Semrush SEO Crash Course with Brian Dean
From Semrush Academy
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What you'll learn
In five short video lessons with Brian Dean, you learn how Google ranks websites, find untapped keywords, create content around them even without strong writing skills, build backlinks, and track your SEO results.
- Intro to SEO and ranking factors
- Finding untapped keywords
- Creating content around target keywords
- Building backlinks
- Tracking and monitoring SEO results
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Is this right for you?
- Level
- Beginner People new to this. You can start today with no experience.
- What you get
- A certificate from a name employers know, ready to add to LinkedIn and your résumé the day you finish. It costs nothing to take.
- How you learn
- Online, self paced, about 51 min.
- How to use it
- Add it to LinkedIn under Licenses and certifications, post it with one thing you learned, and name the exact skills on your résumé. Then bring it up in interviews and show how you use AI to get more done.
- Why it's worth it
- Fast, practical proof that you are ahead on AI. It shows initiative, gives you skills you can use the same day, and hands you something concrete to talk about with every hiring manager.
What you will payNothingThe learning and the certificate are free.
- Time
- 7 lessons, about 51 minutes (published)
- Before you start
- Free Semrush account. No prior knowledge required. Up to three final exam attempts; retry after one month if all fail.
- How you are tested
- Online, self paced video lessons with a final exam
- Renewal
- Certificate valid one year from completion; retake to renew.
- Full cost details
- Free course, exam and certificate (free Semrush Academy account).
- Where it applies
- Online; open worldwide including the US. Vendor certificate, not academic credit.
Checked at the source Oct 13, 2026
Sources and what we verified
Semrush Academy certification page: certifications completely free, three attempts, valid one year ↗What we verified: Listed on the Semrush certification page; page wide terms apply. Label review (Oct 13): a course that ends in a quiz or test, so we list it as a certificate of completion rather than a certification, whatever the issuer calls it.
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