Book Review: "Google Blogger For Dummies" by Susan Gunelius

Google Blogger For Dummies (For Dummies by Susan Gunelius
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Amazon Book Description

Are you bemused by blogs? Eager to become a blogger? Google Blogger For Dummies can help you start blogging sooner than you think.

More than 14 million people are promoting a business, connecting with family and friends, and sharing opinions with Google Blogger. This book helps you start a Blogger account, create content, build an audience, make money from your blog, and more, all without learning to program. You’ll be able to:

• Learn the parts of a blog, what Blogger does, and how to choose goals and blog topics
• Choose a domain name, learn to use the dashboard, pick a template, and configure settings
• Dress up your blog with themes and find out where to get plenty of free ones
• Learn blogging etiquette and some secrets for long-term success
• Make money from your blog with Google Adsense, contextual and text link ads, and merchandising with CafePress
• Set up multi-user blogs or branch into mobile blogging, podcasting, or video blogging
• Take advantage of social networking sites and learn simple search engine optimization techniques
• Maintain your blog with tools like Blog This! and Quick Edit
• Moderate comments effectively, track your stats, and more

Google Blogger is a great choice for beginning bloggers, and Google Blogger For Dummies gives you the know-how to venture confidently into the blogosphere.



This is a great resource for anyone considering a blog creation. I had already created my blog, however, there were some great applications and suggestions that I was not aware of and picked up as a result of this book. This reference guide will walk you through every step of creating your blog to things you can do to monitor traffic, drive traffic to your blog, give suggestions for layout and applications that are available as well as walking you through the process of using Google Blogger with your own domain name. I found the book very helpful and there were several things I learned and implemented. The great thing about these series of books is that each chapter is stand alone. Choose the chapters or topics that you are interested in and in whatever order you wish. Some of the features that were discussed were already outdated, as Google is constantly making upgrades, but there is usually another similar application that will do virtually the same thing.