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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.
Open in courseSEO 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.
Open in courseSEO Foundations · Module 3
Authority and Measurement
Connect Google Search Console and GA4 to your project and pull them into RankAudit's reporting dashboard.
Open in courseSEO Foundations · Module 4
Applying the Fundamentals
Build and complete your personal SEO Foundation Checklist inside RankAudit, tailored to your business type.
Open in courseOn-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.
Open in courseOn-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.
Open in courseOn-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.
Open in courseOn-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.
Open in courseOn-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.
Open in courseContent Strategy & Creation · Module 1
Strategic Foundations
Open RankWriter's Strategy workspace and create your first audience and topic map before drafting anything.
Open in courseContent 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.
Open in courseContent 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.
Open in courseContent 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.
Open in courseContent 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.
Open in courseLocal SEO Mastery · Module 1
Google Business Profile Foundations
Connect your Google Business Profile to RankLocal and run the profile completeness check.
Open in courseLocal SEO Mastery · Module 2
Reviews and Reputation
Set up an automated review request sequence and a response template library inside RankLocal.
Open in courseLocal 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.
Open in courseLocal 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.
Open in courseKeyword 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.
Open in courseKeyword 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.
Open in courseKeyword 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.
Open in courseKeyword 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.
Open in courseKeyword Research Mastery · Module 5
Operating RankTracker
Configure grouped views in RankTracker, then complete the mission checklist to produce your master keyword database.
Open in courseTechnical 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.
Open in courseTechnical 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.
Open in courseTechnical SEO Excellence · Module 3
Architecture and Rendering
Crawl your site in RankAudit's rendered mode to compare what Googlebot sees against what users see.
Open in courseTechnical 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.
Open in courseTechnical SEO Excellence · Module 5
Applied Mission
Complete the mission entirely inside RankAudit, from initial crawl through to the final prioritised fix plan export.
Open in courseLink Building Strategies · Module 1
Link Foundations
Open RankLinks and pull your current backlink profile before moving on.
Open in courseLink Building Strategies · Module 2
Risk Management
Use RankLinks' toxicity scoring to flag and export any links needing disavow review.
Open in courseLink Building Strategies · Module 3
Earning Links Through Assets
Draft one linkable asset brief inside RankLinks' content planner this week.
Open in courseLink Building Strategies · Module 4
Outreach Link Building
Build your first outreach sequence template inside RankLinks' outreach tracker.
Open in courseLink Building Strategies · Module 5
Digital PR and Scaling
Set up a competitor link-gap report in RankLinks and schedule it to refresh monthly.
Open in courseLink Building Strategies · Module 6
Measurement and Mission
Build a link-to-revenue dashboard in RankLinks tracking your top target pages.
Open in courseGuest Posting Pro System · Module 1
Target Selection
Build your first 50-site opportunity database inside RankLinks.
Open in courseGuest Posting Pro System · Module 2
Pitching That Converts
Draft and send your first batch of personalised pitches through RankLinks.
Open in courseGuest Posting Pro System · Module 3
Writing for Someone Else's Audience
Draft one guest post inside RankWriter's brief and outline tools before submitting.
Open in courseGuest Posting Pro System · Module 4
Relationships and Scale
Set up a recurring guest post production schedule inside RankLinks and RankWriter.
Open in courseGuest Posting Pro System · Module 5
Mission
Track your 30-day mission progress against a live dashboard in RankLinks.
Open in courseE-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.
Open in courseE-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.
Open in courseE-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.
Open in courseE-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.
Open in courseAnalytics & Optimisation · Module 1
Measurement Foundations
Connect GA4 and Search Console to a RankTracker project and confirm conversion events are firing before moving on.
Open in courseAnalytics & 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.
Open in courseAnalytics & 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.
Open in courseAnalytics & 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.
Open in courseAI & 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.
Open in courseAI & 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.
Open in courseAI & 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.
Open in courseAI & 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.
Open in courseAI & 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.
Open in courseVideo & 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.
Open in courseVideo & YouTube SEO · Module 2
The Click and the Watch
Use RankTracker to compare CTR across your last five thumbnails and identify your strongest pattern.
Open in courseVideo & 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.
Open in courseVideo & 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.
Open in courseVideo & YouTube SEO · Module 5
Mission
Use RankTracker to benchmark both videos before and after applying this track's optimisation checklist.
Open in courseSEO 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.
Open in courseSEO 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.
Open in courseSEO 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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