Modern SEO - Safe, Effective Search Engine Optimization

Learn safe, effective White Hat SEO strategies to rank your site without penalties. Get quality backlinks and understand modern SEO principles for long-term success.

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Brief Summary

This SEO course teaches you safe and effective strategies to improve your website's search engine ranking without any risky gimmicks. You’ll learn about backlinks, content creation, and how to structure your site for both users and search engines in a fun and clear way.

Key Points

  • Learn safe, 'White Hat' SEO strategies.
  • Understand the importance of high-quality backlinks.
  • Get a grip on quality content and keyword research.
  • Discover the four main pillars of modern SEO.
  • Learn how to create a positive visitor experience.

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the main differences between modern and past SEO practices.
  • Develop effective keyword research skills.
  • Create high-quality content that attracts visitors.
  • Gain insights into building trustworthy backlinks.
  • Conduct comprehensive SEO audits for your site.

About This Course

Learn safe, "White Hat" SEO that works, and won't get your site penalised.

Starting at the beginning, this SEO course covers everything you need to know to get your pages ranked without resorting to SEO loopholes and tactics that will get your site penalised.

The course covers all aspects of SEO, including the most important - how to get high quality backlinks that won't hurt your rankings.  In fact, since the best backlinks you can "build" are natural, Google will probably approve of them.  I'll show you how to do this as part of your SEO strategy.

Student Reviews for this SEO Course

"The lessons in this course go way beyond pure information. Andrew (the instructor) knows his stuff inside out, and more significantly, he knows how to pass his knowledge clearly so that I can take action on it right away."

"Thanks Andy, I've done the whole course and it is brilliant. It covers the full range of SEO components in a clear, practical and friendly way. I'm quite 'picky' but have no hesitation in recommending it without reservation at all levels from beginner upwards. (I'm probably around the intermediate level). It debunks many common myths and the advice is always actionable."

"Andy is one of the most thorough teachers I've seen on this subject and his knowledge of SEO is brilliant. I like his step by step teaching style and clearly produced videos. I highly recommend this course to anyone wanting to learn SEO"

"This course is loaded with important information and I know I'll be referring back to it as I improve my website. It's a great course."

"Very personable and easy to listen to. He has a tonne of helpful suggestions and is content rich. Anyone who is interested in this type of course don't hesitate to pick up this course. It is the best value for your money that you can find! Very happy with my purchase!"

"I love this course! Andrew is not shy about helping people do the right thing by working in alignment with Google to learn SEO (white hat) fundamentals. The course was thorough and highly informative. Four hours of practical and densely practical instruction that will benefit any business person or webmaster stay up to date with smart SEO advances and practical skills. I sincerely recommend this course!"

"Easy to understand — both well-structured, and great diction! Very methodical and analytical, which is what you want in a good SEO program."

"I love Andy's information. It is very thorough and what he teaches just makes sense. If you're looking for a common sense and safe way to SEO your website then I totally recommend following Andy's advice."

"I have studied SEO and Google for several years now and I think Andrew has covered many topics of importance in a short and concise way for beginners and professionals to learn SEO in depth"

This SEO Course is different because?

  • No SEO tricks

  • No SEO gimmicks

  • No SEO Loopholes

  • No worry about Google slapping a penalty on your site for dodgy SEO practices.

If you want to learn modern SEO and how to make a website rank in Google, safely, effectively and without resorting to gimmicks, tricks and loopholes, then this is the course for you.  With over 15 years of front-line experience in SEO, this instructor has plenty of applied experience and is well known for his high ethics when it comes to ranking in Google.

The course starts off with an introduction to SEO, highlighting the main differences between SEO today, and SEO just a few short years ago.  You'll learn all about the major Google updates, and why they were introduced.  As you learn about the updates, you'll begin to understand exactly what Google want to achieve, and the types of content they want to rank at the top of the search engine.

The course goes on to introduce you to the FOUR main pillars of modern SEO.

1. Quality Content

You'll learn about two types of keyword research and how to do both correctly.  This will provide the best possible SEO platform for your web content.  I'll show you how to use that keyword research to help you rank for multiple keywords without actually optimizing for any one keyword (though I'll show you how to do that too).

You'll learn how to find the type of content that your visitors want to see and how to create it without compromising your SEO efforts.

You'll learn about all of the important on-page SEO factors that will influence your rankings and how to correctly optimize your web pages for those factors.

You'll also learn all about structured data and how it can help your SEO.  Structured data is a special type of content you can embed in your pages that only the search engines see.  Using this structured data, Google can create rich snippets in the search results making your pages stand out more and get higher click-through rates.

2. Site Organisation

You'll learn all about site structure and what is expected by the search engines.  We'll cover page hierarchy and how silos can help organise your content in a more logical way for your visitors and the search engines.

You'll learn about site organisation - why it is important for good SEO, and how to achieve a good site structure that benefits your SEO efforts and helps your visitors

3. Site Authority

Site authority keeps getting more important in modern SEO.  Backlinks are the main way to build your authority, but also the quickest way to destroy it.

You'll learn about the best types of backlinks to pursue, and how to go about getting them.  With backlinks causing so many problems for so many webmasters, you'll also learn about the types of backlinks that Google are on the lookout for, and why they punish sites that employ them.  A lot of SEO sites offering tips on how to rank will get this terribly wrong.  So wrong in fact, that by following their SEO advice,  you are likely to see your site penalised or even banned from the top search engines.

We'll throw the idea of anchor text backlinks out of the window and discuss the best anchor texts for backlinks.  We'll also cover the "holy grail" of backlinks and how to get them.  These are links from high quality, related sites.

We'll talk about broken link building as a good way to get rank-boosting backlinks, and guest posting as a way to build traffic generating backlinks.

4. Visitor Experience

You will learn why it is important to give your visitors a good experience on your site, and build their trust.  I'll show you ways of building that trust.

The second half of this SEO course answers the question many webmasters ask when they find their rankings have started to drop, or gone completely.... "What's happened and what do I do now?".  The complete SEO audit covers a complete set of both subjective and technical checks to make sure your site is not triggering red flags at Google.

Start the SEO 2019 course and begin to take control of your website traffic, visitors and profits.

  • Understand the differences between SEO of a few years ago, and SEO today.

  • Why SEO has changed so much in so little time.

  • Why it is unwise to follow SEO advice you find online.

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Instructor

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Andrew Williams

I have written and published a number of books that are available on Amazon, including books on WordPress ("WordPress for Beginners 2024"), Self-Publishing ("Self-Publishing on Amazon 2023"), and search engine optimization ("SEO 2021").  I also run a website called ezSEONews, where I provide tutorials on a number of skills required for running a successful website.As an ex-schoolteacher, I hope I...

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4.9 course rating
4K ratings
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Robert L.
5.0
10 months ago

Love it so far!

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Abhishek G.
5.0
11 months ago

its good match, it will be better if it can include real time projects and working on various tools

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Brian M.
4.0
1 year ago

Though I love the British accent I want something that is a little more local. Seeing training where everything is in euros or pounds makes me feel like they would not understand SEO from an Americans viewpoint. Not being prejudiced but I want something a little closer to home.

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Errole G.
5.0
1 year ago

This is a great SEO course for beginners. Very informative and equipped with resources and tools to get started.

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Meena C.
5.0
1 year ago

very clear approach and understanding of the topics

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Danielle M.
5.0
1 year ago

Outstanding course!! Definitely a must take!!!

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H S.
3.5
1 year ago

There were aspects of this course I have found very useful for example learning about Screaming Frog which will definitely help me audit my sites. But I was surprised at the date of some of the information, when I signed up the description talked about having been updated. As SEO does move so quickly my only worry is that some of the information given may now be out of date in 2023.

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Colin L.
4.0
2 years ago

As usual, A brilliant course and well explained by Andy. A few of the lessons were a bit technical to follow, especially for a non technical guy like myself, (not Andy's fault). Think I need to watch a few of the lessons again and try and follow them.
Also I am still left a bit confused as to why my website is not showing up on search engines. I know my site needs more work doing but, it seems that, even when doing more work on it and correcting the mistakes, its frustrating that after nearly three years I am still not showing up anywhere.
My site is a business site selling products on the Astra theme and I am using the plugin from Yoast, (free version), and try and follow all the advise and recommendations from them but, nothing seems to work.
I shall follow some of the advice giving in this course, where I can, and see if things change. Thank you Andy for a good explained course.

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Ted L.
5.0
3 years ago

In the instructor's own words, "SEO should be invisible." This course is focused on improving the quality of your site and thereby improving its SEO organically rather than relying on discredited techniques such as keyword stuffing and buying external links. It discusses general principles and describes useful web resources, but it is not the typical "how to use the xyz SEO plugin" course. Although WordPress is mentioned, it is not a WordPress oriented course. I found that I was forced to think about how a visitor and search engine would view my website without getting caught up in specific implementation details.

The best part of the course is the last section, the SEO audit. In the first part, the instructor walks through a manual audit of a website describing SEO issues and remedies. The second part is a demonstration of an automated tool that analyzes a website for specific SEO issues.

My only criticism of the course is that I found some of the material to be repetitive.

I would suggest that a future edition of the course include a section on implementing SEO on a WordPress site. Out of the box Wordpress does not support setting metadata as required to implement the techniques described in the course. There are a variety of useful plug-ins, but in some cases they stress techniques that have been discouraged in this course. The instructors guidance and experience would be much appreciated.

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Gary G.
5.0
4 years ago

The course is much more comprehensive than I expected. This though, is a plus. I am probably learning more than I need but this can never be a problem.

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