Wednesday, January 21, 2009

SEO basics course, SEMPO Institute's The Insider's Guide to Search Marketing

SEMPO Institute's The Insider's Guide to Search Marketing
Your entry into the fastest growing marketing job sector

The Insider’s Guide to Search Marketing gets you the knowledge you need to start your career in this growing field. The tools and references you will learn in this online, self-paced course are the stepping stones to success."


Insider’s Guide to Search Marketing will teach you:

How search engines rank Web pages; what an algorithm is; how SEO
techniques affect search engine indexing; challenges search engines face; and
SEO Best Practices

Poor quality links (including link farms), identify good quality links, and identify
good sources for links

Research, find, and identify the right keywords for your marketing
campaign. With this knowledge, you will be able to develop performance goals and
set up a framework to help measure future success

Prepare your site to achieve better rankings and support theme, relevancy for your keywords, and have a base of knowledge to lead you into more advanced topics

Copywriting for the Web as well as the basic differences between writing for organic search and writing pay-per-click ads

The roadblocks that will stop the search engines from
indexing your site’s contents or other potential content related issues


When you need to submit your Website to search engines, and when you don’t. As well
as which submission activities are best practices and which should be avoided.
We will also cover bulk submission using the new Sitemaps protocol. Sitemaps
provide an easy way for you to inform search engines about the Web pages on your
site that are available for crawling


Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising programs work

Set-up and management of a pay-per-click (PPC)
advertising program


Innovations such as social networking sites, video search, mobile search, pay-by-call advertising, search engine reputation management, and more

Intellectual property issues

A wide array of tools, forums, newsletters, and blogs to aid you as you continue your Search
Marketing education

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