Blogging Courses Free
Blogging Courses Free
~ blog for success
Free blogging courses will be our main focus in this post.
“Free is your friend” here at MONEYKERR. Some of the best blogging courses for beginners are free and you should take advantage of them whether you have sufficient funds or not.
Investing money in a paid course to prepare yourself to blog for success can be very rewarding and should definitely be considered if it’s in your budget.
However, for those beginners who just don’t have the funds as yet, you can still get started blogging without paying any money for online education.
Blogging courses free for beginners are not hard to find
Since there are so many of them from different sources, it can be quite overwhelming knowing just where to start.
This blog post will help to point you in the right direction.
Browse our Table Of Contents to quickly access the information you need.
First Things First
Before starting your blogging journey here are some quick tips and things you should know:
●Pick A Profitable Niche
●Choose Your Domain
●Research Blog Hosting
●Learn Website Building
●Do Keyword Research
●Free Copywriting Tools
Niche Picking
Before you start building your blog you need to research several niches and pick one that is not only profitable but one that you enjoy and have some knowledge of so that you can write about it.
Your Domain
This is your home on the internet so take some time to choose a great address, Preferably one that reflects you or your business and has a keyword in it if possible.
Blog Hosting
There are so many blog hosting providers that it’ll make your head spin. It is very confusing knowing just where or with whom to host your blog. As your blog grows you may even wish to convert to a faster provider.
Free blog hosting has its place and some folks do start their blogs there. Be aware that free hosting platforms tend to have slower speed, more limitations and less storage. Whereas a paid self-hosted site will have more freedom, storage and speed.
My site is hosted inexpensively with Bluehost.
If you truly want to earn money from your blog then a paid self hosting platform may be a better choice. That being said, here are a some free hosting providers:
Wix
Blogger
WordPress.com
Premium Blog Hosting
Siteground
Bigscoots
Check Out Bluehost’s Pricing Below
Low Cost Hosting With Bluehost
Easy Website Building
What Is WordPress?
WordPress is a popular website builder that’s widely used
Drag and drop is the easy way to go and you’ll do it yourself quite inexpensively. Don’t stress about building the perfect site and the cost you could incur. Get the tools you need to do the job.
Google says that as of 2024, over 810 million websites use WordPress!
WordPress.com
This is an easy to use fully hosted website builder with free themes as well as drag and drop layouts.
WordPress.org
WordPress can be used by any person or business to build and self host their website. You can buy a unique domain name and and buy hosting from Bluehost or Siteground for example.
WordPress Tutorials
●https://www.wpbeginner.com/blog/
Build A Self Hosted Website
Learn how to build a professional, self hosted WordPress website from scratch.
https://www.udemy.com/course/start-a-blog-from-scratch/
You’ll be shown how to make your blog look great whether it’s viewed on a laptop, tablet or smartphone. Here are some steps that this free tutorial will cover:
•How To Add A Logo
•Change The Background
•How To Create pages
•How To Add Images
•Add Contact page with a form
•Build Your Sidebar
•Add Social Share Buttons
•Blog post with featured image
Upon completion you’ll have a skill that can make you some money!
Remember to add a Terms and Conditions page to your website which is legally required.
Do Keyword Research
Get familiar with keyword research. Keywords are critical to the success of your blog.
Finding Great Keywords
Learn How To Use Ahref’s KW difficulty using the link below
https://ahrefs.com/academy/blogging-for-business
Get more details on keyword research from my previous blog post here
Free Copywriting Tools
It’s convenient to have the tools you need at your disposal to write good content. AI can accomplish this for you very inexpensively and in some cases for free.
COPYSHARK AI
Generate Copy In Seconds
Generating copy very quickly is easy to do with AI.
Before investing in premium tools take a look at the free ones and free trials.
Read this blog post for more free copywriting tools
Now that you have a good background on some preliminaries, here are some blogging courses, free of charge that you may find helpful.
Free Blogging Courses
Free Blog Courses – From UDEMY
At the Udemy site above there are some awesome free blog courses that should be very helpful:
Get Lessons On:
● 10 Free Blogging Tools
● How To Start A Blog
● Create A Viral Blog Post
● Guest Blogging
● Blogging 101 To Make Money
● ProBlogger Free Guide
And much, much more
Blog Courses ~ From Ahrefs
At the Ahrefs site above you can learn the following:
●How To Start A Blog
●Get Traffic From Google
●How To Find Blog Topics
●SEO For Your Articles
●How To Grow Organic Traffic
●Customer Acquisition Channels
●Convert Visitors Into Subscribers
●How To Grow To Over 100k Visitors
●Content Marketing That Brings In Customers and Sales
And so much more…
Yoast Training
If you want to create your own WordPress website but don’t know how, you can learn how to do it from Yoast.
Yoast SEO Training
Free SEO Training starts with Yoast. SEO Training For Beginners
They also have free WordPress training and Yoast plugin training.
Get FREE Traffic
Free Traffic With Pinterest
Pinterest will help you get traffic to your blog if you know how to use it.
Pinterest instructor, Summer Tannhauser, will teach you how to be successful using Pinterest.
Check out her free training here.
Google can be a priceless free traffic source if you’ve written good content that ranks well and has longtail keywords that are heavily researched.
Learm more about Pinterest keyword research here
Images
Enough can’t be said about Images. You’ll need them everywhere and for everything. You’ll need Images for Pins if you post on Pinterest. You’ll need images in your email. Images look lovely in your blog. You’ll also need images for Ads.
You may or may not have the time to take your own pictures. You may not have a large enough selection.
No Worries
There area many places where you can find free images.
Get details on free Images here.
For a greater variety of images, you can subscribe to Canva yearly.
A lifetime subscription to Plasfy would be more cost effective
Start A Podcast
Do you want to start a Podcast but don’t know what to do? Udemy’s free course will give you the information you need on picking a topic, choosing the right equipment, launching it, monetizing it and much more.
Get the knowledge you need to start Podcasting
In Conclusion
As you can see, you can learn blogging for free from several sources such as Udemy or Yoast.
Google and Ahrefs also have WordPress tutorials.
There are also a plethora of content creators and six figure bloggers offering blogging courses on the internet.
As an entrepreneur, you could add to your income streams by building and flipping websites.
You could be a VA, (virtual assistant) service blogs and write blog posts for website owners. The possibilities are endless.
Whatever path you choose, Cheers to starting your online education and to your success as you learn blogging for free.
You can further your education with paid courses when your budget is able to. Many of the free Courses do offer paid ones as well.
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