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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - One Day Course

Course Code:DPZ112R

Course Type:Short-course

Qualification: There is no associated qualification.

Duration: One Day

Date/Venue/Cost: 18 October 2012, Horsham Training Centre, £155.00

Suitable For: Suitable for web developers, designers or website owners/managers and marketers. This seminar will include some basic programming examples given in the reference handbook but will focus primarily on overall concepts and best practices within Search Engine Optimisation.

Entry By: Direct Entry

Course Content:

- Content types and how they affect searching (including: multimedia, pdf, and images)
- Metadata including using keywords and descriptions
- keyword density
- Using and benefiting from friendly URL’s (including incorporating keywords into your page URLs)
- Information Architecture
- The importance of incoming links from other websites
- The importance of using structured markup in your pages
- The benefits of separating content from your design by using CSS based layouts
- The benefits of making any Javascript you use unobtrusive
- Incorporating breadcrumbs and sitemap
- The amount of websites linking to your website and their popularity
- Microformats
- Other options for adding to your search listings… e.g Google Adwords.

Outcome of Course and Progression:

To optimize your web site for better search listings

Further Information:

For further information, please contact the Horsham Training Centre on 01403 218181

Every website owner, designer or developer would like better listings for their website in the major search engines such as Google, but search engine optimization can often appear a difficult subject.
This 2 hour seminar will primarily focus on achieving better Google listings looking at techniques and concepts that will also benefit your website across a range of different search engines.
The seminar will show you a range of good practices which should help improve your sites placement in the first instance and give you a better understanding should you wish to later consider looking to invest in outsourcing this type of work to a specialist company.

Course Times/Timetable:

This course is available on a choice of the following dates:
18th October 2011
6th December 2011
22nd February 2012

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