In my announcement post for Blogging Tips first e-book yesterday I mentioned briefly that blogging, making money online and marketing are topics that I would like to cover in e-books in the future. I do plan on covering these topics in the future but in the mean time I would first like to write about topics which are not getting as much exposure.
Matt from Costumes Plus asked if I recommend some good blogging e-books for people just starting out so I thought I would write a quick summary of free e-books which are worth downloading. 
In addition to the ebooks I had already downloaded, I came across some other great e-books, so I decided to add them to the list. Most of these books require you to subscribe to an RSS feed or sign up to a newsletter, therefore I have noted the requirement next to each e-book link.
Design & Coding
- The Blogger Template Book – Subscribe via RSS
- WordPress e-book – Direct download.
- How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with WordPress – Direct download.
- Introduction to Good Usability – Direct download.
Blogging
- Killer Flagship Content – Subscribe via RSS
- Deep Secrets of Successful Bloggers – Direct download.
- Who’s There? Seth Godin’s Incomplete Guide to Blogs and the New Web – Direct download.
- How to Start Blogging: A Guide for Business Bloggers – Direct download.
- How to Start a Business Blog – Direct download.
- Blogging Blueprint – Direct download.
- 10 interviews with 10 influential bloggers – Subscribe via RSS.
- Blogging On My Mind – Direct download.
- The Zen of Blogging – Direct download.
Marketing
- The Winning Way – Newsletter sign up.
- Blog Traffic Made Easy – Direct download.
- Get Viral Get Visitors – Direct download.
- Authority Black Book – Newsletter sign up.
- Unleashing the Ideavirus – Direct download.
- The New Rules of Viral Marketing – Direct download.
- Marketing Apple – Direct download.
- A geek’s Guide To Promoting Yourself and Your Online Business in 140 Characters or Less with Twitter – Direct download.
- 8 step guide to podcast marketing basics – Direct download.
- How to Write a Marketing Plan – Newsletter sign up.
- The Social Web Analytics eBook 2008 – Direct download.
- Effective Internet Presence – Direct download.
Making Money
- Make Money Online With John Chow – Newsletter sign up.
- Blog Profits Blueprint – Sign Up To Newsletter.
- The Super Affiliates Guide To Blogging Riches – Newsletter sign up.
Search Engine Optimisation
- We Have a Website. Now What? – Direct download.
- WordPress SEO for Beginners – Direct download.
- SEO for WordPress Blogs – A Non-Techie’s Guide – Newsletter sign up.
If you know of any other great e-books which are free to download, please let me know and I will update the above list
Kevin
Hey!
Thanks for the link! Also like the list of ebooks, some interesting stuff you have here.
Regards,
Peter
It’s true Peter…
Especially link about seo, really good for beginner likes me.
Thanks Kevin
Nice list. I've read a few of them and also recommend them. These will be a great read while I'm bored at work!
Great list. Works perfectly with my newstarted project "read a book a week". I'll see if anyone of them qualifies as a book (at least 100 pages).
Hello Kevin, I read this old post of yours with much interest (http://www.bloggingtips.com/2008/04/03/integrate-forum-wordpress-blog/). Then, I looked into your forum and noticed it was run inside the wp template and the look-feel integration is perfect.
Could you please share how to do that? Presently, I am installing a vanilla version but am struggling to have the pages inside the general template. Thanks.
Hi Robert,
it isn't integrated with wordpress at all. I have just used the same header and footer so that the look and feel are the same as the blogs
kevin
Thank you for answering, Kevin. I should have thought about that… simply using the same headers/footers. Take care.
Forgot to apologize for going off track
Wow, great collection of resources. Some of these I already had but I found several I'd never heard of! Thanks!
Kevin, thanks for linking to my ebook, "The Zen of Blogging." Looks like you have a lot of good ones here – it must have taken a long time to compile this list! And I appreciate that you indicated the requirements to download each one.
you're welcome
Didn't take too long as I had already downloaded a lot of the books. Wanted to create a bigger list but after a while I kept coming across the same ones so I gave in at 31 haha!
This is indeed a great list. I've read some of them and they are great!
Thanks for including my WordPress Blogging ebook in the list with all these great books. I am glad you liked it!
No problem Marko
Great information, thanks
Nice list. I’ve read a few of them and also recommend them.
Great list, thank you, I will be very busy downloading :]
People getting into blogging with WordPress will find my free ebook useful:
How WordPress is put together
http://knowit.co.nz/bookstore
How about Alvin Phang's Blogger Handbook (newsletter sign-up) for Make Money Online? It's a good one too.
i want book for blogspot blog
Nice thanks for this!
I'm more interested in the SEO ebooks, so glad theres 3.