web design software. If you don't have experience designing websites, you can hire a professional to design it for you.

4. Upload your sheet music. If you will be sharing or selling your original sheet music, add a copyright disclaimer on each document in order to protect your work from being sold or used for purposes you do not approve of. You must verify that you have the right to sell any sheet music that is not originally yours. It is highly advised to contact an attorney if you are not sure. If you have contacts with artists or record labels, you can ask them for permission to share or sell their sheet music on your site.

5. Market your website. Advertise your sheet music business on social networks and ask websites with relevant content to exchange links with you; the latter will also give you a higher rank in search engines. To further optimize your website for search engines, include targeted keywords, powerful title tags and meta tags. Title and meta tags are HTML codes inserted into your website to provide search engines with information about your website content.

What Does 'Monetize' Mean on YouTube?

Monetizing Content

'Monetizing' on YouTube refers to enabling YouTube to turn on advertisements on your videos. If you enable ads on your videos, you will earn a cut of the revenue earned from those ads. Not all videos can be monetized, and you must first go through the enabling process, but after you have done so you can enable ads on almost any new upload automatically, as well as monetize all past uploads.

Requirements

In order to be eligible, your videos must first adhere to the YouTube Community Guidelines. This means that all content must abide by YouTube's rules. Your content must also be completely your own -- you are not allowed to profit off of the work of others -- and must be advertiser friendly, which means that if you have any videos flagged for mature content, you cannot enable ads on them.

How to Enable Monetization

To enable ads, you must first have an AdSense account. If you don't have an AdSense account already, log in to your Google account and create one. You will need to provide your address and billing information to proceed, so you must be at least 18 years old to qualify. Once this is complete, you must connect your new AdSense account to your existing YouTube account. This can be done from your Monetization page in your Account Settings.

Monetization Limitations

There are a few different reasons why your account may be ineligible for monetization: if you have applied and been denied previously, or if your account is not in good standing -- for example, if you have had videos deleted for breaking the Community Guidelines. If this is the case, you may need to wait six months for the strikes to vanish from your account. In addition, you won't be eligible if you live in certain countries where monetization is not available.

How to Setup Blogger on Go Daddy

1. Log in to Go Daddy with your username and password.

2. Locate 'My Products' and click 'Domain Manager.'

3. Select the domain you want to use for your Blogger blog and click the 'Nameserver' icon.

4. Select the option of parking the domain and then click 'OK.'

5. Go back to the domain manager and select the domain that you want to use as the Blogger page.

6. Click 'Total DNS Control.' Locate 'CNAMES' and click 'Edit.'

7. Click 'OK.' Type 'ghs.google.com' next to 'Point to Host Name' and then click 'OK.'

How to Place Ads on WordPress

1. Go to google.adsense.com and click the sign up link. You will be asked to fill out a few text fields, including the URL of your primary site. Put your WordPress site's homepage URL into this field. Once you have signed up, log in to your account.

2. Look at the control panel. You'll see an overview of your advertising revenue, which will be zero at present. Click 'AdSense Setup' then 'Get Ads.'

3. Decide whether you want the ad unit to display text ads, image ads, or both. Select the relevant option from the drop-down menu. Click continue.

4. Customize the appearance of the ad using the drop-down menus that appear on the next screen. You can choose from a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. You can try an ad that blends in to the design of your site, or try a style that stands out. Different styles work for different websites, so feel free to experiment with different designs. Click continue when done.

5. Click 'Add new channel,' and choose a name to identify this ad unit. Choose something descriptive like 'Side bar skyscraper.' Click continue when done.

6. Click 'Submit and Get Code.' The code for the ad unit will appear. Copy the code to the clipboard.

7. Log in to your WordPress site. If you are familiar with HTML, you can click 'Appearance' then 'Theme Editor,' and place the ad directly into the source code. Otherwise, Click 'Plugins' then 'Add New,' and search for a free AdSense management plugin, such as WhyDoWork, Advertising Manager, or Easy AdSense. Activate the plug in, then look for it on the left menu bar. Click it, and look for the box to paste in your AdSense code. Choose where you want it to be placed.

8. Wait 10 minutes then load your site in a Web browser. See if the ad has appeared correctly. If it has not, return to the source code or plugin and ensure the ad code has been entered correctly, then check again. If the code is present and correct, but the ad has not appeared, try logging out of WordPress and looking again, as some plugins do not display ads to administrators.