
Introduction
About me and this Course
This video will give you a brief background of my experience and history using SEO from 1996 to 2016.
You will be shown: -
Over Optimization
This video explains: -
SEO terms and Concepts
This video explains the various different terms and concepts to do with search engine optimization. These include: -
SEO Concepts
This video goes into detail about SEO concepts. These include: -
What is PageRank?
This video explains what PageRank is and how it is used and measured. You are shown examples of good and bad PageRank.
Quality and Freshness
This video is about the importance of the quality of the content in a website, as well as what Google looks for in content such as freshness and Links. Other topics covered are:-
Google Webmaster Guidelines – Part one
This Video explores the Google Webmaster Guidelines more in depth such as: -
Google Webmaster Guidelines – Part Two
This Video takes a deeper look into the General Guidelines of the Google Webmaster Guidelines such as:-
Google Webmaster Guidelines – Part Three
This Video takes a deeper look into the General Guidelines of the Google Webmaster Guidelines such as:-
Google Webmaster Guidelines – Part Two
This Video takes a deeper look into the General Guidelines of the Google Webmaster Guidelines such as:-
Google YouTube Channel
This video is about how YouTube can help with learning about Google and the Webmaster guidelines to guide you with your SEO.
Google Webmaster Blog
This video is about the Google webmaster blog which is advisable to keep up to date with to make sure your SEO is current and correct.
Google Community
This video is about the Google Community and how it can benefit your website and your SEO skills. This includes:-
Basic Website Auditing using SEO Quake
This video explains how to conduct an SEO audit using a program called SEO Quake. This video also explains what SEO Quake is and how to correctly use it to benefit you in your research to better your SEO.
Monitoring your SEO campaign
This video explains how important monitoring your SEO campaign is and the best ways to do this. It also touches on the mistakes people make in checking their SEO such as using automated software.
Introduction to HTML
This video introduces you to basic HTML code and the terms associated with it and examples of HTML code within a webpage and how it can be used to enhance your SEO. All the different types of tags are also explained as well as the importance of anchor text.
This video introduces you to advanced Google searching techniques that’ll help you with your keyword research for your SEO. These techniques include:-
Advanced Google search
This video is about using the Google Advanced Search site to make research easier for you and your SEO keyword search.
Site Maps – Part One
This Video explains what a HTML sitemap is and examples of one, it then explains what an XML Sitemap is and an example of it.
Site Maps – Part Two
This video explains more in depth about site maps in WordPress and how to use/ create them.
Site Maps – Part Three
This video is purely about XML site maps in WordPress and goes into in depth detail about them and gives examples.
Documents and Search Engine Results
This video looks at the power documents have to do with improving your SEO.
Documents and Meta Data
This video explains how Meta Data can enhance your SEO. It shows you how to add Meta data to your documents to improve the SEO of your website the documents are added in.
Documents and SEO – Indexed Documents
This video looks at how to check to see which of your Word and PDF documents have been picked up and indexed by Google by typing in syntax’s into the search engine.
Documents and SEO
This video looks at treating word documents in the writing stages as a webpage to make it SEO friendly.
Follow and Nofollow links
This video explains the difference between Follow and Nofollow links and the pros and cons of these.
Page Level No Follow
This video shows nofollow links at a basic page level using the Google webmaster guidelines as a reference. Examples are shown of the code to create a nofollow link.
No Index
This video explains how to block pages from Google and explains why you would want to do this. Examples are shown of the code to do this.
Nofollow and WordPress
This video shows you how to change links to nofollow links either at a page level or an individual link level. It also shows you how to use WordPress plugins to create nofollow links.
Investigating Nofollow links
This video shows examples of being able to see physically if links are follow or no follow using SEO Quake.
This Video explains the importance of installing a plugin in your WordPress site to check for broken links and the impact this has on your SEO and how to do this.
This video shows how to use the Xenu program to check for broken links and how to analyze the broken link report.
This video gives examples of how to safely download software that will check for broken links on your website.
This video gives a brief explanation about what broken links are and the different types of broken links,
This video explains what a 404 error is, why they occur, how they effect your SEO and how to fix them.
SEO | Search Engine Optimization for 2018
This SEO training course has been 20 years in the making. That’s how long I have been applying Search Engine Optimization techniques to websites (since April 1996 to be exact).
The thing about SEO is that the best person to do the SEO it you. It is your business. It is your website. By applying search engine optimization to your own website, you can use your own expertise to select exactly the right keyword phrases to focus on.
About 95% of SEO requires little or no technical knowledge and you do not need any programming skills. SEO is about attention to detail. There are around 200 factors that Google considers when deciding who comes first and who comes last in the search engine listing, in response to a search enquiry. You just need to make sure that you have more boxes ticked than your competitors.
This SEO training course teaches you how to think like a search engine. I will show you what Google likes and just as important, what Google does not like.
I have one of the most watched SEO video tutorials on YouTube (almost 400,000 views) clearly demonstrating that I have the SEO credentials to help you marketing your own website. That said no one can guarantee a page one ranking. All I can do is to explain all the concepts that I use and I get all my business through successful application of SEO techniques to my own websites.
Try searching Google using the phrase ‘Google Webmaster Guidelines’ and you will see Information direct from Google about it likes and dislikes. All the information within this tutorial is built upon the recommendations within these guidelines. This is SEO that works. The wrong sort or SEO can get you banned from the search engines, so it vital that you know what you are doing.
This tutorial covers a vast range of SEO topics. Please check out the curriculum listing for more details.
Enjoy ...
David Murray