
Acquire the why and when of marketing to lead campaigns, optimize channels, and upskill for modern digital marketing, including SEO, with six sessions and practical homework.
Explore search engine optimization, blending technical and creative elements of a user-centered website to boost rankings and organic traffic, while addressing theoretical and practical elements and debunking black hat myths.
Discover how modern seo blends context, usability, mobile responsive design, authentic backlinks, and one-of-a-kind content into a holistic user experience that drives organic traffic.
Define modern SEO as a user-centered mix of technical and creative elements that increase rankings and organic traffic. Focus on intent, demographics, and links while valuing content and email channels.
Learn to simplify SEO into five primary keys—technical, keywords, content, user experience, and links—and apply practical checks to boost rankings and user satisfaction.
Debunk common seo myths by prioritizing user-focused content over sheer volume. Explain why submission, keyword meta tags, keyword stuffing, and paid ads don't boost organic rankings.
Rank higher in search to reach the right buyers and deliver an expert, authoritative product, while seo captures long-term organic traffic and a competitive advantage.
Develop a plan-based SEO strategy by iterating on three core pillars—technical, content, and links—focusing on technical foundations, keyword-driven content, and earning high-quality links.
Master the technical SEO basics for your website, from crawl errors and robots.txt to canonical tags, redirects, and proper title and one h1 tag usage to improve Google visibility.
Understand how meta tags shape how search engines read your site and rank pages, craft accurate title and description to match user intent, improve click-through and avoid pogo sticking.
Explore how to craft effective title tags that accurately describe page content, boost user click-through and search engine optimization, with best practices on length, keyword placement, branding, and testing.
Learn how meta descriptions describe page content, attract readers, and align with keywords without stuffing, using readable, unique copy under 160 characters to boost click-through rate.
Learn how to craft human readable, keyword-relevant urls that match page titles, use hyphens and lowercase letters, and avoid cluttered parameters to improve accessibility, readability, and click-through in search results.
Identify duplicate content and apply canonicalization by using a canonical tag pointing to the master URL to treat multiple pages as one.
Create and continually optimize a user-centered content strategy across text, imagery, video, and interactive formats, using an iterative workflow to meet evolving audience needs, search intent, and keywords.
Discover keyword research as the first stage of the content strategy loop, and learn how keywords and search intent, long-tail terms, and three query types drive ranking and conversions.
Brainstorm a massive keyword list, gather current rankings and competitor terms, use Google suggestions, then group by intent and prioritize by difficulty, traffic, and relevance.
Build a practical keyword list by researching audience terms and semantics. Refine with Google keyword planner to rank by search volume and competition, then group by topic and funnel stage.
Perform a content audit to strip noise, prioritize high-quality evergreen content over quantity, and consolidate duplicates to improve relevancy and user experience.
Conduct a practical content audit by listing urls and metrics, using analytics and a site crawl to identify gaps, consolidate content, and boost quality and rankings.
Stage 3 competitor analysis treats competitive research as an iterative loop; identify rivals and keywords, prioritize competitors, compare top content, and learn to yield incremental gains.
Learn to build a site comparison matrix for competitor analysis, capturing design and messaging insights, and tracking updates to improve your own website.
Stage 4 highlights user experience (UX) as an indirect yet vital SEO factor; optimize across devices, speed, navigation, and quality content to boost engagement, sharing, and conversions.
Explore how linking and back links shape search rankings, from PageRank to modern internal and external links, emphasizing quality, relevance, and crawl-friendly site structure.
Use internal linking to signal page importance and shape a pyramid site structure, while checking Google Search Console to ensure key pages are crawlable and indexable.
Explore how external linking and back links influence rankings through trust, authority, anchor text, freshness, and social signals.
Identify who will amplify your content before publishing to power a link flywheel that grows reach and backlinks over time.
Explore link building as an art by weighing self created non editorial links, manual outreach link building, and natural editorial links to craft a diverse, gold-standard link profile for SEO.
Explore four link building strategies to earn valuable, editorial links and drive traffic: customer links, valuable content directories, viral link bait, and newsworthy outreach.
Explore how social media influences SEO indirectly through engagement, links, and branded searches; build genuine influencer relationships, use a creeper sheet to amplify content, and understand why links remain important.
Track your top five to ten industry influencers with a concise spreadsheet detailing topics, interests, tone, cadence, imagery, and engagement metrics to tailor outreach.
Learn how to track essential marketing metrics—from rankings and referrals to links—using free tools like Google Analytics, and set KPI-driven measurement to optimize campaigns and ROI.
Track keyword rankings with a tool to measure week-over-week progress, refine target keywords, analyze link juice and internal linking, and optimize landing pages to boost conversions.
Track backlinks and linking root domains to measure ranking impact, compare domain authority and page authority with competitors, and assess cost per link for high-quality opportunities.
Track organic traffic with Google Analytics to measure free search traffic and monitor monthly seasonality. Prioritize content pages deeper in your site to validate your SEO strategy.
Learn why average time on page is a limited metric affected by internal traffic, and how to drill down by page and dwell time in Google Analytics to inform revamps.
Explore pages per session as a metric for understanding user journeys, navigation clarity, and internal linking, then optimize paths from landing pages to product, pricing, and demos.
Recognize returning users as a key indicator of engagement and loyalty, and apply Google Analytics to segment, retarget, and exclude current customers to boost retention.
Define bounce rate as visitors who land on a page and leave without interaction, including back button actions. Pogo sticking signals unsatisfied queries and can affect rankings, page by page.
Boost rankings by prioritizing page speed to reduce bounce rate, using Google PageSpeed Insights to fix issues; aim for under two seconds, ideally, and keep it under six seconds.
Traffic by device highlights the rise of mobile traffic and its impact on rankings, urging mobile-friendly, responsive sites and testing with Google's mobile-friendly test.
Conversions drive SEO success by tracking traffic that converts into dollars, guiding investments in content and link building, and measuring earnings by content piece and channel.
Finish this marketing masterclass by building a proactive marketing playbook and game plan for your brand, then revisit the concepts and leave a review to improve future updates.
Our live Marketing Leadership Workshop is now available online!
Too many people know WHAT to do in marketing but they don't know WHY they are doing it!
Does this sound familiar? Anyone can learn how to post to social, write a blog post, or learn what SEO is, but quantity is not what works. What works are people who actually know WHY and WHEN certain marketing activities work.
That's the purpose of this course. By the end, you will have developed an actual marketing strategy, your own personal marketing playbook, that will guide you and your brand into the right marketing activity.
Think about it - no more guessing or assuming. You will be able to inform others and act personally based on the correct information!
Three reasons to TAKE THIS COURSE right now!
You get lifetime access to lectures, including new lectures every month (content is added/updated constantly).
You can ask me questions and see me respond to every single one of them thoughtfully!
What you will learn in this course is original, tested, and very detailed! It comes from years of graduate-level education and 20+ of marketing leadership experience across dozens of industries.
There are plenty of people who can teach you shortcuts and fast tactics.
This is a course for people who are truly willing to understand instead. A course for people who would rather do it right than hustle and hassle people. Once you work your way through nearly 200 lessons, your strategy will become more clear, your empathy will deepen and you'll begin to see the market as it is, instead of merely wishing it to be what you want.
★★★★★ "This is the best marketing innovation I have seen in years." - Ignacio Agacevic
The Marketing Leadership Masterclass is split into 6 different online sessions, each focusing on a different aspect of marketing leadership.
In Session 4 we will focus on Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an infamous, yet very important digital marketing discipline encompassing both the technical and creative elements of a user-centered website that results in increased rankings, more organic traffic, and increased awareness in search engines.
In this session, we dive deep into the weeds of both the theoretical and practical elements of modern SEO, while dispelling many of the myths and confronting some of the blackhat techniques still practiced today.
Having started my SEO career in the 90s, I look forward to uncovering the many layers of modern SEO that today’s marketing leaders need to know.
What are the requirements?
No experience or audience required.
Suitable for all types of businesses (digital product, physical product, service, B2B, B2C).
Why take this Course?
Become a Leader - Learn how to think & act like a strategic marketing leader.
Modern Marketing - The world of marketing is in constant flux. Don’t get left behind.
“Why” of Marketing - Learn the “Why” of marketing rather than just the “How.”
What am I going to get from this course?
Practical theory - Great marketers and great entrepreneurs are great learners. We’ll cover the theory that you need to understand to drive your own Demand Gen program.
Hands-on - Throughout the course, we give you multiple opportunities to slow down and apply what you have learned by building out the real-world plan that your company needs.
Peer Learning - Your instructors are peers, start-up founders and fellow marketers with decades of tangible experience in every stage and level of an organization.
What is the Target Audience?
Business Owners - Increase your business revenue, sales pipeline, and ROI by building out transformative demand generation programs that actually work.
Startups - Leverage proven marketing processes and practices to establish and increase your user-base and business revenue.
Marketers - Increase your current marketing knowledge by learning the most effective tactics, best practices, and processes.
Go from Beginner to Advanced
No matter what level of marketer you are, you will go from beginner to advanced marketing leader as we walk you through building your own model.
All the strategies, tips and tools recommended are either included, free or very cost effective.
You'll also get:
✔ Lifetime Access to The Course
✔ Fast & Friendly Support in the Q&A section
✔ Udemy Certificate of Completion Ready for Download
✔ A 30 Day "No Questions Asked" Money Back Guarantee!