If you haven’t seen any other other parts of this series of Reviews for ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income you can catch up them by starting the book review here.

This post we are going to see what chapters 4, 5, and 6 have to offer.

Writing your blog

After you get through the technical aspects of blogging, chapter 4 begins the real “meat” of the book. We begin to finally learn what the title suggests… the secrets to making money with blogging.

Chapter 4 is all about how to write on your blog. The one thing I did like about this, and Chris and Darren, is their commitment to content. The chapter starts out with the most important thing you’ll learn in the entire book. The first statement is “Much has been written on what makes a blog successful, but all experts agree that central to all great blogs in one element: great content.” If you get nothing else out of this book… keep that nugget of truth close to the front of your mind.

The chapter goes on to explain just what good content is. The authors admit that great content is pretty relative, “Good content will vary from person to person depending upon their needs, the topic they are talking about, and perhaps even a person’s ethics“, they do consider some universal traits to good content.

The chapter goes on to talk about good writing tips, tips for writing titles, post length (which is great info for bloggers of any experience) and frequency, and finishes with a great section on 20 types of blog posts. I know I’ll be referring to this part frequently.

This was a great chapter and worth the cost of the book alone.

Making money with your blog

After learning how to write a blog post, Chris takes over and begins to set the stage on the actual monetization methods of blogging. He begins by making a great point. There are several different ways to make money with a blog. Each blogger will have their own ways, but there are some guidelines to follow.

The sections include;

A lot of info on how to make money is crammed into this chapter. But, more specifically the “where” and the “what to do” parts of making money from your blog.

Buying and Selling Blogs

This is something that I really don’t have much interest in. That doesn’t mean that this chapter was useless. I learned a lot about the business of buying and selling blogs and if I ever wanted to try this then I know I’ll be picking apart this section.

Some of the information includes;

Like I said, I’m not sold on the whole buying and selling of blogs. But, I do know that there are a lot of people doing it and are making an incredible income from it. To me, this is the chapter that I didn’t get a lot out of, but might be going back to later.

Thoughts so far…

So far I am pretty impressed with the book. I think that Darren and Chris really want to get some relevant, useful information into the hands of people that think they might want to try blogging as a source of income.

I do feel that experience bloggers probably won’t learn anything earth shattering in the first few chapters, new bloggers are in for a great treat. That doesn’t mean that experienced bloggers shouldn’t pick up a copy. I know that as I read things that I already knew were reinforced and new ideas started to churn. So far… a great investment and enjoyable book.

I just received my copy of the newly published book by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett (I checked my spelling that time, Darren!), ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income! I don’t really know what took the mail so long to deliver it… but I’m excited just to crack it open!

My initial thoughts are that this is going to be a very good introduction to blogging and making money with blogging. Chapters like Blogging for Money, Setting Up Your Blog, and Blog Writing, are going to be good for people just entering blogging. Although, I am sure I will be picking up a lot of good things myself.

More advanced issues like, Blog Income and Earning Strategies, Buying and Selling Blogs, and Blog Networks are really going to get my mind churning.

I can’t wait to start… and I’ll be posting my thoughts, reactions, comments, and maybe even counter-points from the book.

Have you read it yet? Do you have a comment on it? I’d love to hear what your thoughts are.

ProBlogger Darren Rowse has recently published a book with fellow blogger Chris Garrett and it’s being shipped today. I can’t wait to get my copy as I have been following the ProBlogger website for quite some time now and think that Darren, and Chris, both have great grasp of blogging and how you can make it into a viable income source.

They don’t make huge promises and tell you exactly what you should be doing. The reason that I trust them so much is because I see them putting their own advice into practice every day with every post.

When I heard that the duo were going to be publishing a book on blogging I couldn’t wait for it to go live. Now I don’t have to wait anymore. Amazon.com has now begun to ship the book and I await with baited breath.

I believe that a major aspect of business success is to continue learning, mostly through reading, and that you put into practice what you have learned. I love to read so for me that isn’t a hard task. But, I do know there are those that aren’t all that happy about reading. Can I make a suggestion?

If you only read a few books a year then read make one of those “ProBlogger: Secrets to Blogging Your Way to a Six Figure Income.”

Watch for a full review coming up after I get my hands on it.