SEO Fundamentals
https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/fundamentals-seo
by Paul Wilson
Course Overview
- Course Overview
Introduction to Lean SEO
- Introduction
- Module Overview
- validate your seo efforts using LEAN SEO
- Course Setup
- SEO Frameworks
- SEO Framework: "An SEO framework is as a repeatable system that guides you in building, validating, and expanding your SEO efforts."
- The Lean SEO Framework
- Lean SEO steps:
- research
- create
- test
- measure
- scale
- Benefits of the Lean SEO Framework
- Module Summary
SEO Discovery
- Introduction
- SEO discovery is not part of LEAN Seo
- Website Exploration
- Website being Discovered
- Google Search Console
- if you have an xml sitemap, submit it to Google Search Console
- Google Analytics
- analytics intelligence: allows you to get insight into your website by providing prompts
- - show me pages with the highest bounching rates
- - what is my worst loading page?
- - etc ...
- Search Results
- Search Operators
- redirects can play an important role within SEO
- text search operator: intext
- Search Operators
- Sara's Case Study
- Website Purpose
- use case for a subdomain
- Competitive Health Status
- Competitive Metrics
- CHS Survey
- Data Driven Approach
- four areas to consider
- Content focus, content depth, page strength, domain strength
- Competitive Metrics
- MozBar
- a chrome extension
- shows page authority, domain authority, spam score
- Google Keyword Planner
- you can search keywords by url
- it give you insight into how google views your site
- Screaming Frog
- Connecting the Data
- SEO by Industry
- Conclusion
Conducting Content-driven Research
- Introduction
- Phase I: Research
- Retiring Keyword Research
- The Search Demand Curve
- Two Schools of SEO Thought (Both are time consuming and risky)
- Build backlinks to rank on head keywords
- - head strategy might be too competitive
- Build content to rank on longtail keywords
- - longtail strategy might not have enough traffic
- The New Approach: Content-based Research
- Phrase Based Indexing
- The Problems with Latent Semantic Indexing
- LSI is an erroneous SEO belief that search engines use algorithms to learn a wide variety of related synonyms based on keywords.
- phrase based indexing is not the same thing as latent semantic indexing
- Introducing Content Types
- Finding Content Types
- Approach #1: Google Suggest
- Approach #2: Your Website
- Approach #3: Successful Websites
- User Intent & Content Types
- Intent-phraseology
- Keyword Intent
- Content Intent
- Action Items
- Module Review
Running Your SEO Experiment
- Introduction
- Revisiting CHS
- Phase 2 Create
- In the lean SEO framework, targeted, high-quality content is the right content
- use content that is doing well in search results but do it better
- Understanding MVCs
- What MVCs Are Not
- Tactics to Develop MVCs
- Tactic #1: Popular
- Tactic #2 Expert-based
- Tactic #3: Vuration
- Thoughts on Al
- Minimum Viable Optimization
- You title should have a strong call to action to entice people to click
- Google Expectations
- Adapting the Lean SEO Framework
- Fixing Relevancy
- Fixing Authority
- Phase 3: Testing
- Actions Items
- Module Summary
Data-driven Decision Making
- Introduction
- Phase 4: Measure
- Increased Visibility & Targeted Traffic
- User Engagement
- Conversions
- KPIs- Make a Wish Foundation
- KPIs- Devin Super Tramp
- KPIs- Underground Anime Crew
- PPS Meeting
- Pivoting
- Persistance
- Scaling
- Phase 6: Scaling
- Content Enhance
- Content Flow
- Content Amplify
- Module Summary
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