There are many successful blogs. Problogger and Huffington Post are two of these. They both have huge numbers of people following them on a daily basis, and they are both among the blogs that are most linked to in the blogosphere.

Learning to blog, and getting to be a good blogger, is pretty hard. Many try and very few make it. Thus, learning from the bloggers that have made it makes sense. Even though they may not give you all their secrets, and even though they may not be able to impart to you the golden style and the mode of thinking that sets them apart, learning from them may still be a good way to improve.

The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging is, as it turns out, both informative, fun, and useful. It gives you tools to help you build your blog, strategies to create your community, tips on finding your voice, and lots entertaining anecdotes from HuffPost bloggers that will make you wonder what took you so long to blog in the first place.

The most interesting chapters to me were chapter 2 through 5. Chapter 2 described some of the the basics of getting started.

Chapter 3 discusses how to your blog noticed. The tips are very practical and one I think actually work. It also gives tips on monetizing your blog in a realistic fashion.

Chapter 4 is about finding your voice. It advises you consider both what you will feel most passionate about and what you think your potential reader would want out of your blog.

Chapter 5 takes the notion of getting your blog noticed one step further, and talks about how you can foster a community through your blog.

I found the books intereesting and useful, and recommend it to others as well.

Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett’s Problogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income is another book from successful and profitable probloggers, and here they reveal at least some of their secrets. It is a well written book – in the clear, no-nonsense, straight to the point style that we have come to associate with Problogger.

This book gives a lot of useful tips and techniques for building a successful blog. The chapters deal with topics like 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.

Reading this book gave me a lot of knowledge in blogging and a lot of food for thought.

It is perhaps the most comprehensive and realistic book I have seen on blogging. It covers almost everything, but as the authors are skilled and know the business from every angle, there is advice for all regardless of current skill level.

I found many, many tips that hopefully will help me focus my efforts and produce a better blog. There is so much to learn and so much one can do to improve, and Rowse and Garrett give valueable assistance that makes it easier to avoid costly and time consuming mistakes. A great book!

Links to amazon: The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging, and ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income.

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