Recently, CourseForMe introduced the new field called “Short description” for all the courses. Let’s have a look in detail to what it is useful for and how it can be used to increase the number of requests.

The new field “Short description” is a short text, whose maximum size is of 200 characters describing the main features of the courses. Its content is passed to the search engine, in order to be used in the results of the search.

The words chosen by the users in the search engine (or those having a similar meaning) which will be found in the description of your course will be shown in bold.

In the results of the search engine, the content of this field will be placed right below the title of the page (highlighted in the image).

Inserting in the “Short description” field meaningful sentences corresponding to what appears in the search, increases the chances of receiving requests because the course will be more visible.

An eye catching sentence or one well structured matching the webpage of your course will lead to more accesses compared to the course pages of your competitors, even if they have a better position in the search results.

The search engine can choose to use the sentence suggested by CourseForMe or another text, that is why it is important to write well structured sentences, rather than a list of keywords.

The content of the field “Short description” is not used by the search engine for the page ranking, but it can contain something that might boost the click.

We suggest you to add the information in this new field as soon as possible. You only need to follow the procedure to edit a course.

Do you want to be updated in real time about the starting courses of a particular category or run by a particular company?

From now the RSS are have been activated also on CourseForMe.

Use them to be informed, saving considerable time!

But what are the RSS?

For the most expert users, first of all they are the (acronym of Really Simple Syndacation), which is a system based on a standard language XML for the distribution of contents.

For those who have a conflicting relationship with technology, we can say that it is a tool allowing to easily link the contents of one or more websites, simply join them in a click and display the updates also outside the browser every time they are updated.

How to do it?

1. Install on your computer an RSS feed aggregator or an RSS reader. Many of them are free, such as sharpreader, feedreader, sage...
2. add the RSS feed address to the list of those you want to monitor by clicking the right button of the mouse on the button on the content that you want to follow on CourseForMe ( e.g. a course category) and paste the link;

Here’s a funny video created by “The Common Craft” about the use of the RSS: : "Rss in plain english".

And all done!

Comfortably sit and keep following us moving… just a finger!

I would like to inform you that we are completing an important change to the structure of our website, in order to improve its indexing by the most important search engine.

The change will be effective by the end of next week. The first increase of the number of contacts from the browsers is not expected before the end of November.

Thanks to you your suggestions we are also changing or adding some functions to our portal. For example, soon it will be possible to define the maximum distance from your training centre to which accept the request of information from the users.

We are also realising two new important sections of our portal: one for the teachers and the other reserved to the online tests for your students, in order to assess the level of learning. We don’t know yet when exactly these sections will be online, but we will be attentive to promptly update you on the status of their realization.

We are also happy to inform you that, from today, we are online in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

We are happy to inform you that, since the opening of our portals, we have started all the activities necessary to guarantee the highest visibility to the registered companies.

We belive it is therefore possible to make a further step towards the common goal, which is the highest visibility for our website, for you to be easily located by potential clients who are searching for your courses.

In order to reach this common goal, we are asking you to consider the possibility to put our logo and a link to our portal on your website.

The increasing number of the links will lead to an increase of our pagerank and, consequently, of your visibility on the web.

As a reward to your effective cooperation, from the 1^st July we activated a new listing of the courses within the different categories.Put our logo on your website and your courses will have the priority compared to the others.

To import the logo, you can take the html code and create the link on the following link.

The presence of the link on your website will be periodically checked by an automatic system, so it will not be necessary for you to inform us.

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We are happy to inform you that our portal is now online also in Australia and Canada.
The Canadian website is available both in English and in French.

We are also happy to inform you that from the 18th October, Germany, Switzerland and Austria will be online and by the end of the same month the website will be available also in Ireland.

Our first objective is to provide you tailor made services for your needs.

That is why we are asking you to help us by proposing improvements to the services which are already available on our portal, or by suggesting new functions that you think might be implemented.

We are looking forward to your suggestions.

Since the beginning of last March - when we opened our portal in Uk - we have been busy opening our portal in many other countries. This first step will end by mid-October, with the opening of our Canadian and Swiss portals.

We are now ready to take a further step, improving the design and the services that we offer to the companies and the users.

Since June we have been improving the usability, creating new functions and new sections of our portal.

We don’t want to tell you anything in advance, but we hope you’ll be able to read in the next posts about the realization of several new ideas that we have in store for you, because that will mean that you chose to stay with us.

We are happy to inform you that, today, all the portals of the Spanish speaking countries are now open. With the opening of the Belgian portal, we have also increased the number of portals for the French speaking countries.

• Belgium
• Spain
• Chile
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

By the end of September, also the portals in German will be available.

You can advertise your training courses for free in all the countries, as long as you register in the portal of each country.

We are happy to inform you that our portal is now online also in the following countries:

• Argentina
• Mexico
• Philippines

You can advertise your training courses for free in all the countries, as long as you register in the portal of each country.

There are many “social buttons” on the web and they are very popular. CourseForMe has been using for longtime the “share” button from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

They are useful to advertise what we like and what we want to suggest to other users through the most popular social networks.

Recently, Google has introduced the button "+1", which is similar to "Like" from Facebook and it’s a way to say that something is really interesting or that you want to suggest it.

What makes these buttons innovative is that “+1” and “Like” influence the results of the searches made respectively with Google and Bing and so they can increase the number of the applications for the courses published on CourseForMe.

In order to capitalize the advantages, CourseForMe has inserted “+1” and “Like” in the pages of the courses, of the training centres and of the categories. We suggest you to invite your students to click on “+1” and “Like” both on the pages of your courses and on the one of your training centre.

Please, don’t forget “+1” and “Like” on our new blog!