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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9780470230176
Edition: 2
ISBN: 0470230177
Label: For Dummies
Manufacturer: For Dummies
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: January 10, 2008
Publisher: For Dummies
Studio: For Dummies
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Everybody’s doing it! And while that logic never got far with your mother, it’s a fine reason to start blogging, especially if you have a business to build or a cause to promote. Well-run blogs do more than offer an outlet for your thoughts. They’ve actually influenced everything from a company’s image to the outcome of a local election.
Because the blogosphere is pretty crowded, it’s a good idea to find out a bit about the anatomy of a blog, what makes a good one, and what it takes to keep one going before you dive right in and start sharing with the world. Blogging For Dummies, 2nd Edition gives you all the basics so you can get a good start. And if you’ve been around the blog a few times and want to advance to the next level, Blogging For Dummies, 2nd Edition even takes a look at podcasting and videoblogging.
You’ll find out how to: - Make your blog stand out in a crowd, build an audience, and even make it pay
- Choose the best software options, boost readership, and handle comments
- Generate revenue from your blog with ads and sponsorships
- Protect your privacy and your job
- Deal with spam and the inappropriate comments from that guy who posts several times a day
- Find your niche
- Attract and keep readers
- Use your blog to promote your business, cause, or organization
- Add audio, video, cool widgets, and more
Ready? Get Blogging for Dummies and let’s get started!
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This is a great book for people who want to learn wordpress. The only reason I do not give it a 5 is because it is dated. That is not the fault of the author, but simply how fast Wordpress has evolved. It would be very difficult for any book to keep up with fluid changes of an online medium. The best reccomendation for learning wordpress is the same advice for learning a language. Jump in! Textbooks cannot replace the learning that comes from experience.
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I first checked out the 2005 version of this book from the library, found it helpful, as a complete novice interested in starting a blog. I bought my own copy of the 2008 version, thinking it would be updated.
On the one hand, I can say that this book helped me toward starting a blog. On the other hand, once I had actually started a blog and knew more, I saw the book's shortcomings. There are a lot of typos in the book. It was not adequately proofread. Which means some of the content may also be unreliable. The newer version had not corrected any of the errors, as far as I could see. It had still not been proofread. Though I give it high marks for clear and complete explanations in general, I did find one point on which it failed to explain a procedure on Blogger.com. The Blogger website provided a clearer and more thorough tutorial on "Comments".
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The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder: New Tools and Techniques to Stop Walking on Eggshells
This is the best "Dummies" book I've ever read. Its best feature is that it gives readers both the big picture (why are you blogging?) and fine detail (links to vital info).
I am planning a blog for my web site and books, and thanks to this book I went from knowing nothing to feeling fairly confident I know what I'm getting into. I got my copy from the library, but am considering buying a copy of my own as a resource.
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If you've been wondering what all the noise about blogging is about and how it might work for you, this is a very good starter book. There's sufficient information, in detail, to enable even a granny-aged novice like me to start and maintain a blog. It's well worth the cover price.
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.. and there was none of them. The book is really written in comprehensive style of dummies style, but I felt unnecessary:
- use so much space to copy paste the screenshots for how to create a blog in blogger.com. What if I use typepad, or whatever? Should I reconsider now, or it's a product placement in dummies book, which is already an ugly case?
- i wanted more info about what type of blog topics could be - the pages that I one could use for sparking the imagination. None of such.
- i wanted some copyright issues, specially related to blogs, a little but not extensively completed
The book will definitely help you a start a blog, and do it fairly good, but the keyword is "fairly". Not a much creativity so far is there, it's a material for work.
But, if you use this material together with this masterpiece: ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
..the you get the full picture how to start. Anyway, the book will not teach you how to write successfully, but. I was waiting more creativity from authors, considering their impressive bio.
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