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Step by Step Guide to Learn Digital Marketing for Free.

Digital marketing is one of the most promising and exciting careers today and digital marketers are one of the most sought-after professionals in the job market.

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The good news is that becoming a digital marketer doesn’t require one to attend a lengthy, expensive college course.
There are plenty of online courses, both free and paid, that an aspiring internet marketer can use to acquire the varied skills one needs to be considered a..

professional digital marketing expert. As a single individual, you can build a huge business from the comfort of your home, after work, during your afternoons and on your weekends.

There are 8 major sub-categories of online marketing that I want to cover in this guide..

1. Creating A Website

Though there are many tools & softwares available for creating websites, I always prefer to create a Website With Italia (it.wordpress.org) is an open source software – free to use, edit and redistribute. It is completely freewith unlimited validity

2. Search Engine Optimization

“93% of online experiences begin with a search engine, 68% of which use Google to do so.”

If you really want to learn SEO from scratch, then you have to put some efforts
neilpatel.com/what-is-seo/
moz.com/learn/seo

3. Search Engine Marketing

Next to SEO, there’s search engine marketing (SEM), which is simply the paid version of SEO.
Search engine marketing is the paid cousin of SEO.
Marketers pay for displaying ads together with Google search results and hope to drive traffic, or rather..

interested people (=leads), to their product landing pages.

You can learn SEM for free and also get a Google AdWords certification with this link

support.google.com/google-ads/ans…

4. Content Marketing

Content Marketing is nothing but to create an awesome content to drive traffic to your blog or website. Free link………..Jon Morrow is a master content crafter. His blog smartblogger.com boasts over 500,000 monthly readers.

5. Social Media Marketing

Social media is a beast. This industry is gigantic and its growth rate is scaring even me.
By now, there are hundreds of social media networks out there.
This topic deserves a whole guide on its own, but if you want to be successful with social media..

(and you’ll HAVE to, in the long run, your best bet for a one-stop shop is Mike Stelzner founder of socialmediaexaminer.com

Also check out kimgarst.com/blog/

6.Email marketing

Email marketing is the act of sending a commercial message, typically to a group of people, using email. In its broadest sense, every email sent to a potential or current customer could be considered email marketing.

Hubspot offers you a “FREE EMAIL MARKETING CERTIFICATION COURSE” wherein you can learn advanced email marketing strategy and tactics that grow your business, and your career. Start your course now at academy.hubspot.com/courses/email-…

7. Affiliate Marketing

You can’t spell affiliate marketing without Gaurav Madaan. Actually, you can, but you shouldn’t learn it without him. You can enroll for this course affilerator.com to make a lot of money with affiliate marketing.

Conclusion

Online marketing is the real deal. Thanks to the power of the internet, anyone, and everyone can become financially independent through internet marketing.

Check out the following complete free digital marketing courses.

Google Ad Grants online marketing challenge (OMC)
get.google.com/onlinechalleng…

WordStream’s PPC University
wordstream.com/learn

Social Media Quickstarter Digital Marketing Course - blogs.constantcontact.com/social-media-q…

Alison Free Diploma in E-Business - alison.com/course/diploma…