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51 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent place to start for many genres of bloggers
Like many Dummies books, this book is comprehensive! It's a thorough introduction to blogging from rank Internet newbie, to the typical active
blogger seeking to learn more about the medium.
As a 2008 book, it's reasonably current. This is one of those Dummies books the publishers will need to update annually. I recommend readers always seek the...
Published on August 22, 2008 by Jill Florio
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4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Liberal Bloggers Unite
Aside from the liberal tripe found throughout the book - emotional exuberance over the current president (initials BHO), pushing liberal blog sites, etc. - it is somewhat helpful as a resource for very general blogging information.
Political "bombs" sprinkled throughout a non-political book and emoting lifestyle choices numb the experience. Should give it 2...
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51 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent place to start for many genres of bloggers, August 22, 2008
Like many Dummies books, this book is comprehensive! It's a thorough introduction to blogging from rank Internet newbie, to the typical active
blogger seeking to learn more about the medium.
As a 2008 book, it's reasonably current. This is one of those Dummies books the publishers will need to update annually. I recommend readers always seek the latest possible edition of any blogging book, as popular technologies change so rapidly in the field. RSS, comment spam, social networks and podcasting are all given their due space. An entire chapter is devoted to adding and managing photos for your blog.
Two large chapters offer the fundamentals of blogging for business and adding advertising. This won't be specific enough to get any would-be pro blogger rich, but *does* provide enough basics to get started with affiliates, AdSense, TextLink Ads, AdBright and the like.
Lots of screen captures and sidebars explain complex concepts quite clearly. I enjoyed one sidebar in particular about why comment spam exists (and hint; it's more about page rank juice than possible click-throughs).
I'd recommend this book for the newbie through advanced blogging beginner. Intermediate level bloggers looking to to brush up on the basics would likely enjoy adding this as a reference to the bookshelf, and might find a few gems they originally missed.
Advanced bloggers won't find much useful here...but as it's a Dummies book, that's to be expected!
From all the blogging books targeting the beginner, this one offers the most bang for your buck, and really does a nice job of holding your hand along the way.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
Blogging For Dummies: The Best Learning Tool, August 1, 2008
Don't let the "dummy" title fool you. With so many blog "how-to" papers written, I wanted a good "how-to" book that would walk me through and hold my hand as I venture into the blogosphere. Susannah Gardner and Shane Birley provide just that ... a perfect reference book that takes you one step at a time until you are ready to publish. Thanks Susannah and Shane.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
Superb!, April 20, 2008
Blogging For Dummies is a fabulous resource for bloggers, new and old. This book is full of great information, tips, ideas, suggestions and resources that any blogger can benefit from reading. Written by two Pros in the field of blogging, you can't go wrong if you're looking for a one-stop, desktop reference on the world of blogging. Highly recommended!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Very Helpful Reference Book, January 13, 2009
This is a very helpful book for anyone who is beginning to blog and even for a person like me who has started to blog for about eight months but is still learning along the way. The authors give many websites where the reader can go to see exactly what the text is referring to. I finally learned the HTML code for doing lists in posts from this book. It also covers suggestions for getting traffic to your blog and how to get and handle comments. I highly recommend it for any blogger, especially beginners.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Needs Revision, April 6, 2009
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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Just the Thing I Needed, March 30, 2009
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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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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Best Book For Beginnger Blogger, January 4, 2009
This is the book you want to read if you are new to blogging. It has everything you need to get you started quickly. I really appreciated the pointers on advertising and the blogs listed for blog help. It is easy to read, as are all Dummies books, and has some excellent information. The book is lacking on RSS feed info, so this is not a good source. If you haven't blogged yet, get this book and proceed.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Great Book for Begininers but...., September 18, 2009
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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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
A complete guide how to start - but I wanted some a-ha moments, February 22, 2009
.. 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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13 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
A Dummy I Be, April 14, 2008
Blogging for Dummies is an excellent resource for those of us just startting out in the blogosphere. I highly recommend it to anyone who is thinking about starting a blog.
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