Profitable Blogging & Content Writing Creatively Or With AI

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction and welcome

Lecture 1: Mostly blog, but also YouTube, podcast, or anywhere you regularly post content

Lecture 2: How to get real traffic and a real SEO boost with the help of this course

Chapter 2: Content plan

Lecture 1: Content plan and strategy

Lecture 2: SEO keyword mapping and tracking your full list of SEO keywords

Lecture 3: Introduction to SEO keyword research & starting to do keyword research

Lecture 4: Keyword research example & getting you more comfortable exploring SEO keywords

Lecture 5: Long-tail vs. short-tail and profitable keywords for best SEO results

Lecture 6: Keyword density in your blog posts

Chapter 3: Writing a blog post

Lecture 1: Making your topic interesting – it fascinates you and you have expertise in it

Lecture 2: Adding unique voice to your writing by conveying moods and feelings

Lecture 3: Good/bad is meaningless – how to have your own writing voice

Lecture 4: Importance of quality scrutiny, editing and re-doing

Chapter 4: Interesting copywriting – combining SEO and making your title look amazing

Lecture 1: On-page SEO section introduction

Lecture 2: How to set up the Yoast plugin for SEO

Lecture 3: How to set up title/description metas for regular blog post SEO

Lecture 4: Writing enticing meta tags to increase Google SEO SERP clickthrough

Lecture 5: Meta tag writing exercise

Lecture 6: Meta tag writing exercise – answer

Lecture 7: Meta tag writing exercise two

Lecture 8: Meta tag writing exercise two – answer

Chapter 5: SEO for the blog post

Lecture 1: Cornerstone content to help you rank higher in SEO

Lecture 2: The skyscraper method for SEO content

Lecture 3: Google EAT and YMYL – quality content according to Google

Lecture 4: Correct use of H1 and H2 tags

Lecture 5: Title tooltip tag

Lecture 6: Image ALT tag for SEO

Lecture 7: No-follow vs. follow links

Lecture 8: No-follow update and the new UGC and Sponsored attributes

Lecture 9: How to interlink your website's pages for SEO boost

Lecture 10: Advanced on-page interlinking strategy to boost your SEO

Lecture 11: Creating a link to itself in HTML

Lecture 12: Linking out for SEO

Lecture 13: Checking for broken links

Lecture 14: How long should each blog post or page be?

Lecture 15: Rank higher and boost sales through lowering your bounce rate

Chapter 6: Google Search Console to see where your pages rank SEO

Lecture 1: Disclaimer to this section in case you don't have a website

Lecture 2: Setting up your Google Search Console (formerly Webmaster Tools) for SEO

Lecture 3: In case your Google Search Console shows no data

Lecture 4: Google crawler, Google indexing, and creating your sitemap.xml for SEO

Lecture 5: Submitting new URLs and checking for page status and indexing for SEO

Lecture 6: What if your page doesn't get indexed by Google

Lecture 7: Where your pages are ranking and page/query performance in SEO

Lecture 8: User experience section of Google Search Console

Lecture 9: Google Core Web Vitals for SEO

Lecture 10: Using the Google mobile friendliness for SEO check tool

Chapter 7: Successful case study ULTRA-COMPETITIVE niche with on-page SEO

Lecture 1: On-page experiment

Lecture 2: Experiment update in August, 2 months later

Lecture 3: What I do to my pages to make them rank higher

Lecture 4: Big spike just a few days later

Chapter 8: Marketing strategies other than SEO

Lecture 1: How to get influencers in your niche to promote your blog for free

Chapter 9: Making money from your content

Lecture 1: Ads, affiliates, and selling products, and services

Lecture 2: HelloBar WordPress plugin to make more sales

Lecture 3: Where on the page to upsell

Chapter 10: Getting images, infographics, and giving proper citations and credit

Lecture 1: Free site to get extra free images and infographics

Lecture 2: How to create your infographic so you can make more attractive posts

Lecture 3: Where to get nice free images to make your content more attractive

Lecture 4: Adding a citation to your photos or text to give credit to others

Chapter 11: Writing skills and grammar (optional)

Lecture 1: Section introduction

Lecture 2: English grammar and punctuation exercise – answers

Lecture 3: Introducing basic building blocks of English grammar

Lecture 4: Sentence clauses and sentence fragments

Lecture 5: Conjunctions

Lecture 6: Fixing run-on sentences and dealing with complex grammar issues

Lecture 7: Example of fixing run-on sentences with simple and clear sentences

Lecture 8: Four types of sentence structures

Lecture 9: 10 comma rules that will immediately make you a better writer

Lecture 10: Example of fixing many mistakes per sentence in a sales text

Lecture 11: Semicolon rules

Lecture 12: Colon rules

Lecture 13: Question marks

Lecture 14: Use of quotes – otherwise known as quotation marks

Lecture 15: Hyphen rules

Lecture 16: Another rule for using the hyphen

Lecture 17: Common terms with hyphen to memorize

Lecture 18: Common word choice errors: Its vs. it's, Fewer vs. less, than vs. then & more

Lecture 19: Use of lets vs. let's

Lecture 20: Who vs. Whom

Lecture 21: Commonly misspelled words that spellcheck won't pick up – don't trust spellcheck

Lecture 22: Common word-choice error exercise

Lecture 23: Common word-choice error exercise answer

Lecture 24: 10 weak words to take out of your writing and example of email to boss

Lecture 25: More weak words and phrases

Lecture 26: Example of my own writing from years ago and how it can be improved

Lecture 27: Example of using fewer words to communicate the same thing

Chapter 12: Writing blogs with Artificial Intelligence Software ChatGPT

Lecture 1: Section introduction to ChatGPT to help your proofreading and writing quality

Lecture 2: Artificial Intelligence detector tools, and how to avoid SEO AI detection

Lecture 3: Logging into and creating an account in ChatGPT

Lecture 4: Starting to use ChatGPT