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Duration of the online course: 13 hours and 33 minutes

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Build job-ready digital marketing skills in a free online course: SEO, ads, analytics, social and e-commerce basics—learn fast and earn a certificate.

In this free course, learn about

  • Core digital marketing concepts, history (1994 first online transaction), and channel overview
  • Customer journey mapping, marketing funnel stages, and how to use personas to target audiences
  • Brand equity: what it is, why it matters online, and how it influences trust and conversion
  • Performance marketing fundamentals: goals, attribution mindset, and measuring success with KPIs
  • SEO fundamentals: how search works, on-page optimization, and recommended image optimization practices
  • Search engine marketing (SEM) and display advertising basics, including responsive display ad advantages
  • Social media marketing strategy: planning, publishing, social listening, and handling negative sentiment
  • Paid social tactics, including remarketing/retargeting concepts and campaign objectives
  • Social media analytics: key benefits, reporting, and turning data into campaign improvements
  • Email marketing: ROI expectations, email types (incl. retention), tools, segmentation, and KPI vs metrics
  • Marketing analytics & measurement using Google Analytics/Google Ads; roles/permissions and dashboards
  • Communicating insights: selecting effective charts (e.g., time-series) and sharing with stakeholders
  • E-commerce foundations: online store components, secure payments, Merchant Center benefits, ad benefits
  • E-commerce success: engagement practices, loyalty/rewards programs, trends analysis, conversion rate meaning

Course Description

Learn how to plan, launch, and improve digital marketing that drives real business results. This free online course guides you through the modern customer journey, showing how people discover brands, compare options, and decide to buy—so you can create messages and campaigns that match intent at every step.

You will build a practical foundation in digital marketing strategy, from strengthening brand value to choosing the right channels for growth. The course connects the big picture to everyday execution, helping you understand when organic visibility matters most, when paid promotion can accelerate results, and how to keep campaigns consistent across touchpoints.

A key focus is performance and measurement. You will learn how to think in outcomes, not vanity metrics, and how to define meaningful goals using KPIs. With a strong analytics mindset, you will practice interpreting data from widely used tools and turning numbers into clear insights that guide better decisions, budget choices, and stakeholder reporting.

You will also explore channel-specific skills that employers value, including search visibility with SEO, search and display advertising concepts, social media planning and engagement, paid social approaches like remarketing, and email marketing for acquisition, retention, and segmentation. Throughout, the emphasis stays on understanding what works, why it works, and how to improve it with testing and reporting.

To round out the learning, the course introduces the essentials of e-commerce, from how online stores operate to ways to attract customers, build loyalty, and track conversion performance. If you are aiming for a career shift, a promotion, or a stronger business toolkit, you will finish with a clearer understanding of how digital marketing and e-commerce fit together—and the confidence to apply these skills to real projects.

Course content

  • Video class: Intro to Digital Marketing 19m
  • Exercise: What was the nature of the first online transaction made in 1994?
  • Video class: The Customer Journey 31m
  • Exercise: Which aspect is NOT a traditional stage of the marketing funnel?
  • Video class: Digital Marketing 39m
  • Exercise: Why is the concept of brand equity essential in digital marketing?
  • Video class: Measure Performance Success | Google Digital Marketing 19m
  • Exercise: Which of the following is an accurate description of performance marketing?
  • Video class: Introduction to attract and engage customers | Google Digital Marketing 37m
  • Exercise: What is the purpose of a customer persona in digital marketing?
  • Video class: Understand search engine optimization (SEO) | Google Digital Marketing 38m
  • Exercise: What is the primary function of search engine optimization (SEO) in digital marketing?
  • Video class: Apply search engine optimization (SEO) | Google Digital Marketing 29m
  • Exercise: Which is NOT one of the recommended practices for optimizing images on a website?
  • Video class: Search engine marketing and display advertising | Google Digital Marketing 41m
  • Exercise: What is the primary advantage of using responsive display ads within the Google Display Network?
  • Video class: Introduction to social media marketing | Google Digital Marketing 23m
  • Exercise: What is the purpose of a social media marketing strategy?
  • Video class: Social media strategy, planning, and publishing | Google Digital Marketing 31m
  • Exercise: Why is it important to have a social media strategy?
  • Video class: Listening and engagement on social media | Google Digital Marketing 37m
  • Exercise: Which of the following best represents the action that should be taken when a company faces negative social media sentiment about a product?
  • Video class: Paid social media | Google Digital Marketing 27m
  • Exercise: In the context of paid social media marketing, what does the term 'remarketing' refer to?
  • Video class: Social media analytics and reporting | Google Digital Marketing 27m
  • Exercise: What are the potential benefits of using social media analytics in a marketing campaign?
  • Video class: Introduction to email marketing | Google Digital Marketing 23m
  • Exercise: What is the estimated return on investment (ROI) for email marketing as mentioned in the text?
  • Video class: Types of email marketing | Google Digital Marketing 23m
  • Exercise: In the context of email marketing campaigns, what is the purpose of sending out retention emails?
  • Video class: Useful tools for email marketing | Google Digital Marketing 29m
  • Exercise: What are the four major ways to categorize email lists for segmentation in email marketing?
  • Video class: Collect and analyze email campaign data | Google Digital Marketing 19m
  • Exercise: What distinguishes a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) from other metrics in email marketing?
  • Video class: Marketing Analytics and Measurement | Google Digital Marketing 28m
  • Exercise: Which of the following is NOT an appropriate tool for monitoring digital media campaign performance?
  • Video class: Use metrics from Google Analytics and Google Ads | Google Digital Marketing 21m
  • Exercise: Which role is required in Google Analytics to be able to view metrics and modify reports?
  • Video class: Measure the success of marketing campaigns | Google Digital Marketing 18m
  • Exercise: What is a key factor in evaluating if a marketing campaign has been successful?
  • Video class: Share metrics and insights with stakeholders | Google Digital Marketing 29m
  • Exercise: Which type of chart would be best suited to showing how a metric changes over an extended period of time?
  • Video class: Introduction to e-commerce and online stores | Google Digital Marketing 37m
  • Exercise: Which element of an e-commerce platform is specifically responsible for ensuring a secure way to process online financial transactions?
  • Video class: Learn about online stores | Google Digital Marketing 32m
  • Exercise: What is one of the main benefits of registering an e-commerce store with the Google Merchant Center?
  • Video class: Ads and campaigns in e-commerce | Google Digital Marketing 38m
  • Exercise: Which of the following is NOT a benefit of online advertising?
  • Video class: Engage customers with an online store | Google Digital Marketing 17m
  • Exercise: Which practices can engage customers and lead to a more successful e-commerce business?
  • Video class: Introduction to building customer loyalty online | Google Digital Marketing 31m
  • Exercise: Which of the following is NOT a common type of rewards program mentioned in the course materials?
  • Video class: Prep for jobs in digital marketing 29m
  • Exercise: Which of the following best describes the purpose of an e-commerce portfolio?
  • Video class: Analyze trends for an online store | Google Digital Marketing 25m
  • Exercise: What does the conversion rate in an e-commerce store indicate?

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