9 of the Best Free Blogging Courses To Try in 2025
Whether you are a new blogger or a more experienced blogger, I’m sure you’ll have noticed that there are a TON of free blog courses available for you to take.
The question is – what is worth your time?
I’ve been blogging now for 7 years and have taken my share of courses. Some have been stellar and others, not so much.
Your time is valuable so I am sharing my top recommended FREE courses and training you can take as a blogger or online business.
The blogging courses I’m recommending cover the following topics:
- How to start a blog
- Becoming an authority in your niche
- Skills to grow your business
- How to drive traffic
- SEO for beginners
- Pinterest and Google SEO strategies
- How to legally protect your website and business
- Graphic design basics
As I discover more free courses and online training I will update this article.
Want to uplevel your blogging skills this year? Check out my fave FREE blogging courses (that are actually worth your time)! #bloggingtips Share on XHow Can Free Blogging Courses Help You?!
Free definitely does not mean low quality, so trust me when I say there are some extremely high-value free blogging courses and training out there.
The below free courses will give you some good foundations on a variety of topics that will truly help you grow your blog.
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9 Free Blogging Courses For You To Try in 2025
1. Start a Blog – Free 5 Day Course
My step-by-step free course is not designed to start a blog – it’s designed to set up a SUCCESSFUL BLOG that you will be proud of promoting. With these foundations laid, you can use your blog as a creative outlet, as a side income, and even a full-time income if this is your goal.
Here’s what the course covers:
- Choosing a niche and deciding on a domain name
- Detailed instructions to set up a self-hosted WordPress website
- Selecting and installing your theme
- Tips to create a logo
- Setting up plugins, Google Search Console and your legal pages
- All things social – Deciding what social channels to focus on, securing your social handles and more
- Understanding your target audience
- Determining your core content pillars & writing your about page
- Tips to generate blog post ideas
- Resources to help with blog post formating
👉 Sign up! Start a Blog – Free 5 Day Course
Related: How To Make Money Blogging – Tips For Beginners
2. Niche Authority Hacker
This course comes to you from Chelsey Clarke @HerPaperRoute. Chelsey teaches you how to brand yourself as an authority in your niche.
What you’ll learn:
- How to brand your business in a professional manner
- How to build your niche authority with actionable steps
- How to create brand consistency
- The 5 components of a memorable brand
- Creating a clear blueprint to reach your business goals
- Costly branding mistakes to avoid
👉 Sign up for Niche Authority Hacker here.
3. SEO Bootcamp: Free Video Training for Beginners
Mike Pearson, the creator of Stupid Simple SEO has an introductory video series you can watch for free!
SEO Bootcamp Course Agenda:
👉 Enroll in the SEO Bootcamp now!
4. Free SEO Email Course
In this free SEO course (delivered via email) you’ll learn how Debbie Gartner (from The Flooring Girl) gets over 500,000 Page Views per month, mostly from SEO!
Debbie uncovers over 10 Myths and Mistakes newer bloggers make and how to avoid them.
👉 Sign up for the Free SEO Email Course
5. “Legally Blogs” – Legal Course for Bloggers
There is more involved than you think when it comes to protecting your blog, your content and your business. This free legal course teaches you:
- Why you need to take care of the legal side of blogging
- Your legal requirements as a blogger
- The difference between LLCs and Sole Proprietorships
- What’s copyright and how to protect your content
- About the legal pages you must have on your blog
- What GDPR is and what you need to do to comply
- How to keep track of your income and taxes
- And a lot more!
👉 Sign up for Legally Blogs here.
6. Skillshare – 1 month Free
I recently signed up for Skillshare and am astounded by all of the courses they offer. I don’t know about you but as an online entrepreneur, I have A LOT of goals and new skills I want to learn.
Skillshare offers courses in everything from:
- Improving my PhotoShop Skills
- Publishing a book
- Web development
- Marketing
- Freelance and Entrepreneurship
- Graphic Design
- Business
The list goes on!
The one month of Skillshare gives you access to the premium membership. This includes all classes on the site which are project-focused and provide current resources and tools.
👉 Sign up for your 1 free month of Skillshare now!
7. Traffic & Monetization 5 Day Mini Challenge
A traffic and monetization challenge from pro blogger, Lena Gott. You’ll get five days of simple tasks to increase your traffic & income! It takes just 15 minutes a day and you’ll come out with tips you can implement to make an impact.
- DAY 1: An overly complicated traffic strategy confuses your readers. Learn how to SIMPLIFY and get more traffic as a result.
- DAY 2: Find out how to easily implement INCOME PATHWAYS on your blog to increase income from the traffic you already have.
- DAY 3: Your CALLS TO ACTION can make or break you in the online world. Learn what to say and what NOT to say to encourage your visitors to take action. You’ll really love this one!
- DAY 4: You can use keyword research to find HIDDEN NICHES that no one else is targeting. Low competition = more traffic for you! This is a super simple SEO concept that we will walk through step-by-step.
- DAY 5: Today’s lesson is all about the ONE METRIC you can track to increase your income. Knowing this number makes a world of difference to your income!
👉 Sign up for the 5 Day Traffic & Monetization Mini Challenge here.
8. Adventures in SEO: Free Trial
Adventures in SEO is a course I took a couple of years ago and this helped me get into the MediaVine Ad Network, which you need 50K sessions a month to apply. Lena’s tips have also substantially grown my organic search traffic for my lifestyle site, which continues to grow month over month.
You can check out Lena’s teaching style with this free trial, which includes:
- 3 Pinterest lessons from Module 5 of Adventures in SEO
- 1-hour long Google SEO training video
👉 Sign up for Adventures in SEO free trial here.
9. Free Design Training
This 30-minute free video training from Kristin at Apple Cart Lane Design will teach you basic design fundamentals.
Agenda:
- Why starting out with a plan for your graphics is an absolute must if you want yo avoid “blank canvas syndrome”
All of these tips are easy to understand even if you have no design experience and will help you create your own graphics for social media, Pinterest and your blog.
👉 Sign up for your Free Design Training here.
More Free Blogging Tools & Resources
- Canva Pro 30-Day Free Trial: Try out all the new features to uplevel your designs. Access Free Trial.
- Best Free Stock Photo Sites: These are the stock photo sites I love the most. Access Here.
- Free Tailwind Trial: Access Tailwind Communities to increase engagement on your pins. Try for Free!
- SmarterQueque Social Media Scheduler: Get an extended free trial and plan all your posts for the month! Sign Up Here.
Conclusion: What is the Best Free Blogger Course For You?
The answer to this question will honestly differ depending on a couple of things:
Where you are in your blogging journey. Beginner, experienced or advanced.
What your current goals are when it comes to blogging. For example, if you want traffic: Mike Pearson’s SEO Bootcamp, plus Lena’s Traffic & Monetization Challenge and Adventures in SEO free trial may be your best option to start.
Or if you want to learn how to launch your own podcast or start an Etsy shop, Skillshare will be best for you.
>> My recommendation is to think about your #1 goal right now and sign up for the course that helps you reach this goal.
Have You Tried Any of These Free Blogging Courses? What did you think?!
Share in the comments below…
Related Blogging Tips & Resources:
- The Ultimate List of Blogging Resources
- Blogging Tips for Beginners + 8 Blogging Mistakes to Avoid
- How To Blog Legally – Tips from a Lawyer Who Blogs
- Increase Traffic with Pinterest SEO
- 15 Types of Blog Posts to Grow Your Website Traffic
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These are great suggestions, I’m totally going to take a few of these courses!
Im still pretty new to blogging, I’ll have to check some of these out!
Welcome to the blogging world Nicole! Yes, definitely do!
Thank you so much for these suggestions. I have bookmarked this page and will work my way through them. They sound extremely useful
Thank you
I’m totally going to take some of these courses!! These are great and I’m still a newbie so I’m ready to learn everything I can!
This looks like a great list of suggestions and for free too! I’ve already done the one, but I’m definitely checking out the rest.
You’ve got some great suggestions here! Honestly, I find that the biggest thing most newer bloggers struggle with is SEO. There is A LOT involved and it can quickly feel overwhelming. Any course that can help to break that down in a way that you can start to understand and apply the different aspects is a HUGE win in my book!
Hi Britt! I agree re: SEO to the point where many new bloggers don’t know what it is at all! It’s great there are resources out there to help people 🙂
What a helpful roundup of free blogging courses. Thanks Yolanda! I’ll have to check out some of these.
Hi Lisa! So happy you found these helpful 🙂
Saving this to come back to. Wish I had found this a year ago!
Hi Jolayne – so happy you found this helpful. I recommend going to your top posts and update the formatting on those first!
These are great courses. I have signed up for the SEO course. Thanks for this.
Hi Debbie, That’s great – Mike Pearson has so much valuable info to share 🙂 Let me know what you think!
Thanks for all this information. I am going to pursue some of these— I feel like my blog is growing too slowly.
Hi Elaine 🙂 For sure – definitely take advantage of these courses. They really do help immensely and will help you grow traffic and build an audience.
So many great suggestions for me and my tight college budget! Haha! Thanks for sharing!
Hey Delaney! For sure! You bring up a great point. Test driving a course or accessing fully free courses help so much – and then if you do upgrade to a purchased course you at least know what their teaching style is like.
Thanks for sharing. I think I will take some of these courses.
You have some great options here! I love the fact that there are so many free or trial options available to get started. Not only did it give me valuable information to start on the right food when I was first getting into blogging, but they also helped me to see the value in investing in courses moving forward. Now, I have invested in a couple of bigger courses and I’m SO happy that I did!
So this is what happens when a writer does the homework needed to write quality material. Thank you very much for sharing this wonderful content.
Thanks so much for your kind words!
I am new to blogging and have been searching for a post like this to really help me get started for little to no cost! Thank you for sharing!
Hi Jenna! Glad you found this helpful. You really can’t go wrong with any of these courses. They are all a great place to lay a foundation when starting out. Enjoy!
There’re so many stuff I want to learn as a new blogger. I try to take one step at a time so I don’t feel overwhelmed. I feel I have to step-up my SEO game and am looking for more ways to bring traffic to my blog. It’s a struggle in the beginning but I’m no quitter. Great article, thank you 🙂
Hi Mariya, If traffic is your goal I would focus on SEO and Pinterest. Great attitude as well! It can be a struggle but if you stick to it and have a plan I guarantee you’ll see progress. Best of luck!
This is a great list of free blogging resources! Definitely saving this for later use
So glad you found this helpful! All the best.
I am new to blogging. I will take at least three of these courses.
I plan on an informational blog. After I hone in on the segment, what courses is best for writing and organizing each blog within the subject?
Hi Roger! I recommend focusing on the SEO courses for determining best practices for writing and selecting content within a niche. Start with SEO Bootcamp and go from there. I also have an article on best practices for writing blog posts which will be helpful – https://fullcircledigital.ca/blog-post-writing-format/. All the best on your blogging journey!