Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro by Tris Hussey. This book focuses on how to create your blog simply and get the reader up and running by reading through this helpful guide. This book assists the readers to create a personal or business blog of their own and shows them to easily build up worldwide traffic to their blog. Tris Hussey helps the reader to create great blogs including:
- Personal Blogs
- Business Blogs
- Lifestreaming Blogs
- Portfolio blogs for artists
- Video Blogs
- Blogs for Podcasting
The author focuses on creating low-cost blogs and using inexpensive tools including essential writing tips. The author shares their top tips and tricks on how to easily set up their blog, writing blog entries that will draw a crowd, how to handle comments, and complaints, how to create build a community and lead through creating a conversation on your blog, how to use publicize your blog, avoid beginner blogger mistakes, choose the right platform and inexpensive blogging tools, and how to earn cash from your blog.
I found this book to be helpful in meeting the needs a beginner blogger would be looking for and it is easy to read and follow. I think the book would also be helpful to the intermediate blogger who may already know how to create a blog but may not know how to build up publicity or how to tweak their blog setup. This book does cater to those who use Wordpress as their blog platform however for other types of platforms such as Blogger, it does cover the topic but not as heavily compared to Wordpress.
