This one-day course for journalists, publishers, PRs and other online communications professionals will teach you how to use SEO to plan, develop and optimise articles to find readers through Google and other search engines.
This course is now sold out, to book your place on the next date (20 May) click here.
Search engine optimisation (SEO) has changed dramatically in the last few years, with the Panda, Penguin and Hummingbird updates changing the search landscape beyond recognition.
Despite this, many publishers are relying on outdated SEO training that does not take into account recent changes or – worse – is actively harming their site's search performance.
This intensive one-day course, led by Adam Tinworth, is fully updated to incorporate the latest Google changes, including the lack of keyword referral data and Hummingbird.
This workshop will provide media professionals everything they need to know about SEO and how search engines operate.
As with all Journalism.co.uk courses, the training will focus on the latest tools and techniques with an emphasis on practical, hands-on learning. Tea, coffee and danish pastries plus a sandwich buffet lunch are included.
the idea of 'signals';
the role of links and 'meaning neighbourhoods';
why SEO is always changing – and how to cope;
the role of social sharing;
keywords and ranking – a practical guide to producing optimised copy.
writing headlines and snippets for search;
pictures in search;
intelligent linking;
negative factors in SEO – how not to destroy your search success.
Repeated/poor content:
site speed;
over-optimisation;
poor keyword choice;
isolated content;
recency.
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