
Learn the basics of search engine optimization and how it drives more traffic by ranking on top of organic search results, boosting exposure on Google.
The lecture covers on-page seo and off-page seo as the two core elements of an seo campaign, detailing optimizations such as robots.txt, meta tags, and tactics like social media.
SEO - The Fundamental Principles - Word Track
SEO - The Fundamental Principles - Word Track
To help aid your own study material, here is the word track for the whole SEO - The Fundamental Principles section of the course.
Section 3: Overview:
SEO, the basics. In this section, I'm going to cover what SEO is and explain exactly why it's important. I'm going to debunk some of the biggest SEO myths out there. We've all seen these SEO myths online, people claiming and saying the wildest things about SEO, such as it doesn't work, and so on and so on. I'm going to debunk all of those biggest myths, and I'm going to explain to you the two elements that make up an SEO campaign. So let's dive into it.
Section 3: What Is SEO And Why Is It Important:
What is SEO? SEO stands for search engine optimization and is the practice of increasing the quality and quantity of traffic to your website through organic search engine results. Organic traffic is any traffic that you do not pay for. So here's an example from Google. As you can see, I went over to Google and I typed in a yoga mat and from that keyword I get multiple listings on the page. The first type of listing I get is what we call the Google shopping ads, which is this big section up here. You can tell it's an ad as it says sponsored in the top right-hand corner. Below that, we have another ad as it says right there, and then below that, we had the organic listings. So when you optimize a website correctly for SEO, you're going to appear in their organic section.
So why is SEO important? SEO is super important for numerous reasons. If I go back to the example I just showed you of a yoga mat, if your business provides yoga mats, but your website does not show up for a search of yoga mats, then you're missing out on a ton of sales. While paid advertising, social media and other online platforms generate traffic to websites, the majority of online traffic is driven by search engines. On top of that, organic search results cover more digital real estate, appear more credible to savvy searchers, and receive way more clicks and paid advertisements. For example, of all US searches, only 2.8% of people clicked on paid advertisements. That statement alone should tell you why and how important SEO is.
Section 3: Debunking SEO Myths:
Debunking SEO myths. We've all seen them online, people making wild and false claims about SEO all the time. Saying things such as SEO doesn't work, links are dead, et cetera, et cetera. In this video, I'm going to run through some of the biggest SEO myths and debunk them one by one.
First up, content is all you need or content is king. Whilst it is extremely true and content is super important, it's not the only thing you need in your SEO campaign. Another extremely important element is, what we call, links, which I'm going to go through later on in the course. So, this one is definitely false.
Page speed isn't that important. False. Page speed is super, super important. It's actually becoming more and more important every single year. One of the biggest reasons why page speed is super important is it all comes down to the user experience. Google's main job is to serve up and provide the best results for what the person searched for. So, for example, if someone goes onto Google and types in red shoes, they click your website, which is about red shoes, however, it takes ages to load that person's just going to hit the back button, go back to Google and find another website which results in a poor user experience.
So, as a result, Google's going to lower the rank of your website and give it less visibility in searches as it resulted in a poor user experience. And Google always wants the best experience for all of its users. So, page speed is super, super important. I'm actually going to go into page speed in a little bit more depth later on in the course.
Number three, links are dead. This is probably the one I see the most often and it's probably the one that is the most untrue. Links are super, super important in Google and, again, later on in a course, I'm going to show you exactly how important they are. And I'm going to show you the results you can get if we do utilize the links in the correct way. So, link building is definitely not dead.
Number four, higher keyword density helps you rank. False. This used to be true in maybe 2011, 2012, maybe 2013 as well. That was when Google's algorithm wasn't as advanced as it is now. Back in the day, you could literally create a page on your website, chuck your keyword on the page as many times as you want, and you'd rank at the top of Google because you mentioned the keyword so many times on your page. However, Google's algorithm is way more sophisticated now than it was back then, so these old tactics no longer work.
Number five, buying Google ads helped with organic traffic. False. This is 100% false. I've tested this myself multiple times on multiple websites. Buying Google ads does not give you any increase or any benefit in the organic search listings.
Number six, more pages help my site rank better. False. This isn't true. Adding more pages to your website is not going to help you get higher on Google. When it comes to SEO, the main thing you want to focus on is quality over quantity. Publishing five really high-quality pages is way better than publishing 500 low-quality pages. So, when it comes to SEO, please do focus on the quality. If you do that you're going to be sure you're going in the right direction to get in your website to the top of Google.
Section 3: The Two Elements To Every SEO Campaign:
All good SEO campaigns consist of two main elements. The first is Onpage SEO, and the second is Off-Page SEO. Onpage SEO refers to any change you make on your website to improve its visibility. Off-page SEO refers to any change you make off your website to improve its visibility.
Onpage SEO, so let's dig a little bit deeper and look at Onpage SEO in a bit more detail. So some examples of Onpage SEO optimizations you can make on your website would be updating the title tag, changing the <h1> tag, edits in the meta description of a page. If you don't know what these elements are at the moment, don't worry as I'm going to go through all of them later on in the course. However, the point I'm trying to make is as these are all actions you make on your website, these are classified as On-Page optimizations.
So for Offpage SEO, some examples of Off-Page SEO optimizations you can make would be to build a link to your website, get your business listed on an external directory, optimize your social profiles, and so on, and so on. These are all actions you implement off your website and as a result are classified as Off-Page optimizations.
Learn why businesses need a website to establish presence, boost SEO traffic, and interact with customers via a domain, hosting, and web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Learn essential web development terms, including IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6), domain names with registrars and extensions like .com, .net, .org, DNS mapping, and hosting server roles (dedicated or shared).
Identify the two basics to start a website: register a domain and select a web hosting service, then compare providers like Cloudways, Namecheap, and GoDaddy for price, features, and support.
Keywords are phrases people search on Google, and understanding their intent—informational, commercial, transactional, and navigational—helps optimize your site to drive sales and leads.
Use Mozbar to measure keyword difficulty, identify low page authority and domain authority keywords under 25, and target phrases like leather yoga mats for better SEO rankings.
Learn to find competitors' ranking keywords with the SEMrush tool, examine organic keywords, download and deduplicate keyword lists, and apply fresh ideas to blog and page content.
Explore how Google autosuggest and keyword tool.io generate hundreds of keyword ideas from seed terms like yoga mat, aiding keyword research and content creation.
Organize your researched keywords by removing irrelevant terms and duplicates, leaving only relevant, unique keywords for yoga mats, and use this refined list to fuel future pages and blogs.
Validate keywords with Google Trends by checking long-term search consistency. Identify stable keywords for content creation, blogs, and website pages.
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Explore the SEMrush platform's seo toolkit, including domain analytics, keyword research, backlink audit, site audits, seo writing assistant, and topic research to boost competitive analysis and content strategy.
Explore the SEO dashboard in SEMrush, see country-specific authority, organic and paid keywords, traffic analytics, backlink analytics, and Google Analytics integration, and customizable widgets for full reporting.
Discover how to use the semrush domain overview in competitive research to analyze authority, traffic, and backlinks, and export top keywords by country and device.
Use the SEMrush keyword magic tool to research keywords, customize lists, and export results; filter by country, currency, intent, difficulty, and match type, including questions-based keywords, for domain-based traffic estimates.
Analyze backlink analytics in SEMrush to examine referring domains, backlinks, authority trends, and top anchors, then use these insights to strengthen your SEO strategy for your own website and competitors.
Explore the backlink audit in SEMrush to assess backlink health, toxicity scores, emails for follow-up, and disavow or export actions, guiding improvements in your link building strategy.
Learn how the SEMrush site audit analyzes your domain, surfaces errors and issues like broken links and duplicate titles, and guides fixes to boost site health and SEO ranking.
Explore the on page seo checker in semrush to review pages, generate optimization ideas, import keywords and pages, and apply top ten benchmarking tips to improve rankings.
Explore the ai-powered seo writing assistant in SEMrush, which helps craft seo-friendly content with improved readability, tone, originality checks, and keyword insights to drive traffic.
Explore topic research with the SEMrush tool to generate hundreds of content ideas, headlines, and subtopics from a single topic for blogs, videos, and social media.
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Review competitors' websites and blogs to spark content ideas, then create your own pages to boost online visibility and SEO with topic ideas like best yoga mats.
Explore how to use SEMrush to discover question-based keywords and generate content ideas, including how to clean or wash a yoga mat, to boost SEO.
Discover how industry related blogs spark content generation ideas by exploring top gaming and fitness blogs through Feed Spot feeds you can subscribe to.
Format content with clear headings, subheadings, and bullet points, and include an image at the start to avoid a wall of text, aiding Google crawling.
Create fresh content for SEO by posting one blog per month, and update existing content with new sentences, images, and videos to keep it fresh and signal value to Google.
Compare the top three Google search results and their blog word counts to decide content length. Calculate the average word count, add ten percent, and apply to your pages.
Select high-volume keywords for your URL, avoid repetition, and implement a clean permalink on WordPress to boost SEO and ranking on Google.
Master the SEO title tag, the second king on Google results, using Yoast SEO on WordPress with natural keyword placement, HTML title tag best practices, and a 60-character limit.
Discover how image alt text describes images in HTML, boosts web accessibility, and helps search engines index and understand visuals; see how to add and update alt text in WordPress.
Discover what a backlink is; an external mention that signals trust and boosts domain authority, improving Google search rankings when backlinks are relevant and add value.
Explore how anchor text links pages and signals relevance to Google to boost SEO rankings, and learn exact, partial, brand, URL, and miscellaneous anchor text types.
Explore how to use different anchor text types on your website, analyze top competitors, and tailor anchor variations to improve usability and value for your audience.
Learn which pages to backlink: focus on home, blog, and product pages that genuinely add value, ensure natural, relevant links, and boost user experience and Google search engine optimization results.
Learn how to discover your website's backlinks using semrush, view total backlinks and referring domains, differentiate dofollow and nofollow links, and examine anchor text from referring sites.
Assess a good backlink by five criteria: domain authority over 25, keyword coverage, steady organic traffic, strong referring domains, and limited outlinks; verify with SEMrush and MozBar.
Master backlinks by analyzing relevancy, trust, and power, and optimizing anchor text and placement on relevant seed sites and older links to boost SEO rankings.
Explore a competitor backlink strategy using SEMrush to look at the competitor websites, filter for follow links, and outreach for guest posting to gain backlinks.
Identify popular content, improve it to be more valuable, and secure backlinks by reaching out to current linkers using the skyscraper technique.
Use reverse image search to find where your original images appear online by uploading them to images.google.co.in, identify sites using them, and request backlinks.
Explore relevant blog commenting as a link building strategy by finding industry blogs, leaving genuine comments, and adding your website URL to drive traffic and backlinks.
Utilize social profiles to build links and drive traffic by adding your website URL in bios across Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Compare http and https and explain how https encrypts data with TLS, preventing attackers from reading messages. Learn how hosting services upgrade sites to https.
Learn how to set up a Google search console account, verify ownership via a txt dns record, and access performance data, site traffic insights, and indexing information for your website.
Identify what duplicate content is and how it impacts Google indexing, then learn to check your site for duplicates using Site Miner and review its reports for specific URLs.
Identify and fix 404 not found pages to improve user experience and preserve link equity, using Google Search Console to locate and resolve not found errors affecting your site's SEO.
discover how site speed influences Google rankings, why fast page loads enhance user experience, and the three-second rule for loading times that can affect search visibility.
Test your website's page speed using GTmetrix and analyze load time, speed index, and performance. Learn to retest and share actionable findings with your developer to improve user experience.
Learn how to speed up your WordPress website by reducing HTTP requests and removing nonessential elements, using the network inspect tool to identify removable items and boost load times.
Learn what user experience (ux) means and how to improve your website with six factors: responsive design, simple navigation, fast loading, rich media, prompt search queries, and relevant content.
Discover how user metrics like organic ctr influence rankings, and how benchmarking ctr and optimizing title, tag descriptions, and url boosts click-through rates and seo performance.
Discover how bounce rate affects rankings and conversions by signaling user experience issues. Reduce it with faster loading, readable content, and pages aligned to search intent.
Identify negative seo tactics that demote competing websites, as spammy links, fake reviews, and fake removal requests, and spot signs like traffic drops, manual penalty notifications, and keyword ranking declines.
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