15.01. Basic SEO for Designers

Learning SEO gives us a more holistic view of how our design content will be indexed by search engines. All thanks to Brian Dean's free Backlinko content!

01. Learn the basics of SEO for designers

Learn the basic concepts and terms of SEO, the differences with SEM and the most common metrics.
What Is SEO?
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Search Engine Positioning
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What’s the Difference Between SEO and SEM?
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Search Engine Ranking Factors
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SEO Best Practices
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SEO Metrics
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What is SEO Friendly Web Design?
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What Are SERPs?
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02. Learn how to conduct keyword research for your designs.

To perform good content indexing we have to focus on a number of keywords based on their difficulty, volume or other factors.
SEO Keywords
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Keyword Difficulty
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Choosing Keywords
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Long Tail Keywords
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03. How to optimize SEO content

We must think about what strategy we have to follow when it comes to optimising our content in order to position ourselves and maximise our performance and visibility.
SEO Writing
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Meta Descriptions
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SEO Friendly URLs
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Internal Linking
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Semantic SEO
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Rich Snippets
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LSI Keywords
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Featured Snippets
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04. Learn how to optimize On-Page SEO

Technical SEO is key to optimising our web structure, performance and content so that search engines are able to crawl us.
Website Architecture
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Sitemaps
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Crawl Budget
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Page Speed and SEO
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Robots.txt
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Duplicate Content
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05. How to do Link Building to increase your authority

If you get other websites to reference you, this counts as a series of votes for the search engines and will help you to rank higher than others.
Backlinks
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Level Beginner
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Broken Link Building
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Link Bait
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Resource Page Link Building
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Original Research and Data
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06. Metrics to measure your SEO performance

The user experience is key when it comes to retaining and satisfying users with our website and content, so measuring these metrics will guarantee the quality of our website.
Dwell Time
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Bounce Rate
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Pogo sticking
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Organic CTR
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Search Intent
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Core Web Vitals
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07. The most used tools for SEO

There are hundreds of tools in the SEO world, but here Brian Dean explains the most used, common and efficient ones.
SEMrush
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Yoast SEO Plugin
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Moz Pro
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Raven Tools
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Ubersuggest
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08. Advanced SEO for designers

Outside of the day-to-day, there are certain more entrepreneurial fields or methods that require a much greater investment of time or resources, but with obvious rewards.
Measuring SEO Results
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Level Medium
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Content Gap Analysis
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Level Medium
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Content Audits
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Level Medium
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Search Engine Visibility
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Level Medium
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SERP Features
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Level Medium
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Building an SEO Team
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Level Advanced
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Enterprise SEO
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Level Advanced
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