SEO Fundamentals Course with Greg Gifford

Brush up on the basics of SEO with this free and in-depth course from Semrush favourite Greg Gifford.

Who is this сourse for?

Whether you want to learn the basics of SEO or just want to brush up on certain topics - this free course is perfect for anyone. Upon course completion, you'll have a better understanding of how to do SEO and to drive more traffic and customers to your website.

What you’ll learn

Brush up on your SEO basics with this fantastic FREE course from everyone's favourite expert, Greg Gifford, covering topics including on-page signals, technical SEO, SEO for mobile and more.

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Semrush Academy

The course was prepared by a team of skilled Semrush professionals. To provide you with the most relevant and up-to-date knowledge on Semrush SEO tools, we designed it together with the creators of the SEO Toolkit who know Semrush tools better than anyone in the world! In the 'Get Expert's Tips' section, practicing SEO experts will share with you their tips and real life SEO cases to enable you to utilize their experience in your future work with Semrush SEO instruments.

Course Structure

1

Page speed, AMP, and PWAs

1 video

2

Intro

1 video

3

On-page elements

1 video

4

Intro

1 video

5

Search engines and how they work

In this lesson, prominent field expert Greg Gifford will walk you through the SEO basics -- how the Internet and search engines work.

1 video

6

Crawling, indexing, and ranking

In this lesson, you'll find out how Google crawls websites, puts them together into an index, and ranks indexed pages based on its algorithm.

1 video

7

Writing and optimizing content

1 video

8

Local content

1 video

9

Link building

1 video

10

SERP Layout

In this lesson, you'll learn about the elements that might show up on a SERP -- a search engine results page -- and find out what affects SERPs' appearance.

1 video

11

Intro

1 video

12

Local links and citations

1 video

13

Intro

1 video

14

Intro

1 video

15

Robots.txt and sitemaps

1 video

16

Status Codes

1 video

17

Other local factors

1 video

18

International SEO

1 video

19

Keyword research

1 video

20

Structured Data

1 video

21

Link analysis

1 video

22

Duplicate content and rel='canonical'

1 video

23

Other ranking signals

1 video

24

Bad links

1 video

25

Anchor text

1 video

26

Inspecting your site for an audit

1 video

27

HTTPS

1 video

28

User experience focus

1 video

29

Site speed

1 video

30

URLs

1 video

31

Responsive websites

1 video

Start the Course

Take your knowledge to the next level by completing this course, which is packed with strategies you can start implementing right now.

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