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Digital Marketing Mastery: SEO, Content, Paid Ads & Analytics

Build a measurable 8-module full-funnel growth engine: unit economics, technical & on-page SEO, conversion copywriting, paid ads, email lifecycle, and GA4 attribution.

28 lectures · 5h 59m curriculum · Verified certificate

Created by Crestily Academy · Lead Faculty: Marcus Sterlingc/digital-marketing (0 members)

Last updated October 2026EnglishBeginner

What you'll learn

  • Design a full-funnel digital marketing strategy across organic search, content hubs, email lifecycle, and paid acquisition
  • Calculate Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC), Customer Lifetime Value (LTV), Payback Period, and Break-Even ROAS before launching campaigns
  • Perform keyword research by buyer intent and execute technical, on-page, and pillar-cluster authority SEO
  • Write high-converting landing pages, headlines, and ad hooks using Voice-of-Customer research and the PAS/AIDA frameworks
  • Structure Google Search Ads (demand capture) and Paid Social campaigns (demand creation) with disciplined creative testing matrices
  • Build automated email welcome/retention sequences and diagnose funnel bottlenecks using UTM taxonomy, GA4 events, and A/B testing

Course content

8 sections · 28 lectures · 5h 59m total length

  • Digital Marketing Foundations: Channels, Funnels & How Modern Growth WorksStart Lesson 1 free5:05
  • The Strategic Marketing Playbook: Target Market, Positioning & Value OffersTry in player17:32
  • Master Guide: The AARRR Growth Funnel & Unit Economics (CAC, LTV, Payback & Break-Even ROAS)Try in player8:00
  • Quiz: AARRR Funnel Diagnostics & Marketing Unit Economics9:00

Requirements

  • No prior marketing, advertising, or technical experience required — every formula and framework is taught step by step from first principles
  • Any desktop or mobile web browser to watch the video lessons, study the long-form playbooks, and complete the certification exams
  • Optional: a real or practice business, website, or creator project to apply the SEO, copywriting, and funnel templates as you learn

Description

Stop guessing which marketing channels work—and learn how to engineer a measurable, full-funnel customer acquisition system from the ground up.

Most beginners approach digital marketing by posting random social media updates, boosting a few posts without conversion tracking, and wondering why traffic never turns into revenue. Digital Marketing Mastery: SEO, Content, Paid Ads & Analytics is a comprehensive, 8-module practitioner program that gives you the complete, data-driven growth system used by modern performance marketing teams to attract high-intent traffic, convert visitors into buyers, automate email retention, and measure every dollar of return—with zero prior marketing experience required.

Why Master Full-Funnel Digital Marketing Across All 8 Pillars?

Ad algorithms and social platforms change every year, but the core mechanics of unit economics (LTV:CAC and Break-Even ROAS), human search intent, technical and topical SEO, conversion rate optimization (CRO), paid demand capture vs. demand creation, email lifecycle automation, and GA4 attribution never go out of style. When you understand how all eight pillars fit together as one cohesive growth engine, you can scale any product, SaaS app, e-commerce store, creator brand, or service business predictably.

What Makes This 8-Module Flagship Course Different?

  • 8 Deep Modules · 28 Lectures (6.0 Total Hours): Covers the entire growth stack end-to-end—combining foundational briefings, a full 2-hour SEO implementation masterclass, and textbook-grade long-form playbooks with financial tables, copywriting teardowns, and SQL/UTM schemas.
  • Downloadable Full-Funnel Growth Playbook Included: Comes with the Crestily Digital Marketing & Growth Playbook featuring LTV:CAC and Break-Even ROAS formulas, an On-Page & Technical SEO Launch Checklist, the PAS + Proof Landing Page template, and a 5-Email Welcome Flow blueprint.
  • 7 Module Quizzes + 24-Question Final Certification Exam: Every module ends with a 6-question scenario quiz (42 module quiz questions total), culminating in a rigorous 24-question Final Certification Exam in Module 8.
  • Built-In 24/7 AI Tutor (Cressa) & Verified Certificate: Ask Cressa to audit your headlines, calculate your break-even ROAS, or explain any video concept—and pass the Final Exam (75% required) to earn your Crestily Verified Certificate with a public verification link for LinkedIn.

Complete 8-Module Curriculum Breakdown

  • Module 1 — Full-Funnel Growth Strategy & Marketing Unit Economics: Map the customer journey with the AARRR Pirate Funnel and calculate CAC, LTV, Churn, Payback Period, and Break-Even ROAS before spending a dollar on ads.
  • Module 2 — Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Foundations & Technical Architecture: Understand crawling, indexing, and ranking; classify keywords across the 4 Search Intent buckets; and audit Core Web Vitals, canonicals, sitemaps, and Schema markup.
  • Module 3 — Complete SEO Masterclass, Content Engines & Authority Link Building: Follow a complete 2-hour hands-on SEO masterclass, design Hub-and-Spoke Pillar/Cluster content architectures, and acquire high-authority backlinks ethically through digital PR and linkable assets.
  • Module 4 — Conversion Copywriting & High-Converting Landing Page CRO: Mine Voice-of-Customer (VoC) research, write persuasive copy using PAS and AIDA, and architect above-the-fold landing pages that double conversion rates.
  • Module 5 — Paid Acquisition Mastery: Google Search Ads vs. Paid Social Creative Systems: Master Demand Capture (Google Search PPC, Quality Score, match types) vs. Demand Creation (Meta/TikTok/LinkedIn 3-second hooks, 3×3 creative testing matrices, and ROAS scaling rules).
  • Module 6 — Email Marketing, Lead Magnets & Lifecycle Retention Automation: Turn anonymous traffic into owned subscribers, build the 5-Email Automated Welcome Sequence, segment lists by behavior, and protect inbox deliverability (SPF, DKIM, DMARC).
  • Module 7 — Funnel Analytics, GA4 Event Attribution, A/B Testing & Growth Playbook: Standardize UTM parameters, diagnose funnel drop-offs in GA4, prioritize experiments with the ICE framework, avoid A/B testing statistical traps, and download your complete Growth Playbook.
  • Module 8 — Final Certification Exam (Verified Digital Marketing Practitioner): Review the complete 8-module executive blueprint and pass the 24-question scenario-based Final Certification Exam (75% required) to unlock your Verified Certificate.

Who this course is for:

  • Beginners and career switchers who want a rigorous, job-ready foundation across all 8 pillars of modern digital marketing
  • Founders, solopreneurs, and e-commerce / SaaS owners who want to build a predictable customer acquisition engine without burning cash on agencies
  • Content creators, copywriters, and designers who want to master SEO architecture, landing page conversion, and funnel unit economics
  • Product managers and software engineers who want a quantitative, systems-level playbook for growth, attribution, and A/B experimentation
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Instructor

Marcus Sterling

Performance Marketing & SEO Growth Architect

4.9 instructor rating480 track learners28 lectures · 5h 59m curriculum

Marcus Sterling has managed over $14M in profitable paid acquisition and built organic search engines for SaaS and e-commerce brands. He teaches measurable growth engineering: search-intent keyword architecture, high-converting landing page psychology, lifecycle email automation, and unit-economics analytics.

  • $14M+ in managed performance marketing & SEO campaigns
  • Full-funnel GA4 & ROAS attribution specialist
  • Moderator of c/digital-marketing (480+ members)