3 Must Read Blogging Books For Beginners

One thing that we bloggers like is books. Good books. After all, if you are going to spend your time writing on a topic, you may as well take time to educate yourself on that topic through books and blogs. Now, a friend of mine asked me a few days ago about the books that I would recommend to a beginner blogger. I personally don’t think you can find any magic formula in books that are offered on Amazon, and you will find most of them quite repetitive. But I have read a few blogging books that I think are must read for any blogger, no matter what your level is.

Start your own blogging business was my very first blogging book and thought me how to treat blogging as a business and not a hobby. A hobby is not going to put food on the table, and you may not give it a 100% effort. But if you treat your blog as a part of your business, then there is a good chance that you can achieve great things with your blog.

I’ll admit that when I started blogging, I had no idea how to approach the whole process of content creation. I thought that I could write about anything and everything on my blog, and there was simply no focus on my approach (believe it or not my oldest blog is still up but I am too embarrassed to point people to it). No one cares what you had for lunch is very dear to my heart as it thought me how blogging works and what you shouldn’t do on your blog. That was key for me.

Blogging for dummies was the last beginner’s book that skimmed through for ideas and tricks to improve my blogging skills. I did not expect to get much out of it due to the funny title, but in fact it was more useful in more ways than one. By the time I read this book, I already had a lot of blogs up and running for quite some time, so I didn’t expect to get much out of it. But the book was published in 2008, and I thought, what the heck? Let’s see what today’s beginners learn in these books. The book is excellent in teaching you how to deal with blog spams or how to increase your blogging presence. If this book was released ealier (like a few years ago), I probably would’ve read this one first.

There you have it. While the above books are excellent resources for beginners, you may want to reduce your training time after a couple of month to focus more on doing things and less on reading things. When I started blogging, I spent days after days going through training material. At some point, you realize that you haven’t really accomplished anything except finishing every training content that is out there. Keep your eyes on the ball and go do things!