Want higher rankings on Google? Sign Up For an Online SEO Course

March 17, 2010 - PRLog -- Experian® Hitwise® recently announced that Google accounted for 70.95 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Feb. 27, 2010. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 14.57 percent, 9.70 percent and 2.84 percent, respectively. Which prompts the crucial question: Just how is your web site ranking for important keyword searches in all-important Google? And if it’s not doing well in ranking across the search engines what's a business to do?

Sometimes a little knowledge goes a long way. Everyone wants the high search engine rankings in order to gain a wider online presence, but most are clueless on how to garner coveted top ranking spots in Google and other search engines. The solution - learn search engine optimization (SEO).

Who takes an online SEO course? IT professionals, webmasters and small business owners worldwide attend courses online. Some represent big business, small business, and often they have their own business. Many students are also web designers who would like to expand their services offered (and profits) in these tougher economic times by offering SEO.

For a fast-paced 6-week online SEO course, learn from a SEO firm with over 12 years of experience, search marketing PROS (http://www.searchmarketingpros.com). The course (offered through eclasses.org) uses the highly-rated Planet Ocean eBook, with monthly updates providing up-to-the-minute SEO information. Take the class from the convenience of your own office, at home, or while sipping a latte at your favorite coffee house
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One testimonial from a former Yahoo! employee said, “Wow! I learned more in the first three weeks of this class than my entire time at Yahoo!”.

SEO course subjects include:

Week 1 – SEO 101 (the basics), developing an SEO plan, studying the competition
Week 2 – steps to creating top ranking pages, page elements overview, keyword selection
Week 3 – critical link elements, link building tools, google page rankings, sandbox and updates
Week 4 – evaluating link quality, link building strategies, 5 steps for link building
Week 5 – design hindrances and solutions, getting into the engines, suggestions for site architecture, sitemaps and the magic 301
Week 6 – measuring success, useful SEO tools, the future of search and pulling it all together

The schedule for upcoming 2010 SEO classes is up. They are: March 29, June 7, Sept. 27 and Nov. 8, 2010. The SEO online class (http://www.web-marketing-training.com/online-seo-course.htm) is just one of 60 courses offered by eclasses.org -- where over 45,000 students have taken online classes and you can work toward four different web study certificates.

During the SEO course students receive individual feedback each week for their six assignments, plus the opportunity to ask lots of questions. Most students use a particular web site, either one of their own or belonging to a client to optimize along the way – and many see higher rankings and results by the end of six short weeks. Start out thinking the competition and garnering those top search engine rankings. Check it out today at http://www.web-marketing-training.com/online-seo-course.htm!

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About search marketing PROS: An Internet marketing firm specializing in search engine optimization (SEO), local search marketing, web site copywriting, and pay-per-click advertising. We also offer Internet marketing and SEO courses online and training.