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I finally finished the Simpleolgy Blogging Course, and overall, I have to give it a couple of thumbs up. The course is comprised of 15 short video lessons, with each lesson having a short quiz associated with it, just to check your understanding of the materials presented. Each video is 3 to 6 minutes long, making them easily digestible chunks of information. The course page is well laid out, making it easy to keep track of your progress. I found this feature especially useful, as over the holidays just past, I neglected to keep up with the dailies, having in fact skipped about two weeks of anything online.

The course is self paced, so if you miss a day, you haven’t actually missed anything. Just pick up where you left off, and keep going. The Simpleology Blogging Course is aimed at the rank beginner who knows nothing about blogging. The first lesson, entitled “What is a Blog?”, sets the tone for the rest of the course, with a clear explanation and simple illustrations to highlight various points. The following 14 lessons build on that platform, explaining the various elements that make up a blog, and continue on with lessons on content creation, SEO, and monetization of your blog.

As stated earlier, this course is for the beginner. It assumes that you nothing about blogging, and takes it from there, so if this describes you, this course is probably one of the better places you can start. There a couple of things, relatively minor, that I didn’t like about the course, though. Some of the videos end prematurely, leaving you staring at the summary screen for up to two minutes. The other thing that I didn’t like was that any URL’s referenced in the videos went by too quickly to be effectively copied out, though in all fairness, hitting the pause button addresses this issue. It’s also worth noting that the accompanying pdf file contains all the referenced sites for your convenience.

Other good points: the course also comes in audio format, allowing you to listen to the lessons from your ipod. Also included are several bonus files, including interviews with professional blogger.

Overall, this is a well structured course, aimed at the beginning blogger, and could also serve as a useful review for the intermediate blogger who has become caught up in all the latest trends, and lost sight of the basics (guilty!)

The offer still stands from Simpleology: review the course, and get access to the course for free. Which, when you think about it, kind of makes sense, in that you can’t review something that you haven’t tried for yourself, now can you? It doesn’t get much simpler than that