Course Topics
The content of this course is
designed, explained and demonstrated with examples by SEO professionals
who all have come together for a single purpose; to share their
experience and to help you become an effective SEO expert.
For each section you will be
presented with text tutorial where you will be learning concepts by
reading through the content. There are videos for each section, which
will reinforce your concepts with an example and its explanation. You
will be given requirements based on real life SEO projects using which
you will be required to develop project modules for the same. A
combination of all this would certainly take you places you have never
been before.
Section 1 - Introduction
- Example for entire tutorial
- SEM
- Traffic
- Niche Audience
- Conversion
- Search Engine Visibility
- Classification of SEM (SEO and PPC)
- Mystery of SEO?
Section 2 - Search Engines (SE)
- Top 3 Search Engines
- Search Engine Index
- Rank
- Alexa Rank
- Google dance
- Golden Rule (SEO is done to webpage)
- Factors important for optimizing website (Page Rank, Anchor Text, Semantics)
- Hilltop and Sandbox Algorithms
- How SE rank pages? (Crawlers etc.)
Section 3 - On Page Optimization
=> Keyword Research
- Niche Audience
- Getting Suggestions (Keyword Suggestion Tool)
- Daily World Searches
- Competition
- Keyword Effectiveness Index
- Keyword Targeting for specific webpage
- Keyword Dilution
=> Selection of domain name and url
- URL containing keywords
- Use of hypens
- Domain preference
=> Content - Heart of SEO
- Keyword Specific Content
- Fresh Content
- No Duplication
- No keyword Stuffing
- Keyword Density
- Code-to-Content Ratio
- How to maintain code-to-content Ratio?
=> Title
- Factors important for title
=> Meta Tags
=> Anchor Tags
- Importance of Anchor Text
- Title for anchor text
- Link Structure
=> Heading Tags
- Importance of Heading Tags and bold tag
- Where to use Heading Tags?
=> Images and folder names, alt and title attributes
- Image names
- Alt and Title Attributes for Images
=> Important factors for keywords
- Keyword Prominence
- Keyword Weight/Density
- Keyword Frequency
- Keyword Proximity
=> Optimizing layout of your pages
Section 4 - Off Page Optimization
=> Factors for Off-Page SEO
- Link building
- Traffic Building
=> Link Building
- Link submissions
- Article Submissions
=> Traffic building
- Social Bookmarking
- Blogs Creation and Submissions
=> Traffic building
- Social Bookmarking
- Blogs Creation and Submissions
- Press Releases
- Blog Answering
- Yahoo Answers
- Forums
- Squidoo Lens Creation and Hub Pages
- Social Media Optimization (SMO)
Section 5 - Important Concepts
Section 6 - Types of SEO
- White hat SEO
- Black hat SEO
- Grey hat SEO
Section 7 - Google analytics and Webmaster Tools
Section 8 - Important tips