Hi @Baghi823, thank you for taking the time to express your thoughts about this, we completely understand that it can be discouraging to have your courses be flagged by the Marketplace Maintenance Program and we would like to address the concerns you raised. Updating your course with new video lectures is only one of the options, but there are numerous ways to keep your content relevant and up to date, such as making sure your course landing page is unique to improve the searchability of the course. We have many support articles to assist you with this:
Create your course landing page
Improve your course's search result
CLP Checklist 1: Your course title, subtitle, and SEO best practices
CLP Checklist 2: Your intended learner audience, course learning objectives, description, and lectures
We also want to clarify that if an instructor's content gets unpublished as part of the marketplace maintenance program, it can still be republished. However, if the same content continues to garner low interest from new students and does not meet the quality standards, it may be unpublished again.
It can be tricky to find your niche and compete, and we hear you that it's frustrating to have to think about marketing when you want to focus on teaching. The updates required by the Marketplace Maintenance Program are also good practices for making your course discoverable and appealing to new students. They also strengthen the discoverability of the platform overall, which is critical as more instructors than ever before teach on Udemy.
We appreciate your thorough feedback and will definitely pass them to our maintenance team - If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to share!
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