Free ebook about monetizing blogs

BloggingFingers is offering a free ebook on blog monetization strategies that’s actually worth recommending. That link is to a post where you enter a contest by downloading the book, and yes, I’m getting some entries for writing this, but I rarely recommend - or even finish - free ebooks, and this one actually got my attention.

He talks about flagship blogs and niche blogs, and explains so clearly what he means by each term that you’ll have no problem seeing where each of your blogs fit. He also talks about niche blogs you’re hoping to grow into flagship blogs. Honestly, this part alone was a valuable refresher on basics for me: I sometimes see a niche blog doing well and think, “Oh, I could make this into a big blog and do even better” and end up screwing up what was working. Ahem.

Anyhow, after that he goes on to talk about precisely how to monetize each type of blog, and why this works for this blog and that works for that one. It’s an easy read, well worth the time.