Here is a blogging book review by famous celebrity blogger Darren Rowse and here is what I find so inspiring about this title and why you may enjoy reading this too 
I am always excited to read the next hot internet marketing book because I read so many ebooks and pdf files online that my eyes appreciate a rest! I love paperback books anyway – don’t the titles look good on your bookshelf? So I couldn’t wait to start reading Problogger, the how to blog book, by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett, who have both excelled at developing six figure incomes from blogs and blogging. Now it is your turn: discover the fun of making money from blogs!
What exactly is a blog and how do you make money with one?
A blog, short for web log, is an interactive website with as many pages as you wish, all centred around one main theme, usually a niche market interest, where you, the author, can post as often as you want, and your readers can interact by leaving comments after each post. It’s the most personalised form of web 2.0 marketing and it can do wonders for your career opportunities: company head hunters will be keen to hire someone who has ideas, can express these ideas online and interact with targeted followers, and knows how to influence people online. These skills will be well placed in any company, so start your blog today, even if it is simply insights into your industry, or centred on a hobby you enjoy.
Whatever you have some knowledge and opinions about will be a fine topic for a blog because if you have a topic of interest then you will soon attract others who are interested in your topic and want to read more and perhaps debate certain points from your blog posts. Some topics lend themselves naturally to a variety of monetization opportunities, but most topics will provide you some advertising revenue and in a few weeks from start up you can be making money from blogs.
You can also trade your skills and consultancy from your blog platform, and you can create or team up with experts and develop information products to sell, such as ebooks and downloadable audio and video training programs. You can charge a monthly fee to your subscribers and earn a good income from sharing your expertise. Problogger how to blog book will enthuse you and show you in depth how to make money online.
The articles you place on your blog are called posts. You can decide whether to allow comments or not, and if you decide to, you can find plugins to your wordpress blog which display the comment leaver’s last blog post so that adds a benefit for your readers. You can plugin to allow readers to share your content on their favourite social network and bookmark sites which gives you more visitors for free and some extra backlinks which help boost your ranking in the search engines.
Two other really useful plugins are the all in one search engine optimization and the XML sitemap. It is best not to have too many plugins because this can slow down how long your blog takes to load in your reader’s browser, and nobody likes to wait for a slow loading website. You are free to write whatever you want, so your blog becomes a media platform for you to share your opinions with the world and develop your own voice, style and approach. Keep posting quality information and you will soon enjoy a following of loyal and interested readers.
This is the right time to add an email opt in box to your homepage in order to send out reminders and free information to your readers. Most will appreciate this extra rapport. The one key thing is not to bombard your subscribers with sales offers because they will leave your list and stop reading your blog if you make it look as if you only want to make money. However, if you recommend a product from time to time that you use and find invaluable, then that is a service to your readers, especially if you can negotiate a discount for them, and many will consider purchasing your endorsed product.
After a few months your most loyal readers will also be keen to purchase a book written by you, so start to consider how you might go about producing this, how you will price it, and what information it will give, or what problems it will solve. Your expert status will immediately rise when you can feature your own book on your homepage, and again, this will attract more readers.
The only way you can fail at your blog project is to give up before your project really takes off. So keep on posting daily and respond to your readers. Always ask yourself what value you can add for your visitors and subscribers. Soon yours will be the foremost authority blog in your niche.
Problogger how to blog book is the story of Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett’s results so far with blogging. Success didn’t happen overnight: it took Darren more than two years to start seeing an income from his work. There is something for every angle in this excellent book – I couldn’t put it down, and I have not only learnt a lot, but I feel I have made new friends from Problogger, since you can go to their sites and read and comment on their posts. Darren now achieves more than three million readers monthly. Both authors really go into their strategies employed to make their sites successful so you will learn a lot, plus they share tips to instantly improve your own results.
The book contains eleven chapters and it has a strong focus on making money from blogs. You can learn how to integrate the power of social media within your work, how to buy and sell blogs, how to start from scratch, what sort of posts to write and how to keep your readers returning for more information. Discover twenty types of blog post and how to write succesful titles. This book is packed with tips, ideas and success secrets to get you on the road to blogging success!
I fully recommend you read this book if you want to get more out of your internet marketing, or if you want to create a news and views media platform online for yourself or for a group you belong to. The book title is Problogger Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income, and the ISBN number is 978-0-470-61634-5. It is published by Wiley books. This is a great read and you will dip into its pages time and again.
