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Ladies and gentlemen, today I’m very happy to announce the release of my first ebook, The Zen of Blogging. It’s completely free, with no affiliate links or email opt-in.
This is the story of an aspiring blogger who sets out on a journey to discover the secrets of blogging. What will he find at the top of Mount Blogmore? Will he learn how to become a great blogger, or will he get his head cut off? You’ll have to read to find out!
From page 2:
If you’re into Zen and you’re into blogging, read and share this ebook.
If you’re into Zen but you’re not into blogging, share this ebook.
If you’re not into Zen but you’re into blogging, read this ebook.
If you’re not into Zen and you’re not into blogging, read it twice.
Download your free copy of The Zen of Blogging, and be sure not to skip ahead to the end! (Also be sure not to give away too much in the comments below.)
Table of contents:
| The Zen of Blogging | 1 |
| What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? | 2 |
| Table of Contents | 3 |
| Up the Mountain | 4 |
| Day 1: Getting Started | 6 |
| Day 2: Choosing a Niche | 7 |
| Day 3: Domain Names | 8 |
| Day 4: Blogging Platforms | 9 |
| Day 5: Themes | 10 |
| Day 6: Plugins | 11 |
| Day 7: Blogging Voices | 12 |
| Day 8: Posting Frequency | 13 |
| Day 9: Post Length | 14 |
| Day 10: Images | 15 |
| Day 11: Monetization | 16 |
| Day 12: Comment Management | 17 |
| Day 13: Guest Posting | 18 |
| Day 14: Social Media | 19 |
| The Last Day | 20 |
| Down the Mountain | 22 |
| Acknowledgements | 23 |
| Final Words | 23 |
| About the Author | 23 |
Versions available in other languages:
Дзен и Путь Блоггера (Russian translation by Олег Сатов)
Das Zen des Bloggens (German translation by Jan Tißler)
Le Zen Du Blogueur (French translation by Jean Lançon)
Thank you, for writing this, it’s a very nice little book, so I posted the link to the german- translated- version on my site. (Also your site and the original- version.)
Thanks, XiongShui. I tried to translate your German with Babel Fish, but it didn’t do so well. Anyway, I’m sure what you said was nice!
So, I’ll give you an better translating:
“On UPLOAD I found a PDF- Book (24 sites). The question is: “How to be an excellent Blogger”.
So tells Hunter Nuttal, on a very “zennish” kind to his followers, to go the way to be it. But naturally they must find out it by itself. Simplificated: “Don’t make you worry, sweethart” (H.P. Kerkeling). But this wouldn’t be so nice and instructively.
Very important for all those, who aren’t sure, what to do about “blogging”.
You may take a lot of delight, when reading it!
German translating: Jan Tißler, many thanks therefore.
Ah yes XiongShui, that’s much better. Glad it was zennish!
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Thanks for sharing this great ebook
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Glad you liked it, Joe!
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Gosh. Now then I found this book!
Downloaded, and would read it after my dinner.
Thanks Hunter for sharing this!
Hey Daniel, nice to see you found it. It’s good, but it’s not worth rushing through dinner!
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I love the idea of this Hunter, I’ve just downloaded it so look forward to reading it!
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@ Glen, hope you like it. If all goes according to plan, I’ll have another ebook out next week, on a not-yet-revealed topic!
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Dear Hunter Nuttall,
Nice writing. I have downloaded it, read it and really loved it. Made me thinking, that everyone can be a blogger the way he/she likes. Like me, I’m learning, improving and being me. I wish you all the best and will visit your page again.
Thank you.
Regards.
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@ Niczous, I think you’ve summarized it pretty well in just a few words: “everyone can be a blogger the way he/she likes.” Good luck being the blogger you want to be!
Hi,
just started with my blog last week and I am very excited to read you ebook. I am mid-forty, but all this blog business is getting my adrenaline up and I feel much younger, though very tired as to some night in front of the PC.
Will leave another message after I read the book, promised.
Love – Ursula
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Hunter, I just did a post on five ebooks to check out including yours. I also added it to my download section at bloggertalk.net I hope it will bring you some traffic.
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@ Rose, thanks! I left a comment on your blog.
Hi
Great reading – I am new to BLOGS – would certainly folow your guidelines !
I just found your blog and downloaded Ebook and I need sometime to read. However, I read the table of contents I suppose your Ebook would give me ideas and things to do to make my blog better.
I will be get back to you after I finished reading your book. Thank you very much.
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“Though his sins were scarlet / His blogs were read”
(rephrasing some author’s quote).
I love to read everything written by Hunter, and this book is no exception! It is informative and insightful (two attributes that are rare in most published writings today).
Read it to the end, especially the end.
I won’t give away the ending except to say:
Life is short, why waste time blogging? Live life authentically, but not in front of the computer screen. The lucid, simple, authentic life is all that matters.
[lucid, simple, authentic = All your thingking is clear, all your decisions are simple, and everything you do is sincere and genuine]
And if you have any interesting thought, any idea or insight that you want to retain for further contemplation, jot it down on a diary or a spiral-ring notebook (the kind made of paper). There’s no need to be an unpaid reporter (which is essentially what most bloggers are).
In 2000, way before the term blogging came into being, I too began my personal diary jottings which I placed online using the hosted Homestead.com service (jottings.homestead.com). But since it’s my own thoughts, I have placed a password protection on it.
I used to be a newspaper reporter once — very well-paid — so I can’t figure out why people are willing to write and write and write, essentially for nothing other than the satisfaction of being read and appreciated.
My father used to say that without cash, everything is hypothetical!
Here’s my opinion on blogging:
http://bystander.homestead.com/letter-to-the-world.html
@ Francis, you have some good points. It’s always better to be one of the overpaid bloggers than one of the underpaid ones!
Having commented on blogs that almost no one reads, I must point out a growing phenomena in Singapore of certain not-so-young girls (probably overaged teenagers in their 30s) writing blogs filled with vulgar phrases and four-letter words and semi-intimate descriptions of themselves.
They attract a lot of attention from very young girls (and dirty old and young men), and eventually advertisers. Sooner or later, these bloggers began mentioning or recommending products (without any acknowledgement that they have been paid), and finally their blogs become one giant product endorsement site.
A very successful example is http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/
The blogger, “Xiaxue” (falling snow) is said to have made a fortune capitalising on her self-made notoriety. What a clever, cunning way to make money, although there is absolutely nothing in her blog except trash.
How would one describe her? A blogging whore? An online parasite? (Maybe “parasite” is not accurate since advertisers find her useful…) I wonder if there
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Great, can’t wait to get a chance to read it.
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