For those of you who don’t know about the book… This book was written by two well known bloggers of the industry, Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett.
Darren Rowse(image, to the left) is the guy behind the successful ProBlogger.net. He has been blogging since 2005, and is a professional, full time blogger himself. He is one of the founders of b5media(a blog network) and is a VP of Blogger Training, at b5media. He also edits the famous Digital Photography School, as well as many other blogs.
He lives in AUSTRALIA, with his Wife and children.
Chris Garrett(image, to the right), is a professional blogger, Internet Marketing Consultant, new media industry commentator, writer, coach, speaker, trainer and web geek. You might know him from his past writing for such sites as ASPToday, ASPAlliance, Threadwatch, or more recently, ProBlogger,The Blog Herald, FreelanceSwitch, Cogniview, AdSavvy and CopyBlogger.
If you are looking for a Consultant, then Chris Garrett would be the best, as he has lot of experience.
Chris was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1974. He lives in the UK with his wife, daughter and two overweight, treat-addicted cats, and a new puppy.
This book covers these topics:-
Introduction…………………………………………….xi
1. Blogging for Money…………………………………1
2. Niche Blogging………………………………………23
3. Setting Up Your Blog……………………………….45
4. Blog Writing………………………………………….77
5. Blog Income and Earning Strategies………………105
6. Buying and Selling Blogs……………………………131
7. Blog Networks……………………………………….151
8. Blog Promotion and Marketing……………………..165
9. Secrets of Successful Blogs……………………….189
10. Creating Something Worthwhile………………….203
index…………………………………………………….213
I have mentioned the page numbers also along with the topics, just to show how much to expect about each topic.
This book is carefully crafted and the topics are arranged so nicely that, a beginner to blogging can also understand it clearly. In fact, what I found is, this book is mainly helpful for people who have just heard of blogging and are interested in trying it out.
For those who are in this blogging business for a while will find many things in the book told over and over again in many blogs.And for those who are regular readers of problogger.net, its just the same stuffs that you find regularly, but in an very intelligently organized manner(topic wise).
In the book, we can find links to some useful websites and tools, which will help for all bloggers.
And the topics, I most liked are, Niche Blogging and about passive income tactics.
Each chapter is finished with a tip, a summary or an exercise for the reader, which makes the book look more professional. Darren and Chris have explained all the problems that they came across, in the beginning days of their blogging.
We can find almost all the aspects that a blogger should know to start a blog. And also step by step guidance to setup the hosting and one click wordpress installation.
This book would be, the best source for beginners and a handy guide for those who have been blogging for a while and a reference to advance users.
It would be wrong, if I don’t say that, all the information in this book can be found somewhere or in problogger.net itself. But the positive thing about this book is, it has everything at one place, well organized, well structured and with no extra unnecessary things. Things are written by keeping in mind all kind of bloggers(those who blog for money, fame, networking etc).
And the important thing is, it just costs $16.49.This is not a big amount for those who are aspiring to be professional blogger some day.
If you wish to buy this book, then here is the link for it ProBloggerBook
And it would have been nice, if we had got a FREE CD/DVD, containing some of the video tutorial from Darren, along with the ProBlogggerBook.
Anyway, Darren and Chris, I will be waiting for the Part-2 of the book, and now I am expecting a lot advanced topics to be covered.
And Best-of-luck for all your future projects Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett….
Guys/girls out there, have you read the ProBloggerBook? What do you feel about the Book? please share with us…
I’ve just release 2 new photography books that should be listed on Amazon.com by mid July. I was wondering if you’d be interested in talking a peek at them. There’s a bookstore link on my website about them, including the ISBN.
One is on Digital Animal Photography and the other is Photography of the California Central Coast.
@John Crippen, I always love Digital Photography, and more about Animal.
Though I am busy now a days in my works, I would defiantly look into it, when I get some time.