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For this post promoting our partner Udemy‘s New Year’s deal, I’m going to review one of their courses I recently finished.
Choosing a Course
There were a number of subjects I considered taking a course on. Social Media, Email List Building, and SEO were strong pulls for me. I’d started my searching on the website but decided to try their iOS app to see how I liked the experience. I preferred using the app, personally, because it made navigating easier. The majority of courses have pitch videos similar to Patreon pages. After exploring the pages deeper I saw a number of them offered previews of lectures. I started using this to whittle the potential list down. When you’ve sat through as many whiteboard animations and stock photo images as I have, you just want to see that the actual course material looks like. You can read the curriculum listing for each course but actually watching a preview of a lesson helped me decide.
I narrowed my wishlist down to a few options and ultimately chose Easy SEO for WordPress by Sean Kaye. My logic being Search Engine Optimization is a core thing I could be doing better, I can apply what I learn from it to other ways I promote my site, and particularly because I’m already on WordPress so it’d be more immediately useful than a general SEO course.
Taking the Course
Udemy gave me a coupon code for this review. I redeemed it and was greeted with a confirmation screen and a “start course” link. Once I clicked through the interface was easy enough to understand. Videos would roll on the left side, on the right sidebar I could navigate between lectures, download documents, and post discussion with the instructor and other students.
Course Structure
Instructor Kaye set up the first batch of lectures to be introductions to the course, SEO, and SEO for WordPress. This then moved on to deeper explanations of topics; choosing a webhost, creating and promoting your content with SEO in mind, and the rise of mobile browsing. These were all done with slides and voice over.
The next batch were “over the shoulder” screen recordings as he showed how to install WordPress and options to select for a smoother setup. I’m very familiar with the 5 minute install procedure but it’s good to see a walkthrough and recommendations of it for newcomers and incase there’s some options I’ve missed. He also went through using the Yoast SEO plugin, one I’ve heard recommended for some time but never learned to set up properly.
The last part consisted of an 18 page list of things that could be hurting site rankings, a request for additions we’d like to see added to the course, and a collection of coming lectures.
Final Thoughts
I enjoyed going through the course. I’ve had vague introductions to SEO before and it was nice to see one with clear goals and applicable instructions. It’s very clear Mr. Kaye knows what he’s talking about. If I had any criticisms it’d primarily be with the slides during the lectures. I appreciate seeing things written out but I’d prefer to see shorter bullet points. When each slide is full of text it competes with the voice over for attention. I’d also recommend he mix in a few lectures where we could see him talking, to break up the monotony of text on screen and connect with the audience more. I look forward to getting updates/additions as the course can only grow and improve with revisions. As I’m currently in the process of retooling parts of my own site, revisiting certain lectures will give me plenty to think about.
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, Learn Yoga and Meditation
, and Practice Mindfulness and Compassion
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Continuing in our posts promoting our partner Udemy‘s New Year’s deal, I’m going to highlight some courses on self promotion, marketing, and social media. You should also check out the guide Master Digital Marketing
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Marketing
Email Lists
Social Media
General
Tumblr
YouTube
Periscope
For this post promoting our partner Udemy‘s New Year’s Deal I’m going to share some courses with you to help with copywriting and blogging. They have a guide, Improve Your Writing
, and I’ve already linked the one for Launch Your First Podcast, Blog, or eBook
but here’s a few that stood out when I was looking their catalog over.
Copywriting
Blogging
In this post promoting our partner Udemy‘s New Year’s deal, I’d like to share some courses that might help you set up your business. They have guides to help you: Start A Business
, Become an Entrepreneur
, Launch Your Freelancer Career
, and Start Your Career in Web and Mobile Design
. Here’s a few I saw that looked interesting.
Freelancing
Starting an Online Business
Continuing our posts covering our partner Udemy‘s New Year’s deal, I’m going to share some courses that could be useful for putting together a portfolio or ecommerce website.
Make Your Site
Ecommerce on Your Site
Make a Membership Site
Other Sites
In this post about our partner Udemy.com‘s New Year’s deal, I’m going to share some courses specifically for learning and mastering art and creative software.
Photoshop
Manga Studio
Illustrator
Flash
InDesign
Corel Painter
Maya
3D Studio Max
ZBrush
After Effects
Final Cut Pro X
Unity
GameMaker: Studio
In this post I wanted to promote a few art fundamentals courses on Udemy. These cover basics like:
Cinematography
Design and Storytelling
Drawing
Painting
Typography
This New Year’s we’ve partnered with Udemy.com to bring you deals on learning new skills. From the 1st to the 11th of 2016 they’re offering over 12,000 of their best selling courses at the discounted rate of $10 each. We’ve curated a range of these our readers may find useful and are presenting it as a curriculum. We’ll also be reviewing a course and discussing it on the site.
What is Udemy?
Udemy is a site with thousands of courses, for everyone from beginners to experts, to learn new things.
What can I learn on Udemy?
This is the perfect time to put those New Year’s Resolutions into action. Want to Pick up a New Hobby? Get in Shape and Eat Healthier
? Learn to Play an Instrument
? Launch Your First Podcast, Blog, or eBook
? Make Your First Website
? Learn Your First Programming Language
? Build and Launch an iOS app
? Create an Android app
? Udemy have put together guides with lists of courses relevant to your goal.
For this introductory post we’ve got courses to get you started with:
WordPress
Web Coding
HTML
CSS
Dreamweaver
Graphics Software
Photoshop
Illustrator
GIMP
Modeling/Game Design
Blender
Construct 2
Unreal Engine 4
Photography/Video