Out now: AI for SEO training course!

Want to start using AI? Are you interested in the challenges and opportunities of generative AI? Or are you curious about how AI impacts search engines and the web? We’ve now added a new course to Yoast SEO academy: AI for SEO. In this course, you’ll learn about AI so you can take your SEO to the next level! Want to know what we’ll teach you in this course, and how to start your learning journey? Continue reading!

AI is becoming more important every day

People have adopted AI eagerly, generating content in increasing numbers. Whether its automating processes, curating preferences or simply providing texts and images, AI is everywhere and it’s here to stay. Every day, new apps, models and updates are announced! But because it is so popular, it can be difficult to know where you should start and what you should focus on for the best results.

In our new AI for SEO training course, you’ll discover not only how to use AI, but also when to use it. By understanding both the possibilities and the limits of AI, you can use it more effectively for your site. Combining AI with your own expertise, experience and skills will allow you to rank above your competition. And with the help of our AI for SEO training course, you’ll optimize your processes much quicker!

What will you learn in the AI for SEO course?

This new online training course on AI for SEO will teach you the basics of AI and generative AI, as well as their impact on SEO and the web. In addition, you will receive practical information about incorporating AI in your SEO, from keyword strategy to publishing content.

Module 1: What is AI

First, you’ll learn about AI and generative AI. It can be a huge topic (and we could build a separate academy full of lessons for it!) so we’ll stick to the basics. You’ll discover the technology that powers AI, so that you understand how it works. in addition, we’ll explain how generative AI is able to generate content, giving you a better idea of how you can start using it!

Module 2: The impact of AI

After you understand what AI is, we’ll explore what that means for you and your experience online. Now that search engines are trying to keep up with the latest developments, SEO practices have to change as well. And what happens to the web if AI changes how users interact with your content?

We also discuss the ethical challenges of using AI. After all, you still want to be unique and stay loyal to your site mission and vision, and ensure that everyone can access your content. Let’s be prepared to use AI responsibly!

Module 3: Using AI tools

The final module is all about getting practical – and adding tools and skills to your AI knowledge. You’ll get useful tips to choose the right tools for you before diving into the SEO process.

You can use AI to optimize your keyword research and finetune your strategy. But AI is especially useful in generating content. We’ll tell you about more than just having a first draft: you’ll also receive information on how to turn your AI-generated text into excellent content. And we’ll show you how to use the Yoast SEO AI features in more detail.

How is the course set up?

This AI for SEO training course takes you by the hand and guides you through the possibilities of AI, with videos, reading materials, and quizzes. You can choose what lessons you want to take, watch videos or read the transcripts instead: you can pick your own learning path.

Once you’ve finished the entire course and passed the quizzes, you’ll receive a Yoast certificate and a badge that you can display on your website.

How do I access the AI for SEO course?

The AI for SEO training course is an online and on-demand course, like every other Yoast SEO academy training course. So, you can learn about AI whenever and wherever you want.

Want to get started right now? If you have Yoast SEO PremiumYoast SEO for Shopify or any other paid Yoast SEO product, you’ll find the new course in your Yoast SEO academy courses overview!

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By purchasing Yoast SEO Premium, you get access to the AI for SEO training course, the full Yoast SEO academy library and all the features in Yoast SEO Premium!

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Write content that ranks in the search engines

To stand out in search engines, you must write high-quality, SEO-friendly content. SEO is still king (or queen!). Why? People don’t want SEO-friendly content per se; they like what SEO-friendly content can do for them. You need to optimize your text for the right keywords without over-optimizing. Your text should be easy to read. You definitely should add keywords in a text; you should optimize your text. However, optimizing for search engines should never compromise the readability of your text. That could hurt your rankings. 

Yoast SEO Premium has an advanced analysis that recognizes different word forms and synonyms. It can recognize plurals, past tense, and other word orders. You can add related keywords too. With Yoast SEO Premium, you’ll be able to optimize your text for SEO without compromising the readability of the text. 

An example from a text optimized with Yoast SEO Premium for [puppy training] with the synonym [obedience classes]

Help Google to understand your site 

Google is brilliant, but it needs help understanding the structure of your site. Always bear in mind that Google’s bots follow your internal links. That’s the way Google crawls through your site. That means you can’t have any dead ends or 404s on your site. Otherwise, Google will get lost. Yoast SEO Premium will help you to take care of all 404s with the redirect manager 

Posts with many will appear more important to Google than posts with little or no internal links. This means that you’ll need to optimize your internal links so that Google knows what the most important content is. Yoast SEO Premium offers practical SEO workouts to help you quickly improve and optimize your internal linking structure. Also, you’ll get internal linking suggestions within every post to further enhance your internal linking structure.  

The cornerstone content workout in Yoast SEO Premium helps you to link to the most important articles

Manage the SEO of a growing website 

If you keep adding content to your website, Google will have more trouble crawling through a big site. And what to do with outdated content? You shouldn’t have old stale content on your site. How do you keep track of it all? 

Yoast SEO Premium will help you with your SEO maintenance. We will remind you to update those stale articles and tell you if you don’t update your most essential pages regularly. Our SEO workouts will help you keep track of your SEO and solve all kinds of problems you’ll encounter if your site gets large. With SEO workouts, we help you get the work done. We’ve made it incredibly easy to stay on top of your SEO, saving you precious time and effort. If you follow the steps in our workouts, we’ll make sure to keep your website crawlable.

Yoast SEO Premium also gets you access to a recent feature built to optimize crawling on your site. The crawl cleanup settings give you more control over which unnecessary and unimportant URLs, scripts, and metadata in WordPress you want to keep Google from crawling. WordPress automatically adds these to your site, only adding unneeded overhead. Blocking these URLs makes your site easier to crawl — making your site a lot more sustainable!

In the Crawl optimization section of Yoast SEO Premium, you’ll find a load of options to finetune crawling

Learn EVERYTHING about SEO with Yoast SEO academy 

Buying Yoast SEO Premium will give you access to all of the online courses of Yoast SEO academy. And you want that! We’ll help you get started with keyword research and how to set up an internal linking strategy, but we’ll also teach you everything about structured data. Everything you ever want to learn about SEO is covered in one of our courses.  

Each course consists of multiple short videos, reading materials, and quizzes. We’ll share a lot of practical tips that you can put into practice right away.  

A small sampling of what’s available in Yoast SEO academy

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