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Join Todd Malicoat and John Marshall and get a bumper-to-bumper crash course on SEO best practices, insider tips, and and tried-and-true fundamentals from one of the brighter minds in the business. Everything from SEO copywriting to site architecture to site maps to co-sitation, Todd covers it all. Not only is this an excellent primer for anyone getting started in SEO, it's also a great course for seasoned professionals wanting to fill in the some of the gaps.

Course includes:

  • 24-7 access to streaming video tutorials
  • Full year of access to purchased courses
  • Course study guide with self-paced assignments
  • Section quizzes to ensure you're on track
  • Access to six monthly workshops to ask live questions of the faculty
  • Access to "Ask the Expert" forums to get your questions answered at any time
  • Extensive final exam with printable certificate of completion

Course Curriculum:

SEO Best Practices Part 1

Want to know an easy, yet effective way to write page titles that the search engines love? Wondering what's the latest philosophy on keyword density? In this invaluable SEO video, Todd Malicoat and John Marshall tackle a great deal of today's hot topics, latest trends, and tragic pitfalls in today's SEO universe. Whether you're just starting out and learning what the general SEO terms mean or a seasoned professional looking to see what's changed in the past couple years in SEO, this is a great white board discussion.

SEO Best Practices Part 2

In part two of the SEO Basics whiteboard discussion Todd tackles the effect of keywords in the URL and domain name, covers the role of age of domain and backlinks in building trusted websites that will rank well in Google, and dispels some common myths about SEO that are now relics of a past when search engines were much easier to game.

SEO Best Practices Part 3

Your website's internal link structure is one of the most important means of optimizing your site for search engines. Do you know what an optimal link structure looks like? In part three of SEO Basics Todd Malicoat shows you how to build new sites with optimal link structures, explains how to use robots.txt to keep extraneous pages out of the search engines, and tells you a little known fact about linking to other sites that will help you rank better in your niche.

SEO Best Practices Part 4

In the final part of the four part series on SEO basics Todd Malicoat teaches you how to see what pages are being indexed by search engines, how to become the "source document" for content published on the web, and explains why your title tags should be different from your H1 tags.

Course Instructors:

You're taught by one of the industry's foremost experts in search engine optimization. Learn from years of hands-on experiences that helped our experts get to the top of their game, avoid the mistakes they made along the way, and pick their brains on our monthly workshops which give you the opportunity to ask questions directly of our faculty on anything that may be preventing you from achieving your search marketing goals. Can't make it to a workshop? Simply post your questions in our "Ask the Experts" forum and get an answer promptly.

Todd Malicoat

Todd Malicoat

Author of popular SEO blog StuntDubl.com and frequent conference speaker, Todd has an uncanny ability to come up with new angles on the complex realm of SEO, link building, link baiting and search engine marketing. With Todd, you learn the basics, and a whole lot more.

John Marshall

John Marshall

John Marshall, web analytics pioneer, inventor of the overlay view, and successful founder of ClickTracks, is now a Market Motive founder and the company CTO. John is a frequently-requested speaker on topics including web analysis, conversion optimization, funnel analysis and decision support systems.

 

Certificate of Completion:

Our printable certificates prove that you have completed the course and passed the final exam. Print it out, hang it on the wall, and bask in it's glory or give a copy to your employer to prove you are continuing your education and improving your skills.

Want to get the full endorsement from our faculty? Participate in our three-month Master Certification for hands-on instruction with the faculty, complete with course projects and graduation ceremony.