I just finished going through Simpleology's free (as of this authorship anyway) multi-media course of study on blogging.
It's a 'learn how to blog' natural covering everything from what a blog is to how to do SEO to how to make money with it.
Broken into 15 lessons it's aimed at the new to beginning degree blogger. Each lesson have a picture to watch, an mp3, a written section, and a quiz. The written subdivision and mp3 are indistinguishable to the picture so you can take them with you and reappraisal the lesson without rewatching the video.
There's also a worksheet that you utilize with the lessons to assist lock what you learned into your memory. Some of the inquiries on the worksheet are designed to use what you've learned to your ain blog.
Here's the lessons you learn:
Lesson 1
What is a Blog?
Lesson 2
Essential Parts of a Blog
Lesson 3
Creating Your Blog
Lesson 4
Choosing A Subject For Your Blog
Lesson 5
General Writing Tips
Lesson 6
3 Way To Attract Traffic Part 1: Improving Your Posts
Lesson 7
3 Way To Attract Traffic Part 2: Search Engine Optimization
Lesson 8
3 Way To Attract Traffic Part 3: Linking With Other Blogs
Lesson 9
More Strategies for Attracting Traffic
Lesson 10
6 Way To Make Money From Your Blog
Lesson 11
Advertising
Lesson 12
Affiliate Programs
Lesson 13
Getting Paid For Blogging
Lesson 14
Why Small Business Owners Should Have A Blog
Lesson 15
The Adjacent 15 Days
So here's my review:
THE GOOD:
Each lesson is designed to be done one a twenty-four hours so you don't acquire overwhelmed, they also (and this is a biggie for me) are short, the longer one was just over 6 minutes. So if you necessitate to reexamine a lesson for any reason, it's no large deal.
Even though they cover a huge scope of subjects from beginning to advanced in lone 15 very short lessons, they make a antic job. Explained quite simply adequate to follow the conception it's not so overly simple that a batch of critical information is left out.
Getting the conception is more than than important, once you have got that you can happen out everything else you necessitate to set it into topographic point and they make state you to utilize outside tutorials for more technical inside information though I doubt you will necessitate many of them if you've been around the technical end of computing machines for a while.
It also makes a good occupation of referencing outside beginnings to demo existent life illustrations of what they are talking about. Even though there's no clickable links, you are told what the golf course are so it's simply a substance of typing them into your browser's computing machine address bar.
THE BAD:
If you are a computer understanding or a blogger with intermediate experience there's unlikely anything here you won't already know. That's not to state it isn't deserving departure through however. If you happen yourself explaining subjects to non-bloggers you might happen that the accounts they give are pretty easy to understand.
Also, if you are looking for more than specific technical how to information, this isn't it. For example, in the lesson where they speak about using Google's Adsense on your blog as a possible gross stream, they don't state you how to infix the code.
I had mixed feelings on this, but ultimately I realized that not lone would it have got complicated the lesson but how you make a specific undertaking can be different depending on which software system you utilize for your blog and if you utilize a blogging service instead of hosting your own.
The only other major ailment I had was in the written subdivision and the worksheet. Each 1 is a pdf that screens all 15 lessons so you can't just publish one lesson at a time. If you're moo on ink or don't cognize how to publish choice pages this tin be annoying. Since I am almost out of ink, it was annoying.
MY RECOMMENDATION:
If you are new or getting started I say, "go for it". In my case, I've been around computing machines since I was 12 and even though I knew what blogging was I had never done blogging until recently so I learned quite a few helpful tips.
Just maintain in head that it's supposed to be simple and don't anticipate to walk away a computing machine techie, but make anticipate to cognize how to blog effectively and profitably.
- Jeffery