
Note: This course will require you working on a project as a hands-on learning experience. You are free to select either your own company or any clients that you are working with, without restrictions to IIDM. However, please make sure to use the same project for the whole course.
Welcome to the International Institute of Digital Marketing™ | Lecture 1 Description:
International Institute of Digital Marketing ™ is an impact non-profit certifying body representing more than 20,000 influential brands, we help our members become more effective digital marketers, build stronger brands, and drive industry and societal change through our CMO-endorsed Growth Agenda. Digital Marketing is something that’s all around us, yet there has been no solid foundation for marketing in many, many years. In the news, there are blunders again and again by companies, failing some of the core aspects of modern marketing. Because of this, the need for a solid, stable foundation for marketing in the modern world is needed - a foundation with the ability to be built upon and developed with time.
This is a hybrid course, which means it is a more hands-on experience than you would find in most online courses. Each lecture will include lecture notes, activities, and resources that will serve as your guideline on how to successfully complete the lecture.
This course consists of;
● 74 Lecture Videos
● 74 Downloadable Lecture Description
●26 Assignments to be submitted to IIDM™
● 12 Quizzes
● 52 External Resources
● Practical Social Media Marketing and Content Creation
● Practical Marketing Strategies and SEO
● Learn to create successful Paid Advertisements on Facebook, LinkedIn and Google.
DURATION: Please note, this course is designed as a 9-month course, but students may choose to complete it in a shorter time frame. All students must complete all assignments, quizzes, and lectures.
Now let's get started. Below are the materials that you will be using throughout the course:
1. Client/Business as a Project
Imagine yourself as a Digital Marketing Professional for the client/business that you want to use as a course project. Throughout your training, you will focus on digital marketing for this particular country, doing research on digital marketing trends in that country, creating content, and posting on social media.
You can find more details about the project in the Google Drive folder labeled "1. Project: IIDM [Country]", e.g. 1. Project: IIDM Finland. The folder consists of a document where you can read the description of the project.
2. Content Planner
We will share a content planning Google document with you. In section 3, assignment 3 you will use this content planner to map out your content for the duration of the training.
3. Google Drive Folder
You will receive access to a Google drive folder where you will upload all of the content you create throughout the course.
4. Logins to Tools
You will have access to all our paid tools to give you the hands-on experience we promised. This includes Canva Pro and Heropost Automation Tool.
5. IIDM Creative folder (If you would like to use IIDM as your course project)
We will share with you a folder of some of the content our team has created with Canva. You will use this folder to get to know our automation tool and draw inspiration when creating your own graphics.
6. Branding book (If you would like to use IIDM as your course project)
Branding is essential when it comes to creating customer loyalty, and therefore it needs to be consistent. We will share with you our branding book which will provide you with all the guidelines you need to be aware of when creating graphics.
Activity 1:
In order to successfully complete this course, it is important to read all the lecture descriptions, watch all the videos, look at all external resources, and complete all quizzes, and assignments.
To complete this lecture, watch video 1; Welcome to the International Institute of Digital Marketing™
Resources summary:
The resources we have provided for this lecture include:
IIDM Course Instructions
The link to the International Institute of Digital Marketing™ website.
The link to our Learning Leaf, outlining all the courses provided by the International Institute of Digital Marketing™
The Link to IIDM™ Certified Immersion Trainers
We are very excited to have you on board.
NOTE: Learning materials will be provided before you start your lessons. Thank you!
Join Our IIDM™ Global Community | Lecture 2
Are you ready to take your digital marketing skills to the next level? Join the International Institute of Digital Marketing™ (IIDM™) community and become part of a dynamic network of over 20,000 influential brands.
Discover the power of our CMO-endorsed Growth Agenda, designed to empower marketers like you to drive industry and societal change. Gain access to cutting-edge insights, certification programs, and a vibrant community that will help you become a more effective digital marketer and build stronger brands.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to be part of a solid foundation for modern marketing in the digital era. Take the first step towards unlocking your potential.
Training Overview | Lecture 2 Description
The IIDM™ Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing™ examines a number of facets of the digital marketing landscape, covering subjects like social media marketing, search engine optimization, and analytics for digital marketing. You will gain a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to assist you in creating, distributing, promoting, and pricing products and services digitally once you have completed the Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing™.
Key Topics:
Introduction to Digital Marketing:
Content Marketing
Digital Marketing Strategy
Paid Marketing
Social Media Marketing
Search Engine Marketing
E-Commerce Marketing
Activity 2:
To complete this lecture, watch video 2. Training overview.
Resources Summary:
Register Your Profile on IIDM™ Website | Lecture 3 Description
The IIDM™ Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing™ track offers you hands-on experience like no other. Becoming part of our team, and earning through our affiliate program is a big part of that. You will not only be learning about Content Marketing but also get to experience what it's like to work in the industry.
In the video above we show you how to become part of the team, by registering your profile on our website.
● Your profile on IIDM™ will automatically be converted to a student account.
● We will use this account to award your certificate.
Activity 3:
Watch video 3. Register your Profile on IIDM™ Website
Register your profile on our IIDM™ Website and follow the steps provided in the video above. (AS DEMONSTRATED IN THE LECTURE 3 VIDEO)
Find the link to the Trainer Account sign-up here: https://thedigitalmarketinginstitute.org/registertrainer
Apply for Trainer Account and fill in your personal information
Upload the Profile Banner in the resources section
Resources Summary:
● Profile banner you will need to create your profile on IIDM's website.
● Link to the registration landing page.
BECOME AN AFFILIATE WITH IIDM™ | Lecture 4 Description
As a successful Affiliate Marketer, you need to understand what it is, how to get started, and how to earn money from various channels. Anyone who has an online presence and the ability to drive traffic can earn money with affiliate marketing by promoting other people's products.
We provide you with the option to become an Affiliate with IIDM™
● What Is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate marketing is a performance-based advertising method where businesses pay a commission on conversions to an affiliate. Essentially, an affiliate earns money by promoting and selling other people's products. The good news is as an Affiliate Marketer you do not need to hold any stock, fulfill orders, or deal with customer services. Your sales are tracked via affiliate links to enable commissions to be calculated.
● Why Affiliate Marketing?
1. You're only acting as a referrer to other businesses, so you won't have to handle customer service.
2. You can earn money with affiliate marketing from anywhere. All you need is an internet connection and a computer
3. Great opportunity to earn passive income.
4. It's very easy to get started and the startup costs for an affiliate business are low
● How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?
Affiliate marketing works as a collaboration between a merchant and its affiliates. The merchant is the business that is selling the product or service and who the customer hands the money to and you the affiliate who promotes the business's content to their audience to drive customers and is paid a commission upon a successful sale or leads.
● How Affiliates Promote Products and Services
In most cases, marketers and entrepreneurs will choose a specific niche and develop a full marketing strategy to earn traffic to promote. Also, bloggers and influencers can use affiliate marketing as a way to monetize a channel or audience that they've already built up.
Activity 4:
Watch video 4. Become an Affiliate with IIDM™
Register as an Affiliate with IIDM™ (Optional)
Sign in to the account you created in lecture 3
Go to your Account
Click on Profile
Check box that says: Is Affiliate
Click on Submit
Resources Summary:
●Youtube video on Affiliate Marketing
Introduction to Digital Marketing | Lecture 5 Description:
What you will learn in this course includes:
What is digital marketing?
Why digital marketing is important?
Content Marketing
Social Media Marketing
Marketing Automation
Marketing Strategies
SEO
Paid Marketing
With how accessible the internet is today, would you believe us if we told you the number of people who go online every day is still increasing? It is.
In fact, "constant" internet usage among adults increased by 5% in just the last three years, according to Pew Research. And although we say it a lot, the way people shop and buy really has changed along with it meaning offline marketing isn't as effective as it used to be.
Marketing has always been about connecting with your audience in the right place and at the right time. Today, that means you need to meet them where they are already spending time: on the internet.
What is digital marketing?
Digital marketing encompasses all marketing efforts that use an electronic device or the internet. Businesses leverage digital channels such as search engines, social media, email, and other websites to connect with current and prospective customers.
● You’re using the Internet to distribute your marketing materials.
● You’re promoting a particular product or service.
● People consume your marketing materials via digital devices.
Why digital marketing is important?
Digital marketing helps you reach a larger audience than you could through traditional methods, and target the prospects who are most likely to buy your product or service. Additionally, it's often more cost-effective than traditional advertising and enables you to measure success on a daily basis and pivot as you see fit.
There are a few major benefits to digital marketing.
It is Cheap and ALL YOU NEED IS INTERNET.
Digital marketing enables you to track campaigns on a daily basis and decrease the amount of money you're spending on a certain channel if it isn't demonstrating high ROI. The same can't be said for traditional forms of advertising. It doesn't matter how your billboard performs — it still costs the same, whether or not it converts for you.
2. YOU CAN MEASURE IT.
Digital marketing can give you a comprehensive, start-to-finish view of all the metrics that might matter to your company — including impressions, shares, views, clicks, and time on page. This is one of the biggest benefits of digital marketing. While traditional advertising can be useful for certain goals, its biggest limitation is measurability.
3. THE WORLD IS YOUR LIMIT
If you work for a small business, it's likely difficult for you to compete with the major brands in your industry, many of which have millions of dollars to invest in television commercials or nationwide campaigns. Fortunately, there are plenty of opportunities to outrank the big players through strategic digital marketing initiatives.
So here are the types of Digital Marketing:
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Content Marketing
Social Media Marketing
Pay Per Click (PPC)
Affiliate Marketing
Native Advertising
Marketing Automation
Email Marketing
Online PR
Inbound Marketing
Sponsored Content
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
This is the process of optimizing your website to "rank" higher in search engine results pages, thereby increasing the amount of organic (or free) traffic your website receives. The channels that benefit from SEO include websites, blogs, and infographics.
There are a number of ways to approach SEO in order to generate qualified traffic to your website. These include:
● On-page SEO
● Off-page SEO
● Technical SEO
Content Marketing
This term denotes the creation and promotion of content assets for the purpose of generating brand awareness, traffic growth, lead generation, and customers. The channels that can play a part in your content marketing strategy include:
● Blog posts
● eBook and white papers
● Infographics
Social Media Marketing
This practice promotes your brand and your content on social media channels to increase brand awareness, drive traffic, and generate leads for your business. The channels you can use in social media marketing include:
● Snapchat
Pay per Click (PPC)
PPC is a method of driving traffic to your website by paying a publisher every time your ad is clicked. One of the most common types of PPC is Google Ads, which allows you to pay for top slots on Google's search engine results pages at a price "per click" of the links you place.
Affiliate Marketing
This is a type of performance-based advertising where you receive a commission for promoting someone else's products or services on your website. Affiliate marketing channels include:
Marketing Automation
Marketing automation refers to the software that serves to automate your basic marketing operations. Many marketing departments can automate repetitive tasks they would otherwise do manually, such as:
● Email newsletters
● Social media post scheduling
● Lead-nurturing workflows
● Campaign tracking and reporting
Email Marketing
Companies use email marketing as a way of communicating with their audiences. Email is often used to promote content, discounts, and events, as well as to direct people toward the business's website.
Online PR
Online PR is the practice of securing earned online coverage with digital publications, blogs, and other content-based websites. It's much like traditional PR but in the online space.
Inbound Marketing
Inbound marketing refers to a marketing methodology wherein you attract, engage, and delight customers at every stage of the buyer's journey. You can use every digital marketing tactic listed above, throughout an inbound marketing strategy, to create a customer experience that works with the customer, not against them.
Sponsored Content
With sponsored content, you as a brand pay another company or entity to create and promote content that discusses your brand or service in some way.
One popular type of sponsored content is influencer marketing. With this type of sponsored content, a brand sponsors an influencer in its industry to publish posts or videos related to the company on social media.
There you go this is Digital Marketing in a nutshell.
Activity 5:
Watch video 5. Introduction to Digital Marketing
Resources Summary:
●YouTube video on Digital Marketing trends in 2021
Research Activity | Lecture 7 Description
In your welcome email, you were assigned to a specific IIDM™ client for which you are responsible during this training. We would now like you to do research on this country to give you insight and inspiration for the content you will create during the training.
Activity 7:
Research and Present Digital Marketing Trends for your assigned client.
- Client analysis
- Hashtags
- Digital Marketing News
- Digital Marketing Trends
Put together a short presentation document highlighting what you have found, and upload it to your Google Drive folder.
Resources Summary:
●Example of research activity.
AI-Powered Content Creation Tools for Social Media Managers
Here’s the thing. Whether you’re a one-person shop or you have a full marketing team, keeping up with your brand’s content creation needs is always a challenge. From social content to emails to blog posts to sales pages, digital marketing just requires So. Many. Words.
AI-powered content creation tools can't replace great writers — but the truth is, they help writers and marketers save time and use their skills for more strategic aspects of content creation. AI-powered content writing is a way to improve the writing process and make it more efficient, not replace human writers outright.
When artificial intelligence takes care of mundane writing tasks, writers (and non-writer marketers) can use their skills for more valuable aspects of content creation, like content mix and conversion strategies.
Jasper: AI Tool to create Social media posts
Now let’s look at a practical example of an AI tool for social media, more specifically for copywriting.
The AI copywriting tools that are now available are fantastic for writing product descriptions, ad copy, social media posts, and even doing SEO copywriting for blog posts.
There are many AI copywriting tools out there now. Not all of them are great, and they all have their pros and cons.
But first, what is AI Copywriting?
AI Copywriting refers to a myriad of different products that use machine learning and artificial intelligence to augment or generate text.
Most recently, GPT-3 by OpenAI has unleashed a flurry of new copywriting software.
GPT-3, quickly, is an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. It uses natural language processing to learn context and generate copy from that understanding.
In layman's terms, this means it writes text using pre-trained algorithms that have been fed text data by crawling the internet (using a publicly available dataset called CommonCrawl) and all of Wikipedia.
Jasper
Jasper is really the only AI copywriter that can actually generate long-form blog content.
Their AI-based writing assistant is trained by conversion and copywriting experts, which helped it acquire incredible writing skills and write copies that convert.
They even claim that every line of their website copy was written by their own copywriting tool. For some reason, they do search-engine-optimized content quite well.
Introduction to ChatGPT
ChatGPT is an AI language model developed by OpenAI that uses deep learning techniques to generate human-like responses to natural language input. It is one of the most advanced chatbots available today, with the ability to converse on a wide range of topics and provide accurate answers to complex questions. ChatGPT has been trained on a massive corpus of text data, allowing it to understand and respond to natural language queries with high accuracy. It is used in a variety of applications, from customer service chatbots to virtual assistants and more.
Automation tools for Social Media Marketing: Heropost | Lecture 8 Description
Software providers have come up with solutions to make social media posting manageable. You can design and bulk schedule multiple posts at once. You can do this at a time that suits you, and then use your tool of choice to deliver your posts at the best times.
With a social media automation tool, you can operate your social account efficiently. They also give you time to create and push more content. Your audience will come to expect posts at a specific time, and your post scheduler makes it more likely that you can make that happen.
Activity 8:
Watch video 8. Automation tools for Social Media Marketing
Create your first post on Heropost
- Login to Heropost
- Use images provided by IIDM™ creatives folder
- Schedule at least one post on Heropost. (AS DEMONSTRATED IN LECTURE 8)
Resources Summary:
Link to Heropost
Our Content folder
YouTube video on Automation tools
Create Social Media Graphics on CANVA | Lecture 9 Description
Canva is a graphic design platform, used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents, and other visual content. The app includes templates for users to use. It is one of the most popular, and easy-to-use platforms out there.
In your welcome email, you received the logins to our Canva Pro version. Here you will have access to all the paid features Canva has to offer, which will enable you to create great graphics.
Activity 9:
Watch Video 9. Create Social Media Graphics on Canva
Log in to our Canva Pro
Get familiar with Canva
Follow the guidelines set out in our branding book, shared with you in your Google Drive.
NOTE: You will be using Canva Pro for Social Media Marketing for the whole training.
Resources Summary:
Link to Canva
Logins to Tools [Google Drive access]
Our Logos and Certificates [Google Drive access]
IIDM™ Branding Book
How to create a Blog | Lecture 11 Description
In this lecture, we will review Blogs, why it's so important you create one, how you can create one, and the basic rules of blogging.
Blogging enables you to reach the billions of people that use the Internet. Blogging can help you promote yourself or your business. By creating a blog that is of value, you can attract an audience and eventually convert them to customers, partners, and friends.
Activity 11:
Watch video 13. How to Create a Blog
Write your own blog about anything related to Digital Marketing.
- Choose your topic.
- Write your blog on the Google doc provided in your Google Drive folder
Resources Summary:
IIDM™ Blog website (use this to see examples of blogs written by our team)
Youtube Video on 6 Reasons Why Blogging is Important to your Brand.
Creative content for Social Media: Podcasts | Lecture 11 Description
When you spend time creating a valuable piece of content (like a blog, for example), you want to make sure you get as much out of that asset as you can. Creating podcasts out of relatable blogs is a great way to repurpose content and make sure you gain as much value without spending too much time.
In this lecture, we show you how to easily create a podcast/audio from a previously written blog.
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on 7 Ways to Repurpose Content
Youtube video on How to start a podcast
Youtube video on 5 Tips for Podcast SEO
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) | Lecture 12 Description
In this Lecture, we will cover what SEO is, and how can you use it to your advantage on the example of the blog that you've already made. One of the best ways to do that is to optimize your site for search engines.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a fundamental part of Digital Marketing. It is the process of optimizing your online content for Search Engines like Google to discover and show it as a top result for searches on their search result pages. The better visibility a page has in search results, the more likely it will garner attention and attract prospective and existing customers to the business.
Regardless of what your business offers, a whole audience is likely searching for products or services like yours on search engines right now. And if you really want to attract them to your site, you will need to identify which keywords and phrases your target audience uses when searching for products or services. After that, you work towards ranking well for those searches.
4 Types of Keywords
Informational: Help users find more information about their problem.
Examples: "Chicago rent prices" or "Hotels New York"
Investigational: Help find more information about potential solutions users consider buying.
Examples: "Best iPad covers" or "Types of laptop computers"
Transactional: Help find places to buy their selected solution.
Examples: "Buy Asus Zenbook" or "Cheap Asus Zenbook"
Navigational: Help find a location of a business they want to engage with.
Examples: Include brand or company name.
Activity 12
Watch video 12; Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Resources Summary
Youtube video on The Beginner’s Guide To Technical Seo
Youtube video on 10 Simple Ways To Boost SEO On Your WordPress Website
WEEK 5 - SEO for Blogs | Lecture 16 Description
WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that was commonly used as a blogging platform. But it has developed into much more than that. It is now used by millions to create all sorts of websites from e-commerce websites to business websites and more.
In this video, you’ll learn the basics of WordPress SEO and how to use its built-in features in combination with an SEO plugin.
WordPress SEO is no different than just regular search engine optimization. WordPress is a tool that makes traditional SEO techniques and strategies easier to implement and technically sound.
Activity 16
Watch video 2; How is SEO done
Resources Summary
Youtube video on Know the Basics of Link Building to Boost Your SEO
Youtube video on How To Be An SEO Difference Maker
What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? | Lecture 14 Description
Plain and simple, Search Engine Optimization is the process of making improvements on and off your website in order to gain more exposure in search engine results. And more exposure in search engine results will ultimately lead to more visitors finding you for the right reasons.
In order to understand what improvements will affect search engine results, let's take a step back and understand the goal of the search engines themselves.
Activity 14:
Watch video 14; What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
Resources Summary
10 SEO Tips, Tactics, and Trends for Website Content in 2021 Youtube Video
What is Search Engine Marketing (SEM)? | Lecture 15 Description
Search engine marketing (SEM) is a digital marketing strategy used to increase the visibility of a website in search engine results pages (SERPs). While the industry term once referred to both organic search activities such as search engine optimization (SEO) and paid advertising, it now refers almost exclusively to paid search advertising.
To fully answer the question, “what is SEM?” It helps to know how SEM is different from other terms related to search marketing.
Activity 15:
Watch Video 15; What is Search Engine Marketing (SEM)?
Resources Summary
INTRODUCTION TO SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING Youtube Video
How SEO Affects Your Business | Lecture 16 Description
If you're a businessman, there are some very real and specific benefits to having a consistent, ongoing search engine optimization strategy.
For the first time in the history of marketing, users are offering up their actual intent through the words that they type and speak into search engines. And more than ever before, you can measure the results of your SEO efforts as a marketing channel.
Activity 16:
Watch Video 16 How SEO affects your business
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on WHY IS SEO IMPORTANT
Setting SEO Expectations | Lecture 17 Description
Search engine optimization is a process that requires a lot of work, a lot of time, and a lot of patience. Throughout this course, we'll dive into more about how to do SEO, but before that, it's important to set some expectations.
Activity 17:
Watch Video 17; Setting SEO expectations
Resources Summary:
Youtube Video on Technical SEO Audits: Tips For Successful Implementation
Reading Search Engine Result Pages | Lecture 18 Description
Before we dive into working on getting your website to show up in the search results, it's important to understand what those search results actually look like.
Although there are a lot of search engines around the world, and they all have some distinct differences, there are some common characteristics that their search engine results pages, or SERPs, may have. One thing that we're probably going to find is some paid listings.
Activity 18:
Watch Video 18; Reading search engine result pages
Resources Summary:
The Beginner's Guide to Technical SEO [YouTube video]
Ongoing keyword evaluation | Lecture 19 Description
Ongoing keyword evaluation is critical to the long-term success of your SEO efforts, and it's really the last step of the keyword research cycle. With all of the great keyword data that we can look at, the one data point that we can't find out about in advance is how they'll actually perform for us. Once we start ranking for the keywords that we've targeted and we start to get traffic coming to our pages as a result of those rankings, we'll need to see if those keywords are actually driving conversion actions and helping us achieve business objectives.
Activity 19:
Watch video 19: Ongoing Keyword evaluation
Resources summary:
10 SEO Tips, Tactics, and Trends for Website Content in 2021
Understanding Content Optimization | Lecture 20 Description
Content optimization is the process of improving the quality and relevancy of your site's content. We'll discuss a number of things about how both users and search engines interpret what makes good content. But first, let's go through a few examples of how you and I as human beings might read a piece of content and figure out what it's about.
Activity 20:
Watch Video 20; Understanding Content Optimization
Resources Summary
Youtube video on 5 Tools To Help Your Content Marketing Team Be Bette
Optimizing site structure | Lecture 21 Description
As you focus on more and more keywords and themes, you'll be developing more content on your website and you'll start to have a lot of pages to hold this content. It's going to be important to structure all of these pages in a meaningful way because in order for search engines to return your pages to searchers in response to relevant search queries, they need to understand how your pages relate to one another.
Activity 21:
Watch Video 21; Optimizing site structure
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on Best WordPress Maintenance and Management Services
Optimizing textual page elements | Lecture 22 Description
The main goal of a search engine is to guide people to content that is relevant to the keyword or phrase that they search for. We can fine-tune the relevance of a page for a certain topic through the process of on-page optimization.
Activity 22:
Watch video 22; Optimizing textual page elements
Resources Summary
Youtube video on Best Managed WordPress Hosting
Optimizing nontext components of a webpage | Lecture 23 Description
Search engines are generally very good at analyzing and understanding the text content on web pages, but search engines have a more difficult time with other forms of content like images, videos, and audio clips. Let's take a look at a few different ways we can go about optimizing these types of content for our target keywords.
Activity 23:
Watch video 23; Optimizing nontext components of a webpage
Resources Summary
Youtube video on Get More Google Traffic
Optimizing for personalized search | Lecture 24 Description
Understanding the process of personalized search requires understanding search intent and the role of search engines. Remember, the goal of a search engine is to provide the best results to a specific person at just the right time and in the right place, and to do that, there is personalization that's being done.
Activity 24:
Watch video 24; Optimizing for personalized search
Resources Summary
Youtube video on 4 Steps To Speed Up Your Website And Look Better To Google
Understanding How Search Engines Index Content | Lecture 25 Description
It's important to understand how search engines discover new content on the web and how they interpret the locations of these pages. One way that search engines identify new content is by following links. Much like you and I will click through links to go from one page to the next page.
Activity 25:
Watch Video 25: Understanding how search engines index content
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on 6 Tested Ingredients To Create Landing Pages That Convert Customers
Interpreting the code behind web pages | Lecture 26 Description
The end goal of a search engine, when it's crawling a page, is to try to determine what a web page looks like to regular people. But the search engine can't see a page as we do. Instead, it sees the code that web servers send back to our browsers, and to help illustrate this, let's take a look at the Explore California home page.
Activity 26
Watch video 26; Interpreting the code behind web pages
Resources Summary
Youtube video on 10 Powerful WordPress Marketing Tips
Working with Canonical URLs and Redirects | Lecture 27 Description
As search engines try to find an index of all the pages they find on the internet, they rely on unique URLs as pointers to each piece of content. Well, there should be a single unique URL for every page on the internet.
Activity 27:
Watch video 27; Working with canonical URLs and redirects
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on How To Use A Web cache Viewer: Everything You Need To Know
Using Google Search Console | Lecture 28 Description
Let's take a look at how you use the very basics of Google Search Console, formerly known as Google Webmaster Tools to learn what information Google has about your website, how it views your website's overall performance in search, and how we can use it to provide Google with instructions around how to best crawl and index your pages.
Activity 28:
Watch Video 28; Using Google Search Console
Resources Summary
Youtube video on 7 Free Keyword Research Tools
Understanding The Importance of Links | Lecture 29 Description
One of the most important aspects of SEO is links. This has traditionally been the backbone of how search engines work. As search engines scour the internet and crawl all the pages in the world, they find links pointing to other pages. Do you know that clickable text that you see everywhere that takes you to some other page? You can think of each one of those links as a vote, and not every vote is the same. Remember that some sites are considered more authoritative and trustworthy than others.
Activity 29:
Watch video 29; Understanding the importance of links
Resources Summary
Youtube Video on What Is a High-Quality Link? Backlinks Strategies
Building Internal Links | Lecture 30 Description
Earning links back to you from people and websites that you don't control is a necessary but challenging thing to do. But don't forget about the links you do have complete control over. Determining how you link to pages on your own site is important for search engines as well. Internal linking helps search engines understand the structure of your website, the topics and themes of your content, and even the relative importance of each page on your site. We can break down internal linking into two different types, navigation links and contextual links.
Activity 30:
Watch video 30; building internal links
Resources Summary
Youtube video on Know the Basics of Link Building to Boost Your SEO
Building External Links | Lecture 31 Description
Building quality links to your website will improve its overall popularity in the eyes of the search engines, and improve your search engine visibility. But you're probably thinking what most people are thinking at this point, how do I get links pointing back to my site when I don't have control over other websites out there? The good news is that links come in different forms and can be generated from different tactics.
Activity 31:
Watch video 34; Building external links
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on 5 Types of Bad Backlinks You Don’t Want
Why are backlinks important?
Backlinks are especially valuable for SEO because they represent a "vote of confidence" from one site to another.
In essence, backlinks to your website are a signal to search engines that others vouch for your content. If many sites link to the same webpage or website, search engines can infer that content is worth linking to, and therefore also worth surfacing on a SERP. So, earning these backlinks can have a positive effect on a site's ranking position or search visibility.
Finding Link-Building Opportunities | Lecture 32 Description
Search engines rely on links to determine whether your web pages are trustworthy and authoritative. And to uphold that status, it's important to always be on the lookout for new link-building opportunities that you can take advantage of.
Activity 32:
Watch video 32; Finding link-building opportunities
Complete Quiz 7: Link-building strategies
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on Must-Have Landing Page Tools landing page
Analyzing keywords | Lecture 33 Description
Keywords are the backbone of search engine optimization. And when we're measuring our SEO efforts, analyzing the different keywords that are bringing people to our websites is an excellent place to start. Again, there are many enterprise-level analytics tools that you can use on your website that can help you accomplish your task. But for this lecture, we're going to use Google Analytics.
Activity 33:
Watch Video 33; Analyzing keywords
Resources Summary
Youtube video on How To Use Google Analytics To Boost E-Commerce Sales
Analyzing Links | Lecture 34 Description
Over time, if you're consistently putting out good quality content, promoting it, and working through link outreach opportunities, other websites will start linking to you. And being able to clearly see what's happening to your link portfolio can tell you how you're doing in your quest to show the search engines just how trustworthy and authoritative your pages are. There are a few really good tools out there for analyzing backlink metrics like Majestic SEO, Ahrefs, Raven, SEMrush, and others. But in this video, we're going to once again use Moz's Link Explorer. It's also important to know that you can use these tools to analyze links for any website, not just your own.
Activity 34:
Watch video 34; Analyzing links
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on What Is a High-Quality Link?
How To Research Keywords | Lecture 35 Description
Everyone will eventually develop their own approach and process for doing keyword research and you'll ultimately need to find something that works for you. But the most important part of keyword research is to forget about yourself and your business and put yourself in the shoes of your potential customers. The process typically begins with brainstorming and answering some key questions.
Activity 35:
Watch video 35; How To Research Keywords
Resources Summary
YouTube video on 4 Ways to Find Low-Volume Keywords for SEO
Why You Need A Keyword Research Plan | Lecture 36 Description
Finding the right keywords to focus your SEO efforts on, can be challenging, but fortunately, there's a lot of data out there, and a structured approach that we can use for our keyword research. Keywords are what searchers type into a search engine, search engines like Google and Bing will go out and fetch the most relevant results for your search query based on everything they know about you and all the content on the entire internet. But it's important to remember that search engines have a hard time understanding what a user is after unless it's really spelled out.
Activity 36:
Watch Video 36: Why you need a keyword research plan
Resources Summary
Youtube video on 5 Tips To Promote Your Handmade Business Online
Tools to Help You Analyze Keywords | Lecture 37 Description
Now that we understand the basics around how we conduct keyword research, let's dive into the tools that will help us find more keywords and collect all the data we'll need. There are quite a few good tools out there, but for this video, we'll use the Moz Keyword Explorer tool. Not only does this tool provide a good measure of search volume, it also suggests related keywords as well as provides an idea of what types of sites and content are currently holding the top positions.
Activity 37:
Watch Video 37; Tools to help you analyze keywords
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on 7 Free Keyword Research Tools
Youtube video on The 7 Best Keyword Research Tools
Anatomy of local search results | Lecture 38 Description
When you do a search for a local business like a restaurant or a mechanic, if you're like most people, you probably click on one of the links toward the top of the search results. People tend to trust and click on the links on the first page of the search results.
Ranking higher for local searches requires a combination of different local SEO strategies. It's not one thing that will help you rank higher. It's a combination of strategies. Here are just some of the top local ranking factors that can lead to higher rankings. Let's briefly talk about each one of these ranking factors.
Activity 38:
Watch video 38; Anatomy of local search results
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on 10 SEO Tips, Tactics, and Trends for Website Content in 2021
Exploring local ranking factors | Lecture 39 Description
When you do a search for a local business like a restaurant or a mechanic, if you're like most people, you probably click on one of the links toward the top of the search results. People tend to trust and click on the links on the first page of the search results.
Ranking higher for local searches requires a combination of different local SEO strategies. It's not one thing that will help you rank higher. It's a combination of strategies. Here are just some of the top local ranking factors that can lead to higher rankings. Let's briefly talk about each one of these ranking factors.
Activity 39:
Watch video 39; Exploring local ranking factors
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on Why Entity-Based SEO Is A New Way Of Thinking About Optimization
Identifying keywords for your business | Lecture 40 Description
Every search starts with a word, or more likely, a group of words. These words are called keywords and keywords are at the heart of SEO. To rank high in search results, you need to identify the most important keywords or keyword phrases your potential customers are using to find your website, or more specifically, the individual pages on your website. And then you need to include those keywords on your webpages
Activity 40:
Watch video 40; Identifying keywords for your business
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on 8 Super Effective Social Media Listening Tools For Every Marketer
Using Online Keyword Tools | Lecture 41 Description
What content will help you rank high in search engines? There's no way to answer these questions without doing research on the keywords people are typing in to find businesses like yours. I'm going to show you three great tools that you can use to validate what keywords you should be putting on your site. But before you can just start searching for random keywords, it's best for you to first think about your customers.
Activity 41:
Watch video 41; Using online keyword tools
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on 10 Simple Ways To Boost Seo On Your WordPress Website
Research the SERPs | Lecture 42 Description
The search engine results pages or SERPS are the proving ground for a successful keyword strategy. It is estimated that the number one website in the results will get a 35% share of clicks. This also shows you important areas to consider in your optimization and content tactics. Many times it's not just a webpage that you need to optimize for rankings. It can be a product page, a file, a video, or a podcast.
Activity 42:
Watch video 42; Research the SERPs
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on Know the Basics of Link Building to Boost Your SEO
Keyword Tools: Search Engines | Lecture 43 Description
To find keywords that are being used specifically at Google, you can go to Google Ads and use the keyword tool. Now, this is available to you if you are a Google Ads Advertiser. You have access to these tools and you can use them to find keywords for your business.
Activity 43:
Watch video 43; Keyword tools: Search engines
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on The 10-Step Guide to Creating a Profitable Google AdWords Campaign from Scratch
Keyword Concepts: Long tail and Short tail | Lecture 44 Description
One of the concepts you'll hear often in keyword research and SEO is the long tail and short tail of keywords. The short tails are usually the single word, very general words that command large numbers of searches. For example: cars, insurance, vacations, or phones. These four terms are searched for thousands or millions of times a month. But the thing is they're so general, we can't be sure of the intent. There are very large targets but with very thin relevance.
Activity 44:
Watch video 44; Keyword concepts: Long tail and short tail
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on What Are Long Tail Keywords?
Keyword Research: Buying Cycle | Lecture 45 Description
Rather than simply sitting in front of a computer all day, we tend to search multiple times a day for one thing at a time. When an idea hits us, we search for it. Google classifies these micro-moments into four areas: I want to know, I want to go, I want to do, and I want to buy.
Activity 45:
Watch video 45; Keyword research: Buying Cycle
Resources Summary:
Youtube on Best Live chat Software
Understanding SEO and eCommerce | Lecture 46 Description
These days, lots of people use search engines for shopping, whether they're in the early stages of research or they're ready to buy something right now. Whatever stage of the buying process they're in, if you sell the products that they're searching for, you're going to want to be found. And there are a few different things to consider that are specific to E-commerce websites that can help a search engine match your pages to the intent of people's search queries.
Activity 46:
Watch video 46; Understanding SEO and eCommerce
Resources summary:
Youtube video on How Digital Marketing Can Accelerate eCommerce (SEO/SEM/EM)
Understanding Local SEO | Lecture 47 Description
If you're a brick-and-mortar business or if you have a local presence, then it's important to know that your potential customers are using search engines to look for local products and services and search engines are getting pretty good at giving users exactly what they want with some very specific local types of search results.
Activity 47:
Watch video 47; Understanding local SEO
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on SEO or Paid Ads
Understanding Mobile SEO | Lecture 48 Description
Everywhere you look these days, it's evident that mobile devices have become a part of our day-to-day lives. In our workplace, at home, and everywhere in between, we're continuously connected through our phones, tablets, watches, virtual assistants, fitness gear, security systems, and even our thermostats and smart home devices. As searches from mobile devices continue to grow, it's crucial that we take the mobile experience into account when we're talking about search engine optimization. But before we worry about how we're going to get found by search engines, it's important that we talk about how user behavior on mobile devices is unique.
Activity 48:
Watch video 48; Understanding mobile SEO
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on Drumming Up Organic Topic
Understanding General vs Local SEO | Lecture 49 Description
When you're getting started with local SEO, it's important to understand how local search results look so you can determine the best strategies you should use to help your site rank higher. Let's look at different searches so you can get an idea of how different searches yield very different results.
Activity 49:
Watch video 49; Understanding general vs local SEO
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on Localized Marketing
Google Tools: Google Analytics | Lecture 50 Description
Google Analytics is a free analytics program and is used to track website activity such as session duration, pages per session, bounce rate, etc. of individuals using the site, along with the information on the source of the traffic.
It uses JavaScript code to collect information from websites. In this way, Analytics records a visit each time a user views a page with the Google Analytics code.
Activity 50:
Watch video 50; Google Analytics
Resources Summary
Youtube video on Google Analytics with Priya Ramesh
Google My Business | Lecture 51 Description
Google My Business is a free and easy-to-use platform for companies and organizations to control their online presence through Google, including Search and Maps. You can review your company and edit your business details to help customers find your business and tell them your story.
Is it worth all the effort? If you are a local, regional, national, or international business, the simple answer is YES. Local search is an important part of a robust digital marketing strategy, and Google My Business is a massive and ever-growing factor.
Activity 51:
Watch video 51; Google My Business
Create a Google My Business account
Resources Summary
Youtube video on What Is Google My Business?
Youtube video on Google My Business Explained
Keeping Customers Informed During COVID-19 | Lecture 52 Description
If your business is struggling to stay afloat or is closed, sign in to your GMB profile and find the info section of your GMB dashboard. From there, you can mark your business as temporarily closed, or permanently closed, and some people will even be able to remove their listing altogether. From your customers' view, they will see this red banner that reads temporarily closed if you mark your business as temporarily closed. Your GMB listing will still show up in search results, but over time it will lose rankings.
Activity 52:
Watch Video 52; Keeping customers informed during COVID-19
Resources Summary:
Blog on Why Digital Marketing Is Important During COVID-19
What is a Digital Marketing Strategy? | Lecture 53 Description
Having a well-defined Digital Marketing Strategy provides you with some immediate perks. It provides you with a certain degree of protection. Proper planning ensures that brands are spending resources wisely. When you develop a digital marketing strategy, you’re able to test and confirm specific marketing data points.
Establishing a clear digital marketing strategy lets you test your marketing assumptions, which becomes especially useful when you’re targeting certain audiences. At the same time, you’re building a foundation for continued marketing growth with your digital marketing strategy.
Activity 53:
Watch Video 53; What is a Digital Marketing Strategy?
Resources Summary
Example of Digital Marketing Strategies - Marketing for Real Estate Professionals
Example of Digital Marketing Strategies - Digital Marketing For Health Professionals
Example of Digital Marketing Strategies - Digital Marketing Plan for Small Businesses
Getting and managing reviews for higher rankings | Lecture 54 Description
Let's talk about how reviews impact rankings and can help build consumer trust. If you ran the market for an accountant, landscaper, or plumber, and saw these businesses in search results, which ones would you call and why? You've probably noticed that some of these businesses have five-star reviews and some don't have any reviews. Does that matter to you when you are searching and shopping online?
Well, if it does, you're not alone. Research shows that reviews do matter and reviews matter to your potential customers too.
Activity 54:
Watch video 54; Getting and managing reviews for higher rankings
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on 5 Successful Ways Of Using Customer Reviews in Your Marketing Strategy
Buyer journey and keywords | Lecture 55 Description
The ability to rank your e-commerce website in Google is great. However, you want to make sure that you're actually ranking in Google for the types of keywords that will drive business results for you. I see a lot of companies obsessed with ranking in search engines for keywords that will simply not move the needle for their business.
You want to rank for keywords that suggest clear buying intent, that also suggests that your searcher is seeking some sort of information regarding your product, or that suggests searchers may benefit from your product at some stage. Someone who is in the ready-to-buy mindset is simply someone who has decided that they would like to purchase a product to help them to solve some sort of problem.
Activity 55:
Watch video 55; Buyer journey and keywords
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on The Best of B2B Marketing Content: 5 examples
Use Trends Data to Complete The Picture | Lecture 56 Description
Google Trends allows you to take two words, two people, and two events, and compare them to see which gets more search traffic. One of the great things about Google Trends is you can go all the way back to 2004 when Google started keeping track of this type of data. In this lecture, we will be taking a closer look at Google Trends and the data it provides.
Activity 56:
Watch video 56; Use trends data to complete the picture
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on Top 5 Digital Marketing Trends That Will Make Marketers Change Their Strategies
Apply your data to your website structure | Lecture 57 Description
By now, I hope you've gathered a lot of keyword data and most likely have dozens of the content funnels you offer. You should be learning the words that your searchers use and additional synonyms that explain their needs. In this way, you can be more precise with your specific content products and more general and more contextual when writing content. In this lecture, we will discuss how to put all the data you have collected into your website structure.
Activity 57:
Watch video 57; Apply your data to your website structure
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on 5 digital marketing trends of focus for 2021
Map Your Keyword Data to A Calendar | Lecture 58 Description
It's been said that if you write down your goals, you will be 70% more likely to achieve them. I find this to be true when developing a keyword content strategy. After evaluating the trend data from your keyword research, the next step is to implement this information into your marketing strategy. Primarily through your marketing plan or an editorial calendar.
Activity 58:
Watch video 58; Map your keyword data to a calendar
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on 15 of the Best Social Media Tools
Present Your Strategy | Lecture 59 Description
Many of you taking this course may be working within an organization or an agency and you will most likely have to present all of your research and findings. You'll have to do one of the toughest parts of the job. That is presenting and articulating your strategy to a stakeholder, owner, or team.
A recent study showed that SEO professionals spend about 14% of their time communicating practice and strategy. This is a fundamental skill, but it is also one that can be learned, developed, and improved. I found that confidence is the main component of a good presentation. And when you are confident in your data, it gives you confidence in your presentation.
After all, you've done all the research. You found the connections. You've seen the patterns and applied the work to find the insights. You should have more knowledge about search or interest in demand than anyone else in the organization. And now, it's simply time to tell the story of these searchers.
Activity 59:
Watch video 59; Present your strategy
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on 10 Simple Ways To Boost Seo On Your WordPress Website
LinkedIn Advertisement | Lecture 60 Description
Expand your audience and acquire more followers for your LinkedIn or Showcase Page, and grow your influence when they see and engage with the organic content you share on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn offers dozens of benefits for advertisers, from an expansive audience to multiple ad formats to accurate audience data. While smaller than other social media networks, it provides a degree of targeting and accuracy that other platforms can't match.
Activity 60:
Watch Video 60; LinkedIn Advertisement
Resources Summary
Youtube Video on SEO or Paid Ads
A/B Testing | Lecture 61 Description
A/B testing (also known as split testing or bucket testing) is a method of comparing two versions of a webpage or app against each other to determine which one performs better.
A/B testing is essentially an experiment where two or more variants of a page are shown to users at random, and statistical analysis is used to determine which variation performs better for a given conversion goal.
Activity 61:
Watch video 61; A/B Testing
Resources Summary
Youtube video on What is A/B Testing?
Youtube video on What is A/B Testing on Facebook and How to Use it
Facebook Advertisement | Lecture 62 Description
Paid Facebook ads are important to companies because they allow you to attract a targeted audience. Facebook advertisements are tailored to users based on location, demographic, and profile information. Many of these solutions can only be found on Facebook. After making an ad, you set a budget and bid for each click or thousands of impressions that your ad would get.
Facebook ads can be a powerful marketing tool for your business. With simple measurements and an unparalleled ability to target based on interests and custom audiences, Facebook ads can be the difference-maker.
Activity 62:
Watch video 62; Facebook Advertisements
Resources Summary
Link to Facebook Blueprint
Youtube video on Facebook Ads 2021 with Manny Hanif from Digital Soldiers
Reposting Strategy | Lecture 63 Description
Do you remember how important Content is?
It is essential for your Social Media and Online presence to be consistent. Let's introduce you to the REPOSTING STRATEGY.
You will be using your previously created content and rescheduling it on Heropost.
Activity 63:
Watch Video 63; Reposting Strategy
Resources Summary
Youtube video on 7 Ways to Repurpose Content and Grow Your Customer Base
Google Advertising: Interface and Display campaign | Lecture 64 Description
Google Ads is an affordable form of advertising that allows for targeting qualified, in-market prospects, and if managed correctly, it can deliver strong ROI, helping you grow your business's leads and sales.
A Display Ad, also known as a banner ad, is a type of online paid advertisement that is usually a picture or a photo and a copy. Display Advertisement is a way of drawing viewers to blogs, social media channels, or other interactive media to take concrete action. We show you how to build Google Display Network Advertisement Campaigns and how to grow your Google Display Ads strategy to drive more leads, sales, and conversions for your company.
There are a number of different tactics and targeting methods that you can use. Some of the choices include Remarketing, In-Market Audiences, Custom Intent Audiences, Affinity Audiences, Placement Targeting, Content Targeting, Demographic Targeting, and more.
Activity 64:
Watch Video 64; Google Advertising: Interface and Display campaign
Resources Summary
Youtube video on The 10-Step Guide to Creating a Profitable Google AdWords Campaign from Scratch
Youtube video on How do I Improve my chances on Google Ads
Google Ads: Search and Video Ads | Lecture 65 Description
With Google Ads, you can reach potential customers who are looking for businesses or products on Google Search or YouTube.
Get in front of customers when searching for companies like yours on Google Search. Google Advertising helps you to concentrate on customers who are looking for what your company has to offer. This ensures that you can constantly optimize your searches so that only people who want to purchase your goods or services are sent to your websites via this platform.
Activity 65:
Watch Video 65; Google Ads: Search and Video Ads
Log in to your account with Google Advertising.
On the left-hand page, click Campaigns.
Please press the plus button.
Choose "New campaign."
Choose your campaign target, or set up a campaign with no targets.
Choose the sort of campaign.
Click the Continue button.
Decide on the settings of your campaign.
Click the Save button and continue.
Resources Summary
Youtube video on How do I improve my chances on Google Ads
Youtube video on What Are Smart Campaigns on Google Ads
Target Ads and Campaigns with Keywords: Location, Time, and Words | Lecture 66 Description
What I love about using search ads, it's the dynamic nature of the campaign. I can evaluate the performance of the campaign. I can evaluate each individual ad group, and then all the way down to the performance of keywords. If I see that certain keyword themes are more in demand, then I can use that to create a new ad group, a new ad, and another budget to take advantage of that trend. As you go through keyword research, there are many opportunities that may show up. The three biggest opportunities that can impact your paid search campaigns are location, time, and trends.
Activity 66:
Watch video 66; Target ads and campaigns with keywords: Location, time, and words
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on How to create Successful Search Ads?
Maintain Keyword Groups with Specific Destinations | Lecture 67 Description
When using Google Ads or Bing Ads a clear understanding of keywords is critical. In order to create successful, paid search advertising campaigns it's all in defining the details. If you attempt to create only a few ads but use as many keywords as possible your campaign will flounder. Your ability to manage a campaign, effectively target an audience, present a relevant message, and gain new customers it's easier when you use a defined keyword target to reach a defined audience.
Activity 67:
Watch video 67; Maintain keyword groups with specific destinations
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on How do I improve my chances on Google Ads
Build Your Quality Score with Keyword Themes | Lecture 68 Description
Have you ever been rewarded for something you thought was just common sense? Well, this is how Google Ads Quality Score works, and this Quality Score principle works the same for almost any other search advertising system. Quality Score is a way of rewarding site owners and marketers who maintain a good campaign by improving and optimizing it. A high-Quality Score rewards advertisers by reducing the amount that they pay for ad clicks.
Activity 68:
Watch video 68; Build your quality score with keyword themes
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on What Are Smart Campaigns on Google Ads
Take Time to Optimize The Details | Lecture 69 Description
Optimizing a website is rarely an easy task. It's not just one or two things you have to do, it's hundreds of little details that have to be covered. You see, it's all about context. Does the URL of the page, the content of the page, the headings and subheadings, and the flow of the navigation, do they all support the primary purpose of the page?
Utilizing all of your website's structures increases the context in small incremental amounts. None of these tactics work by themselves. It's the sum of extensively addressing your entire website. In this video, I'm going to cover some of those smaller details.
Activity 69:
Watch video 69; Take time to optimize the details
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on 8 Steps To Optimize Images For SEO
Utilize Negative Keywords | Lecture 70 Description
Many terms or concepts will have alternate meanings. Additionally, there may be other words that searchers use that contain our keywords but aren't relevant. To mitigate this problem, we need to use negative keywords. And this is one of the most overlooked tools in search ads. It's identifying negative keywords and adding them to your campaign. I call these stop words. That means if the searcher is using this word as part of their query, my ad will not show. And this is important for primary reasons. This lecture will discuss these reasons.
Activity 70:
Watch video 70; Utilize Negative Keywords
Resources Summary:
How to Set Up Google Search Ads for Success
How to create Display Ads on Google AdWords?
Content Marketing: Answer Questions and Anticipate Events | Lecture 71 Description
Content marketing is directly connected to your overall strategy as a business. Any content that you develop to attract new customers, communicate to existing customers, or explain your business is content marketing. But to be effective, it must be derived from your company's strategic objectives and goals. It must follow the personality of your company and how you want to be known in the industry. All of your keyword research should point you to your customer's questions, concerns, and ideas. Keyword research isn't just about optimizing a website, it is about learning about your audience and what they want.
Activity 71:
Watch video 71; Content marketing: Answer questions and anticipate events
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on Brand Awareness
Email: Educate and Engage The Needs of The Audience | Lecture 72 Description
It's important to educate and engage the needs of the audience. By understanding the needs of the audience, businesses can create content that is not only informative but also interesting. This way, businesses can build a rapport with the audience, which can lead to conversions and sales.
Activity 72:
Watch video 72; Email: Educate and Engage The Needs of The Audience
Resources:
Youtube video on 6 Smart Ways to Integrate Email Marketing with Social Media
Youtube video on Tips for Email Marketing
Optimizing eCommerce Content Pages | Lecture 73 Description
With regards to your eCommerce website, you don't just want to focus on SEO for your eCommerce product pages. Whilst you do want your eCommerce product pages to be ranked in search, you also want to be creating a content strategy that allows you to rank in search for other keywords for people who might be at a different stage of the buyer journey. For example, I recommend creating a blog for your website that you can update regularly.
Activity 73:
Watch video 73; Optimizing e-Commerce Content pages
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on 5 Powerful Types of Blogs
Social: Engage by knowing the need, the time, and the language | Lecture 74 Description
I'm amazed at the number of businesses that will post to social media just to get five posts a week. Seems like the number of posts is more important than the substance of what's being posted. Somewhere along the line, someone thinks that frequency is more important than quality. This kind of tactic results in people stressing out at the last minute, trying to find an idea for a post, and the result is simply information posted without a larger purpose, strategic importance, or a customer-centric need. Your keyword research should influence your social conversations. When you create a content calendar based on popular keywords, keyword ideas, and trends, you then have great ideas as to what people want to know and see about your business.
Activity 74:
Watch video 74; Social: Engage by knowing the need, the time, and the language
Resources Summary:
Youtube video on 6 Social Media Tools That Experts Use To Streamline Their Marketing
Youtube video on 10 Social Media Marketing Tips for Social media content
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