How I Made 40K My First Year of Blogging by Chelsea Lords

How I Made 40K My First Year of Blogging Reviews

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  Kalyn

  I love reading books about how bloggers earn a profit from their writing, and while I gleaned a lot of great tips from this one, it was primarily directed towards food bloggers. Many of the principles can be adapted, but I wish the audience had been a bit more defined on the info page before I invested in the book. I also felt like Chelsea went into a lot of detail about very basic blogging how-to's, then skimped when it came to more advanced blogging strategies, such as finding and making money with her freelance work. That topic was especially glossed over, which I was very disappointed about, especially since it made up quite a significant amount of her income and I wanted to learn more!
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  Krystle

  Wrote down pages of things to try implementing on my site, but didn't really enjoy the sections devoted to the basics.
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  Kelsey

  While helpful and informative, I felt like the title and description were somewhat misleading. Chelsea talks about a lot of the details of how she got started, but what she doesn't really get into is exactly how she built up her pageviews so fast. In her first month of blogging, she reached 30k pageviews. I'm fairly certain you have to have a social media following built up pretty well for that already (which I suspect is what happened since she had another blog before the current one). If that's not the case, I would LOVE to know how she got that many views in her very first month of blogging. She sort of glosses over it like it's no big deal, but it takes many other bloggers months or years to get there.
  
  With that in mind, I don't really feel like it's a great resource for very beginning bloggers, since most of us don't start with that big of a following. However, if you ARE around the 25k pageview point and wanting to know what other people did next to grow their blog, this would be a good read for you.
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  Janet Thaeler

  I work for an ad network for bloggers and so I've watched a lot of successful bloggers who steadily increase their income. How I Made 40K My First Year Blogging is a solid resource for bloggers who want to learn how to monetize their blog from day 1.
  
  I refer a lot of people to this book when they ask me how to make money blogging. I wrote an extensive review and previewed the table of contents here:
  www.newspapergrl.com/how-i-made-40k-m...