Course Catalog

Golden Gate University offers degree and certificate programs at three teaching centers and online.

NUMBER COURSE TITLE
MKT 323
Search Engine Marketing - Design, Implementation and Optimization

3 Unit(s)

This project-based course covers the planning, design, implementation and optimization of search engine marketing campaigns, including methods for improving organic rankings (SEO) as well as paid search engine marketing (SEM) campaigns. Students build upon the principles of digital marketing to design and implement internet-based marketing programs for consumer goods, services, non-profit and industrial markets. Student teams will collaborate with a client to design and execute a paid search engine marketing campaign with an assigned budget, while using analytic tools for monitoring and optimizing. The Google Online Marketing Challenge and/or a client-sponsored campaign will be used as the basis for this course. Prerequisite: MKT 300 required, recommended MKT 321 or MKT 352.