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Best beginners course?
Hey r/SEO
In the next few weeks I’m launching my website, and will be wearing all of the hats for the foreseeable future.
My background isn’t in marketing & SEO and I’m hoping you guys are able to point me in the direction of a course that will teach me the basics of SEO, and allow me to get started on my own.
Do ya’ll have any recommendations?
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SEO will likely be changing once google incorporates AI chat assistant into search. We’re probably a few weeks away. Don’t have any predictions but I’ve already been visiting less blogs because I use chatGPT instead.
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LearningSEO.io
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Google has some documentation worth reading. If you search YouTube there are some tutorials. A good way to learn is to keep studying and applying things you learn to your site.
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Ahrefs and SEMRush have great blogs and their YouTube channels provide some good information. Some of the videos are with their program, but some are non related to their software. Twitter is great for resources and people to follow. Search #SEO.
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There’s some weird short learning SEO videos made by Greg Gifford. I think it was published on SEMrush I think but not sure. I thought they were good when I reviewed them one time.
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Yeah! Check out SEMrush academy. It’s all free and you could even get certified through them for free when you pass their exams.
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Don’t waste your money on a course. Read up about SEO and start doing SEO and keeping an eye on the results you get based on changes you made. That is how you learn to do SEO, by doing SEO. Moz and Backlink.io has great content to help beginners, for free.
Every single SEO course you have to pay for is a waste of money since it will never teach you even a smidgen of SEO skills when compared to actually doing SEO to learn SEO.
SEO courses are 100% by grifters and should be avoided at all cost. If you want to spend money on learning SEO, keep that money for when you want to start doing link building. Don’t get fooled by those grifters like Matt Diggity and other SEO grifters into thinking you need to pay anyone anything to learn, understand or do SEO. It’s a giant scam.
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Surfer, SEMRush, and Ahrefs all have excellent learning resources from which you can learn and become certified. They also publish regular blogs with actionable tips for improving a website’s SEO. Incorporating this and practicing with the tools will assist you in mastering your SEO skills.
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As others have mentioned, Ahrefs and SEMRush blogs are a great place to start, many “basic beginner” articles. I also like Yoast’s blog. While they sell a WordPress SEO plugin, their blog content is pretty solid for general SEO and getting started.
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I would recommend to go on Youtube and watch everything you can find with “Kyle Roof”. He seems to be honest with the stuff he does and search for his “rhinoplasty” case study which got Google to notice him.
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Whatever you do, just start pouring your knowledge into essays and stuff like that.
Research your subject matter to figure out what headers the best results are using to rank for it.
Use their content to figure out how Google’s likes the format of it to be presented.
And at some point, the learning curves for writing content and learning SEO will intersect, and you’ll be able to publish it and optimize it and rank for it.
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Hey! I have a beginners course I’d be happy to share with you for free (usually paid). DM me and I’ll send you the link
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If you are creating a website from scratch. That’s honestly the best training there is. It’s going to teach you systems, html, CSS, and some of the more technical SEO things.
Starting from scratch also let’s you do alot of a/b testing to see what’s going to work for your specific niche before you make an entire site that essentially doesn’t work and you have to restart.
In terms of some more info on systems, marketing, one page seo, off page seo, etc. You will have to search through some shitty courses BUT udemy does have some pretty good free courses that can actually teach you a thing or too. As someone mentioned earlier learningseo.io is another great option.
Ahrefs, semrush, and yoast all have free “academy classes” where at the end they “certify you” in using there systems. The classes range from technical stuff to keyword research, on page and off page and how to use there systems to tweak.
Then there are some places like searchenginejournal that you can keep tabs on for updated info etc.
You’ll also want to get yourself acquainted with Google analytics and Google search console.
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SEMRush, Moz, and aHrefs have a very large repository of excellent content to get started. Avoid Neil Patel at all costs. Also checkout our tool if you want to automate some tasks.
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I don’t know why no one recommended it but there is a specialization course on coursera about SEO from California Davis university. It’s actually very good I think you can enroll it for free without the certificate or buy it with certificate. Also YouTube channels like SEM rush and Ahrefs and Moz are very good and reliable. Wish you luck SEO is very interesting skill nowadays.
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