Blogging is hard and the COVID-19 epidemic is not making things easier.
Luckily, several businesses have started offering their blogging, SEO or marketing courses for free to help bloggers and small business owners who are struggling because of the pandemic.
This page lists the best courses I have found. If you know of another blogging course, please post a comment below the article and I will add it to the list.
Blogging and marketing courses that are temporarily free
Blogging for business - Ahrefs Academy
This awesome blogging course offered by Ahrefs normally costs 799 USD but is now temporarily free. It will teach you how to grow a successful blog and get more than 100k monthly visitors.
Considering how quickly Ahrefs themselves grow their own blog, this is definitely advice you want to listen to.
All-around SEO training - Yoast
The creators of the famous Wordpress SEO plugin are offering their training for free to help business owners affected by the pandemic rank better.
Crush Your Content - Do You Even Blog
This course will teach you how to triple your productivity and write more content, something lots of bloggers may find incredibly helpful when working from home.
Some of the things you will learn include:
- How to write 3k words an hour
- How to batch your writing
- Why a voice recorder can help you produce more content
LinkResearchTools Associates
LinkResearchTools are now offering their online SEO training for free until September 30th to support social distancing.
You will learn little-known linkbuilding strategies and earn a SEO certificate but also discover how to analyze your competitors’ backlinks and get access to helpful browser extensions.
Online Business Toolkit - Smart Passive Income
Smart Passive Income is offering a free online business toolkit including several usually paid courses such as Smart from Scratch, a course that will help you find your business idea.
Pat Flynn also temporarily offers the PDF version of his books Let Go and Will It Fly for free.
You will also find advice t work from home and lots of helpful articles.
CXL Institue Scholarship
CXL is offering a scholarship for people who want to become conversion optimization experts but can’t afford the CXL minidegrees.
Blogging for Devs
This free email course will teach you how to start a programming blog and use it to find consulting clients, find a job or get invited to speak at conferences. It focuses specificially on the skills developers need to grow a successful blog and walks you through all the steps.
SEO for Devs
After growing several blogs thanks to the power of SEO, Monica Lent teaches you how to do the same in this free mini course.
The course has already garnered great reviews and looks much more useful than many paid SEO courses so I would recommend signing up ASAP if you are a dev or simply a blogger who wants to learn more about SEO.
Free online communities for bloggers
Being surrounded by like-minded people is essential in time of crisis. These groups are the perfect place to meet other bloggers and small business owners and tackle problems together.
Make Your Own Damn job with Noah Kagan
Food Blogger Central
This very active Facebook group is the ideal place to meet other food bloggers and talk about the issues food bloggers face during the coronavirus pandemic.
SEO Beautiful - Online Visibility made easy with Pamela
In this free Facebook group, Pamela Rae-Welsh shares daily advice, tutorials and activities that small business owners can use to help with their SEO and social media.
Cracking Content
This free Facebook group is for you if you would like to discuss all things content and learn how to create high-converting blog posts, newsletters or social media content.
Carry On Virtually In Defiance
A free Facebook group for small business owners, entrepreneurs and self-employed to come together as a community to share their knowledge, expertise, support and resources during this hard time.
Female Travel Bloggers
This a free Facebook group created to support female travel bloggers and help them make meaningful connections.
Works Canteen
This free Facebook group is here to help small business owners, freelancers and managers work from home more easily.
Thanks to Martin Boeddeker for letting me know about many of these awesome resources and courses.
Do you know any other blogging course or tool that’s temporarily free due to COVID-19? Post a comment below to let me know!