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Hey, Product Hunt community! I'm Daniel, CEO & Co-founder of WriterZen.
Why are we here?
We’re launching our WriterZen Academy where you can learn SEO fundamentals and best practices for free. We’re giving you full, unlimited access and you don’t even need to create an account (no login needed).
What's WriterZen Academy?
The WriterZen Academy is a cutting-edge LMS designed for an immersive learning experience without distractions or interruptions. It was developed around the two main modes of learning, visual and auditory, and can switch seamlessly between one and another to provide a combination of both.
The course itself is suitable for all levels as the material covers fundamentals as well as advanced SEO topics. The teaching breaks down complex concepts into easy-to-digest information.
The learning experience doesn’t have to be a linear one (unless you want it to be). The course and platform are designed so you can jump into any lesson or chapter you want. You don’t even need a login. Everyone has unlimited access to the material, even if they don't have an account, and even if they’re not WriterZen users.
Why WriterZen Academy?
We noticed that many WriterZen users are not utilizing the tool fully, and we concluded - after some testing - that the root cause is a knowledge gap. We set out to fill that knowledge gap in order to help our users get the most out of the tool.
When it came to delivering the information, we realized that using an SEO tool and learning SEO are two separate things. So we needed a separate experience.
After looking around at existing solutions, we decided to build our own learning platform in order to deliver the best possible learning experience.
It was a challenging 5 months, but it was interesting and fun. We also realized even before we completed development, that the Academy would help more than just our own users. That’s why we decided to make it free and accessible to everybody.
We’re immensely proud of the result and we’re already planning more digital courses to add to our SEO fundamentals course.
Try WriterZen Academy today and help us share the love.
Hi all, Hoz here. Just sharing a couple of things that I believe the Academy addresses for new and not so new SEOs:
Why is learning SEO from scratch important?
Like learning to drive, learning SEO fundamentals and understanding how search engines work and why they work the way they do is something you only need to do once.
The problem is that there is a lot of information out there, and much of it is not accurate.
A slight miscalculation caused a $125 million dollar NASA probe to miss its target by millions of miles. SEO is a mid-to long-term game. Ranking for competitive terms takes time. If you don’t have a solid grasp of the fundamentals, you can miss your target without understanding why, or - more importantly - without knowing how to take corrective action. This is a huge waste of time and effort. Don’t let it happen to you. Take the time to learn the fundamentals to maximise the impact of everything you do from thereon.
And this question that popped up:
What's your TOP 1 advice for learning SEO?
To maximise your learning, I think more than 1 tip is needed. Here’s my top 5:
1. Put aside everything you’ve heard or learned about SEO so far and keep and open mind to learn the fundamentals.
2. Watch one video every day and take time to think deeply about each video.
3. Write down takeaways in bullet points to cement the learning.
4. Put learning into practice by doing. Create a project and implement what you learn after each video ‘as-you-go’.
5. Aim for fast and easy wins. A million dollars is made up of single dollars. Learn to rank for easy keywords first before you start targeting higher search volume terms.
@theycallmehoz As a new employee still picking up on SEO, my number 1 advice for learning SEO in overall and while taking the course should be:
- Pick your goal before going through the course and tackle goal by goal.
For me, the first goal is to have an overall knowledge of the SEO world. Now, I can somewhat understand the Linkedin insight joke to some extent haha.
Right now, my next goal is to actually grasp the idea of ranking for a real keyword and somehow can make more sense to my Linkedin content.
Thank you @adamthecreator ! Pls try it out. We've been in the SEO scene for a good ten years and found that no matter how big the Google update gets, website that focuses on covering all fundamentals requirement well over a long time will typically thrive well. So this course is the collection of all things important one should know (and start with).
Congrats on the launch team!
Super cool how accessible the course is, a click on visit directly brought me into it!
I'm sure it will be a very helpful resource for a lot of WriterZen team members, bookmarked it for myself already as well. 🙌
@annika_p yes! this course is the collection of our knowledge over the course of 10 years working in SEO industry. One of the key thing we learnt is as long as you can cover fundamentals well, over the course of a long time, your website will typically perform much better compare to one that try to push things faster by using too many different tips and trick. Enjoy!
@richard_gao2 Knowledge shouldn't be gated nor being priced because we want people to freely learn what they're having in minds. That's our pivotal goal when making Academy.
Thanks for having your support Richard!
One of the best academies so far, you bring it all to the table. I have tried out some lessons, the content quality is detailed & up-to-date information - great for a beginner SEOer like me.
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