SEO Quickstart for Beginners

Master the essentials of Search Engine Optimization in under 80 minutes. Learn key concepts, tools, and strategies for optimizing your website effectively.

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Brief Summary

This course is all about getting familiar with SEO. In just under 80 minutes, you'll learn key terms, explore tools, and get solid tips to help your website rank better in search engines. It's compact, but packed with knowledge! Grab your coffee and dive in!

Key Points

  • Dive into SEO vocabulary: learn terms like SERPS, keywords, and broken links.
  • Get hands-on with popular SEO tools like Google Keyword Planner and Sistrix.
  • Receive practical tips and tricks for optimizing your website.
  • Understand on-page and off-page optimization techniques.
  • Learn how Google’s algorithms affect your website's ranking.

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand essential SEO vocabulary like SERPs and anchor texts.
  • Become proficient with various SEO tools for website optimization.
  • Apply practical tips to improve your website's search engine rank.
  • Differentiate between on-page and off-page SEO strategies.
  • Recognize the impact of Google's algorithms on site authority.

About This Course

All Essentials of Search Engine Optimization: On Page / Off Page Optimization, Index Ability and Social SEO

The course will guide you into the world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In less than 80 minutes you will get to know all the essentials, in a both compact and comprehensive way.

The course consists of 3 Factors:

1. Learning your vocabulary: dive into the language of SEO. What are SERPS, brand and money keywords, broken links, power and trust, anchor texts, 301 redirects and content discovery? These and many more terms and their explanation are included in the lectures.

2. Get to know the Tools: there are numerous tools on the market to support you in optimizing your webpage, blog or shop. By showing hands on sessions you will learn how to use tools like e.g. Sistrix, Link Research Tools, Google Keyword Planner, Spike

3. Tips & Tricks: Obtain numerous concrete instructions on how to optimize your website in order to get ranked best in search engines. In the end of the course you will receive a summary in the form of a check list.

Topics you will learn about: Keywords, Search Engine Result Page (SERP), Search Index, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), On Page Optimization, HTML, Tags, Brand keywords, Money keywords, Long Tail / Compound key words, Title Tag, Meta Description Tag, H1 Headline, H2 Headline, Text Body, Keyword Stuffing, Supplementary Content, Video Captions, Image Alt Tag, HTML5 vs. Flash, Outbound Links, Internal Links, Backlinks, Broken Links, Authority Pages, Trustworthyness, Google Keyword Planner, Average Monthly Searches, Keyword Suggestion Lists, Google Suggest, Sistrix Visibility Index, Google Panda Update, Off Page Optimization, Link Graph, Page Rank, Power, mozRank, Link Farm, Black Hat SEO, White Hat SEO, Trustes Sites, Site Authority, Page Authority , Follow, No Follow, Power*Trust, Open SEO Stats, Link Partnership, Social Bookmarks, Web Directories, Anchor Text, Link Research Tools, seoMOZ, Link Profile, Co-Occurrence, Harmful Backlinks, Deep Link, Index Ability, User Sitemap, XML Sitemap, robots.txt, Canonical Links, Pagination, 404 Error, 301 Redirect, 302 Redirect, Response Code 200, Apache Mod Rewrite, Tidy HTML, Social SEO, Content Discovery


Credits: Cover picture by Leonardo Shinagawa on Flickr, CC Licence

  • Know about all essential topics to make your web site rank best in Google

  • Be familiar with the language of SEO: from "brand keyword" to "content discovery", from "SERP" to "authority pages", from "Power times Trust" to "anchor texts"

  • Have a detailed understanding of which tool to use for which SEO task

Instructor

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Andreas Ruehlow

Master Degree in Physics with studies in Cologne (Germany), Lisbon (Portugal) and Salvador de Bahia (Brazil). Since 1998, I have been working as a Consultant, Project Manager and Trainer for several IT companies related to the Internet Business. I have been a trainer for numerous customers and colleagues both online and in classes, always being curious about latest trends in...

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Leonato S. M.
4.0
2 years ago

The transcript is not completely helpful because of the spelling of some of the detaila.

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Allie A.
5.0
7 years ago

I took a TON of notes! The course was packed with info and I'm looking forward to digging into all of the supplemental notes and materials. This was well beyond being worth what I paid for it. Thank you, Andreas!

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Phil K.
3.5
7 years ago

good course. Needs more detail on which keywords to choose...not just how to find them. for recommendations on keeping content up to date, some links are not.

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Namitha R.
4.0
7 years ago

Informative.

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Caleb L.
5.0
7 years ago

Content is organized very well. Inclusion of relevant tools is very helpful. Great beginning framework for understanding SEO.

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Megan K.
5.0
7 years ago

This instructor is teaching me a lot about SEO. I like it!

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Donovan M.
5.0
7 years ago

I am getting the information I previously did not know, and the course was a fast pace. It however delivered as described.

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Lynnel B.
2.5
7 years ago

It is great information, but it is going too fast. Also, there is no pdf file with the information I can reference it later.

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Donna V. W.
4.0
7 years ago

Good at explaining

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Scott M.
5.0
7 years ago

Great info for beginners! Easily understood.

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