Drive more traffic to your website: A beginner’s guide to SEO

Drive more traffic to your website: A beginner’s guide to SEO

Jamie Marsland demystifies search engine optimisation and shows you how to drive high quality traffic to your website.

By The Guardian Masterclasses

Date and time

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 07:00 - 10:00 PST

Location

Online

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About this event

If you have a website for your brand but it’s not getting the attention it deserves, you might have realised already that the not-so-secret answer to your business needs is to optimise your search engine rankings. Having your website appear higher up in Google search results will inevitably drive more traffic to your brand, ultimately helping you to build out a robust content marketing strategy and a base of loyal customers.

This afternoon virtual masterclass, with Pootlepress founder Jamie Marsland, has been designed for beginners to the world of SEO. Discover the fundamentals of how search engines work and why they favour some links over others, how to optimise your strategy to outrank your competitors, and how to ultimately build your customer base.

Importantly, you will leave this class having understood how to drastically improve the discoverability of your website, and will have started to create your own content marketing plan, preparing your business for the attention and success it deserves.

Course Content

  • Understand how search engines work
  • Keywords: what are they and why does it matter which ones you should use?
  • How to rank higher in Google, and get more traffic
  • How to outrank your competitors
  • Start your own content marketing plan
  • Common mistakes to avoid
  • Q&A

This course is for ...

  • Freelancers, business owners, aspiring entrepreneurs and marketing professionals
  • Anyone looking to sharpen their digital marketing skills

Tutor Profile

Jamie Marsland is the founder of Pootlepress, a business specialising in WordPress training. Over the past four years, Jamie has trained more than 2,500 people on WordPress, and is passionate about the future of the web. Find Pootlepress on Twitter here.

Course Details

  • Date: Tuesday 18 January 2022
  • Time: 3pm-6pm (GMT)

3pm GMT | 4pm CEST | 7am PDT | 10am EDT

This masterclass is available globally. If you are joining us from outside the United Kingdom, please use this time zone converter to check your local live streaming time.

You will be sent a link to the webinar two hrs before the start time. Please email masterclasses@theguardian.com if you have not received the access link within one hour of the scheduled start time.

All Guardian Masterclasses are fully accessible but please contact us at masterclasses@theguardian.com if you have any queries or concerns.

Full course and returns information on the Masterclasses website

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Welcome to Guardian Masterclasses – a unique programme of learning embedded within one of the world's most forward-thinking media organisations.

We offer a broad range of short and long courses across a variety of disciplines from creative writing, journalism, photography and design, film and digital media, music and cultural appreciation.

Harnessing the expertise and specialisms within the organisation, our courses are led by first class and award winning guardian professionals whilst also drawing on the skills and expertise of other leading figures at the forefront of the creative and digital industries.

The programme is aimed at anyone interested in personal or professional development whether that be refining your skills, focusing your ambition or simply broadening your mind and gaining inspiration.

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