If you’re looking to start a blog (or attempting to learn how to make money from the blog you have), you have doubtless wondered how to find (and who’s recommendations to trust when it comes to buying) the best blogging courses in 2025.
As of right now, there are SO MANY BLOGGING COURSES out there, it is literally mind-boggling.
Most of them aren’t cheap – and what’s worse, as of writing this (Spring 2025) most of them are WILDLY outdated, full of fluff, and largely written by bloggers who don’t really make money in any niche other than “how to blog”. You want to be careful about what you buy.
While I’ve been recommending blogging courses for beginners (and intermediate bloggers) in one on one settings or in emails for years, many of my recommendations hav changed recently because the internet has changed so much recently.
(But don’t despair – I do have a couple very good suggestions for you – lol.)
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Before I give you my recommendations for blogging courses, let me tell you why I’m QUALIFIED to recommend any courses to you.
I promise to keep it brief.
My name is Carly and I’ve been blogging for profit since 2016.
My website (this website, that you’re visiting) generates over 6 figures per year largely passively (at this point), and I built it FROM SCRATCH.
I have a brand new website (started less than a year ago) that already makes close to $1000 / month, and another website started in February of 2025 that is getting over 500 pageviews per day now – it will be monetized soon enough.
If you want to read more about how I make my money with this blog, pop your email in the form below:
I had zero knowledge of blogging or internet marketing when I started. I have personally taken over $15,000 worth of online blogging courses.
A lot of them were great, and a lot of them were meh. (Some of them made me wish I’d just burnt the money to heat my home instead.)
These days, for me it’s more about the teacher behind the course than the course itself, and with that in mind, I like to direct people to these guys:
1.Tony Hill + Myself for Pinterest traffic info (you can listen to our podcast here)
2. Mike Futia for general blog grow and online business ideas (you can watch his “money making blog bootcamp” here)
3.Jon Dykstra for advance online business ideas (you can watch his “Formula for 50k/month” here)
4. Monica Froese for digital product sales (Her Digital Shop Experience will teach ANYONE how to set up a profitable shop!)
That’s my short list for now – I’ll keep it updated as I see fit!
Great resource-full post, Carly! Definitely add your affiliate marketing course in there 🙂
Haha, thanks Drew! I am going to claim exhaustion as the reason I missed it… lol
This post is coming at the right time. It’s just what i need tor my blog which doesnt seem to be growing as I want.
Thanks to this great resource. Bookmarking this post right now
This is a really great list. I love how you put both paid and free courses. For sure will check out some
I hope you find some helpful!
Thanks so much for the reviews and recommendations. There’s so much out there and it overwhelms me. I’m ready to invest but where? Who? Ack!!! Lol. Thanks again. Your article helps a lot!
Amazingly helpful!! Thank you so much for this! Now I just have to decide which courses to buy!!
Thank you, Carly, for this great resource! I know you would never steer us wrong. Saving this right now!
So glad you enjoyed it Heather!
I agree with you on Blog by Number, Stupid Simple SEO, and of course, Elite Blog Academy. The other ones I’m not familiar with, but I would add Blog Smarter from Biz Mavens. I learned a lot from that course that even EBA didn’t teach me.
I’m glad you decided to share this – a lot of bloggers, especially new ones – could use something like this. Thank you!
Even with the three you mentioned from this list, that is a VERY solid start! I haven’t heard about Blog Starter, but I will google it! Thank you 🙂
This is a great list, Carly! I’ll definitely be checking some of these out in the future!
I also really appreciate that you don’t mention products or courses unless you’ve actually seen results from them. I think that’s key to building trust with our readers as bloggers. Anyone can say such and such a product is great — But it’s surprisingly easy to tell when they’re actually telling the truth.
Thanks again!
~Sarah
Do you have a top best free courses list? My blog isn’t making money yet and I have already spent so much money on other education for my blog.
Interesting read, there’s many courses on here I haven’t considered. We’ve been doing some research on the best courses, so you’ve definitely given us some ideas for which ones to take.
Hello Carly!
Thank you so much for sharing your info about blogging. Very helpful, now I know where to look and start!
Thank you!!!
After sifting through the ENDLESS amount of information when I typed in “best blogging courses” on Google, I finally stumbled on this gem. Thank you for being so clear, straightforward, and REAL. I will definitely be looking into your recommendations, and am now even more inclined to take some of your courses. I appreciate your down-to-earth approach and would love to hear more of what you have to share. Thank you again!
Jessie =)
I’m SO glad you liked it – I have PERSONALLY taken each one of these courses so it’s easy to share about them 🙂 Good luck with your blog!