What many people don’t seem to understand is that blogging has been accepted by the marketing community as a valid means of disseminating information, and in some cases, bloggers are extremely profitable.
Cue Stage Right – Darren Rouse.
Darren has been blogging for about six years now, and has the honour of being the most famous blogger about blogging. Darren and another blogger Chris Garrett wrote the book ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
With information on setting up a blog, choosing a topic, styles of writing and types of blog posts, the whole range of questions that a new blogger could ask are answered in this book.
I wouldn’t recommend the book for someone who has experience in SEO, Wordpress, and understands Technorati and reads Darren’s blog. But for everyone else, even those who think they know what a web page should look like, it would be worth your while reading this before attempting to set up a blog.
I received a copy as part of an online competition and have found it to be a sensible guide to the world of blogging.
Do you want to start blogging? What would you do for a copy of ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
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Oh, I got a book reviewing Oh, I got a book reviewing gig with two major publishers via blogging. I also have an advertising contract with my food blog that is supposed to generate some income (it’s new and I won’t see how much exactly until the end of this month). I’ve had some other perks, too, like my trip to Test the Nation in Toronto last winter. While the book you mention sounds interesting, I’d only want to blog if I could make the income with the current blog(s) I have. I’m not in this for the money and I don’t necessarily want to create something I’m not interested in or passionate about purely to make money.
One of the main concepts in One of the main concepts in the book is creating or developing a niche - and blogging almost entirely on that (if you want to make money anyway).
For me, there are so many points of intersection between the local, personal, professional and global discussions on any particular topic, or topics(s) that any blog with good writing can be tweaked to exploit some form of monetization.
I’d be happy to lend the book to you!