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Quest is in the Name

Question answering systems (QAS) involve machines directly answering a user's question. They are quickly becoming a new model for search engines as technology enables higher precision answers. This talk covers QAS basics, research from Google from over the past year, and covers what we can do as search professionals for our site's strategic direction.

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On-page Optimization
Time required: 3h 45m

On-page optimization is the practice of ensuring the content of a page is set up to be relevant for the search queries being targeted. If the phrases you are hoping to rank for don’t appear on the page, it will be much more difficult to achieve your goals - making on-page optimization a crucial part of most SEO campaigns.

Technical SEO
Time required: 7h 50m

The web is a technical platform, and there are correct and incorrect ways of building websites. This module teaches you about these and how search engines interact with pages in order to help you diagnose problems and improve websites.