The Best Free Stuff For Bloggers in 2024

Just started your blog? Hoping to actually save money this year and get some awesome free stuff for bloggers?

When you are just starting on your blogging journey, it can seem that you are simply bleeding money.

From choosing the right hosting package, buying a WordPress Theme and deciding whether to splurge on a logo, blog expenses add up quickly.

The good new is that not everything has to cost money.

If you want to get your blog up and running quickly and as cheaply as possible, you need to take advantage of every freebie you can find.

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When I started Seaside Sundays I discovered that a lot of bloggers offer great free courses or planners in exchange for your email address.

This is a great way to get some knowledge under your belt without spending. It also allows you to “try before you buy” and check out different teaching styles before you decide on which courses you want to buy.

Below you will find my list of the best FREE stuff for bloggers, completely updated for 2022.

If the freebie is a limited time offer, I have noted that but remember that things change rapidly in the blogging World so if there is something that interests you, grab it now. 

Once you have signed up for all the freebies that you want, make sure to check my list of the top blogging resources and tools for 2021.

The Best Free Stuff For Bloggers 

You can access all of the freebies below. Also make sure to check out this list of 25 free blog sharing websites as it will get you get started with boosting your blog traffic quickly. 

Another freebies is my Free Printable Blog Traffic Checklist which is exactly what I used to qualify for Mediavine ad network in just a few months. 

Free Blogging Courses

These completely free courses will help you with social media marketing, branding and starting to monetize your site.

Free Blog Traffic Bonus Guide 

this is a must-read for any new blogger who wants to grow their traffic.

 

How to create a viral pin

My free ebook on getting noticed on Pinterest.

 

 

How to make money blogging

Free 5 day course on monetizing your blog

 

Free Traffic and Monetization Challenge

This is another freebie from Lena Gott that I love. It’s a 5 day mini challenge to boost your income and traffic. 

 

Free Blog Posts & Content

This is a weird one but bear with me! 

Do you ever find it hard to think of new blog post ideas or to get started on a topic? Private Label Rights or PLR content is what you can use to “get going” on a blog post or freebie to give to your readers. 

What is PLR?

It’s done-for-you blog posts, PDFs and images on millions of different topics.

When you buy a PLR article you have total rights to republish it as is and claim credit for it. You can rebrand, change and us it however you like.

I sometimes use PLR articles to give me a jump start on a topic as most articles are 500 words long so not enough for a full blog post plus I like to turn the article into my own voice.

I find using PLR saves me hours as it helps me get an article published quickly.

You can also use PLR as a quick and easy email opt-in idea or freebie to give your readers.

In theory you can just copy and paste your PLR onto your blog and hit publish but I don’t recommend it. Why?

• A million people have probably already done that so you have zero to no chance of ranking on Google
• Some of the articles are really bare bones with no links or data to back up facts so you will want to make the articles a bit meatier.
• Your readers want your voice. I find I need to add a bit of my own writing to really make my PLR not seem like PLR.

Ronnie for PLR is giving away 10 credits (enough for up to 10 FREE PLR articles) for anyone who sign up through this link. Choose from topics such as parenting, money, health, weight loss etc. 

Free Planners

Planners will help you plan out your editorial calendar, social media posts and brainstorm blog post ideas.

Free Pinterest Planner  –  This planner from Simple Pin Media is fantastic.

I have used it every year since 2019 and downloaded this year’s one the second it was published.

It gives you ideas for trending Pinterest topics per month as well as holidays and other things to pin. 

Free Weekly Social Media Planner – a weekly planner for Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook with a pre-scheduled plan and daily tasks to keep you on track.

Free Fonts & Photos 

There are tons of options for free photos, free fonts and other images.

Free stock photos  –There are tons of resources for royalty-free photos that you can use on your blog.

 This list has 26 places to find free photos for a variety of niches and it outlines exactly how (or if) you need to give credit to the photographer. 

 

Free photos, fonts, graphics & lots more  – Sign up for the Creative Market newsletter and get 6 free items a week (from fonts to styled stock photos and clip art). New freebies are sent every Monday. 

Free Fonts & More – The Hungry Jpeg has a free font bundle (look for the freebies section at the top) plus a new freebie each week (sent on a Wednesday). 

Free Pin Templates 

Pin templates for Pinterest have changed my whole business. I now exclusively use templates to create my pins and save so much time. Below are three places to get some free templates for both pins and other social media image templates. 

 Pinterest Templates These are the templates I use. This link will give you 12 free templates (7 for Canva and 5 for PicMonkey).

Free Canva Templates for social media – Simplifying Designs offers free Canva Templates plus cheat sheets for creating printables, social media templates and more.

Five Free Pinterest Templates – Graphic Design Blog Applecart Lane offers readers 5 Free Pinterest templates than you can use on Canva (also free, see below!). She also offers a great free design course. 

Products that help you run your blog

Tailwind – Although the free trial at this link will give you 100 pins to schedule for free, the main draw of Tailwind for me is the awesome Tailwind Community which are always free.

Tailwind Community is a way to get your content out to other bloggers and promoted on Pinterest. A lot of bloggers find they help even more than Pinterest group boards.

You can read more about how I use Tailwind Communities here.

Canva – completely free photo editing with tons of great templates. I use it to create pins, Instagram posts and even ebooks. 

Mailerlite – set up an email subscriber list and send out newsletters completely free. (up to 1000 subscribers).

Payoneer – this ingenious site gives you access to bank accounts in different countries so that you can accept payments Worldwide. It’s great for sites like Amazon Associates that don’t pay by PayPal, especially if you have accounts with Amazon One (UK, Canada, US & Japan).

Get $25 free from Payoneer once your deposit balance reaches $1000 at this link.

Know about more great free stuff for bloggers?  Comment below and I’ll add it in!