Rankar Academy

Practical SEO training, Rankar tool mastery, and certificates you can verify — free to browse, no sign-up needed to start.

Reference material

Glossary, certificate rules and the Academy FAQ.

Glossary

SEO glossary

Plain-English definitions for every term used across the curriculum.

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Certificate

Certificate rules and verification

What each certificate requires, and how anyone can verify one.

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Guide

Academy FAQ

How unlocking, exams, certificates and tool practice work.

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Practical task library

Every module assignment in one place, ready to run on a client site.

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Practical task library

116 module assignments you can run on a live project.

SEO Foundations · Module 1

How Search Really Works

Open RankAudit and run its Crawl Diagnostics on your homepage to see how a search engine bot 'sees' your site.

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SEO Foundations · Module 2

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.

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SEO Foundations · Module 3

Authority and Measurement

Connect Google Search Console and GA4 to your project and pull them into RankAudit's reporting dashboard.

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SEO Foundations · Module 4

Applying the Fundamentals

Build and complete your personal SEO Foundation Checklist inside RankAudit, tailored to your business type.

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On-Page SEO · Module 1

Foundational Elements

Open RankAudit's page scanner and fix every flagged title, meta description, heading and URL issue on your homepage before moving on.

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On-Page SEO · Module 2

Content and Media Quality

Use RankAudit's content and image reports to find thin pages, missing alt text and oversized media files across your site, then fix the ten highest-impact items first.

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On-Page SEO · Module 3

Trust, Authority and Site Architecture

Use RankAudit's internal linking, canonical and duplicate content reports to map and fix the architecture of your top-traffic section of the site.

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On-Page SEO · Module 4

Performance and Duplication

Run RankAudit's Core Web Vitals and duplicate content scans across the full site and clear every red-flagged page before your next audit cycle.

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On-Page SEO · Module 5

Applying It With RankAudit

Complete a full-site RankAudit scan, work through every priority issue it surfaces, then apply the entire framework to three live pages for the closing mission.

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Content Strategy & Creation · Module 1

Strategic Foundations

Open RankWriter's Strategy workspace and create your first audience and topic map before drafting anything.

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Content Strategy & Creation · Module 2

Planning and Briefing

Build a six-month editorial calendar in RankWriter and generate a full content brief for your next scheduled article.

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Content Strategy & Creation · Module 3

Craft and Quality

Draft one article using RankWriter's AI-assisted workflow, then run it through the E-E-A-T checklist before publishing.

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Content Strategy & Creation · Module 4

Distribution and Advanced Formats

Set up a distribution checklist in RankWriter for your next three publishes and scope one programmatic SEO template from a real data source.

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Content Strategy & Creation · Module 5

Specialised Strategies and Launch

Use RankWriter to scope, brief and schedule your first live topic cluster from research through to publish.

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Local SEO Mastery · Module 1

Google Business Profile Foundations

Connect your Google Business Profile to RankLocal and run the profile completeness check.

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Local SEO Mastery · Module 2

Reviews and Reputation

Set up an automated review request sequence and a response template library inside RankLocal.

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Local SEO Mastery · Module 3

Citations and Local Content

Run a citation consistency scan in RankLocal and draft one new local landing page for a target city or suburb.

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Local SEO Mastery · Module 4

Links, Multi-Location and Advanced Local

Identify three local link opportunities in RankLinks and add LocalBusiness schema to your primary location page.

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Keyword Research Mastery · Module 1

Foundations of Keyword Data

Open RankTracker, run three seed terms through the keyword explorer, and record volume, KD, CPC and intent for each result.

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Keyword Research Mastery · Module 2

Discovery and Expansion

Use RankTracker's expansion tool and competitor comparison view to build a 100+ keyword raw list from one seed and two competitor domains.

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Keyword Research Mastery · Module 3

Timing and Structure

Build one pillar-and-cluster group inside RankTracker and check the historical trend view for any seasonal candidates in your list.

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Keyword Research Mastery · Module 4

Prioritisation and Scale

Score your keyword list using the four-factor priority framework and sequence it into RankTracker as a tagged six-month roadmap.

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Keyword Research Mastery · Module 5

Operating RankTracker

Configure grouped views in RankTracker, then complete the mission checklist to produce your master keyword database.

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Technical SEO Excellence · Module 1

Crawling and Indexation Control

Run a crawl in RankAudit and cross-check the robots.txt, sitemap and index coverage reports it produces.

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Technical SEO Excellence · Module 2

Core Web Vitals and Page Speed

Use RankAudit's field and lab data views to trace each Core Web Vital back to the exact element or script causing it.

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Technical SEO Excellence · Module 3

Architecture and Rendering

Crawl your site in RankAudit's rendered mode to compare what Googlebot sees against what users see.

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Technical SEO Excellence · Module 4

Diagnostics and Trust Signals

Pull a real log sample and a security header scan into RankAudit to ground your findings in first-party evidence.

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Technical SEO Excellence · Module 5

Applied Mission

Complete the mission entirely inside RankAudit, from initial crawl through to the final prioritised fix plan export.

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Link Building Strategies · Module 1

Link Foundations

Open RankLinks and pull your current backlink profile before moving on.

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Link Building Strategies · Module 2

Risk Management

Use RankLinks' toxicity scoring to flag and export any links needing disavow review.

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Link Building Strategies · Module 3

Earning Links Through Assets

Draft one linkable asset brief inside RankLinks' content planner this week.

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Link Building Strategies · Module 4

Outreach Link Building

Build your first outreach sequence template inside RankLinks' outreach tracker.

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Link Building Strategies · Module 5

Digital PR and Scaling

Set up a competitor link-gap report in RankLinks and schedule it to refresh monthly.

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Link Building Strategies · Module 6

Measurement and Mission

Build a link-to-revenue dashboard in RankLinks tracking your top target pages.

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Guest Posting Pro System · Module 1

Target Selection

Build your first 50-site opportunity database inside RankLinks.

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Guest Posting Pro System · Module 2

Pitching That Converts

Draft and send your first batch of personalised pitches through RankLinks.

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Guest Posting Pro System · Module 3

Writing for Someone Else's Audience

Draft one guest post inside RankWriter's brief and outline tools before submitting.

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Guest Posting Pro System · Module 4

Relationships and Scale

Set up a recurring guest post production schedule inside RankLinks and RankWriter.

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Guest Posting Pro System · Module 5

Mission

Track your 30-day mission progress against a live dashboard in RankLinks.

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E-Commerce SEO · Module 1

Foundations and Technical Traps

Run a RankAudit crawl of your store and export the URL count by template to see how big your faceted navigation problem really is.

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E-Commerce SEO · Module 2

On-Page Optimisation at Scale

Use RankAudit's template scoring view to find your ten worst-performing product and category templates and apply the frameworks from this module.

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E-Commerce SEO · Module 3

Authority, Content and Trust

Build an internal linking map in RankAudit from your top category pages to your best-converting guides and identify the three weakest link paths.

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E-Commerce SEO · Module 4

Trust Signals and Measurement

Build a RankTracker dashboard that connects your top 20 tracked keywords to their assigned pages' revenue contribution from analytics.

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Analytics & Optimisation · Module 1

Measurement Foundations

Connect GA4 and Search Console to a RankTracker project and confirm conversion events are firing before moving on.

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Analytics & Optimisation · Module 2

Dashboards and Reporting

Build a Looker Studio dashboard pulling from RankTracker and GA4, then draft a monthly report template using this module's structure.

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Analytics & Optimisation · Module 3

Diagnosis and Testing

Set up a RankTracker alert threshold for your priority keywords and draft a 24-hour investigation checklist tailored to your site.

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Analytics & Optimisation · Module 4

Ongoing Cycles and Capstone

Run one full monthly performance review cycle in RankTracker using the framework from this module, then complete the capstone mission.

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AI & Automation in SEO · Module 1

The New Search Landscape

Open RankAIO and run a visibility scan to see which of your target queries already trigger an AI Overview.

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AI & Automation in SEO · Module 2

Working With AI Content

Save your best-performing prompt in RankAIO's prompt library and tag it by content type.

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AI & Automation in SEO · Module 3

Research and Reporting Automation

Set up one automated report in RankAIO and schedule it to send to your inbox weekly.

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AI & Automation in SEO · Module 4

Scaling Monitoring and Technical Audits

Set up alert thresholds in RankAIO for your top 20 keywords and run a bulk technical crawl of your full site.

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AI & Automation in SEO · Module 5

Mission

Use RankAIO to assemble your prompt library, one automated report, and one alert configuration into a single documented workflow.

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Video & YouTube SEO · Module 1

How YouTube Ranks Video

Open RankTracker and pull the current keyword-to-video ranking report for your channel's top ten videos.

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Video & YouTube SEO · Module 2

The Click and the Watch

Use RankTracker to compare CTR across your last five thumbnails and identify your strongest pattern.

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Video & YouTube SEO · Module 3

Structure, Architecture, and Cross-Platform Reach

Add chapters to your three most-viewed videos and map your channel's playlist structure in RankTracker.

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Video & YouTube SEO · Module 4

Beyond YouTube

Add VideoObject schema to one embedded video on your site and log your channel's multi-platform reach in RankTracker.

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Video & YouTube SEO · Module 5

Mission

Use RankTracker to benchmark both videos before and after applying this track's optimisation checklist.

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SEO Agency & Freelancer · Module 1

Positioning & Business Model

In RankOps, build your three-tier service ladder as reusable templates and run one sample audit through the tool to price your first package.

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SEO Agency & Freelancer · Module 2

Building a Client Acquisition Engine

In RankOps, log every outreach attempt for two weeks and pair it with a one-page RankAudit finding for each prospect before you send the message.

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SEO Agency & Freelancer · Module 3

Selling & Onboarding

In RankOps, build a reusable discovery call template and onboarding checklist, then run your next real prospect through both.

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