Problogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a 6-Figure Income Review

I just borrowed ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income from the Singapore National Library, which is one of the few things that I proudly say my government did right. I only paid SGD $1.55 to reserve a copy of this book for collection at the library closest to my home.

It is a good investment for the money I put in to get this book. Although I prefer to read Problogger’s blog directly, this book serves as a very good introduction to blogging for profit today. This book was published in 2008 and it is very up to date. If you follow Darren Rowse’s blog regularly, he has even more up to date blogging tips for you to implement on your blog.

It took me less than an hour to complete this book because I skipped some parts of the book that I felt weren’t applicable for me. What I learnt from the book is that I need to find a niche, post quality content, post more frequently, link to more blogs, make more friends online with others in my niche and also to use social networking tools like Twitter.

One of the most amazing things I learnt from Darren was how to use digg.com to promote some posts on my blogs. Darren recommends using “posts that lists stuff” on digg. For example, I could have a post with the title, “The Top 10 WordPress Plugins in the World” and post it on digg. I believe you would get yourself a lot of negative votes if you post other nonsensical links on digg. It seems so simple but somehow I missed that out.

There are a total of 10 chapters in the book:

• Blogging for money
• Niche blogging
• Setting up your blog
• Blog writing
• Blog income and earning strategies
• Buying and selling blogs
• Blog networks
• Blog promotion and marketing
• Secrets of Successful blogs
• Creating something worthwhile

If you are already a regular reader of Problogger, I feel this book isn’t absolutely necessary for you. I find his blog posts better and more up to date. However, if you like reading real books (not eBooks) and you have very little idea about this blogging thing, this is a very good book to start with.

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