Surfer Academy Shows How to Do SEO for Google and AI Search in 2026
A 50-minute beginner course that covers classic SEO and how to show up in AI answers, ending with a 30-day plan.
For owners who handle their own website and want one course that explains both Google rankings and AI search tools such as ChatGPT and AI Overviews. It was published in April 2026, so check newer Google changes alongside it.
What you'll learn
- Match your pages to search intent
- Find the right keywords and plan topic clusters
- Write content that ranks and handle on-page and technical SEO
- Understand backlinks and how AI SEO fits in
- Follow a 30-day action plan
Surfer Academy, the learning channel of the SEO tool Surfer, teaches search optimization from the ground up. According to the video description, it covers keyword research, search intent, content creation, topic clusters, on-page and technical SEO, link building and optimizing for AI search, then closes with a 30-day plan.
Jump to the AI SEO chapter at 41:34 if you already know the basics, then use the 30-day plan to pick the three pages on your site that matter most and improve those first.
- Watch on YouTube: The Complete SEO & AI SEO Course for 2026 (Full Beginner’s Guide) (Surfer Academy)
- The Complete SEO & AI SEO Course for 2026 (Full Beginner’s Guide) (video) (Surfer Academy (YouTube))
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