Reviews
ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income by Chris Garrett, Darren Rowse
jackirenee's review against another edition
3.0
In ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income, Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett lay out all the steps that have made them such a success. With chapters like "Blogging for Money", "Blog Income and Earning Strategies", and "Secrets of Successful Blogs", the reader discovers how to choose what to write about and keep their blog successful.
The book was chock full of useful information for the beginning blogger. Topics like evaluating analytics and determinining your niche were extremely helpful. Even if you are just starting a blog as a personal journal, I still recommend reading through this book as you are likely going to find yourself wanting to expand your horizons and this book will help provide you with a great foundation. If I was new to blogging, I would definitely give this book a solid 4.5 stars.
However, as a long time reader of ProBlogger, the book did not cover much that I haven't already read on the blog or have not already discovered in my years blogging.
Newbie to blogging, great book. Experienced blogger, you likely already have all this information.
The book was chock full of useful information for the beginning blogger. Topics like evaluating analytics and determinining your niche were extremely helpful. Even if you are just starting a blog as a personal journal, I still recommend reading through this book as you are likely going to find yourself wanting to expand your horizons and this book will help provide you with a great foundation. If I was new to blogging, I would definitely give this book a solid 4.5 stars.
However, as a long time reader of ProBlogger, the book did not cover much that I haven't already read on the blog or have not already discovered in my years blogging.
Newbie to blogging, great book. Experienced blogger, you likely already have all this information.
mcdannyb's review against another edition
3.0
Great starter guide if your looking to move your blog from a hobby to a business. A little Wordpress specific, which didn't really fit my Blogger background. Still found a lot of good advice.
pehall's review against another edition
3.0
A good introduction to blogging. There are other views on blogging particularly on the frequency and depth of post debate.
debesyla's review against another edition
2.0
A bit outdated book on blogging for absolute beginners. I would actually recommend reading posts on Internet about blogging, not this book.
charmaineclancy's review against another edition
4.0
Extremely helpful book for anyone serious about blogging.
sarahwolfe's review against another edition
4.0
Basically a beginner's guide to blogging. If you've been wanting to learn more about how to "really" get in to blogging or how to start totally from scratch, you can't do better than this book.
If you already have a successful blog this book may give you some ideas for how to further monetize it, but it's likely you already know most of what's here.
It suffers from being 2 years old (of course it does; it's a book about the Internet!); Technorati is mentioned a lot and it's become mainstream for people to use blogs for leverage in ways that were very new in 2008.
Still worth picking up as the writing is engaging and you just might learn something new.
If you already have a successful blog this book may give you some ideas for how to further monetize it, but it's likely you already know most of what's here.
It suffers from being 2 years old (of course it does; it's a book about the Internet!); Technorati is mentioned a lot and it's become mainstream for people to use blogs for leverage in ways that were very new in 2008.
Still worth picking up as the writing is engaging and you just might learn something new.
chriswolak's review
4.0
The subtitle was a bit of a turn-off for me. It smacks of those get-rich-quick books advertised on the internet, but I had been an avid listener of Darren Rowse's podcast of the same name. I liked his advice and calm manner there, so gave this book a go. It's a solid intro and overview of blogging. I've kept it on my shelves and flip through it now-and-again for inspiration. In recent years, Rowse has created online classes about blogging. Although I'd already been blogging for about seven years at that time, I took his introductory course about starting a blog when it was free/in beta testing and thought it would be helpful for an absolute newbie. Rowse has a ton of usually useful blogging info on his website (https://problogger.com/), including more e-books about blogging.
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