DMAnc.org Online Certification Workshops
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Individual live online workshops $300 each, Now $225 each
Special Series Pricing: 35% discount for all three SEO live online workshops $900 $585. Enroll here.
Special Series Pricing: All three SEO live online workshops + Mobile-first Design for $1,200 $675. Enroll here.
Use SEO for Digital Marketing
Why Take this Course
Your website must show up in Google. This three-workshop series shows you what to do to get your pages higher on Google to get more visitors, leads, and sales. We show you how to use testing to find the best keywords, titles, and images for your pages.
We cover the four major areas of SEO:
- Keyword research: How to find the best keywords and spoken queries.
- On-page SEO: How to improve what your visitors see on the page.
- Technical SEO: How to fix many small technical issues.
- Off-page SEO: Additional steps to improve your page’s ranking in Google.
The workshops include lots of examples, tips, notes, and insights so you’ll understand what these mean. You’ll see dozens of tactics to apply, including code for you to copy, edit, paste, and use. You can also apply many ideas from SEO to your digital ads, social media, video, and content marketing.
The SEO course is presented in three workshops.
New Tactics for 2022
The DMAnc.org SEO course has been completely updated for 2022. You’ll see methods on how to test keywords, meta-tags, pages, and more to get data so you can find the best results. We’ve added many new SEO tactics, tools, and methods. You’ll also see a unique section on how to understand the data for statistical confidence (using basic arithmetic). No other course or book offers this.
Part 1: SEO Keyword Research
Individual live online workshops $300 each, Now $225 each. Enroll here for SEO Fundamentals LIVE, Friday, September 23, 2022 (12:00 pm to 2:00 pm PDT).
Individual live online workshops $300 each, Now $225 each.
Part 1 LIVE Workshop Dates:
- September 23, 2022 (Friday, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm PDT): Enroll here
- Pre-recorded: Enroll here
Special Series Pricing: 35% discount for all three SEO live online workshops $900 $585. Enroll here.
Special Series Pricing: All three SEO live online workshops + Mobile-first Design for $1,200 $675. Enroll here.
The first session starts with Keyword Research, the basic first step of SEO. You’ll see how to use eight advanced tools to find the keywords that your audience uses to search for your company, products, and services. You’ll also see how to find the keywords that bring traffic to your competitors. You use these keywords and keyword phrases to write your meta-tags (TITLE tags and DESCRIPTION tags), page headings, body text, image captions, links, and more.
Like keyword research, you’ll also see how to find the questions that your audience uses about your company, products, and services. You can use these questions to write pages, ads, social posts, content marketing, and make videos.
The secret to keyword research is testing. Which keyword works best? You test the words to collect data. There is an easy way to quickly test thousands of keywords to find the ones that work for you. You’ll al-so see how to convert all keywords to lower case in one step, sort keywords into categories, make per-mutations of the best keywords, and quickly translate keywords into other languages.
Key Takeaways:
- Keyword Research: We look at free tools to find thousands of keywords, including your competitors’ keywords. You’ll also see how to find the questions that your audience uses when they search.
- You’ll see how to test keywords to find the best ones. Use a free tool to make permutations of your top keywords to get yet more keywords and another free tool to translate your keywords into other languages.
- Finally, we look at how Google reviews and selects websites. What are their selection criteria? What do Google’s 8,000 Quality Reviewers look for? This gives you ideas for improving your pages and avoiding red flags.
- Sections include checklists for your work.
Part 2: Optimizing On-Page and Technical SEO
Individual live online workshops $300 each, Now $225 each.
SEO Intermediate LIVE Workshop Dates:
- October 7, 2022 (Friday, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm PDT): Enroll here
- Pre-recorded: Enroll here
Special Series Pricing: 35% discount for all three SEO live online workshops $900 $585. Enroll here.
Special Series Pricing: All three SEO live online workshops + Mobile-first Design for $1,200 $675. Enroll here.
The next step is on-page SEO. This is what people see when they look at your web page. There are many things to improve on the page, so your pages are indexed better, such as site architecture, page design, site search, and video. This also improves the page for your visitors.
We continue with technical SEO. This includes changes to the HTML code so search engines can put your page in the right category and improve your ranking in Google search results. You will see how to find meta-tags in your HTML code. We will cover how to edit the meta-tags, the page heading, the body text, ALT tags, and the text in links. We give you a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that lets you make sure your meta-tags stay within Google’s character limits. You’ll also see a quick way to test meta-tags to get the best ones. We also discuss which pages to choose for SEO work. You’ll also see how to do SEO for images, including how to make changes to the hidden text in images.
We start this workshop with on-page SEO. This is what people see when they look at your web page. There are many things to improve on the page, so your pages are indexed better, such as site architecture, page design, site search, and video. This also improves the page for your visitors.
We continue with technical SEO. This includes changes to the HTML code so search engines can put your page in the right category and improve your ranking in Google search results. You will see how to find meta-tags in your HTML code. We will cover how to edit the meta-tags, the page heading, the body text, ALT tags, and the text in links. We give you a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that lets you make sure your meta-tags stay within Google’s character limits. You’ll also see a quick way to test meta-tags to get the best ones. We also discuss which pages to choose for SEO work. You’ll also see how to do SEO for images, including how to make changes to the hidden text in images.
Key Takeaways
- On-page SEO covers the architecture of the website.
- How to optimize your pages.
- SEO for the text on your page, including headings, body text, and links.
- How to write meta-tags, along with a spreadsheet to manage meta-tags.
- Tools to see the meta-tags on your site (and your competitors’ sites).
- How to do SEO for images, including ALT tags and the hidden meta-data.
- Technical issues include canonical tags and HRefLang tags, 404-error pages, 301-Redirects, how to find and fix broken internal links, and XML sitemaps for pages and images.
- Lots of examples of code for you to copy, edit, paste, and use.
- Checklists for technical SEO.
Part 3: Optimizing SEO Off-page Tactics, Link Building, and Reporting
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Advanced
Individual live online workshops $300 each, Now $225 each.
SEO Advanced LIVE Workshop Dates:
- October 14, 2022 (Friday, 9:00 am – 11:00 am PDT): Enroll here
- Pre-recorded: Enroll here
Special Series Pricing: 35% discount on all three SEO live online workshops $900 $585. Enroll here.
Special Series Pricing: All three SEO live online workshops + Mobile-first Design for $1,200 $675. Enroll here.
In this final session, we look at off-page SEO. This covers changes that you can make outside of your website to improve your visibility, including link building, placing links in news sites, registering in link directories, adding your page to Google My Business, Wikipedia, and more. By making these changes, you’ll get more visitors to your web pages.
We also look at what to put in SEO reports, how to see data for visitors, pages, ranking, keywords, how to justify the cost of SEO work, a list of the most common topics and metrics in SEO, how to set up an SEO helpdesk for your organization, and a list of SEO tools. We add a list of resources to keep up with SEO and digital marketing.
Key Takeaways
- How to optimize off-page SEO (i.e., the changes that you can make outside of your website).
- How to build quality inbound links, which are a key factor in SEO.
- How to check if there are links from your site to bad sites.
- How to block bad (toxic) incoming links.
- How to place your press releases on 100+ media sites, magazines, and newspapers.
- If your organization has dozens (or hundreds) of locations, there’s a way to list all of them on Google.
- How to get your organization in the Knowledge Box at the top of Google.
- How to use web analytics to get data and create reports for SEO.
- How to justify the cost of SEO.
- Resources for information and help in SEO
Mobile-first SEO
Individual live online workshops $300 each, Now $225 each.
Mobile-first SEO LIVE Workshop Dates:
- October 19, 2022 (Wednesday, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm PDT): Enroll here
- Pre-recorded: Enroll here
Special Series Pricing: 35% discount for all three SEO live online workshops $900 $585. Enroll here.
Special Series Pricing: All three SEO live online workshops + Mobile-first Design for $1,200 $675. Enroll here.
How to SEO Optimize Your Website for Mobile-first
Update: In September 2021, Google announced the speed of webpages will also apply to desktop search in February 2022. When people search at Google in either desktop or mobile, the page’s speed is part of the ranking. If there are two pages and everything is equal, the faster page will rank higher. The Mobile-first course has been expanded to cover both desktop and mobile.
This workshop is led by Andreas Ramos, author of 18+ books on digital marketing. He was the Head of Global SEO at Cisco, where he worked with 44 languages in 85 countries. He also founded three digital agencies (one with 170 staff) and was the head of the digital agency at Acxiom, which did digital marketing for Fortune 200 companies. Andreas has trained dozens of interns and staffers and he brings that knowledge to you this two-hour workshop where you’ll learn about updating your website for Google’s Mobile-first indexing.
Our Goal
In this workshop, you will learn how to improve your website for Google’s switch to Mobile-first indexing. You will get clear examples of what this means and step-by-step actionable tactics that you can apply to your organization’s website, so that you do not experience a radical drop off in traffic. You’ll also see how to measure your website to see if it will be compliant with Google’s standards. Examples, links, and code will be included in the workshop that you can copy, edit, and paste.
Why Update to Mobile-first
Whenever Google rolls out a major core update such as Mobile-first indexing, hundreds of thousands of websites suddenly find their traffic takes a nosedive — and they will be scrambling to triage the problem. Many marketing people may lose sleep and their jobs over their lack of preparation for this core update.
What You’ll Learn
- What is Mobile-first? Why websites must update their sites for Google’s Mobile-first core update. What happens if they don’t?
- How to see the trend in mobile traffic at your site.
- The difference between responsive design and Mobile-first design.
- Why most visitors actually have a much slower connection than expected.
- Google’s CWV metrics for Mobile-first: FCP, LCP, CLS, FID: what these mean and how to see the scores.
- Examples of good and bad Mobile-first design: placement of buttons, tracking tags, and content.
- Should you rebuild your website for Mobile-first?
- How to look at your analytics, ranking, and competitors
- How to reduce the text on your site.
- The impact of images and speed. Which images to compress. Comparison of results when compressing images. New image formats. Size of webP, GIFs, SVG, carousels, and video. How to use different sizes of the same image.
- How to use segmentation in Google Analytics to see your mobile traffic and Google Search Console and Google CWV metrics to measure your site’s speed and improvement.
This is a live online webinar with lots of opportunity for your questions.
Key Takeaways
- What are Google’s requirements for Mobile-first?
- What happens if websites don’t design for Mobile-first?
- Do you need to do this? How to use your web analytics and other tools to decide.
- How to reduce the KB size of text on your site.
- How to reduce the KB size of images on your site with image formats, image compression, offer multiple sizes, and sample lines of code.
- How to Use Google Analytics’ device segmentation and other Google tools.
The Presentations
- The workshops are hands-on and practical.
- The workshops are live so that you can ask your questions. If the course doesn’t fit in your calendar, you can take the course as a recorded class.
- Step-by-step instructions in numbered lists with the links so you can do this yourself.
- Included are lots of illustrations and examples. You can copy the examples, edit them, and use them in your work.
- The presentations feature two fictional companies in B2C and B2B. You can apply these examples to your company, non-profits, and other organizations.
- List of selected items for additional reading.
Download Material
- Recorded video of the presentation with slides and audio.
- PDF of the complete presentation.
- Spreadsheet for managing meta-tags.
- Spreadsheet for managing keywords.
- List of additional reading.
- Google’s internal training manual for their page quality review team.
Who is the course for?
- Organizations, including B2C and B2B companies, government, and non-profits
- Organizations that want to improve their SEO presence in search engines.
- You will be able to understand how to use SEO so you can manage projects, staffers, agencies, or contractors.
- Agencies to improve their SEO services.
- Anyone who wants to work in SEO.
(Can’t attend the live workshop? No problem. All workshops are recorded and we’ll send you the recording, workbook and any supplementary materials within a day of completion after we’ve had time to edit the recording.)
Instructor: Andreas Ramos
Special offer from our sponsor MountainTop Data: Workshop attendees will receive $1,000 in free B2B data credits for attending.
What’s Next:
You can continue DMA-NC workshops with Andreas Ramos for Google Ads, social media, analytics, and more. You’ll see how to install and configure these. You’ll also see how to use them separately or together in a combined digital marketing strategy.
Testimonials
The session provided an excellent overview of SEO, and the basics for analyzing and optimizing our sites.
Overall content of the class was very detailed. Instructor was concise and direct in his explanations, and had a clear sense of direction in his presentation.
This was great, answered 99% of my Google questions in an efficient 2 hour format.
Very relevant and timely, presented in easy to understand fashion.
Slides were very detailed and informative.
Lots of excellent data. Great actionable information tools and guidelines.
Great technical info – very usable! Thanks!
This workshop was perfect for me – just the right amount of information at the right level. I will take it back to the company and find out how we analyze and make some suggestions where necessary.
Discussed strategy and practical tips.
Smart use of language that lined up with the presentation.
Great preso!
This workshop is a great idea and great job pulling together.
Comprehensive coverage of available tools. Examples and best practices of different tactics.
Love all the case studies shared from the panelists.
My favorite presentation. You kept it REAL. Honesty is why I came here. I didn’t want a vendor pitch. I came here for subject matter expertise.
Insightful & timely actionable information I can take to the bank – great use case examples and fresh perspective on ABM.
Provided a great start to the presentation that was though out and beneficial.
The content and information of the presentation was awesome and the instructor clearly and effectively communicated the teaching, It would be great if the actual presentations slides had less words and were a bit more designed and polished to help visually assist the concepts and learnings.
DMA always provides great speakers on timely topics.
John clearly knows his area of expertise. A very broad topic with many layers is hard to convey in a brief timeframe, and he was quite effective in doing so.
Excellent subject matter and panel. Keep them coming.
Excellent overview , this made my time worthwhile today!
Important updates and discussion on critical B2B lead generating efforts.
A great collection of information that I [will] begin to implement immediately into my direct marketing strategies.
Well prepared presentations w/real world examples and speakers.
I found the material relevant, timely & current. This is info that you can’t get anywhere else. Audience participation makes the day.
Great presentation informing about a marketing strategy tactic that I wasn’t very familiar with. Will be considering in our mix for the future.
Yes! Every time I attend a DMA luncheon, I walk away pleased w/the investment of my time. It is always worthwhile for me to carve out the time.
Very valuable info that can apply across verticles.
Really liked the forum – panel discussion. Great, knowledgable speakers, work well together.
Just a bunch of great insights & tips.
Really liked the various backgrounds of the speakers & different perspectives they brought!
Very well run, comfortable setting to ask questions in & I appreciate the different perspectives of the panelists.
Incredible presentation! Engaging and insightful until the very end!
What a wonderful way to spend an afternoon – eating a delicious lunch and learning about valuable marketing topics.
Marketing changes so quickly with new technologies & approaches. DMA helps me keep up!
Detailed, in-depth information across social platforms that you can’t find elsewhere.
The depth of information was quite good and I particularly found helpful the focus on applicable marketing use cases.
Real-world true-life tales from the frontline of B2B marketing.
My favorite presentation. You kept it REAL. Honesty is why I came here. I didn’t want a vendor pitch. I came here for subject matter expertise.
A lot of info, mostly new to me but very educational. Will look for ways to implement what we learned into practice.
Very informative & entertaining. Learned a lot in two hours.
Excellent presentation about a very interesting business topic.
DMAnc continues to provide helpful, in-depth training that is applicable, relevant, and expert driven.
This workshop gave a great overview of the insight that Google Analytics can provide. Though I have been using Google Analytics for years this course still provided new ways of thinking and reporting that I will be applying when analyzing my company’s website.
