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Course description: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) training workshop for on-site delivery

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) training by ivantage

Audience

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Training course Workshop for On-site Delivery is a 2-day, fast paced, practical, hands-on course aimed at online marketers, web executives, webmasters, agency account managers and campaign managers who want to understand what SEO is and how to plan and implement an SEO campaign for their own website using internal resources or by engaging an agency.

Pre-requisites

No knowledge of search marketing is assumed or required but candidates should have an appreciation of search marketing being a key component of an effective Internet marketing strategy.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to analyse websites in some technical detail and to asses their effectiveness for crawling search engines to find, read, crawl, index and rank them. Students will able to build and implement an advanced SEO strategy and action plan including the use of ethical link building through established Internet websites and modern social networking media.

Course Overview

Session 1

Introductions and agenda

Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

The power of search

Organic search (SEO) versus paid search (PPC)

Crawling search engines and how they work

Meta search engines

Web directories

Which search engines to focus on

What is Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

The find, read, crawl, index and rank of SEO

Session 2

The find, read, crawl, index and rank of SEO and your website

Dynamic and database-driven sites

Images, Frames, iframes JavaScript, and AJAX

Website architecture

Domain and sub-domain structures and configurations

URLs and redirection

Examining HTTP streams

Browsers as SEO tools

Firefox SEO tools

URL rewriting

Transitioning websites and maintaining rankings

Session 3

On-site ranking factors including Title tags, Meta tags and content

On-site ranking factors including domains, sub-domains and URLs

On-site ranking factors such internal links, anchor text, sitemaps and Google Webmaster Tools

Off-site ranking factors and inbound links

Google Page Rank

Session 4

Understanding spam

Duplication

Doorway pages

Cloaking

Keyword stuffing

Understanding and combating penalties

Understanding and combating exclusion

Session 5

Advanced link building

One-way link building

Reciprocal link building

Director submissions

Online press releases

Social Media press releases

Social networking

Article submissions

Link baiting

Session 6

Planning and implementing your SEO strategy

Measuring SEO with position checking

Measuring SEO with Google Analytics

Researching keywords

Planning, prioritising and implementing on-site changes

Planning, prioritising and implementing off-site link building

 

Pre-requisites for SEO Training

  1. For SEO training, it is preferable for all attendees to have on-line administration access to an active (recording some data) Google Analytics account.
  2. A prerequisite of attending the SEO Advanced course is having attended the SEO Essentials course or possessing equivalent knowledge.

 

Contact ivantage to learn more or book training

 

Training for a reason

SEO – the process of building a web site and developing its content so that relevant pages from the site stand out above the competition near the top of the search engines’ results. It should be the ultimate goal for any site owner seeking long term, low cost visitor traffic. But owners often resist starting an SEO project for a variety of reasons, such as:

it is necessarily a long-term commitment

it demands reliable and consistent cooperation from the web site’s development crew

it is slow to bear fruit, and therefore . . .

has an extended RoI period.

Many sites therefore defer their SEO project in favour of paid search (most likely Google AdWords) which quickly gets their web presence on to the SERPs and garners visitors whose traffic can be easily tracked all the way through to the goals that have been set for them.

In contrast, an effective SEO project should normally last for at least 12 months and will be priced accordingly.

 If, however, you have the drive to do it yourself or intend to take part effectively in a project conducted by others, there’s no better start than a training course designed and run by the experts.

Review the course outline on this page.

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