2024 SEO Link Building: #1 SEO Ranking Tactic (Backlinks)

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Link building course introduction

Lecture 1: Link building course welcome, how to take it, and what to expect

Lecture 2: For good students – free link to help your link building right away

Chapter 2: What's working to get links easily today

Lecture 1: What link building strategies are working to get links easily in 2024

Chapter 3: Easiest links you can create on day one: Links from your own page

Lecture 1: Easiest link building – Interlink your own pages

Lecture 2: ADVANCED INTERLINKING: Links from a page to the same page for extra SEO boost

Chapter 4: Get Google Citations And Brand Mentions Starting Today

Lecture 1: What are Google Citations: Citations vs. hyperlink links (backlinks)

Lecture 2: Citation through your LinkedIn profile's page

Lecture 3: Finding industry specific sites to get citations for more easy link building

Chapter 5: What to know about a link to tell if it is good

Lecture 1: What makes a link good: Relevance, authority and more

Lecture 2: No-follow vs. follow links

Lecture 3: Google update: No-follow update and the new UGC and Sponsored attribute

Lecture 4: Exercise for choosing where to get links

Lecture 5: Exercise for choosing where to get links – answer

Chapter 6: Link building by link-begging, which is a brute-force strategy that works

Lecture 1: Link building by link begging introduction

Chapter 7: Guest blogging

Lecture 1: Blogging and guest blogging for links and SEO: Only good guest-blogging sites

Lecture 2: Guest blogging pitch script

Lecture 3: Exercise – reverse a pitch and turn it in it into a backlink

Lecture 4: Exercise answer – reverse a pitch and turn it in it into a backlink

Chapter 8: Ranking factors

Lecture 1: Google SEO trends for 2023 and what to focus on

Chapter 9: Linkable asset: having something attractive for others to link to

Lecture 1: Before getting links, have something worthwhile to link to

Lecture 2: How to make more attractive pages with copywriting

Lecture 3: Cornerstone SEO pages that get shared more and rank better

Lecture 4: Let users build a business or have something valuable on your site to link to

Lecture 5: Linkable asset exercise

Lecture 6: Linkable asset exercise – answer

Chapter 10: How to get links with many different strategies for off page SEO

Lecture 1: How to get links on Wikipedia

Lecture 2: Google alerts

Lecture 3: Build relationships and ask your professional contacts to link to you

Lecture 4: Pay for product reviews (comes with a link)

Lecture 5: Post job openings

Lecture 6: Create discount offers and post them on discount websites

Lecture 7: List of discount sites

Chapter 11: Using the Google link disavow for bad links

Lecture 1: Using the Google link disavow for bad links

Chapter 12: SEMRush SEO tool for competitor backlink research or your backlink analysis

Lecture 1: Registering for SEMRush

Lecture 2: Finding a link to my site where my page was gone and fixing it to regain SEO

Lecture 3: Finding citation opportunities

Lecture 4: Finding old links and having ways to get many more links from those sites

Lecture 5: Competitor link research for SEO

Lecture 6: How my competitor got great links

Lecture 7: Backlink audit to find toxic links to disavow

Chapter 13: How to get links from .gov websites

Lecture 1: Introduction to .gov backlinks section

Lecture 2: Using discounts for government employees to get links

Lecture 3: Links from .gov sites through employment opportunities

Lecture 4: Example of .gov site with links

Chapter 14: How to get .edu links from authoritative universities

Lecture 1: Introduction to .edu link, and which are good and bad

Lecture 2: How to get edu links with internships

Lecture 3: How to get .edu links with scholarships

Lecture 4: Edu link exercise

Lecture 5: Edu link exercise – answer

Chapter 15: Events to get links, publicity, and also clients

Lecture 1: How to use events to build links

Lecture 2: Walkthrough of how to get links from event sites

Chapter 16: Get publicity, clients and links with press releases

Lecture 1: How to be effective at pitching HARO to get more publicity and links

Lecture 2: Links and traffic from podcasts and radio shows

Chapter 17: Google penalty targeting bad links and how to avoid it

Lecture 1: Google update – penalizing some linking strategies

Lecture 2: Penguin penalty targeting links

Chapter 18: Linking out

Lecture 1: Industry research on linking out to boost rankings

Chapter 19: How to get links using infographics to boost link-building and off-page SEO

Lecture 1: Free site to get extra free images and infographics

Lecture 2: How to create your infographic so you can make more attractive posts

Chapter 20: For local businesses

Lecture 1: Local organic search and 3-pack ranking factors for local searches

Chapter 21: Webmaster tools to check search performance and crawling & indexing status

Lecture 1: Disclaimer to this section in case you don't have a website

Lecture 2: Setting up your Google Search Console, formerly known as Webmaster Tools

Lecture 3: SEO definitions for beginners

Lecture 4: Submitting new URLs and checking for page status and indexing

Lecture 5: What if your page doesn't get indexed by Google

Lecture 6: Where your pages are ranking and page/query performance

Chapter 22: Google Analytics

Lecture 1: Introduction to Google Analytics 4

Lecture 2: Diving a little deeper into Google Analytics 4

Lecture 3: Setting up Google Analytics 4

Lecture 4: How To Connect GA4 To Your Website Data Stream

Lecture 5: Demo of Google Analytics 4 for a Google website and custom reports

Lecture 6: How to use the Google Search Console and Google Analytics together

Chapter 23: Tools for link-building

Lecture 1: SEOQuake Chrome plugin to research competition

Lecture 2: Revive Old Posts plugin for social sharing, scheduling & SEO boost

Chapter 24: Press releases for link-building

Lecture 1: Press release section introduction

Lecture 2: Which situations are press releases for?

Lecture 3: Starting to write the press release with the title