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

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Jamie Marsland demystifies search engine optimisation and shows you how to drive traffic to your website that is not only high in quantity, but in quality

Online workshop
Date:
Monday 18 September 2023
Times:
3pm-6pm
Catch up recording available

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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 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.

This course is for…

  • Freelancers, business owners, aspiring entrepreneurs and marketing professionals

  • Anyone looking to sharpen their digital marketing skills

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

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.

Details

  • This course has now passed, but you can be the first to know about the next one - and other workshops like this - by signing up to our newsletter here.

Date: Monday 18 September 2023
Times: 3pm-6pm (BST)
Price: £149 (plus £7.39 booking fee)

A catch up recording will be shared after the class and will be available for two weeks.

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.

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