Problogger Book Review

Posted by Bruce Hopkins

July 11, 2008

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I purchased Darren Rowse’s Problogger book a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been meaning to write a review on the book. Its a fairly quick read and has some fairly decent tips for blogging if you are starting out with a blog and even for people who have been blogging for a while.

The book follows a lot of the same context as you find on Problogger in terms of style and context. Of course you should probably expect this as Darren wrote a lot of the book. Overall I would say the book is a good read and has some really useful information. Its mostly theory and advice on things you should be doing when you build a blog. I would have liked it better if there where more explicit examples on some of the items the book covers mainly on stuff like revenue generation and private ad sales.

It would have been hard for them to give specific examples on a platform as the book’s focus was designed to reach a wide array of bloggers and not spend verbiage on any one specific platform. if you are serious about building your blog up, then I would say the book is worth the few dollars it costs and could probably help a lot of people learn to be better bloggers. I don’t really want to spoil any of Darren’s thunder so I won’t tell the specific tactics that are in the book, but I did pick up a couple of items that should help me a lot.