Course Description
This course provides a comprehensive overview of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as a critical component of digital marketing. Students will learn the fundamental principles of SEO, explore advanced strategies, and gain hands-on experience with SEO tools and techniques to enhance online visibility and drive traffic to websites.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the core concepts of SEO and its role in digital marketing.
- Conduct keyword research and develop effective SEO strategies.
- Optimize website structure and content for search engines.
- Utilize tools and analytics to track and improve SEO performance.
- Implement on-page and off-page SEO techniques.
- Understand the impact of SEO on user experience and site usability.
SEO Syllabus
0. What is SEO?
0.1 Introduction to SERP
0.2 SEO Evolution
0.3 How Search Engines Work
0.4 What is next in SEO
- Mobile
- Predictive Search Bots
- Machine Learning & AI Influence(Chat GPT)
Additional Points
- The core of SEO
- Is paid search devaluing SEO?
- Are backlinks still important?
- Direct answers and featured snippets
- Cheating at SEO
- Voice search’s effect on SEO
- Setting SEO expectations
- How it affects your business
Study of WordPress Web Development
Introduction to Domain
How to Register a Domain Name
Web Designer Basics – Certification in google
WordPress Overview
Creating an Online Resume/Portfolio
Installing WordPress
Basic Structure of a Website
Home, About, Services, Blog, Contact + 5 Static Pages + 3 Blog Posts
Customizing your Website
SEO Keywords Fundamental – Part 1
1. Keywords the fundamental of SEO
1.1 Mine the rich resources of keywords
– What are keywords?
– The implications of keywords
– How can we use keywords
– Find keyword research resources
– View the keyword universe
– Read keyword data effectively
1.2 Importance of Keywords
– Why you need a Keyword research plan
– Keyword research process
– How to find low competition, high-converting keywords
– Why you won’t succeed in SEO without doing it
– Tools to help you analyse keywords
– Keyword Planner
– Moz
– SEMrush
– ahref keyword explorer
SEO Keywords Fundamental – Part 2
1.3 Free Tools That Will Generate 1,000s of Keyword Ideas for You
1. Keyword planner
2. answerthepublic
3. google trends
1.4 Managing keywords data for Maximum insights
- Creating a keywords spreadsheets
- Find initial keywords
- Utilize the long tail keywords
- Find phrase patterns
- Organize by prefix and suffix
- Search for synonyms
- Plan for plurals
1.5 Adding three dimensional keyword data
- Intersect keyword demand and keyword trends
- apply tools for finding keyword search trends
- compare keyword trends
- Organizing keyword data with your additional data
Measure your results
- Do not be fooled by rankings
- Measure the right outcomes
- Establish value
- Develop keyword segments in your analytics
- Evaluate landing pages for value
- Troubleshoot landing page bounce rate
- Prioritize your marketing efforts
Assignments:
OPO – Part 1
2. On Page Optimisation: How to Optimise Your Content Around Your Keywords
- SEO Optimised Content
- URL Optimisation
- How to Write Title Tags
- Heading Tags & Copy Optimization
- Image Optimization
- Interlinking Pages, Outgoing Links & Social Share Buttons
2.1 Apply keywords to your website
- Understand page structure
- Familiarize yourself with the page title
- Evaluate your page title options
- How to utilize page structures to your advantage
- Keep the attentions of your reader with better page structure
- Coverage strategies of structure, scanning and spiders
- Implement keywords throughout your content
- Consider alt attributes and title attributes
- Review your navigation for keywords
- Test your navigation for usefulness and understandability
OPO – Part 2
Content Optimisation: How search engine and
people view web pages
- Understanding content Optimisation
- Optimising site structure
- Recognising different types of content
- Optimising textual page elements
- Optimising nontext components of a web page
- Analysing content quality
- Exploring the benefit of user generated content
0.1 Content Optimisation: Technical SEO
- Interpreting the code behind web pages
- Understanding how search engine index content
- Working with Canonical urls and redirect
- Walking with server side factors
0.2 Long-term content planning
- Overview of long-term content strategies
- Planning a successful content strategy and avoid common mistakes
- Defining your audience topic angle and style
- Understanding different types of content
- Working with an editorial calendar
- Promoting your content with social media
- Measuring content performance
OPO – Part 3
SEO for eCommerce
- e-commerce website creation
- Understanding SEO and e-commerce
- Working with semantic HTML for E commerce
- The technical component of e-commerce
- Exploring e commerce information architecture
- Producing E-Commerce content
- Leveraging link building and social media for eCommerce
OPO – Part 4
Local search
- Understanding local search
- Understanding Google my business
- Getting more review for your business
- Optimising your website for local search
- SEO For Local Businesses
- How to Rank Your Local Business WITHOUT Content Marketing
OPO – Part 5
Video SEO
- Video Ranking Tools
- On Page SEO
- Off Page SEO
- How To Sell In Videos
- How To Protect Your Channel
- Custom Thumbnails
- How To Create Multiple Accounts
OPO – Part 6
Technical SEO
- Install Google Analytics So You Can Optimise Your SEO Performance
- Get Preferentially Ranking from Google with Mobile Responsive Websites
- Double Your Conversion Rate with Faster Page Load Speeds
- Check for SEO Errors: Add Your Property to the Google Search Console
- How Meta Robots work?
- Canonical Tag implementation
- Using Schema.org and Mark-up, How to use and how to test
- Google Page Speed Test
- Schema Markups
- Assignments:
Google Analytics
- Understanding the basics
- Why Google analytics
- How Google Analytics works
- How to setup analytics account
- Understanding full reports
- Dashboard and shortcuts
- Basic campaign and conversion tracking
Google Tag Manager
Starting out with Google Tag Manager
Certification – GTM
Setting up Google Tag Manager
Using additional tags for marketing and remarketing
Google Search Console & Bing Webmaster Tool
All the Goodies in Google Search Console
- Get Started With Search Console – How to Verify Your Website
- Explore All the Available Tools In Search Console
Assignments: Blogger.com (Analytics/Webmasters)
Test: Certification
OFO – Part 1
3. Off Page SEO: Link Building
- How the search engine killed the web directory
- How link analysis revolutionized web search
3.1 Link Basics
- Exploring the anatomy of a link
- Not just pagerank: Understanding what links do for your site
- Explaining Google Page Rank and why google stopped it
- Exploring keywords and google bombs
- The perfect link
- Dealing with problem links
- Analyzing links
Assignments:
OFO – Part 2
3.2 Building links
- Exploring the two types of links
- Grabbing low hanging fruit
- Working with local pages and directory links
- Reciprocal Linking: Is it worth the trouble?
- Creating press releases
- Working with article syndication
- Working with bloggers
- Creating link bait
- Examining social networking links
- Getting more links
OFO – Part 3
3.3 The Link Game
- Buying links: pros and cons
- When is paying for links buying links?
- Finding link services
- Understanding the importance of links
- Building internal links
- Building external links
- Finding link building opportunity
- Executing a link Building strategy
OFO – Part 4
3.4 Smarter Ways Proven to Earn Quality Backlinks
- How to Steal Your Competitor’s Backlinks, Rankings & Traffic
- How to Get Key Influencers in Your Niche to Give You Links
- Guarantee Links by Modelling Successful Content
- Build Links with Infographics: Create a Visual Resource
- Earn links through Guest Posting: Solid Your Position As a Thought Leader
- 6 Ways To Maximise Links for Your SEO Campaigns
OFO – Part 5
3.5 Off Page Optimisation: How to Build Authority with Backlinks (Introduction)
- The Types of Backlinks that Really Matter and How You Get Them
- Do Follow vs. No Follow Links: Find Out Which Ones Have SEO Power!
- Black Hat SEO: Protect Yourself from Harmful Links
SEO Auditing
4. An Introduction to SEO Auditing
- What, Why and How!
4.1 SEO Audit: Using Website Standards & Tools
- Use of Website Analytic Tools
- Tracking Top Analytic Reports
- Using Google Webmaster Tools
- Using Bing Webmaster Tools
- XML Sitemap for Search Engines
- Robots.txt
4.2 SEO Audit Off Site SEO
- Incoming Link Analysis
- Open Site Explorer | Moz
- Google Search Console
- Website Domain Authority
- What is Domain Authority?
- ahref site explorer
Competitor Analysis
5. Competitor Analysis
- What is a Competition Analysis & Why Is It Important
- How to Perform a SEO Competitor Analysis
- SEMrush.com -> Advanced Keywords and Competitors Research Tool
- Identifying Your SEO Competitors
6. Google Guidelines
7. Google Algorithms
7. SEO Tools
- UberSuggest
- SEMrush
- Moz’s open site explorer
- Ahrefs
Google Tag Manager
Social Media Marketing
Introduction
- What is social media?
- History of social media marketing
- Importance of social media
- SMO strategy for business
- Social media key concept
- Meta Business Suite profile creation
- Brand Awareness
- Social media engagement
- Viral marketing
Facebook Marketing
Introduction to Facebook
- What is a Facebook profile?
- How do you make a good Facebook profile?
- What is a Facebook group?
- Facebook events
- Creating A Facebook Page For Your Business
- Why Facebook is a Better Option
- Effective Facebook Marketing Strategy
1. Meta Ads for Beginners
- What is Ads Manager
- How Does Meta Advertising Works
- How To Access The Meta Ads Manager
- How To Navigate the Facebook Ads Manager
- Meta Vs Google Ads
- Meta Ad Types
- Types of Ads
- How to Build an Audience from Scratch!
Facebook Ads Part – 2
1.1 How To Use And Create Facebook Audiences For Your Meta Ads
- Introduction to audiences in Meta ads.
- Facebook ads audience types: custom, lookalike, and saved.
- Customer list custom audience creation in Meta advertising.
- Website traffic custom audience creation for remarketing.
- Custom app audience
- Custom Audience Through Video Viewers
- Creating a lookalike audience.
- How to make a saved audience to speed up targeting with Meta ads.
- Meta Ad Country List For Highest & Lowest Cost Ads On Facebook
- Setting Up A Winning Meta Ad Campaign (Step By Step)
Facebook Ads Part – 3
Campaign Analysis
- Recommendations for Your Meta Ads
- Pushing Ads To Your Target Audience Is The Key To Success On Facebook & Instagram
- How to Clone a Successful Audience & Find your Mailing List on Meta Platforms
- How to Boost your Posts like a Boss!
- Run an Effective “Likes” Campaign!
- What is your purpose of advertising on Meta Platforms?
Facebook Ads Part – 4
1.2 Remarketing – The Art of Selling to Warmer Prospects
- Introduction to Remarketing – What is it? And Why is it valuable?
- Remarketing – How to get your content in front of all your Page fans
- Remarketing to the audience that are proven to buy your product
Practice these principles to guarantee success with Facebook Marketing & Ads
- Meta Ads: Do What Works With You
- Offer Value Straight Away To Get Success With Meta Marketing
- Focus on Cost Per Action (CPA) In Order To Maximise Results With Meta Ads
- How The 80 / 20 Principle Will Put You In the Top Meta Ads Performers
- The Four Key Principles That Lead To Success On Meta Platforms
Instagram Marketing Intro
2. Instagram Marketing
- What Is Instagram All About?
- Why Businesses Should Use Instagram
- How Other Businesses Are Using Instagram
- Ultimate Instagram Marketing Secrets Outline
- The Ultimate Audience for Pure Marketing
2.1 Step-by-Step Guide to Launch Your Campaign
- Setting Your Profile Up For Success
- Choosing the Perfect Instagram Handle / Username
- Choosing the Right Instagram Name
- Perfecting your Instagram Display Picture
- Optimizing Your Instagram Bio
- Creating your Instagram Account Call-to-Action (CTA)
- How to Build Followers and Gain Attention
- How You Should Not get Followers on Instagram
- How to make money with Instagram
IM Part – 2
2.1 Creating the Ultimate Instagram Content Game Plan
- Photo Licensing and Image Ownership
- What to post on Instagram (Theme and Purpose)
- The Best Times to Post on Instagram?
- How to Post Media on Instagram
- Increasing your Image and Video Exposure
2.2 Perfect Outreach: Build an Inbound Sales Funnel
- Start Reaching Out and Building Your #1 Fans
- Instagram Direct – One of the Best Features
- Ultimate Instagram Marketing Secrets
- The Magic of Follow Up Relationship Building
IM Part – 3
2.3 Top Tips, Tricks & Tools
- Instagram Marketing Tools
- Instagram Marketing Tips
- Learn From the Success of Others
- Instagram Marketing Do’s & Dont’s
- How to Run a Successful Instagram Contest
- How to Use Instagram Video for Marketing
- Instagram Resource Directory
2.4 Growth hacking tactics for Instagram
- How to create Images quickly and save time
- How to find popular and relevant Instagram accounts
- Tips and hacks for Instagram engagement
IM Part – 4
2.5 Instagram updates
- Business profiles on Instagram
- Boosting posts on Instagram
- Instagram API changes
- Instagram algorithm feed
Creating the Ultimate Instagram Marketing Game Plan
- Identifying and Locating your Target Audience on Instagram
- Promotional Strategy Spectrum: Sprint Vs Marathon
- Successfully Promoting your Instagram Account Outside of Instagram
- Connecting with your Target Audience
- Promoting your Instagram Business to Your Target Audience
- Split Testing your Promotional Funnels to Increase Followers
- Growing your Instagram Account by Leveraging your followers
Creating Business & Making Money from Your Instagram Account
- Instagram Mindsets: Building Trustworthy Long Term Relationships
- How to convert followers to customers
- CTA 1: Converting Followers to Website Visitors
- CTA 2: Converting Website Visitors to Email Addresses
- MAILCHIMP – A free Email list provider with a lot of cool functions, and tools.
- CTA 3: Converting Emails, and Instagram Followers to Sales
Pinterest Marketing
3. Pinterest Business Marketing
What Exactly Does One Do On Pinterest?
3.1 Getting Started with Pinterest
- What is Pinterest and why Is It beneficial for your eCommerce store?
- Staying consistent with Pinterest
- Creating Your Pinterest Business Account
- Unique Ways to use Pinterest for Business
- Pinterest Marketing Tips & Tricks
- Pinterest Power Tools
3.1 The Six-Step Formula for Pinterest Marketing Success
- Step 1: Picking Your Topic
- Step 2: Creating Your Pinterest Account
- Step 3: Optimising Your Profile
- Step 4: Creating Your Boards
- How to Start a Pinterest Board that Succeeds
- Step 5: Pinning like a Pro
- 5 Ways to Get Your Pins Noticed on Pinterest
- How to Use Pinterest Promoted Pins
- How to Optimize Your Pins for the Pinterest Smart Feed
- Step 6: Build a Following
- 6 Ways to Get More Pinterest Followers
Pinterest Marketing – Part 2
3.3 Creating Pinterest Badges & Widgets
- Adding Pinterest buttons and widgets to your eCommerce Store
3.4 Viewing Analytics on Pinterest & Rich Pins
- How To Use Analytics To Your Advantage
- Google Analytics Tracking
X Marketing
4. X Marketing
4.1 X introduction and basics
- Getting Started: Creating an Effective X Profile
- How to Perform Basic Functions
- How your Twitter page and account should look like
- Tweet quality is extremely important
- How to grow followers when you first open your account
- Twitter paid marketing
- How to maximize social sharing by building it into your product
- How social sharing will help your Google SEO
- How to use the “favorite” feature
- How to increase sales and traffic from your email signature
4.2 X Daily Operations
- Notifications: Your X To Do List:
- The Importance of Names in Driving Engagement
- Best Practice Use of Direct Messages
- Using X Search to Connect with Your Audience
Twitter Marketing – Part 2
4.3 Twitter Fundamentals – Set Up and Basic Functions
- Defining your Content Strategy for X
- Visual Content to TurboCharge Your Engagement
- When to Use Trending Items and Keywords
- How to Show Your Personality While Remaining Focused
- How to Automate Publishing
- Shortening Web Links: Setting Up Your Bit.ly Account
Sharing Is Caring: Putting Content Marketing on Autopilot
- How to Get the Best Content in Minutes
- They Write, You Profit!
Social Media ROI
5. Social Media ROI
5.1 Social Media Marketing ROI Intro
- What is social media ROI
- Key elements of social media ROI calculation
- Reasons to calculate social media ROI
5.2 How to calculate Social Media Marketing Return
- Challenges with calculating return
- Identify your SM goals and actions
- Steps to calculate your social media return
Social Media Marketing ROI calculation
- ROI calculation
- Benefits of social media beyond dollars
- Enhancing your social media ROI
- Calculate the value of action
6. LinkedIn Marketing
6.1 Top 5 Things to Boost Your LinkedIn Profile
- Step 1: How to Get an Amazing Profile Picture
- Step 2: Create a Headline that Gets You More Leads
- Step 3: Write an Amazing Professional LinkedIn Summary
- Step 4: What You Must Do on Your Work Experience Section
6.2 How to Post on LinkedIn to Become an Expert
- How to Post on LinkedIn to Become an Expert
- A Super Effective and Easy LinkedIn Posting Strategy
- Get More Credibility from LinkedIn Groups
6.3 How to Add New Sales Prospects on LinkedIn and Contact Them
- Connect with decision-makers on LinkedIn
- How to Add More LinkedIn Connections Using Advanced Search
- How to Add Tags to Your Contacts for Easy Searching
- The Best Sales Email to S4nd to a New Prospect
6.3 How to Get Your LinkedIn Profile to Rank in Search Engines
- Double Check Your LinkedIn Privacy Settings – Important
- Where to add Keywords to Your LinkedIn Profile
- How to Make Sure Your LinkedIn Profile Ranks in Search Engines
- Updating your Contact Info in Your Profile to Get More Leads
LinkedIn Ads
SEM Basics
Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
Introduction to PPC Marketing
- Overview of PPC Marketing Training
- What PPC Marketing is All About
- Why You Should be Using PPC Marketing for Your Business
- Different Ad Networks & Automation Tools
SEM Keyword Research
- Apply keywords to your PPC Campaign (PPC Keywords)
- Create effective ads
- Learn keyword-based bidding strategies
- Balance keywords and quality score
- Focus on negative keywords
- Add dimensions of location, timing and word structures
- Continually improve your campaign
Setting up a PPC campaign
- Setting Up A Profitable PPC Campaign from Start to Finish
- Creating a PPC Campaign in Google Ads
- Creating a PPC Campaign in Bing
- Tracking Your PPC Ad Campaigns
- Testing, Optimizing & Scaling Your PPC Ad Campaigns
SEM Part – 2
Top Tips, Tools & Resources for PPC Marketing
- Twenty Must-Do’s for Successful PPC Campaigns
- Twenty Common Mistakes to Avoid in PPC Marketing
- Business Case Studies: Discover and Learn From Actual PPC Marketing Campaigns
How to Make Money Online with PPC Marketing
- Make Money Online with PPC as an Internet Marketer
Google Ads
Introduction to Google Ads
- Overview of Google Ads
- Understanding the Auction
- What is Google Ads all about?
- Keyword Match Types
- The Importance of Ad Relevancy
- Ads Account Structure
- Keyword Strategy & Tools
- Keyword Match Types
- Google Keyword Planner
- Google Analytics & Ads
- Top 5 Google Ads Automation Power Tools
Setting Up A Profitable Ad Campaign with Google Ads
- Step 1: Creating an Account
- Step 2: Creating Your First Campaign
- Step 3: Creating your AdGroup
- Step 4: Creating Your First Ad
- Step 5: Creating Your First Keyword List
- Step 6: Providing Billing Details
- Step 7: Getting Familiar with Your Ads Account
- Step 8: Going Mobile with Ads
- Increase Your CTR with Ad Assets
- Google Ads Campaign Checklist
Google Ads – Part 2
Top Tips, Tools & Resources for Google Ads
- Landing Page Design: How a Best Performing Landing Page Should Look Like
- Google Ads Display Network: How to Create a Winning Ad Campaign
- How to Select Your Audience
- How to Set Budgeting and Bidding in Google Ads
- Ten Pitfalls to Avoid
- Resource Directory
How to Make Money Online with Google Ads
- Profitable Tactics to Make Money Online with Ads
- Setting Up Your Google Analytics Account
- User Interface Overview
- Customising Your Dashboard
- Adding Additional Users
- Creating Goals
Google Ads – Part 3
Creating Your First Ads Campaign
- Let’s Start a New Campaign
- Keyword Research: Getting Keyword Ideas From Your Site
- Keyword Research: Getting Keywords Ideas from Other Keywords
- Creating Keyword Buckets
- Competitive Research
- Bulk Uploading Keywords
- Bulk Uploading Ads
- Creating Campaign Sitelinks
- Using Dynamic Keyword Insertion
- Tracking Conversions Inside Ads
- Getting Started with Remarketing
- Adding Your Remarketing Tag
- Creating Your First Remarketing Campaign
- Reporting: Search Query Report
Google Ads – Part 4
A/B Testing
- Introduction to A/B Testing
- An Overview of Optimizely
- Analyzing Your A/B Test
Google Ads – Part 5
The Essential Tips!
- Its all about Relevance
- Landing Pages
- Quality Score
- Keywords and Ad Groups
- Split-Testing
- Campaign Settings
- Geo-targeting
- Negative Keywords
Assignments:
Email Marketing Part 1
- Email Marketing:
Affiliate Marketing Part – 1
AFFILIATE MARKETING
Introduction – Affiliate Marketing Alchemy
- Amazone Affiliate Program
- Google Adsense
- What is Affiliate Alchemy All About?
- The Affiliate Marketing Trap – Be Warned!
- Action Step: Affiliate Marketing Game Plan
Figure Affiliate Marketing & Launch Game
- Overview
- The Launch & Affiliate Game
- Building a List via Serial Launching
Blogging
BLOGGING
- Coming Up with a Blog that Fits Your Business Goals
- Getting Your Blog Live
- Setting Up an Email Address on Your Domain
Building and Customizing Your Blog
- Building Your Subscriber Base
- Creating Your Site’s Key Pages
- Configuring Your Site for Google
- Implementing an Automated Site Backup
- Writing Epic Content