Become great at building an SEO-driven editorial calendar
Maximize traffic with an SEO-driven editorial calendar
Online course
By Dan Shure,
Owner @ Evolving SEO
Course length: 2h 42min
SEO shouldn’t be an afterthought. It should be the backbone of your content strategy.
As a content marketer, you know planning your editorial calendar with SEO growth in mind is really hard.
How do you know what keywords to use and how many pages you need to actually rank?
Whether you’re an editor, strategist or writer, you can’t just treat SEO as nice-to-have. It should be the backbone of your content strategy.
Course overview
After taking this course, you’ll:
- Have a proven process for how to build your SEO editorial calendar from scratch.
- Understand everything from keyword research to pairing topics with the right content type.
- Know how to find topics that will rank and get you more traffic.
- Strategically align SEO, marketing and business goals in order to sustainably grow site traffic.
Skills you will master
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This course is right for you if you are…
- Struggling to fill your content calendar with topics to help grow search traffic and rank.
- Not sure when a page should target multiple keywords or just one.
- Confused by all the different SEO myths and advice – like the “right” length of content or where to put keywords in your content.
This course is NOT for you if you are…
- Have no idea what SEO or search volume mean.
- Only interested in creating content and prefer leaving the SEO stuff to someone else.
Skills you should have before taking this course…
- Basic Google Sheets skills
- Basic understanding of keyword metrics like search volume or the idea of keyword difficulty
- Experience with content – writing, planning or strategy.
Dan is an SEO consultant and co-owner of Evolving SEO with his wife Sarah. As a consultant, he has helped companies like WGBH (Boston’s NPR and PBS), Sumo, HBR and more solve challenging SEO problems and grow traffic up to 20x.
His popular, entirely self-produced SEO Podcast “Exports on the Wire” has amassed almost a half a million downloads since launching in 2016.
Dan’s SEO articles and interviews have appeared in publications such as The Next Web, Drift.com, Moz and Entrepreneurs on Fire — and he has spoken at leading marketing conferences like Social Media Marketing World, Content Jam and SMX.
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Your full course curriculum
SEO driven editorial calendar
1 How to brainstorm topics: using art & science
2 80/20 Content prioritization: focusing your content plan
3 Building out your content calendar: aligning keywords to pages
4 The real best practices of content-based SEO (executing your content plan)
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Learn how to build an editorial calendar: FAQ
Who is this course for?
This course is right for you if you are:
- Struggling to fill your content calendar with topics to help grow search traffic and rank.
- Not sure when a page should target multiple keywords or just one.
- Confused by all the different SEO myths and advice – like the “right” length of content or where to put keywords in your content.
Some careers that will especially benefit from this course are content manager, copywriter, social media manager, community manager, product marketer, content strategist, SEO specialist, and growth marketer.
What will you learn?
After taking this course, you will:
- Have a proven process for how to build your SEO editorial calendar from scratch.
- Understand everything from keyword research to pairing topics with the right content type.
- Know how to find topics that will rank and get you more traffic.
- Strategically align SEO, marketing and business goals in order to sustainably grow site traffic.
What does the course include?
Our Editorial Calendar training includes 5 lessons, 3 downloadable resources, 2h 42min of video material, several assignments, and a final exam.
Are subtitles available for the lessons?
Lessons have English subtitles and transcriptions available.
Will I receive a certificate of completion?
After taking this course, you will receive the Editorial Calendar Certification from CXL, with credentials that you can add to your LinkedIn profile.
What is the refund policy?
All plans come with a 7-day refund period .
How long will it take for me to finish it?
This is entirely up to you – it’s how many study hours per week you can put in. This course is 2h 42min long.