I started watching some of the videos I made for my thesis clients. Man, what gibberish I made. Indefensible stuff. I had to scrap it all…because I honestly wanted to do a good job. I was meandering, and that came from a lack of pre-planning. I do a lot of tech coahing and that stuff can be done 1-on-1….because it’s being done specifically towards someone. This sorta thing has to have some polish on it, and my first efforts were merely a learning experience. Chalk it up to part of my 10,000 hours that Malcom Gladwell says we gotta put forth.
A training video can’t be haphazzard. It has to be carefully wrought, specific, and it has to have some VALUE. Nobody wants to hear a stammering ninny. So I’ve gotta start again. Which is fine.
The upside is with a decent outline–which I now have–I can run through this stuff really quickly with a lot of polish. I get rid of my hems and haws on the timeline in ScreenFlow (an awesome tool), and I can get this done in a few days.
Here’s what I know. Most of it is geared for the basic-to-intermediate crowd…and it starts after the fold to keep my pages lookin’ pretty.
WordPress Thesis Training Includes:
- Introduction:
- Not a design course
- We simplify for clarity.
- Intermediate Level Blogging Info
- Best info available as of now.
- Most blogs are abandoned.
- How to Login and Post To Your Blog.
- Login
- Post
- Pages
- How to edit posts
- adding links
- spell checking
- cut and paste from Word (again)
- Cut and paste from the WEB
- Getting rid of ‘junk’ characters
- Basic Trouble Shooting
- Contact your hosting provider
- can’t connect to database
- Deleting the last post (bad HTML/posting from word)
- Editing old posts
- Deactivating plugins
- Deleting Plugins
- Cleaning up bad text/formatting
- Contact your hosting provider
- How to back up your blog.
- Weekly.
- Automatic Back Up Plugin
- How To Restore Your Blog.
- How to import from another blog.
- WordPress
- Live Jorunal
- Blogger
- GTD: Effectively Blogging in Minimal Time
- Do it daily.
- Have a series of headlines for days when you’re tired
- Cut and Paste/News Commentary Posts
- Link Fiesta Posts
- use resources(yahoo/linkedin) to drive what you’re writing about.
- Planning Your Blog For Success:
- What to write about
- Post frequency/commitment
- Initial: first 60 days- every day
- Consistency > Creativity
- Find Your voice
- Getting others to guest post
- Guest Posting
- FEWER POSTs/MORE PROMOTION
- Organizing Your content:
- Making Categories
- Managing/Importing Links
- Figuring Out What To Post About
- Focusing Your Blog
- Creating Navigation
- Using Tags.
- Making Categories
- Planning and Creating Your First Thirty Blog Posts
- Headlines
- SEO Headlines
- Figuring out what people want to know
- Figuring out what categories you like.
- Finding your “voice”
- Using Title Tags, Embedding Media In Posts, Linking In Other Posts
- Theis
- AIOSEO
- How To Write a Title Tag.
- Relevant
- Like a searcher.
- How To Test to see if its working
- Managing your Tags
- Related Posts= #1 Benefit of Tags
- Nofollowing tags.
- How many/how to configure.
- What’s important.
- NO KEYWORD STUFFING
- Uploading Pictures, Videos, and More Hosting video
- Youtube
- (BONUS!: How to post to Yt to build traffic to your blog)
- Self Hosted
- Using Media Library
- Youtube
- Finding Pictures To Upload Legally
- Search.creative commons.
- Other sources: illegal but under radar.
- Embedding videos.
- Promoting Your Posts
- Social Media
- SEO
- Other Bloggers
- Media Creation Tools:
- FileZilla
- Audacity/LAME
- PodPress
- Windows Movie Maker XP
- Using and Managing Widgets
- Creating Text Widgets
- Putting stuff in your sidebar
- Finding things to put in your sidebar
- Using Thesis OpenHook To Change the Hooks, and behavior of different items.
- Making a custom 404 page
- Changing categories pages
- Configuring Posts
- Scheduling For the Future
- Password Protection
- Bringing old posts up to the top (if one got popular)
- How to use WP-O-MATIC/Feed WordPress
- What not to scrape/steal
- How to get automatic articles
- Understanding RSS
- Tag Feeds
- Category feeds
- Author Feess
- Excluding Posts from feeds, or making feed-specific posts.
- Making Custom Pages
- Creating Custom Styles
- Creating Custom Looks/Headers
- Installing Your Own Plugins
- Troubleshooting.
- Troubleshooting.
- PLUGIN: Using Contact Forms To Get More Connection.
- How To Write an SEO POST (25 minutes)
- Ten Mistakes Bloggers Make
- Not posting enough
- Not linking out to others
- Wanting to protect their ideas
- Creating a Content Calendar
- Making a Post In Ten-20 Minutes or Less, Every Time.
- Outline
- News Posts
- Have a stash of headlines.
- quote and link.
- Link Roundup.
- Using Statpress
- Hits/spiders
- keywords searched
- IPS.
- writing more into your ‘wheelhouse’
- Searching keywords (logging out of google)
- Using Google Analytics
- Hits/spiders
- keywords searched
- IPS.
- writing more into your ‘wheelhouse’
- Using FB Connect
- Configuring plugin
- Adding FB API
- Setting Dual Logins for people w/o fb.
- Using WordPress Polls
- Figuring out what your readers want
- Getting people to vote for something.
- Using Robots META For SEO
- Nofollow
- Dofollow
- noindex
- Understanding dofollow links.
- Commenting on other blogs:
- Why?
- how
- What tribe are you in?
- How to find ideas on what to write about
- Yahoo Answers
- Business Week
- FB Statuses
- Twitter Feeds
- Trulia
- Linked In Questions
- Adding Users To Your Blog
- Other writers
- Contributors/Authors/Admins
- Adding a user for yourself.
- Organizing Your Content:
- Categories
- Tags
- Related posts
- internal SEO
- Using Cforms (part 1)
- Configuring it ot send to you
- Configuring it to work with WP
- Configuring Aweber/alternatives.
- Constructing Custom Landing Pages
- Call to action
- Changing text
- Thesis: Chucking the sidebars.
- BASIC: Using Adwords
- SEO 101
- Permalinks
- Breadcrumbs
- Title Tagging
- Post Info
- In Links
- Gathering Links From Others
- Creating Title Tags for Category Pages
- Thesis specifc
- Thesis specifc
- Getting Comments
- Commenting on other blogs
- Asking
- Maintaining a small email list in gmail.
- Protecting your blog from spam
- askimet
- Manual responding
- dofollow is a spam magnet.
- Using PINGPRESS to automatically promote your blog on PING.FM
- Basic Pages Google Likes
- About
- Contact
- Privacy Policy
- Returns Policy
- Terms and Conditions
- Terms of Service
- Setting up google webmaster tools
- Uploading sitemap
- looking at errors
- nofollowing irrelevant links
- Setting up yahoo & ask
- Plugin Info:
- Minimum Comment Link
- Comment to Email
- Twitter tools
- Reveal IDS
- RSS Footer
- Sociable
- Simple Tagging
- Sociable
- Add To Any/Subscribe
- Subscribe to Coments
- Google SiteMaps
- Setting up Google Reader/Testing Your RSS FEEDS
- Looking at content
- Troubleshooting if stuff doesn’t appear
- Best practices forother links.
- Monitoring this.
- Setting up Feedburner email subscriptions
- Mention FeedBlitz.
- Create Feedburner
- Cut and paste feedburner info into the blog itself.
- Twitter Tools Setup
Thesis Specific Stuff:
- Using Thesis OpenHook
- Creating Custom Page Templates
- Where Your Files Live
- Using Thumbnails, Features and Teasers
- Changing the Header File of your blog.
- Changing the column widths.
- Editing your custom.css file.
- Not a CSS Class
- BASIC changes can be made.
- Where your header lives
- Putting Links in the Footer
- Making features and teasers and magazine style layouts
- Migrating from the AIOSEO.
- integrating with FeedBurner/FeedBlitz
- Tagging
Advanced:
- Setting up pingpress.
- setting up Sub blgos
- Using fantastico
- setting up wp-blogs
- Having ‘em pull from twitter
- Guest Posting for Traffic
- BEST PRACTICES For permalinks
- Creating Adwords Pages
- Using HTML Editor
- using FCK editor
- Using Aweber Plugin
- Using Google Keyword Search Tool.
- Using the FCK Editor for Making HTML
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I enjoy your blog. Nuggets of valuable info. The outline is comprehensive. Tutorial will be a much used resource. Looking forward to the end product. Tehane.
We use Thesis extensively and have found a wealth of information through the tutorials recommended through Thesis. Perhaps a visit there might give you some ideas for quality and topics.
when will the videos be out ?
How are those videos coming I am in desperate need of some solid video instruction. I barely know html.
Thanks.
Videos are done, you can buy in at http://flatratewebjobs.com/getablog if you’re really interested.
I click on that link and the vid didnt play and the link takes me to an order page for $797 product? is that for the videos? if not can you send me the link. Thanks. I really want to get started and need a solid vid tutorial program.