Blogging For Beginners

This lecture gives us the foundational understanding of what blogging is and prepares us to build on this knowledge. 

In this lecture we cover why and how your blogging efforts can help you create your online credibility! 

In this lecture we learn how blogging can help position your business in your buyer's journey.

Your blogging efforts can help you increase your sales and raise your own evangelists too. Learn how!

In this lecture, we will introduce keyword research.

What are keywords and why would you need them? We explain all in this lecture.

In this lecture, we explore the different types of keywords that are used.

Long Tail Keywords are an essential component of your blog. In this lecture we explore why.

The right tools are needed for any type of work; hence we unveil in this lecture some necessary blogging tools.

In this lecture we explore how to find the great keywords quickly

There are a few more great sites to explore. In this lecture Lara shows you the ones to use. 

You watch over my shoulder as you learn to verify keywords on Google Adwords Planner.

In this lecture, we'll explain why you need good images in your blog posts.

Lara tells you her favorite places for obtaining good images, and some are free.

Boomy explains why it's important to name your images properly before uploading them into your posts.

Boomy gives you an over his shoulder in-depth look at getting and renaming images, and then adding in the tagging. Follow along in your blog.

The title is one of the first thing that a potential reader sees. In this lesson, we'll discuss what makes a good title.

In this lesson, we'll look at how titles can get ranked in the search engines.

In this lecture we will show you some helpful tools that help you to craft a compelling title.

In this lecture, you'll be looking over Boomy's shoulder as he shows you his favorite places for finding inspiration for blog titles.

In this lecture, we'll do a quick overview of content calendars.

In this lecture, we explore why having a content calendar is so important for professional blogs.

Boomy discusses common mistakes people make when creating content calendars.

In this last lecture of ,module 5, we'll go over a content calendar template.

In this lecture, Lara reviews a few options for blog platforms that you can use for setting up your blog.

In this lesson, we'll look at how long a blog post should be.

In this lecture, we'll explore what makes some blog posts easier to read than others. Your goal is to get people reading your blog, and we'll discuss simple methods for increasing that metric.

In this lecture, we'll explore other avenues for creating content so you don't feel overwhelmed writing everything.

In this lesson, we'll look at tools you can use to schedule your posts to be published on social media like Facebook and Twitter to reduce the amount of time you spend on social media.

How do you know if your blog is doing well? Analytics are simple metrics we can use to monitor how many people are coming to your site, what blog posts are most popular, how do people find you, etc. In this lesson we'll look at how to easily set up and review them.

In Don't Panic! we look at some major problems that could come up like having your website cracked, and we review steps to set up right away to reduce the chances of it happening. And if it does, how to handle the situation and get back to normal quickly.