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Search Marketing: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
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Overview

Duration

2 weeks

Total fee

900

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Search Marketing: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
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FutureLearn 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from The Open University
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Search Marketing: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
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FutureLearn 
Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • Search engine algorithms and ranking factors
  • Keyword research and user intent
  • SEO planning and tools
  • On-page optimisation
  • User behaviour
  • Social signals
  • Technical SEO factors
More about this course
  • This two-week course is your step-by-step guide to SEO and how to get the best from it
  • You'll learn about search engine crawlers or spiders, including how they work, algorithms and ranking factors, and how to focus on keyword research to find out what your target audience is searching for
  • You'll be introduced to a range of free tools to help identify search behaviours and phrases, so you can create content that answers your users needs
  • You'll learn about on-page SEO and how to optimise your web pages for search engines to crawl and index, including how to write meta titles, meta descriptions and link text
  • You'll discover how to use link building and social signals to boost your results by getting others to 'point' back to your content from their websites and social media posts
  • By understanding user behaviour and learning how to carry out an SEO audit, you'll learn how to adapt content to improve the discoverability of your website
  • You'll also explore the basics of technical SEO that you need to consider, such as load times and how to structure URLs
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Search Marketing: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
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FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Understanding how organic search works

Welcome to the course!

Search engine algorithms and ranking factors

Keyword research and user intent

Search engine spiders

SEO audits, planning and tools

Week 1 review

Step-by-step search engine optimisation

Welcome to the week

On-page optimisation

User behaviour

Link building

Social signals

Technical SEO factors

Week 2 review

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Students Ratings & Reviews

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Search Marketing: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
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Learning Experience: The course was easy to understand and it was available for free as a short course. The course had many videos-based learning which featured the professional and it also had transcription for the videos. The duration was 1 hour per week and did also a glossary for a proper understanding of the terms used. The video also had animations which made it quite captivating. It was a very interesting course
Faculty: Very professional and experienced The professional teaching in an easily understandable language with many further attachments given below each chapter and presentable and animated videos made it captivating
Course Support: Yes it helped in understand more about the concept, how it is being used, and pros and cons and all details about it were mentioned in different chapters there was 1 test which helped us to know how much we understood the concept
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