To enlarge your community of learners, a good search engine optimization for your content is a must.
Here’s what you can do to get a better SEO score and increase traffic in your mini-courses or collections.
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Turn on “Index to Google” #
Index to Google should be turned on for your mini-course to show up on Google searches. It takes a few hours after this is turned on that Google starts to fetch sitemap data.
On your mini-course edit screen, click on “Settings” at the top right end of your mini-course and turn on “Index to Google” under SEO settings tab.
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Write an SEO description for your mini-course #
The description you write is added to head code as metadata, which helps to show up on searches.
On your mini-course edit screen, click on “Settings” at the top right end of your mini-course and add your description to the box under SEO settings tab.
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Add your collection landing page/mini-course to Google Search Console #
If you have added a custom domain to your account for your collection or mini-course, you can add your sub-domain to the Google Search Console to monitor and optimize your page’s presence in Google Search results.
🔹If you have a domain and have not yet set up a custom domain for your Mini Course Generator account, here’s how to set up a custom domain: Customizing Links with Custom Domain (CNAME)
After adding your domain or URL to Google Search Console and verifying your domain ownership, we suggest you to add the sitemap of your custom domain to Google Search Console.
Your sitemap URL is yourcustomdomain.com/sitemap.xml. For the sake of this article, we will use the domain academy.knowup.io and the sitemap academy.knowup.io/sitemap.xml.
The sitemap should include URLs for each mini-course in your collection in the urlset tag as shown in the image below. If there is any missing mini-course URL, check if “Index to Google” is turned on in your mini-course SEO settings. If your mini-courses are not indexed to Google, they won’t show up in Google searches.
👀 It can take a few days for your sitemap to include URLs to your mini-courses.
To add the sitemap to Google Search Console, click on “Sitemaps” on the left end of Google Search Console and submit your sitemap URL as shown below.
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Add a Favicon #
Although Favicons do not directly affect your SEO score, they have an indirect effect as they improve user experience.
Upload a Favicon under SEO tab in your mini-course settings and save your settings.
🚀 Pro Tip: You can add Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, Google Tag Manager, Microsoft Clarity, Hotjar, email marketing services, social media services and many more using “Add header and body scripts” feature under advanced settings tab to track your learners’ activity. Get help from analytics and metrics to better market and develop your mini-courses.
As it is with all features of Mini Course Generator, optimizing your mini-courses for search engines is quick and easy. Reach lots of learners with your micro-learning content and generate leads with great practicality.
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