Learn SEO from YouTube in 7 days
SEO advice is everywhere and most of it is a list of tips with no order. This week gives it an order, focused on the part you control on your own site: technical SEO and on-page SEO. You start with an overview of both, learn the practices search engines rely on, then do the concrete work: a sitemap, crawl budget, structured data, and finally an audit of your site. Each day ends with something you can check on your own pages.
Day 1 free. No credit card.
What you’ll have at the end
- A checklist of technical and on-page checks, scored against your own site.
- A sitemap submitted to Google Search Console.
- A ranked audit with the five fixes worth making first.
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Get a quoteThe problem this week fixes
A long list of SEO tips, no idea which ones apply to your site.
Who it is for
For: Site owners, founders and marketers who manage their own website.
Not for: People looking for link building or off-site tactics, which this week skips.
Your 7-day program
One video a day, about 124 minutes of video in total, and one thing to make after each.
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Day 1 — What do technical and on-page SEO cover?
A beginner overview that focuses on the technical and on-page chapters. Write a one-page checklist with five technical checks and five on-page checks you will apply to your own site, in your own words.
The Only SEO Tutorial For Beginners You Need in 2026SiteGround.com · 14:43
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Day 2 — Which technical practices matter most?
Nine technical practices, from structure and crawling to mobile and speed. Score your site against each one as done, partly done or missing, and mark the three that would help most. The video mentions a WordPress plugin, but the practices are the same on any site.
9 Must-Know Technical SEO Practices for 2026Rank Math SEO · 20:36
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Day 3 — How do you plan SEO as a founder?
Watch the marked part of this SEO tutorial for founders and developers, which covers page structure, titles and basics. Choose three pages of your site, and for each write a target keyword, a title and a meta description.
The BEST SEO Tutorial for Founders & Devs (2026)Jolo · Watch 0:37–25:22 (24:45)
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Day 4 — How do you create and submit a sitemap?
A short guide to XML sitemaps. Create a sitemap for your site, or confirm that one exists, and submit it in Google Search Console. Keep a screenshot of the submitted sitemap and its status.
How to Create & Submit an XML Sitemap for Better SEO ResultsBKA Content · 9:04
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Day 5 — What is crawl budget, and does it affect you?
How search engines spend their visits on your site, and how to stop wasting them. List five URLs on your site that add no value, such as duplicates or filtered pages, and decide for each one whether to block, merge or leave it.
How to Fix Crawl Budget Issues and Improve Your SEO in 2026Pearl Lemon SEO · 13:26
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Day 6 — How do you add schema markup?
A tutorial on setting up structured data. Add schema to one page, for example an article or an FAQ, then test it with Google's Rich Results Test and fix anything it reports.
Schema Markup Setup (Full Tutorial for Rank Math SEO)Rafal Reyzer · 19:31
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Day 7 — How do you audit a whole site?
A walkthrough of an SEO audit process; watch the marked part and use it as a guide rather than a script. Run a small audit on your site and write a one-page report with the five fixes you would make first, ranked by effort and expected effect.
The SEO Audit Process I'd Use in 2026Nathan Gotch · Watch 0:33–22:51 (22:18)
Creators you will learn from
9–25 minutes of video per day. Level: Beginner.
FAQ
How long before I see results from SEO?
Search results usually take weeks or months to change, so the week is not about rankings. It is about fixing what is in your control and making sure search engines can read your site.
Do I need a developer for this week?
Not necessarily. Many of the tasks can be done in a website builder or a WordPress setup. For anything that needs code, such as schema, you can write down what to change and hand it over.
What is the difference between technical and on-page SEO?
Technical SEO is about whether search engines can crawl and understand your site. On-page SEO is about the content of each page: its title, headings and keywords.
I don't have a website yet. Can I still follow?
Use a small site of your own, even a single page, or a project you can edit. The tasks ask you to look at real pages.
What do I submit as proof?
The thing you produced that day: a checklist, a screenshot of your sitemap in Search Console, a validated schema test, and finally the audit report.