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Complete SEO Training With Top SEO Expert Peter Kent! (Udemy.com)

Win The SEO Game & Dominate The Search Engines With the Author of Best-Selling Search Engine Optimization for Dummies.

Created by: Peter Kent

Last updated March 2018

Our take

Based on the ratings of 5,515 students, a sample of their written reviews and the syllabus, as the course stood in March 2018. No course pays to be reviewed.

Peter Kent, author of the Dummies books on search engine optimization, built this for people who own or manage websites and know they need SEO. It runs about 8 hours across 158 lectures in 20 sections: keywords, site preparation, content, page tags, structured data, submitting to search engines, local search, and a long stretch on links. Most lessons are short. It also aims at people who hire an SEO firm and want to judge the work. Basic web knowledge is assumed, SEO knowledge is not.

Reviewers like the plain teaching. One says it gave a complete novice a solid base, another calls Kent dynamic, and one says it cleared away SEO myths. Of 5,515 ratings, 2,893 are five stars and 1,749 are four. The complaints are consistent too. The last update was March 2018, and students say the Search Console lessons show an interface that no longer exists. Low-star reviewers call it too long, heavy on history and old client mistakes, light on hands-on demos, with poor audio in the bonus section and unanswered questions.

It holds up better than its age suggests as a way to learn the mechanics. One reviewer says Kent blends the older concepts with newer techniques. Treat the tool screens as a guide to what to look for, then check the current versions yourself. With almost 40,000 students, it's a popular, fairly short option for owners and managers. Anyone who wants step by step practice on a live site should look elsewhere.

Best forSmall business owners and site managers who want SEO basics explained plainly, enough to supervise an agency.
Skip it ifYou want current Search Console walkthroughs or hands-on exercises, not a lecture-style tour of the basics.

Pros

  • Short lessons across 20 sections, easy to take in small bites
  • Plain explanations that a reviewer with no SEO background found easy to follow
  • Covers local search, structured data and link building, not just keywords
  • Helps owners judge SEO agencies and avoid scams, per the course description

Cons

  • Last updated in 2018, and reviewers say the Search Console screens are out of date
  • Heavy on history and lecture, with little hands-on demonstration
  • Bonus section audio is poor, and reviewers say student questions go unanswered
I really knew nothing about SEO and now I feel confident have a good base knowledge of the concepts and why SEO is important. He did a great job of explaining a complicated subject in ways that helped it make sense to a novice.
Erica Atkins, a student

Listed for all levels and fine for SEO newcomers, but basic web page knowledge is expected, per the requirements.

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What you will learn

  • An understanding of how to rank a Web site high up in the major search engines using SEO
  • The knowledge you need to do the SEO work yourself or supervise an SEO optimization team or outside SEO firm.

Course content

20 sections · 158 lectures · 8 hours of video 6 quizzes, 45 articles

  1. 1Getting Started 3 free previews3 lectures · 8 min
  2. 2Picking Powerful Keywords 1 free preview8 lectures · 1 quiz · 27 min
  3. 3Preparing Your Site 1 free preview14 lectures · 1 quiz · 48 min
  4. 4Your First Small Steps7 lectures · 15 min
  5. 5Understanding the Role of Content9 lectures · 29 min
  6. 6Basic Page Optimization - "Hidden" Code8 lectures · 3 quizzes · 21 min
  7. 7Basic Page Optimization - "Visible" Code6 lectures · 1 quiz · 19 min
  8. 8Basic Page Optimization – A Few More Good Things5 lectures · 9 min
  9. 9Using Structured Data Markup10 lectures · 19 min
  10. 10“Submitting” to Search Engines11 lectures · 17 min

Who it is for

The instructor says it suits

  • This course was created for people who own, manage, or develop Web sites...and know they need SEO
  • Great for Web developers wanting to learn SEO so they can optimize their employer's or clients' sites
  • People managing Web sites, even if not very technical, will find the course useful for avoiding the many SEO scams
  • Small business people who want to get more traffic to their site will find the course helpful, whether optimizing their own sites or employing an SEO firm
  • Businesses employing outside SEO firms will be able to understand what the SEO firms should be doing ... and if they're doing SEO right!
  • Online marketers who need an understanding of SEO

What you need before you start

  • Basic knowledge of getting around on the Internet and building Web pages, even if through a simple page-building tool.
  • You may not know how to work with Web pages, but this course will still provide the information you need to supervise a Web-development team in the area of SEO.
  • You *Don't* Need to Know Anything About SEO ... Because I'll Be Explaining All the SEO You Need!

How it compares

Against the other 112 rated Udemy courses in SEO on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 42% of them
  • Reviews5,515#6 of 113 by number of reviews
  • Length8 hourslonger than 73% of them
  • Last updatedMarch 2018earlier than 89% of them

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Overall Score : 88 / 100

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Course Description

LEARN & IMPLEMENT SEO THAT PRODUCES RESULTS! GET YOUR WEBSITE TO THE TOP OF THE MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES!

When your potential customers and site visitors search at Google, Bing, and Yahoo! ... does your Web site appear in the results? At or near the top?

If not, this course can help! At the end of this course you'll have a firm understanding of how SEO (Search Engine Optimization) works and how you can use it to boost traffic to your site.

SEO That Works!

Search Engine Optimization seems to be a dark art … full of confusion, misconceptions, misleading information, and outright scams. But at heart, SEO is pretty simple, and this course explains it all:

  • Picking the Best Keywords for SEO
  • Preparing Your Site, Including Avoiding Things that Hurt Your Site SEO
  • Understanding the Role of Content in SEO
  • Optimizing Your Pages – Meta Tags, Formatting Body Text & Images, etc.
  • Boosting SEO with Structured Data Markup
  • “Submitting" Your Site to Search Engines and Directories
  • Local-Search SEO
  • Understanding the Importance of Links in SEO and How they Work for You
  • Finding Places to Get Great Links to Your Site

Is This Course for You?

Perhaps you own a small business, and your success depends on your Web site. Maybe you're a Web developer, and you want to do a better job for your clients--and your clients do want SEO!--or you are responsible for your employer's Web site and are feeling pressure to get it ranked in the search engines. Or maybe you have hired an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) company and are not sure that they are doing a good job…or are about to hire an optimization company and have heard the SEO horror stories from friends and colleagues.

Whatever your situation, this course, will take you through the process step-by-step, with commonsense advice and simple examples. Search Engine Optimization is not brain surgery, there are basic rules that, if you follow, will bring success.

Content and Overview

This course of over seven-and-a-half hours, 157 easy-to-digest lectures, and 40 documents with links to useful resources explains the basics of a powerful SEO campaign.

You'll begin by understanding the importance of keywords to SEO, how to find out what people are actually searching for online and how often, and how to pick the right SEO keywords. You'll also hear about the things you can do to your site to prepare, to ensure the site has the best chance to rank well.

I'll explain the role of content – text – in your Web pages, and how to optimize the various important tags in your page. You'll also hear about structured data markup, a way to tell the search engines what the content in your pages actually represents – products, software, reviews, people, music, articles, and more.

You'll learn the best ways to “submit" your site to the search engines, how to work with search directories, and about the Webmaster accounts, in particular Google Search Console.

You'll also hear about what is often the hardest part about search engine optimization, linking … getting links from other sites pointing back to yours. I'll explain in detail why this is so important, how links should be structured, and how to get them.

By the end of this course you'll have a solid foundation in SEO and be able to optimize your site, or to supervise developers and SEO firms to ensure the job is done right.

SEO really is not brain surgery ... or rocket science. There's so much information about SEO on the Web, you can get overwhelmed by the information overload. But SEO is actually relatively simple. Don't be blinded by the science. Kent leads you through easy to understand SEO strategies that really work!

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Instructor Details

Peter Kent

I'm the author of dozens of Internet-related books since 1993, including SEO for Dummies and Search Engine Optimization for Dummies, the Complete Idiot's Guide to the Internet, and Pay Per Click Search Engine Marketing for Dummies. I also have three training courses running on Lynda .com.

I've been working in SEO/search engine optimization since late in the last century, and for the last decade have been helping companies, large and small, with SEO and online-marketing strategies. I've helped Amazon, Zillow, Avvo, Lonely Planet, and hundreds more companies, from multi-million dollar operations to single-person businesses. My style is down-to-earth and commonsense; my goal is to cut through the hype and nonsense in the SEO world and present the basic facts that you need to succeed.

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Reviews

4.4

5,515 ratings on Udemy

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By Michael Mansano on 11/14/2020

Yes, it was a good match. Thank you for providing complete and comprehensive explanations on the subject.

By Illya Derekh on 11/7/2020

A bit outdated info for 2020

By Unomena (Pty) Ltd. on 11/7/2020

Good information, learned a lot about SEO.

By Ronald A Buck on 10/26/2020

The information is very easy to follow and thorough.

By Alexey Kopchinskiy on 10/24/2020

I love listening lectures in such a good English

By Michael E. on 10/17/2020

well done and structured; moves along inter right speed

By Gustafsson Linda on 10/6/2020

Easy instructions sith great facts and no unnecessary info

By Shahar Yar on 10/1/2020

Very Good instructor, but course is very old, they are using old google search console which cant easy to understand, and now no more exits

By Craig Cuthbert on 9/26/2020

I quite enjoyed this class. Peter Kent explains how SEO works in a very clear and concise manner. Very easy to follow along. Very organized section by section. Worth it!

By James Miralia on 9/24/2020

It's a bit out of date, but generally provides some good nuggets of wisdom in it.

By Pixel Perfect on 9/23/2020

Vero good so far

By ROSHAN KS VLOGS on 9/23/2020

Thank You Peter Kent for this wonderful course. I'am giving you 5 star rating for this amazing content.

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