This course demonstrates with graphical examples:
- How to Choose a platform to create your Blog on,
- How to Choose a Niche or a few different Niches for the Blog,
- How to use RSS Feeds and Aggregators to quickly and automatically find content on Favorite topics, from all over the Web,
- How to automatically format the Blog and Insert Images, and
- How to optimise the Blog on the Search Engines, so you can promote whatever you want to Internet Searchers, and therefore earn income as a Blogger (the author of the Blog).
A Blog is a Web Based Journal used to "log" about different topics. There are hundreds of different kinds of Blogs, some very personal, some political, religious, and others for Sport, and Business. There are blogs with only one writer (known as a blogger) and blogs with a community of bloggers. There are blog networks, where communities work together in providing information between blogs of similar topics.
At the end of this course, students will:
1. Know what a Blog is, why it's used and how Blogs can make money.
2. Have chosen a Blog platform.
3. Have chosen one or more Niches for their Blog, after evaluating a number of possibilities.
4. How to use RSS Feeds and Aggregators to find content for their blogs.
5. How to use a simple HTML editor to create well presented posts. 6. How to Insert images into their blogs.
7. How to advertise on their Blogs.
8. How to Optimise their Blog for the Search Engines, so people searching on the Internet see the Blog.
Faculty Information:
Instructor: Julieanne van Zyl
Syllabus: View Syllabus
Julieanne van Zyl Experience:
- Information Technology Consultant for 6 years at Australian Taxation Office
- Lecturer at the Institute of Technical and Advanced Further Education for 2 years part time.
- Lecturer in Computer Science at University of South Australia for 2 and a half years.
- Tutor at University of South Australia for 4 years part time.
- A Successful InterNetwork Marketing Business for 5 years.
Other Activities:
Students will receive a certificate based on how their blog is set up and what they've done to optimise it on the Search Engines.
Optional certificates awarded:
- Certificate of Class Participation
- Certificate of Outstanding Achievement
- Certificate of Academic Excellence
Facility Information:
* What is a Blog, why use them, how to make money and where to Create the Blog. - Blogs are described in detail, along with reasons for using them, and different ways to make money with Blogs. We also step through the process of Choosing a Platform on which to create your Blog.
* Why use a Niche and how to Choose a Niche for your Blog - This lesson describes what a Niche is, why it's important to have one. Students are shown how to evaluate different Niches and to choose the one which will be most beneficial accoreding to the goals and objectives for a student's specific Blog.
* Using RSS Feeds to quickly find Content from the World Wide Web - Students will learn an easy way to review fresh content from a large number of websites, in a very short time. This fresh content is accessible by using technologies called RSS and an Aggregator. RSS and Aggregators are explained with graphical examples.
* Creating Simple HTML and Inserting Images in your Blog - Students learn to use a simple HTML editor to automatically translate unformatted Text into well formatted HTML for the Web. Images are important in a Blog, so photo albums are shown along with how to display images in the Blog.
* Advertising and Search Engine Optimization - This lesson shows 2 methods of Advertising on a Blog, and walks students through 10 ways to optimize your Blog in the Search Engines, so there will be lots of traffic coming to your Blog.
Notes:
* Basic Course: $99.00
* with CEUs & Certificate: $124.00
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