Do Lesson Descriptions boost your SEO?

rmathisen
rmathisen Posts: 50 traveler rank
in First-time course creation

I'm wondering if writing Lesson Descriptions helps with your course SEO when searching within Udemy.

I put out an Excel course about 2 weeks ago, and I truly believe it is better than most courses on the 1st page when searching "Excel". But, as of now, my course is on the 55th page. (I've been promoting to friends, family, and my own social circle.)

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  • MarinaT
    MarinaT Posts: 2,013 Udemy rank

    Hi @rmathisen
    ,

    Thank you for your post! That's a great question.

    Let me share this post with you where we clarified some questions about lecture descriptions on the Course Landing Page.

    I hope this helps!

  • rmathisen
    rmathisen Posts: 50 traveler rank

    Thank you so much for sharing this post with me.
    Your responses are exactly what I was looking for.

  • rmathisen
    rmathisen Posts: 50 traveler rank

    I think I have my SEO pretty good in my title, subtitle, and description.

    With that said, I do have one more thing I'm wondering.....

    To land my course on the first page, any idea if it's more about
    1) how many people purchased your course (ex: 40,000 sales), or
    2) how many people are purchasing your course on a daily basis at a certain rate (ex: 25 sales per day)

    Does the number of reviews come into this equation? (I know the quality of the reviews do)

  • ThomasMitchell
    ThomasMitchell Posts: 447 visionary rank

    No, they categorically do not. Udemy has already confirmed this.

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