ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income,   ISBN:9780470246672

Customer Rating: 

This book is good for the absolute beginner - we're talking Grandma and Grandpa here, folks. It definitely does not earn its title of PRO-Blogger. While it does have some decent ideas and references - albeit just a smidgen under the radar for most of us - it is absolutely not worth purchasing. Instead, spend a few online, and you'll glean everything this book has to offer with your first Google search on the subject. I can't believe that Wiley actually paid money for this.

Customer Rating: 

I have been reading ProBlogger for years and have always taken the advice given in the well-written posts I have read on the site. This book is full of the best of the blog, plus more. For me, this book is used as a reference book that I go back to time and time again.

At times, as someone who wants to make a full-time living online, all what I think about is how to make money as fast and easy as possible. This book does give quality advice on how to monetize a blog, but most importantly, the author stresses (and teaches) how to create a good, quality blog people will want to come back to every day and tell their friends about. Yes, it takes time to build a good blog, but the results are worth it.

Thank you for the examples of successful blogs that have given me inspiration.

Customer Rating: 

Over the past month or so I've been wanting to get back into blogging and trying to figure out what my personal blog should be focused on. What's my niche? Why do people read my blog? What should I write about? It's the type of questions that I believe every blogger asks at some point in the life of their blog.

Through the course of asking myself these questions, having a couple of conversations with a friend about a new joint-venture in blogging, and looking for some ideas to generate a little extra money on the side I decided to buy a copy of the book ProBlogger by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett. I'm glad I did.

The sub-title of the book is "Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income," so I was expecting the it to be mostly a "I got rich blogging and here are the ways that you can get rich quickly, too" type of book, but getting rich quick was not really the main focus of the book. There are a few chapters on money-making blogging strategies, but the majority of the book is devoted to helping you figure out how to run an effective blog. In fact, throughout the book the authors stress that most successful/profitable blogs are the result of years of work.

The main takeaway that I got from the book was that the best blogs are ones that focus on a niche market. The more specific the niche the better. Beyond that, the book was filled with practical ideas on how to write content that people want to read and gave numerous specific examples on how to generate ideas for new blog posts.

Overall, I'm really glad I spent the time to read the book. I don't know whether or not I'll make even a dime from blogging, but it has given me some motivation to get back in the game.

If you're new to blogging, a veteran blogger looking for ideas to get unstuck, or trying to figure out how you might make a little money writing in your spare time I highly recommend getting a copy of the book for yourself.

Customer Rating: 

If anyone could write this book, it's Darren and Chris. Both have not only shared their insights but have also applied it throughout their online careers. There is no juju here. No secret formulas. No dirty tactics that dominate much of the space. This is an honest, common sense series of recommendations that have proven solid. Highly recommend.

Customer Rating: 

This book is top notch for any blogger. Read it today and learn all about how to grow your business via blogging or how to make your blog your business. The advice and information in this book is great. As a blogger who has been blogging for awhile, I still found quite a bit of new information in this book. If you are serious about making your blog a success you should listen to these guys. I follow there blog and it is great as well.