Learning how to blog can be difficult for people. I often wonder how different things would have been for me if I had read tutorial books that were designed to help me become a better blogger. Hey! Who said it was too late for me? The strange thing about blogging is the fact that the people who become bloggers are already writers or people who discovered later in life that they actually enjoy writing. However, majority of bloggers really don’t know too much about computers, web design and programming. Granted, for the most part, people who read my site are web savvy. But if you take a second to step back and see how diverse the blogosphere is, you will quickly discover how small the tech blogger niche and the make money online niche is compared to the rest of the niches within the blogosphere.

The blogosphere consists of a huge world of topics. Thousands of people blog or want to blog about many things. Horses, gardens, parenting, crafts, scrapbooking and life in general and to name a few. The reality of the situation is the simple fact that there are more people who want to blog successfully compared to the ones that actually do blog successfully. How do you become a successful blogger? And this is not held in terms of making money. There are millions of bloggers who blog for different purposes other than having the desire to make money online.

What about books? Do you think book can help people learn more about blogging? I think books are great. I think if an emerging blogger really wanted to find success in blogging, that person would purchase a few books. If I had it to do over again, bypassing all my trials and errors, I would want a few books. And I still do! I would want to find a book that gave me a general overview of the history of the Internet and how it has evolved into this term we call “Web 2.0″. I would want a separate book that talked about blogging. This blogging book would touch on Wordpress. The third book I would want would be a book specifically written about Wordpress. Coupled with these collections of books, I would also want a book that teaches me about Google and their wonderful search engine. Lastly, it would be helpful to own a book about PHP programming and MySQL.

Having all that said, I would like to ask for your suggestions? I want anyone who stumbles upon this post in a search for some good books to see a bunch of wonderful and useful references within the comments. I would love to reach out and help others find success in blogging. What are some good books that you have read that helped you find your own personal success in blogging?

What kind of books do you recommend for new bloggers? Is there a particular book that you have read that helped you become a more successful blogger? Is there a particular book that you plan in purchasing in the near future. With all the new bloggers who stumble upon this article, I want to invite you to drop a comment and share your recommendations of some books that you feel will help new bloggers.  I look very forward to reading each and every response.