I’ve got a spare ProBlogger Book sitting here on my desk with one of your names on it.
To win – in comments below simply leave a link to your blog (if you have one) and in under 250 words tell us why you need the book.
What do you need to improve on your blog? What questions do you hope it answers? What’s your biggest need as a blogger?
I’ll choose the person who I feel the book will help the most. The competition ends Monday Morning at 9am my time here in Melbourne – 24 hours from now.
update: Thanks everyone – I’ve closed this competition (and comments) and will announce a winner today.
I need ‘The Book’ because I’m a regular customer here. Sounds arrogate, but ‘the book’ was always my Big Dream. I’m an Amateur in this Arena. Its your Blog which gave me the wisdom of ‘Money Blogging’. And your Book, its my Dream.I think i wont get this Book, but just trying to fulfil my Dream.
I need someone like me to Improve my Blog. I mean someone who can thinks like me, help me to take Best Options from Alternatives. (again i think, impossible)
My Biggest need as a Blogger is I want to show or exhibit my Skills and Knowledge I acquired(not ‘Pro’ though) to the World. (again, impossible)
Anyway I’m happy Darren, with my ‘Small Blog’. I love Blogging and Your Blog too.
Shafar (jumblespot.blogspot.com)
Problogger book almost comes up every time on the Amazon, US widget on the Management Accountant Blog. I do not know why my blog about management accounting attracts your book. I am curious to read the book and find out ….
Regards,
Santosh Puthran
Management Accountant Blog
http://managementaccountant.blogspot.com
I would definitely benefit from your book!
Some key issues facing every starting blogger are:
– get razor sharp focus in the main topic of your blog
– get to know your readers
– know how to combine your blog with other tools (Twitter, FriendFeed, …), increasing the conversation around your choosen topic
– learn to listen to your readers
Your book will certainly help the winner to improve in these key topics!
Hi Darren, I’d love to get a copy of your book so that I can read it, test and implement the wisdom taught in it and then help others who are pursuing the “Blogging For a Living” path.
I run a Blog called Inspired Money Maker which focuses on helping people to learn how to make money doing what they love.
I see no higher calling in our lives than to pursue our purpose and passion and that is what I teach people. I consider you a true Inspired Money Maker as well and I’d love to read your book absorb some of your philosophies into my thinking.
Thanks!
Paul
http://www.InspiredMoneyMaker.com
My Blog is 1+ year old but still I haven’t been able to monetise it effectively. Neither I have been able to find any advetiser for it. Most people around me think, its impossible to make money online. I want to prove them wrong. I have not read your complete blog but by reading your book maybe I will be able to prove everybody wrong. I want to make money online and maybe make even a living out of it.
Will you help me proving everybody wrong?
Words cant describe how I have gone thru each and every post of yours as an invisible disciple. I have read every word and memorised most of what needs to be done. And, yeah I am proud to say that I have implemented some of them. But, what cuts me out from the top bloggers is a consistency in order to deliver the promised content. Which I will be doing in the days to come.
I have read your principles, your methodology, your enthusiasm when teaching thru this blog. Who would share the success mantras to newbies and fellow bloggers? As per me, someone who is quite nearer to Indian bloggers himself would not respond to a sincere comment posted. I do agree that big bloggers do not have that much time to respond to each and every reply. But, you guys can surely feel how a new blogger would feel when he sincerely asks you to respond once. That would be boosting the morale. But, we cant expect everything.
Anyway, the book would be with Me all the while. It would go on as a personal momentum from Rowse and I would be more than happy if you can sign on it ur name. I wish to get it autographed from a top blogger who read my comment and felt how I felt. Everyone has to start somewhere. I have started, I wouldnt stop.
Thanks Rowse for directions.
http://silvinohenriques.blogspot.com
What do you need to improve on your blog?
increase engaged readers. not just random visitors.
What questions do you hope it answers?
writing tools on how to mantain insightful posts.
What’s your biggest need as a blogger?
improve the ability to deliver value, in a way people enjoy it.
I came into professional blogging quite by accident (though I don’t think the three odd dollars I earned in the first three or so months qualified me as ‘professional’) right before I moved to Australia, and in the years since then, I have learned so much about professional blogging. However, that hasn’t enabled me to pay off my student loans by any means. Even so, I love my blogs and blogging.
Recently a friend said to me that, while my blog was a good blog, it wasn’t ‘the’ blog to go to. This statement came after getting the feeling that it was time I take my blog to the next level both for myself and readers. The ‘next level’ is a bit of a mystery as to what exactly it is, but I’m ready to go there.
You book would take away the mystery of what I can do and where I can go next to make my site not just a ‘good’ site but rather ‘the’ site for my area.
While websites about making a successful blogs are easily found on the internet, there’s nothing like having a physical book in your hands that you can bookmark, write in, etc. Thanks for the chance to win a copy.
I’m currently earning too much money on my weblog and need to find a way to go down to 6 figures.
Thanks for your help.
Cheers
Owen
I would need your book because you my blog is on its rising stage and I cannot afford to do something wrong with it and loose my blog reader base. Who else but you as one of the most successful bloggers in the blogosphere can advise on how to run and make a blog successful.
Presently I am able to only maintain my blog readership and not able increase it and your book has lots of advises to solve this problem. You book also tells other things to be looked after while blogging and I am in a stage where I should know all these things to make my blog a successful and a nicely marketed blog.
Hey Darren,
I’m a 19 year old design student from India, and I started a free custom blogger design blog about a year ago.
http://lemonadedesigns.blogspot.com
I started out making free custom blogger templates for people, and though it was very fulfilling, I realized that it wasn’t exactly getting me anywhere. So I decided to expand, put a few templates out for free, and custom design for a minimal fee. I’m still in the process of doing this. College doesn’t give me very much time.
Your book could help me tremendously, since I’m trying to establish the new version of my blog, mainly to raise money for my graduate studies. Also, I have absolutely no experience making money off of my blog (though I have been on the blog circuit for close to 2 years), so I really need to know the nitty gritty and i’m sure your book will help me figure all the fine details out. I actually did try to buy your book in a couple of stores in India, but none seemed to have it, so this is also something that I have been looking around for awhile now.
I’d really appreciate this. Anyway, whoever deserves it more, will get it right?
Thanks for reading!
Lemonade :)
I would like to get book to learn all good stuff from one real problogger !
GM
http://www.makemoneytalks.com
Two years ago, I started my blog for advocacy reasons, to help parents cope the loss of their child. You were one of three role models (the only one outside my country) that I could emulate and ensure my blog’s success, Your blog entries helped me widen the reach of my readers in my country and even earn money to fund my projects through blog monetization.
Your book will surely help me sustain my modest success and further improve my reach to readers who might not have yet discovered my blog.
I need the book because my blog revenue is not for me but for a good cause. My blog’s revenue is to be used solely for the field activities of an organization called The Society for Intellectual Thinking based in Chennai, India.
We have a website at http://sitchennai.ning.com/ . It’s an invitation-only forum. We meet on Sunday evenings along the beach here.
I think I need this book, because even if I publish quality articles, give some stuff away, give advice and tips. I still don’t get the way to publicize effectively my blog.
I know it’s not the content that I fail to give users, I think it’s more or less the attitude towards making my blog popular (or not in my case). I still don’t understand how to convert passing by readers to subscribers.
So that’s why I need your book, to understand the way to making your blog popular.
I would love this book because I’m getting tired of combing through your blog to find articles to increase my traffic. I love all the articles you write and I’m hoping that this book has all the great ones in one place right at my fingertips.
I’ve been reading your post every now and then, this is because I want to know exactly what to do in the world of blogging. I really need your book cause I know it’ll help me succeed just like what you are right now.
nhick
http://www.itrush.com
The Process Cafe is a labour of love. I talk about processes. I talk about BPM. I talk about standards and software. And I look to this as a service to other people. Sure, I could spend more time at conferences and blog about that (but there are other bloggers in the niche who do that very well) – but what I really want to do is have a blog that has quality writing with thoughtful, interesting articles.
I’m looking after that part myself. I’m putting the hours in. I’m writing the articles. I’m checking the quality.
But I’m not getting the visitors.
Sometimes it feels like I’m just writing for myself – sitting alone with my Macbook typing words that get lost in the ether. Occasionally I get a visitor – someone who stumbled there accidentally or maybe followed a link from a search engine. They look around, they read a few pages and think “Hmmmm. Not bad. I’ll subscribe”. It happens. I know it does.
I just wish it would happen more.
Quite obviously I need to sit at the knee of a master and learn the secrets.
Or failing that, read a copy of his book…..
I already own the book. Why do I need another one? Simple, so I can GIVE IT AWAY!
With another copy of the book I can hold a giveaway contest to on my own recently launched blog to draw new visitors and hopefully convert some of them into subscribers.
Paul
http://www.cranefactory.com
Darren..i own a blog http://www.myblog2day.com
im finding the way on how to generate traffic to my site everyday..and i got only 40-50 unique visitor to my site..
1) i hope it can generate more than 100-200 unique visitor a day..and returning visitor too…i hope you have the tips..
2) i hope i can get the info on how to do a make money online blog successful..
3) i hope i can maintain and increase my daily earning..
4) how to maintain my blog traffic..
5) i hope i can make my blog success with the tips you give…
6) I wan traffic traffic and traffic..
7) http://www.myblog2day.com
hope i can get the e-book you offer..to make my blog a success..Thanks darren !!
I have been doing a lot of networking with other mom bloggers, as I myself fall into that category (even though some hate the phrase).
I have met a few women, one in particular who said that she was actually told she couldn’t make it as a blogger.
I would like her to win the ProBlogger book. Not only is she blogging challenged, she is technology challenged, and I really would like to help her any way I can.
I know she would be motivated and inspired by your book and help her overcome any negative thoughts she may have, especially those planted by others.
Thanks for the opportunity!
I start blog one year ago and after 1 month I give up simply because I can’t see traffic on my blog. Until recently I found your blog and understand blog is not a overnight success, it involve years of hard work that you didn’t see. And I staring to understand now, the attitude is the most important factor to make a blogger successfully, he or she should not only see the blog as primarily as money generation, it is a medium to express his/her feeling, when people see your blog and understand what you mean, benefit from your blog, traffic will build up soon or later.
I will focus on my basic skills, which I passionate with the personal development and IT. I will work on this and get the site keep on running and learn along the way. The reason I need your book, is because I need to learn more about how to make a good content and what reader expected when they navigate to your blog, and I would like to know also how to earn money through this profession. I love this profession and hope your book will help me. Thanks
I have started “Le blog de Jean” (http://buje.free.fr) as a personal french blog in late 2007, and got into quite regular posting in the last two months.
Many things have to be improved like
* adding a few graphics,
* adding a robust comment system
* adding quality content.
Through this blog I’m training my writing skills and my writing method.
I’m having fun too.
Actually I’m exploring different topics in order to find a few niches so that in the next 6 to 12 months I can start professional blogging both in french and english.
The knowledge, and know-how included in your book will be help me to :
* avoid traps and correct my errors
* improve quality,
* build my audience targetting process
* optimize my blog(s) to get regular readership
* discover new aspects which I still haven’t figured out (in france professional blogging is seen as a journalist only affair)
* learn new things
Thank you for this contest, and its prize .
Have a nice day,
Jean
Hi, Dear sir Darren.
I am a new blogger. And yet, I am just started several months ago. My domain age not reach one years old yet. I am not earn from any advertisement program, well what I mean is the money is not enough for me to cash out.
I have started this ambition(become a blogger) ever since I know how to make a blog at blogspot. But I never know that we can make money from it. My first intention is just to make a beautiful design and impress my visitor(friends) on how good my design. Then I read other bloggers blog on how they generate income from their blog. But to my disappointment, I still can say it out loud that we can make a living from blogging, coz I don’t have proof to show?
So I guess, the book will make my knowledge go wider and wiser I hope. So that I can proof to my family and friends which is laughing at me today that we can make a living from blogging.
Here are my first blog that I created using blogspot.
http://wgnwhite.blogspot.com/
Here are the blog that using my own domain and using wordpress.
http://pangeran.org/
I will be gladly to have the book.
Thanks.
Hi Darren
I don’t envy your task of reading all these. My why is fairly simple and straight forward. I have the bare bones of a direction I want to go in – I now need to be able to put on the meat. My biggest problem is probable a mixture of lack of confidence – ie – does anyone really care about what I have to say – and a lack of marketing ability and knowledge of social media.
I think your book may help with the marketing angle which over time will help to build the confidence angle.
I wonder if all bloggers have that hurdle of wondering if anyone else cares about what they write?
cheers
les
I’m a new subscriber and a big believer in synchronicity. Just been reading the 4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris, Steve Pavlina’s articles, and am a member of a Women in e-Commerce MasterMind Group. Everything is pointing me to a professional, commercial BLOG.
I’ve recently been faced with a series of major challenges in my business, which has forced me to review what I’m doing and how – and importantly, get reconnected and clear on my contribution to the world. It is becoming apparent that it’s time I build upon my profile through a commercially successful BLOG that enables me to share my passions, expertise, inspiration and news to the thousands who already subscribe to my e-newsletter. It will also free me up to live and work anywhere in the world, doing what I love, while providing quality content and value along the way. If I can find a way to deliver this and be paid for my efforts, the more value and service I can continue to offer to my subscribers and the world at large.
In answer to your questions: I need to improve the technology behind and traffic to my BLOG. I hope the book answers my questions about how to introduce and maximise revenue streams without compromising quality and reputation. My biggest need as a blogger is to get out there and do what I do best – communicate with the masses in a meaningful way that helps people in their lives.
My background is advertising, marketing, PR and events. I have strong technical abilities and the proven track record to make things happen – fast and well!
The next step is reading your book ☺. With thanks.
Website: http://www.nibbana.com.au
BLOG: http://www.nibbana.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=137&Itemid=49
I need your ProBlogger Book because my blog is only about one month old, and while the quality content is there, the readership isn’t up to par. I need to know how to increase my readership so that I can ultimately make money from my blog – I need to put myself through college somehow!
Thanks for considering me!
Laura W.
http://www.thesportsgirl.net
I want the book. I am passionate about writing stuff that matter, I am computer and internet-savvy and I want to get paid for writing blogs. I have knowledge about some techy stuff that I am dying to write about it and be read by people in the offices who can benefit from them. I am a reader and a learner, and I want to share what I know.
The 8-5 job I have isn’t for me . So, even if it takes me five years or ten years to build a decently earning blogsite that can helpe me pay my bills and have some extra for savings and investments, I am willing to give it a shot and I will start now…with the help of this book and others like it.
The site I just gave is mine, yes, but I have other sites under my real name, which talks about techy topics. But I can’t post the address here. With what I just said about the 8-5 job, I don’t want anyone in the office to read this message and recognize it’s me, most especially the bosses. I am not afraid they’d know about what I think, but I see no need for deliberately giving them an excuse to start an intrigue.
Well, I hope the question it answers is what do I need to improve on my blog!
I’ve got over 1000 visitors per day, over 2000 subscribers, unique (in the free sphere anyway) content, a lot of fans, natural backlinks, even press coverage here and there, yet counting the effort I put into the blog I earn about $3 per hour of my time, or to put that another way I’m lucky to make a Google cheque each month.
Darren, I’m hoping your book can tell me what I need to improve on my blog!
I am a full time volunteer with a Christian Missions Organization (Youth With A Mission – YWAM) and am dependent on receiving sponsorship from friends, family and our church to provide all our needed finances. I have a wife and two kids and so far this year our sponsorship have dropped about $400 per month.
I have been blogging for a few years now, but am looking at blogging more seriously as a possible source of finance so that we can continue our volunteer work.
I am hoping that the book can help me to make better use of my blogging time and how to best monetise my sites. I have subscribed to your newsletter and blog for quite a few years now and have implemented some of the tips, but I want to get much more serious about it now.
I’ve been blogging for two and a half years and addressed it seriously about a year ago. I completed Yaro’s Blog Mastermind Program which I found great value and I read all the tips from your blog.
I have to modify a lot of the tips to fit my niche who don’t tend to follow blogging ‘behavioural trends’. And I find that it’s often the small things now that make a difference. Such as the tip you gave a couple of weeks ago about improving your ranking on keywords through focused linking within your blog.
These are the sort of things that I want to concentrate on and I think your book would be a treasure trove of nuggets like this which I can use to tune and tweak my blog.
Thanks a lot for offering the book Darren. If I don’t win it, then I’ll just have to keep digging up my nuggets the slow way.
Simply because I love a good book.
…and I love to write/blog.
And, finally, I dread to work with a bunch of people and being bossed around.
I created and run all of the official sites for actor Channing Tatum, which in includes two blogs (http://www.channingtatumunwrapped.com and http://www.channingtatumunwrapped.blogspot.com), a Myspace and Facebook profile, a YouTube channel, and Flickr photo gallery. The MySpace profile was just nominated for a 2008 Teen Choice award (http://www.myspace.com/teenchoice2008), and I would like your book to learn how to continue to grow the blogs and better monetize without alienating my established audience and losing credibility.
Hi Darren!
I need your book because I am new to the blogging game and blogosphere, and trying to whittle away as much of the learning curve as fast as I can. My partner and I have a blog http://www.entertainmentreporters.com that covers the entertainment scene in the greater Atlanta metro area. I believe that your book will provide certain insights and the direction that we need as we continue to formulate our strategy. I am currently researching designers, and planning to have the blog re-hosted and redesigned; I possess no experience or training in either area. Darren, I am sure that your book will help us move to the next level successfully. To prove just how bad I need, and want your book here’s a poem that I wrote about it. Want to hear it? Here it goes:
I Need That ProBlogger Book!
I need that ProBlogger book,
don’t believe me,
take a look–
at my blog,
at times I feel as though we are in the fog–
when I analyze our low subscriber log.
I need that ProBlogger book,
once I read it–
I know I’d cook,
and have more success,
but most important pass the ProBlogger test.
I need that ProBlogger book,
my partner needs to read it–
better yet,
we both need to eat, sleep and breathe it.
I need that ProBlogger book,
so that in our new found success all can revel–
as we proclaim:
“ProBlogger helped take us to the next level!”
Why does almost everyone who knows you want to have a copy of your famous book? Well, you can call that signature. A simple blogger can win more readers if they will know that he has your book.
While I know I will learn so much from it just like by reading your posts, I think the best reason I can give to you is inspiration. You have inspired me a lot since my day one of knowing your blog and I must admit, most of my ideas came from your posts. I applied them and found effective that is why I am now sharing them.
Your unselfish approach towards fellow bloggers is what’s inside your book, and not the mere content. I know they may be other bloggers who can claim that they are better than you, it is very seldom that I see the heart of a blogger and that’s what makes you differ.
Your informative posts are more than enough to educate me, but having a copy of your book will be a big leap to my passion in blogging. It will surely motivate me more.
Thanks.
I am been blogging for two months now and I am understanding It slowly and as a teenager I have a some problem with expressing my thoughts in Composed form, Whenever I write About something my thoughts are broken into words I write I think It makes the post weird sometimes and I have to edit it again and Again…..Your might Help me overcoming this problem And I am also concerned about traffic towards my site Your book will be useful for me to Understand that issue and address it And atlast Niche i chose requires a lot of INfo and Experience To Do good in That Niche and I have only limited Info and Experience So I will consider your book for that purpose too It will help me improoving my writing skills and Composing my thought increasing my knowledge about my own Niche And Help Breaking the traffic duck………………Thank You
Hey Darren,
I would love to get the book from you simply because getting it free you means that I could tell people that problogger gave his book to me !!!
I believe its a great book for a blogger and I’m trying to buy it at my local store and they are out of stock.
Thought of saving a few dollars freight cost as I can I always buy it from Amazon.
Cheers :)
I would love to get your book for the following reasons:
1. It isn’t in my budget http://www.todaysbudget.com for the month or the foreseeable months as I’m digging out of debt with every cent going towards debt reduction
2. Using the book would help others learn more about how to reduce debt and hopefully avoid losing their homes (c’mon… that has to tug on a heartstring or two)
3. I’m a daily reader and follow you on Twitter. You offer better advice than many of the organizations who “think” they invented blogs, social media, online community – don’t get me started on this rant….
4. I’m such a nice gal, mom, etc. and fired off a letter to eContent Magazine who did a whole cover story on the business of blogging and didn’t mention ProBlogger. Obviously they didn’t do their research.
Hi Darren,
To put it simple I know a ton of stuff regarding various topics on making money online, and I’m sure people are trying to find out, but I don’t know how to write in a manner that brings me more readers and keeps them interested.
I need to sharpen my writing and blog marketing skills, and to know the tricks of the trade for getting and keeping readers.
My first objective is to educate, but I’m also looking to make a living doing so.
It makes perfect sense to learn from the the original problogger, and I’m sure your book will be a great starting point that’ll lead me to the “aha!’s” I’m looking for, and hopefully a year from now I’ll be posting my success story here.
Thanks for the opportunity,
MV
Thanks Darren, I really value the information that you share with us all.
I have been blogging for a year and a half now, writing whatever I want, on whatever subject I feel like.
I have been a professional writer for a number of years, but found myself falling into a rut serveral years ago (one of the unfortunate byproducts of being a writer for hire).
Now that I am writing for my blog on a regular basis it is wonderful therapy. I get to express the real me.
Which is great because I really only write for one audience – myself. Still, it is gratifying when strangers contact me to tell me how much they enjoy my blog.
On a more practical level, my blogging has led to increased business and a recent book contract. Not bad, when you consider that all I set out to do was create a forum for myself.
My advice to anyone considering starting a blog, please don’t start it with the motive of just earning a income. Instead create it with a passion and a belief in yourself and what you have to say.
The rest, as they say, will follow.
Darren, thanks again for writing a blog with passion.
All the best,
Peter McGarvey
Darren, this is a great offer. I don’t need the book because I already bought it and read it a couple of weeks ago. Anyone who wants to blog really should buy this book as an investment in your education. That being said I did write a short review a few days ago at http://brucehopkins.net/blogging/problogger-book-review.php
While I liked the book I was missing a few things. Now that I see this post I have an idea. Why don’t you Darren create a members only place where people who have purchased this book can get some private posts where you go into more detail about certain aspects of the book. I don’t think you should charge for this, but qualify people by asking some question about certain text in the book which some one could answer and gain access to the private posts.
This would help you sell more books as well as make the book a lot more useful to the people who have invested in their blogging business as well as you by purchasing your book.
Just an idea.
Bruce
I’ve been blogging since I was 11—that means I’ve been writing for about two or three years now. Ever since my first Blogspot blog, I’ve never really received a great deal of traffic, despite (foolishly) starting three or four blogs at once.
I have a lot of things in my mind that I’d love to write about, but it just feels like an effort in futility to write those thoughts on a blog nobody reads. I think the ProBlogger book would help me gain more readers, and hopefully in the long run monetize my blog.
To be perfectly honest, I’m not indifferent to the idea of making a living out of blogging. Being a feature writer, I think I wouldn’t do too badly. Of course, having resources such as the ProBlogger book wouldn’t hurt, either.
I blog at http://deanlozarie.com/ —I pay for my hosting, sad fez.
I need it because I’ve been blogging for over 2 years and I can’t get over 50 subscribers and rarely get any comments. I need help, stat! I’m floundering around here.
Hi Darren,
I need this book, because your blog is the first thing I read each day amongst the several blogs and post that I read. It has been your teaching and inspiration along with http://www.bobtheteacher.com that has made me stick with the idea I had to start a blog.
We launched http://www.ridingonsunshine.com yesterday. Many people in the US and around the world are being affected by the dramatic rise in gasoline prices. It is our intent to help bring awareness to this looming worldwide crisis.
Kind Regards
Glenn Seymour
Raleigh NC
Dear Darren,
I’ve been following your site and reading your email updates since starting my blog 6 months ago. I have gone back through the archives, read many of your older posts geared to beginners, and have found them to be immensely helpful.
I feel that I could use your book for three main reasons:
1) I haven’t been with you from the beginning and feel that this book will help to fill some of the gaps in a logical and progressive manner.
2) I think that our lines of thinking are compatible. I find your posts easy to follow, and feel your writing and ideas speak to me–I knew this the day I watched your post on how blogging is like watching grass grow! You also gained a lifelong follower the day you took just a few seconds to promptly answer my question about setting up an Amazon affiliate program for my particular situation–impressive.
3) I’m in this for the long haul, devour the kind of information you aim to provide, and feel that reading your book would be a great investment in my future both as a blogger and a published author.
Thanks again, and congrats on building a successful life for yourself as a blogger!
Sincerely,
Amanda Milne
http://valueforyourlife.com
I run two websites http://fruitflypie.com and http://makeitcute.com/blog . I need the knowledge because I’m doing something wrong and not sure what? Although I think it is because i’m not asking questions and my site is sticky. There has been a lack of post too, because of 12k dial up and that will be changed this week. My biggest need as a blogger is to figure out how to get people to come visit my website and give feedback on new products. My statistics show I have viewers but they never comment. I hope the book answers questions such as, how to put keywords in wordpress, ways to bring more hits to the site, how to get back links and bring your page rank up.
Hi Darren
I have a blog at http://www.uwork4.com. I have spent 6 months working to understand web marketing and community building, my site would do little to give you the impression that I have learned anything of substance yet.
I have been a ProBlogger RSS subcriber for 6-8 months and have learned a great deal about blogging already. It inspired me to get started. I need the next big push to manage a great content site and move my ideas to the web.
I hope your book will assist
Bramster
I would say I am a Pro Blogger because I have a professional blog and I write about professional topics. On the other hand I am not a Pro Blogger because I have very few readers and I don’t know how to attract more of them.
I have questions that I don’t know how to answer – that’s why I need your book.
I an doubting whether I should write more about practical cases and to aim at the more experienced professionals or to write about the theoretical fundamentals of my profession and to aim at the beginners.
I am wandering – since there is so much information on the internet what is that original stuff that I could offer to my readers and to make them come to my blog over and over again?
I have little ads on my blog because I am afraid that putting more ads will distract the readers and will make them leave my blog. Am I wrong? How can I make more money without driving my readers back?
These are some of the questions I have and I believe I can find their answers in your book. That’s why I need it.
Hi Darren,
Thanks for this opportunity! My blog is at http://bitsandpixels.info, and I would love to win your book! I wrote a long comment detailing why, and then remembered it was supposed to be under 250 words ^^’ So here’s the short version – I need your book to:
– improve the quality of my writing
– increase traffic and Page Rank
– attract subscribers and comments
– earn money from my blog
– organize my blogging
– stay inspired
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Here’s the original, more detailed version if you want to read it :P
Now that I’m not studying anymore I need to start earning money to help my parents pay the bills (a year ago we finally bought our own house, only to discover it needed a lot more work than we realized, and most of it had to be done immediately because it was already winter). Working from home is the best option for me (for various personal reasons I won’t go into here), and I decided to start with blogging since I wasn’t a complete newbie at it – I had blogged a bit on a free blogging service before, but didn’t keep it up.
I have one blog and 4 others in the making, all on different subjects that I’m interested in. But I have realized now that it’s not easy to earn with blogs – I have not even received 1 click yet on my adsense ads. I have now signed up with a bunch of get-paid-to-blog sites, but my blogs aren’t old enough for most of them, and since I don’t have a page rank I don’t qualify for many opportunities on ones I was accepted on.
I also don’t really like the idea of these sites, as many of them don’t allow disclosure, and Google penalizes sites that do disclose that they write paid posts. So I need to learn other ways to earn from my blogs, and also how to increase traffic and rankings.
I also would like to improve how I blog, so readers will enjoy my posts and come back often, subscribe and be encouraged to leave comments (I absolutely love comments! ^^). Also so that they won’t be scared away by paid posts, until I don’t have to do them anymore :P
I’ve found that it’s difficult to find the time to work on all my blogs, especially since they are brand new or still in the process of being made, and so there is so much to do! It would be great if your book also had some time-management tips or something that would help me find time for all of them.
There are also days when I can’t think of anything relevant to blog about, and everyone says you have to post every day to get readers to return. I’m hoping I’ll get some inspiration from your book! :)
Because it feels like I’m standing at the foot of a mountain of potential that I don’t know how to climb. I could use a good guide.
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