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7 Free Useful eBooks That Every Blogger Should Read. I have never been one to read books or PDFs on my computer screen. Give me a paperback book, or a printed page, and I can get through it quickly, but sit me in front of a screen and I just can’t make myself read it. Now with the advent of eReaders like the Kindle, and tablets like the iPad, reading a book off a screen isn’t as hard as it used to be.

There is no end to the wealth of free eBooks available online today, from literature to books on social media, to teaching yourself how to use Linux. There is one topic, blogging, with countless eBooks available, both paid and free, and it just takes a little bit of digging to find some of the best ones out there. This list of 7 books is a good place to start, with advice for both beginners and advanced bloggers alike.

Deep Secrets of Successful Blogging Get the free eBook here. 279 Days to Overnight Success 279 Days to Overnight Success by Chris Guillebeau is available for free download in PDF format from his website. Viral Copy Traffic Roots. 7 of the Best Tools for Aspiring Probloggers. This is a guest article by Kip Keilty of compare broadband plans. Join the discussion and voice your opinion by following our guest blogging guidelines. Bloggers like you want to earn a living from their work and possibly even become famous. Building a blogging career that takes you from being a beginner blogger into the cream of the crop takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work, but it is possible to realize your dream.

To help you accomplish the most from your efforts, here are 7 of the best tools for aspiring probloggers. 1. Wikimedia Commons – As creative property becomes more carefully guarded by its owners, bloggers face increasing pressure to avoid illegal use of images online. This means that more people are demanding that bloggers obtain permission to use the images used on their sites. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. The Internet is full of great tools that will help you as you pursue your dream of being a problogger. Shopp & plugin ecommerce for wordpress. The New Rules For Winning the Blog Game. Have you ever wished that you jumped into the social media game back in 2005? Back when Facebook was a college thing and people were intrigued by those quirky online journals called blogs.

Early blog pioneers still had to bust their butts to succeed but they were able to appeal to an open and less cynical public. My Son's Blog :) Flash forward to 2010 and blogs are commonplace. Everyone from my 8 year-old son to 60-something CEOs are producing “content” for their online outposts. In fact, some blogeratti have 2 or 3 blogs sprinkled across WordPress, Tumblr, and Posterous – oh my! Since the neighborhood is crowded, newcomers have to chart a different course to success. We need to dig deep and bring a whole new energy to the game. I call it hustling. So we’ll start there… Build an Empire (Even if it’s a small one) Your voice deserves to be heard.

Promote like your life depended on it I don’t care how passionate you are – it doesn’t mean squat if your posts aren’t read. Want the Ball. Genesis Theme Helps With SEO. I’m at PUBCON right now, an event heavily trafficked by the Search Engine Optimization crowd. I am literally surrounded by people who can run circles around me with regards to that part of internet marketing. My only weak answer when I tell people what I do for SEO is broken into two things: Genesis (affiliate link) and Scribe(affiliate link). Mostly, I just keep my settings straight in Genesis with this nifty little panel: It’s one reason I use a premium WordPress theme.

Besides having a great design, using Genesis lets me not have to know as much about SEO. So, I’ll learn lots from these folks at PubCon, but I’m also going to be appreciative of using a useful theme. ChrisBrogan.com runs on the Genesis Framework The Genesis Framework empowers you to quickly and easily build incredible websites with WordPress. With automatic theme updates and world-class support included, Genesis is the smart choice for your WordPress website or blog. Become a StudioPress Affiliate. 30 Incredibly Useful WordPress Hacks. WordPress is without doubt one of the best publishing platforms available and it’s functionality and flexibility mean we have the ability to completely customize our installation and theme. However sometimes a plugin isn’t enough to give us the functionality we need, that’s where ‘hacks’ come in. This is a compilation of some of the best Hacks available to help unleash the full power of WordPress. 40+ Most Wanted WordPress Tricks and Hacks 14 WordPress bloggers share the hacks and plugins they are really looking for to enhance their blog in any aspect. 63 Essential WordPress Hacks, Tutorials, Help Files and Cheats A comprehensive list of the Best WordPress Tutorials, Hacks, Help Files and Cheat Sheets to make life easier and to help you expand WordPresses functionality.

Excellent WordPress Theme Hacks Selection of WordPress tricks on how to make a better WordPress theme, focusing more on the frontend development. 10 Useful WordPress Hook Hacks 9 WordPress Hacks to Encourage User Interactivity. The Future of Blogging - a Collaborative Mindmap - The Steve Rubel Stream. The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press clips.

It seems downright archaic now but that’s how I learned about the press - by cutting, pasting up and photocopying clippings. My fascination with the media never abated. Today my role is to form insights into how the entire overlapped media landscape - the pros, social channels, and corporate content - is rapidly evolving and to help Edelman clients turn these learnings into actionable strategies.

Today I am re-launching my Tumblr site with a new name, a new focus and a new format. It all kicks off today with a 15-page installment of The Clip Report. 8 Best Practices for Collaborative Blog Groups - Kikolani.

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