The Ultimate Guide to Blogging: What to Write About, How to Promote Your Blog, & How to Make Money Blogging Paperback – January 1, 1800

This was an enjoyable, easy read. I've been blogging for about 10 years and helped a number of friends get their blogs started.One of the biggest challenges in starting a blog is trying to figure out where to start - there is just so much friggin' information out there, it can be pretty overwhelming for beginners. The Ultimate Guide solves that problem by giving you a comprehensive look at the basics.The author obviously has a lot of practical experience as a blogger and teaching others. For instance, his "6 myths about blogging" addresses 2 key reasons why many people don't blog: they feel they need to be an expert and don't see the value of blogging if few people read it. Neither is true as the author explains.It is an easy read because he doesn't dwell on any topic and his writing style (good use of headlines, well organized) allows you to quickly flip through the book and figure out which topics are most important to you. You can get through it on an airplane flight.If you've been blogging for a long time, have and audience and know where you're blogging this probably isn't the right book for you. I would definitely recommend it to beginners or people who are stuck in a rut and trying to restart their blogs.

I purchased "The Ultimate Guide to Blogging" only a few days ago, and so haven't begun to try out all of the 25+ ways to increase traffic yet. Many of his ideas are easy and can be implemented immediately. One such idea was to advertise my blog on every email I send using only a few simple steps. That took me about 5 minutes to put in place and Other ideas need to be implemented on an ongoing basis, but are simple to do. I highly recommend it to anyone who needs help in figuring out the seemingly overwhelming (to me) complexity of website or blog traffic building.

This book gives a complete overview on how to create a blog and make it successful. Many people are learning the importance of blogging when it comes to just getting a point of view across or using it as a marketing tool. This book tells us everything we need to know for whatever purposes we decide to blog. Choosing the right topics and then learning how to promote them are very important. The author speaks to us on these topics and more. The author displays his knowledge by speaking to us in a clear concise way. There is no fluff or long drawn out stories to take up space. He gets down to business and starts teaching from the very moment the book is opened. Many of the technics are simple to do. Some are complicated but all are necessary if you want a successful blog. I highly recommend this book.

This book offers some helpful content for the beginning blogger, especially if a person is interested in blogging to make money or build a business. The advice here appears to be sound, and I will likely refer to this resource again as I look to build my blog. I would have given it another star, but the book needs to be more carefully edited. Common mistakes included using "you" instead of "your" and "your" instead of "you," "their" instead of "they're," and several instances in which superfluous words are inserted into the text.

When you start to read this book,you realise it will be interesting as Mike's credentials are very impressive.He takes the trouble to list his own blog,which I enjoyed and will follow as there is some useful information there.One of the surprising facts is the very low number of people who are creating content on the Internet.This encourages me as I have my own blog and I write the content myself.I liked the section on content creation,which is the key to a good blog.There is also a good section on how to make money.This book is longer than most on this subject but it is well worth a read as there is lots of useful information.

Great book by Mike Fishbein. As an experienced blogger, I can say (a) that everything in this book is sound and (b) I did learn a couple of new things from it. Blogging has been valuable to me in my business - read this book for a great introduction to the topic. Jake

Ultimate? Not even close. If you are looking for a book to get you started in blogging this wouldn't be it. This is completely worthless as an "ultimate guide". If you're looking to purchase this book you probably have a general idea of what a blog is and are looking for a guide on how to create a blog. You're looking for directions on how to actually create, on your computer, your blog. It's not here. For example, there is a chapter entitled How to Create a Blog. Sounds perfect, just what you're looking for. But it only offers sketchy descriptions of various platforms and sites that you might user. Under Wordpress - the most prolific site building software used by 24% of sites - you will find 32 lines of elementary description on two pages. And that's it. The author tells you that Wordpress is"a free and open source blogging tool and content management system", it's "great" and he "recommends it". This book will only tell you, in very general terms, what blogs can be used for and offers some suggestions for blog topics. Basically, that's it. You can find much, much more information on the internet by simply typing "how to create a blog" in your browser - or I might even recommend a Kindle-only book entitled "Step by Step Wordpress for Beginners - the author does a wonderful job of describing the basics of "websites" and how they're put together - even if you don't use Wordpress.