Online Course: Blogging Basics - Certificate and CEUs
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Online Class: Blogging Basics

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Basic Course: $99.00
with Certificate & CEUs: $124.00
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. Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions. This class has been officially reviewed by our Course Review Committee that scrutinizes course content and instructor participation. This course has received our Committee's highest rating: 4 stars.

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Continuing Education Units (CEU)
1.0 CEUs

Course Description

Blogs are very popular on the Web.  They are being used to promote any kind of business, sporting event, musical activity, or provide information to readers, such as independent reviews of products and services, and lots more.

In many cases, Blogs are earning their authors a significant income. A Blog is a Web Log, where the author writes about a specific topic, and Internet users can get information they require and  comment on the topic if they want to.

This course demonstrates with graphical examples:

  1. How to Choose a platform to create your Blog on,
  2. How to Choose a Niche or a few different Niches for the Blog,
  3. How to use RSS Feeds and Aggregators to quickly and automatically find content on Favorite topics, from all over the Web, 
  4. How to automatically format the Blog and Insert Images, and
  5. 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.
This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.

Course Lessons

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
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Optional Certificates Awarded

  1. Certificate of Class Participation
  2. Certificate of Outstanding Achievement
  3. Certificate of Academic Excellence

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.


Certificates awarded by the instructor will vary and are based upon student merit. Any awards you earn are considered unofficial (or temporary) unless you decide to make the award official. To make an award official, there is a $30.00 processing fee that covers the customization, printing, and shipping of a hard copy of the certificate as well as access to the UniversalClass™ Transcript Service. Official awards include a serial number that verifies the authenticity of the award you earned for a lifetime (great for employers to verify your achievement).

Additional Information

Course Title : Blogging Basics
CEU Value : (Continuing Education Units)
Course Number : 15583
Course Type : Computer Skill
Course URL : http://blogbasics.onlineclasses.com
Course Review :
Instructor : Julieanne van Zyl
Syllabus : View Syllabus
Duration : Continuous: Enroll anytime!
Course Fee :
Basic Course: $99.00
with CEUs & Certificate: $124.00
NOT FOR COLLEGE CREDIT
This is a non-credit course. This course may not fulfill any local, state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.
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