SEO Fundamentals
SEO Foundations
SEO Foundations is the track everyone starts with. It answers the questions that block beginners for months: what Google is actually measuring, why one page outranks another, and which of the hundreds of "ranking factors" you can safely ignore in your first 90 days.
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What you'll learn
Explain crawling, indexing and ranking in plain language to a client
Read a SERP and identify the intent behind a query
Run a full crawl of any site and triage the issues by impact
Write title tags, meta descriptions and headings that hold up
Set a realistic 90-day plan instead of chasing random tips
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Course curriculum
4 modules · 19 lessons
Understand what SEO is and how search engines actually find, index and rank pages.
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Practical tasks
One assignment per module — the part that turns theory into rankings.
Practical task · How Search Really Works
Open RankAudit and run its Crawl Diagnostics on your homepage to see how a search engine bot 'sees' your site.
Practical task · Modern Ranking Factors
Use RankAudit's E-E-A-T and entity coverage checks against one of your existing pages and note the gaps it surfaces.
Practical task · Authority and Measurement
Review Search Console and GA4 directly where authorised; save available evidence beside your RankAudit findings without assuming an integration exists.
Practical task · Applying the Fundamentals
Build and complete your personal SEO Foundation Checklist inside RankAudit, tailored to your business type.
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Exam and certificate
SEO Foundations Certificate
Complete every lesson, then pass the exam at 80% to claim the certificate.
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Questions about this course
This course is also published publicly at rankar.ai/academy/seo-foundations
Academy overview
A structured SEO curriculum you can finish in the tool you work in
Rankar Academy is 17 certification tracks and 10 product courses — 289 free lessons and 147 tool guides. Every lesson is readable without an account; certification exams and certificates are for enrolled students.
- Read any lesson free, no sign-up and no card
- Beginner to Expert path, in a deliberate order
- Every lesson ends in a real Rankar screen to practise on
- Final assessment and certificate: PKR 3,000 (≈ $11) per course
Learning path
Beginner · 4 tracks
How search works, keyword basics, on-page fundamentals and your first reporting habits.
Intermediate · 9 tracks
Content systems, technical fixes, link acquisition and local visibility at scale.
Advanced · 4 tracks
Enterprise architecture, AI search visibility, analytics modelling and agency operations.
Expert · certification
Pass a track exam at 80% to earn a verifiable Rankar Academy certificate in your name.
Use casesWho the Academy is for
- Beginners who want a real order to learn SEO in, not scattered blog posts
- In-house marketers who inherited a site and need a working process
- Agency teams onboarding new hires on both SEO and the Rankar tools
- Freelancers who want a verifiable certificate to show clients
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