This course is ideal for anyone looking to take the next step in their quest for keyword dominance! Even the biggest companies can often find themselves banging their skulls against the same few head keywords.

This course will give you an in-depth understanding of the role content-led SEO strategies play in the customer journey and marketing funnel. You’ll learn how to understand user intent and how to structure your keyword research to match the motivations of your target audience. You will be given various techniques through which to research keywords and how to prioritise them with both your end-user and brand in mind. You will also learn how to categorise your content and how user experience architecture works hand in hand with SEO to deliver impressive search marketing results.

You’ll leave with a thorough understanding of the current SEO landscape, the foundations of SEO success and how to structure a content-led strategy. Expect interactivity, a fast-pace and plenty of actionable advice to take back and implement in your own business/campaigns.

Course content

Satisfying consumer search intent

Gain an understanding of how different types of keywords affect the customer journey and marketing funnel, including how they indicate search intent and how long-tail keywords can help you expand your visibility.

Exploring how long-tail keywords shape the SERP landscape

We’ll delve deeper into the benefits of long-tail keyword research as part of your content strategies and provide you with tools and techniques to identify the long-tail queries you should be targeting.

Using keyword research to identify product- and audience-focused content opportunities

Success in a content-led strategy is rooted in a thorough understanding of both your niche and your target audience. In this session, we’ll look not only at how to research for the keywords you’ll target on your site, but how to align those keywords with the insights you have on your audience and how they behave.

Assessing and refreshing your existing content

Most businesses will have existing content – and there can be a huge amount of value to be gained from reviewing and updating what you already have, as you’ll learn in this session.

Creating new content for your consumer journeys

In this final session of the day, we’ll talk more about how to create compelling content for your business’s consumer journey, covering content formats, content inspiration and content structure before tying together everything we’ve learned throughout the day

Your trainer - Ben Garry

Ben is a senior content specialist at Impression, having started his career at the agency 6 years ago. He brought with him a love of writing and language that has stayed with him throughout his time at Impression. As a content specialist, he is responsible for content projects across a number of different clients accounts, and currently works with clients in industries as varied as video gaming, insurance and home improvement.