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Understand the basics and delve further into the specifics of technical SEO with this free in-depth course from renowned SEO expert Bastian Grimm.
Get a comprehensive and detailed overview of technical SEO from renowned industry expert Bastian Grimm in a series of video lessons.
Whether you’ve just started doing SEO and need to familiarize yourself with technical SEO or you want to gain greater expertise in a specific technical SEO topic, this course is definitely for you. If you work as a consultant or agency side handling technical SEO topics, you should join the course to gain an understanding of technical concepts and learn how to avoid any potential issues.
Features:- 34 video lessons created in cooperation with renowned industry expert Bastian Grimm
- Get a comprehensive and detailed overview of technical SEO in just 5 hours
- The course is 100% free, saving your money for the real SEO endeavors
Overview
Syllabus
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- Internal Linking: Get introduced to internal linking within website pages, how to prioritize relevant links, using link hubs, multiple linking, and the best practices for nofollow links. This is a great module for those who wish to start learning technical SEO.
- Introduction to internal linking and accessibility of content
- Prioritization and relevancy
- Seasonality, link hubs, multiple linking, nofollow
- XML sitemaps
- Crawling and Indexation: Best Practices for Controlling Web Crawlers: In this technical SEO module with Bastian Grimm, you'll gain an understanding of search crawlers and how to optimally budget for them.
- Introduction to crawl budget optimization
- The crawler landscape
- User-Agents / Reverse-DNS
- Robots.txt
- Robots Meta tags
- Canonical tags
- Advanced Crawling and Indexation: You will get a deeper understanding of how to manage crawling and indexation.
- Strategic crawl management
- Faceted Navigation / PRG
- Pagination
- X-robots header
- HTTP Response Codes: You will learn about HTTP header fields, which transmit the parameters and arguments important for the file transfer via HTTP protocol.
- Introduction to HTTP header fields & response codes
- 3XX: redirects (301 vs. 302, redirect chains)
- 4XX: client-side error handling (404 vs. 410, etc.)
- 5XX: server-side error handling and maintenance (incl. retry-after header)
- Log files: Log files contain the history of every person or crawler that has accessed your website. In this module, you will learn how to deal with log files.
- Intro to log file auditing
- Log file auditing tools & their differences
- Log file auditing reports
- Overlaying crawl & log file data for better results
- International SEO: Essential for those wishing to be successful with International SEO. Learn how to help search engines easily identify your target countries and the languages you use for business.
- Introduction and multi-/international domain setups
- Geo redirects & CDNs
- Hreflang setup
- Web Performance: You will get advice on how to optimize your website performance and implement HTTPS and HTTP/2.
- Intro to web performance optimization, Metrics / Measurements / Tools
- Site Speed Basics: Client-side
- Site Speed Basics: Server-side
- HTTPS, SSL, and HTTP/2
- Advanced site speed optimization: images, custom fonts, CRP
- Technology: This is a key module of our technical SEO course. Learn what not to overlook when it comes to structured data, AMP, JavaScript SEO, and mobile-first indexing. A technical SEO checklist can be developed here.
- Structured Data / schema.org
- Accelerated Mobile Pages
- JavaScript SEO Basics
- Google's Mobile First Indexing Intro