Free Blogger Course

Today I am to Darren Rowse, better known as ProBlogger, on the note to a free blogging course encountered.

This is organized together with the Sitepoint-Verlag/Website and is aimed at newcomers to blogging.

I glance at the online course and I wonder why this is free.

free online course

At the beginning of the same information that the online course is of course English. That you should know before you start.

The course itself “buys” on one side of the site point for 0, – dollars and then do you register yet. And you have access to the online course.

The course is divided into a total of 6 parts:

Preparation – Let’s Get Going
In 4 videos deal with the preparation. This includes the basic planning, the naming process, the analysis of keywords and the domain selection.
Platforms: Where will your live blog in cyberspace?
In Lesson 2, it goes to the choice of blogging platform. So the question of whether but rather a hosted blog or own WordPress install.
Here are two videos and a link to an article by Darren.
Types of blogs: Lets look at the options
, both in a video, as well as an article in different types of blogs will be presented. One should consider at this point, therefore, what is a blog-style best.
To find out, is also recommended to test it first with a personal blog.
WordPress: Installing and customizing
in the fourth Lesson, it is practical. This is about the installation and setup of your own WordPress blog. A total of four videos explain the installation, adjustment in the blog and the selection and installation of a theme.
Adding Killer Content
Lesson 5 then turns to the content. 3 videos are included here. One is the content that should already be created before the start. Then it goes to the procedure, how to write articles and pages and it will also examine the use of various media such as photos and videos.
Introduction to The Pillars of Problogging
the conclusion that small price then creates a video in which four elementary Darren imagine something that should have a successful blog or with which you should look at as a blogger.

Thus, the course had been completed and you should end up with a fully installed WordPress blog.

Is it worth the price?

Who wants to install a blog and English well, can of course can definitely look at it. Although Darren has an Australian accent, but it stays within limits and I understand him very well.

I’ve also seen quite differently. There are Australian podcasts that I could not hear any more, although I would interested in the topic.

But if someone speaks with an Australian accent, this is really really creepy. But as I said, here it goes.

Why free?

The question is, why you make the effort and created this beginner course. Not very surprisingly Darren is planning another course at Sitepoint.

This is “ The ProBlogger Academy ”and is of course free of charge. This course will contain 20 lessons and go for 4 weeks.

It discusses the four key points, Darren lists the free end of the course.

It involves:

Creating Killer Content – It is a very good content, find many readers.
Boost Your Blog Traffic – Tips and strategies to increase traffic.
Building a Blog Community – How to build a loyal readership base and active.
Monetizing Your Blog – And of course, how to earn money with his blog.

Even here, there will be at each lesson videos and articles. And of course they promise a few more things.

Whether one should use this course I can not say because he has not yet started. 99, – dollars is a lot of money for information that there is nothing to Darren’s blog or at least cheaper, in his book.

On the other hand, the exchange on video, of course, something completely different and I think it’s at least very well done, as will be provided with the free course for attention.

Own experience

I think it’s also very interesting for another reason. So I plan it myself also Online-Kurs/Coaching. Videos will also play an important role since and I’ve watched the free implementation of the course, of course, very closely.

First-hand, of course, you learn the most and I will certainly take one or the other lesson we can learn.