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Florian's GA certificate

If you think you can do that, too, just go to starttest.google.com, pay 50 bucks USD and give it a go. I warn you, tough. This is harder than you think! Well, at least it was harder than I thought. To prepare yourself, you can go the Google Conversion University and join the free online classes.

Be warned tough, that while the classes seem very straight forward at times, the test is not. They have a couple of tough nut to crack in there. Especially areas that I am not handling on a daily based proved tricky. Here are some areas I should have taken a closer look at before taking the test.

1. Adwords – Adsense Integration
2. Regular Expressions (Regex)
3. Tracking of sub domains and cross domain tracking
4. E-Commerce tracking

Be smarter than me and study those in advance. I hope my experience helps those of your still planning to take the test. I definitely encourage you to do so. It was certainly worth it for me. It forced me to up my GA game and become a better analyst. Now I can proudly put the “Google Analytics Certified” batch on this blog.

Thank you. You may stop applauding

P.S.: Also a big thanks to Google’s Avinash Kaushik, for his encouragement and inspiration.

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