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WordPress Power Guide - Using WordPress to Blog Your Way to Success - Blogging Guide

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I don't do a lot of Amazon reviews but wanted to take the time with this book, because it really made life easy. I had a new blog that I wanted to start but didn't know the first thing about WordPress. Well, I heard about this book from a friend, who said Mr. Klein has a very straightforward way of presenting things. This is very true. It took me maybe a half hour to read through the beginning section and I was ready to go! That was it. I understood the basics.

The install itself also went very smoothly - I was shocked at how fast I could install and build my site in WordPress. One of the things that was very easy for me was choosing the correct theme and it's because he has a great discussion on that. He's even got a list of sites with free, quality themes.

In fact, my main comment is that he really goes the extra mile with this book and explains how to do your blog start to finish. I know it's hard to believe, but he can save hours and hours of research on the web. For example, he even gives you writing tips, ways to boost your ranking in Google, how to do comments with WordPress and so on. He even has some really good motivational material at the beginning of the book. I still remember the list he had of the incomes of successful bloggers - maybe someday, eh?

Anyway, thumbs up for this ebook...

The WordPress Power Guide is a great way for you to learn how to ratchet-up your blog to the next level. When you first start blogging your blog is fairly bland and straightforward but it enables you to get used to it. You start blogging slowly, add a few things here and there, and after a while you start wanting some extras. Perhaps you try a theme (a fairly simple way to change the look and feel) or perhaps a plugin but this is where it can get hairy.

Even simple plugins require some care to get right and to activate. I knew some about computers when I first began blogging and I was okay with changing my theme and I did a few plugins but when the plugins began requiring updates I got confused. I just never had a good handle on what was going on. Fortunately, my father sent me this WordPress Power Guide and I thought it might be a little too much over my head but it turns out I was just right for it! What I mean is, it was exactly what I needed because it started about the level I was and helped me improve my blog by understanding the nature of plug-ins and other options.

I wish it went a little more into SEO (it covers quite a bit though) as that is really where I know nothing, but the book seems better aimed at the hands-on blog improvements and that's great too. One thing I didn't realize was that polls and comment sections - which I never had added - help keep visitors on my blog and improve my rankings ultimately. I'm not at a point, explained by the Power Guide, where I WANT my readers to leave comments and then comment on other comments. Perhaps that is basic knowledge that all other bloggers somehow know but I sure didn't and I am seeing much more activity on my blog daily.

I am just now trying some of the suggestions to monetize my blog. I have a long way to go, but I am light years ahead of where I was before the WordPress Power Guide.

Whether you want a personal blog, a company blog, or one to showcase your services or products, the fact is you want to look professional or people will go elsewhere. In the WordPress Power Guide - Using WordPress to Blog Your Way to Success - Blogging Guide the author shows you how to take a WordPress blog and turn it from ho-hum to WOW! You'll learn about everything from the best plugins to use and choosing a theme to getting traffic to your blog and how to earn cash with your blog.

It doesn't matter if you're a complete novice or consider yourself somewhat of a pro, there's always something new to learn. Fine-tune your blog and make it the best it can be or take the risk of getting lost among the crowd. This is a must-have book for every blogger!

I really like this book - I found a lot of great information about WordPress and creating a blog. However, the book contains many images, most of which are difficult, if not impossible, to view on my Kindle. The author seems aware of this, and provides a link which is supposed to bring up a PDF file of the book so the reader can view the images on a PC. Originally, I could not access the PDF page - the link just took me to a web page where the PDF file was for sale. Finally, I was able to access it today. Thanks!!

What more can be said about this than.....WOW! :) This guide is jam packed with awesome information, that goes above and beyond the simple setup guides you can find almost everywhere for Word Press. With this guide, you will learn so much, step by step, that you would pay consultants hundreds of dollars to do for you! What a steal to get this all in one power-packed book - kudos to Lambert for delivering a fantastic guide that is truly a gem! :)

This is a great book for someone who is new to Wordpress and covers alot of ground in terms of the basics someone would need to start their own blog or switch over to wordpress. Handy little reference that won't take up too much room on the bookshelf or fill your brain with unnecessary technical jargon and details. This book provided me with just the concise, clear guidance I was looking for. The book then stepped through all the necessary steps to get up and running, including selecting service providers, getting a domain registered and so on, and covers everything from start to finish.

With a couple hours of reading this book, and another couple of hours of poking around on the internet to look at suppliers, and about two hours of setup with my chosen service supplier, I was up and running. This is a very good guide to Wordpress for those who are new to the CMS, especially if you're coming from some other CMS or blogging platform. It is quite comprehensive and has lots of good tips for how to use it. Once you read the book I'm sure that you'll agree.

I have operated a couple of WordPress blogs before but I have never had any real, tangible success until I followed the advice in this book. I was recommended this guide by a close friend and decided to take a chance on it. I have been very impressed with the quality of advice given in this book. The author did a wonderful job of making the advice in this book easy to follow for someone who does have a bit of experience like myself. A great deal of my troubles with my existing WordPress blogs was that they were simply too bland and I had no idea how to make my user interface more visually and functionally appealing to my visitors. This book goes into great detail on how to use plugins and custom themes to enhance the look of a blog. The book also has great advice on how to increase your search ranking and generate more traffic that is consistent over time. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to create a WordPress blog and/or anyone who simply needs to improve their existing site. A+

I am working on getting more exposure for my blog so I bought this. I learned a little about SEO, bringing people over, practical things in general. I know I will be earning money in some time. I will keep up everything I learned and all of the ideas. I used to get lots of spam people and now I don't.

this guide is filled with tons of valuable good information on how to build the best blog using wordpress. I'm a book blogger myself and a guide like this is going to go a long way for me. :-)

WordPress Power Guide - Blog Your Way to Success is truly a step above the rest! Anyone these days can create a blog, but only a few can make it a success.. grab a high following as well as paying advertisers. And lets face it... no one starts a blog just for themselves.. they want others to read it too! I've owned a few blogs over the years and none have reached the potential I feel they can. It wasn't until a friend of mine sent me a link to the WordPress Power Guide - Blog Your Way to Success book that a light bulb went off! I figured, give it a try and see what happens. I couldn't figure out how others were getting so popular online and thousands of subscribers and followers? I was convinced you had to pay some company a ton of money to help you turn a lonely blog into a big success! WordPress Power Guide - Blog Your Way to Success explains how anyone, yes even you and I, can turn an unknown blog into a website that gets people coming back for more, subscribing as well as talking about your blog! I no longer bang my head on the wall trying to figure out how 'Blog A' is doing so well, because now my blog is becoming THE hotspot on the internet! Thank you Lambert Klein!!!