If you’ve been interested in learning more about Internet marketing for your blog, brand, or business, there are a ton of resources out there, from blogs to ebooks, classes to conferences. But if you want something structured without any expenses involved, why not start with a free 10 week Internet marketing course?
Mark Thompson of Search Creatively and Stay on Search (also a regular on Search Engine Journal) has created a great course covering all the aspects of online marketing. Everyone from beginners to advanced Internet marketers should find something that helps them improve their strategy.
Internet Marketing Course Content
So what’s in this 67 page, jam-packed online marketing course?
Week 1 – Strategy: Setting Goals, Expectations, and Roles / Responsibilities
Week 1 asks you six questions to help guide you into determining your online marketing goals and expectations, then gives you an overview of the various elements of a successful strategy.
Week 2 – Market Research & Analysis: Know Your Target Audience
Week 2 covers keyword research, from creating your initial keyword list to testing and implementing your keywords, plus a list of free keyword research tools. Then you will learn about analyzing your competitors, with some free and paid tools.
Week 3 – Paid Search: Using Pay-Per-Click Strategies to Drive Relevant Traffic
Week 3 shows you the fundamentals of PPC, from creating to targeting your ads, A/B testing, and what makes a successful ad with a great Goolgle Quality Score. You’ll also learn the importance of landing page optimization.
Week 4 – Search Engine Optimization: How to Gain Free Exposure and Traffic
Week 4 takes on everything that is SEO – domain strength, on-site and off-site optimization, a look at Blackhat tactics (aka, what to avoid), and website usability, including conversion optimization.
Week 5 – Content Creation: Creating Compelling, Valuable, and Viral Content
Week 5 will show you how to create great content that drives traffic to your website, including blogging, webinars, video, podcasting, and what makes content viral on social media and bookmarking networks.
Week 6 – Link Building: How to Find Quality Link Building Opportunities
Week 6 covers all aspects of link building: how search engines value links, why great content matters, link prospecting and tools, popular types of link bait, and a look at a great toolkit to help you find link opportunities plus other Internet marketing tools.
Week 7 – Local Search: Capturing Localized Traffic to Your Website
Week 7 is about local search, something you must take advantage of if you are working with a local based business, from local profiles to on-site local optimization as well as location based social marketing.
Week 8 – Social Media: Build Your Brand, Drive Traffic and Form Relationships
Week 8 is particularly close to my heart – because I’m the guest writer! This week shows you what information matters most in your social profiles on the top social networks, as well as how to brand yourself and connect with others. I also take a look at how you can do competitor research using free social media monitoring tools.
Week 9 – Making Money: How to Monetize for Your Website or Blog
Week 9 is what many want to know – how to make money online with the 11 most popular (and lucrative) monetization methods for your blog and website.
Week 10 – Website Analytics/Testing: Increasing Conversions
The final week of the course shows you what you need to know about your Google Analytics information – what to look for, how to interpret the data, and how to conduce A/B and multi-variate testing to make sure your website is converting optimally.
Bonuses
If that’s not enough, there are also some great bonuses.
100+ Online Marketing Resources
For starters, there are over 100 resource links for keyword research, competitor analysis, PPC, link building, social media, analytics, and rich media tools.
Also, if you refer 5 people to the course, you will get two additional free bonuses:
Web Traffic Explosion
This 32-Page traffic generating blueprint, gives you the ability to drive massive amounts of targeted traffic to your website or blog. Find killer tips on lead generation, list building, link building and turning traffic into money!
Sales Copy Cheatsheet
This PDF is jam packed with 286 powerful words and phrases that the top marketers use to help them create sales pages. For anyone that is looking to create compelling headlines and ad copy, this is a MUST-HAVE reference guide.
So…
What are you waiting for? Signup today – it’s free! You’ll get a new email every week with top online marketing tips and techniques to help you strengthen your Internet marketing strategy.
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Really great review Kristi,
I have signed up to the course and the first week alone was fantastic.
Thanks so much for sharing,
-Onibalusi
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This sounds like something that would really help me! I have been selling things since I wasa eight years old (now 62) but internet selling is a different in a lot of ways. It offers a lot of new ways to knock on doors, that is for sure. I am relatively new at online selling, and I’m probably just thrashing around compared to what I should be doing. Thanks for making this information available in your post today.
Lou Barba
Twitter: heydevesh
September 14, 2010 at 9:41 am
Great review Kristi.
I just opt-in for the free 10 course. Thanks for sharing.
Devesh recently posted..7 Sure-Fire Ways to Put Your Blog on Fire
Great resources and information for free. I think I will like this course.
Twitter: AnaTrafficCafe
September 14, 2010 at 2:24 pm
Can’t go wrong with Mark and can’t go wrong with free. It’s a winning combo, Kristi; thanks for letting us know about it.
Ana Hoffman
http://www.TrafficGenerationCafe.com
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Twitter: DennisEdell
September 14, 2010 at 5:58 pm
We have to refer 5 people to get the bonuses, yes?
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Twitter: kikolani
September 14, 2010 at 7:24 pm
You get the 100+ resources with the course, but the additional ebooks are only when you refer the 5 people.
Twitter: DennisEdell
September 15, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Ah OK, good to know.

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What a great post. You really cover a lot of information in there and it is great information.
I’m especially interested in Week 7 – Local Search: Capturing Localized Traffic to Your Website
Twitter: sweetsfoods
September 14, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Of course I’m in! I’m sure all bloggers should read it. Thanks for sharing!
Cheers,
Gera
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I just signed up Kristi! I think I know almost everything that the course had covered, but I’m interested to see its PPC chapter and perhaps they have something that I still don’t know
I’m curious where you find these good stuffs you share
Regards,
Jason
Great post Kristi! This just goes to show that information for Internet Marketing is readily available. Will be heading over to sign up as soon. I personally think that week 6 and 7 will be interesting.
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I have signed up also and I the first one just totally blown me away! Great Review, hopefully I can start learning what I am doing wrong and get even more readers!!
Good to see a few other websites linking to this resource, I have been a fan of Mark’s work for a while. I just sent it to a few of my business partners so they can work on the SERPs for their websites.
It is good to find free resources that are actually useful; SEO is one of those niches that has a tendency to attract a lot of people claiming to be experts.
I actually just found this website through today’s post on Stay on Search.
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Hi I signed up. I took a course years ago and I’m sure a lot has changed since then.
Thanks!
Wow, that’s pretty awesome Kristi, looking over the content of the course, I am definitely pumped about giving it a shot! Likely will try to sign for the course over the weekend and get started!
Till then,
Jean
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Seems like a really useful course to participate in. I’ll be giving a good thought to trying it out. Thanks Kristi.
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Wow, this looks really good. I am gonna sign up right away… yeah, why not as it’s FREE anyway!
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Wow, that’s a really great break down of internet marketing. It sounds totally do able and simple/basic but it really covers all the bases of internet marketing at a great pace, too. I’m definitely going to take advantage of this free 10 week course. Thanks for sharing!
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Marketing is King…
Yes i agree with all the points, internet marketing is a little different from general marketing, but the theories can be implemented in both fields
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Great review! I think the hardest part of internet marketing is the link building, especially when it comes to quality. It’s easy to get 1000 links to your website, but if they hold almost no weight then they’re nearly worthless and finding high quality links becomes a huge hassle after you use up the most obvious ones.
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September 17, 2010 at 11:44 pm
Ok, I am totally signing in and tweeting this one up! Wow, I can’t believe its free and the bonuses alone are really useful. This one is totally remarkable. Thanks Kristi for letting us know about this one and thanks to Mark for creating this course.
Ron leyba recently posted..Free Printable Pumpkin Carving Stencils – JackOLantern Templates
I think most of the people have joined this course. I will have to try it. Thank you Kristi.
After reading this post, I’m really interested on getting to know more about this course. I’m starting this internet marketing strategy for my site and this one really helps. thanks a bunch.

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Thanks for the info. I just signed up!
I agree with Aaron Michaels that link building is quite hard to do in internet marketing because you really have to spend time finding quality links. And it takes time to really wait for your links to be posted and not t mentioned that there are times that it takes weeks to effect the link building that you have done for your site.
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Great!!! post Kristi, I just going to sign up..
Internet marketing is totally different from other streams of marketing, I am eagerly waiting what you revel in this course material because your all post itself is a course material..
really Nice!!!
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Thanks Kristi for sharing with us this great resource
I’ve signed up (although I’m on the lists of dozen other marketers lol) and this will make me busy for some time.
Have a nice day!
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