Answers to a visitor's questions

Elliot Lee left a comment on my last posting asking a few simple questions, and here are my answers.

1. What do you do for a living? My full-time job is a software developer at iAnywhere Solutions, where I've worked for about 12 years now. (Yes, that's long in this industry!) However, I also write about computing topics, though up until now it's mostly been technical books and articles.
2. What is actually in the book? Make Easy Money with Google teaches you how to build money-making web sites and blogs with no programming required. It shows you how to start with a few ideas, choose among them, prepare the material you need, get yourself a domain name, find a hosting service, build your web pages, join the AdSense program, place ads on your site, and finally get some visitors to your site. Everything you need to know to get started with a web site or blog.
3. Would my mother find it useful? Yes. I wrote the book for my father, a computer user, not a techie. I walk the reader through the basics, like why web-based advertising is important and how it works, how to choose the right kind of content, how to build simple web pages using HTML and CSS (using the Nvu web authoring tool), and so on. And of course I walk the reader through the AdSense system. For non-techies, it's a great book. If you already have a web site up and running, this book's not really for you. Check the reviews on Amazon to see what I mean: the non-techies love it, the techies think it's too basic. I've never claimed this was a book for techies, and from the mail I've been getting it's clear to me that my intended audience — the non-techies — think it's right on the mark.

You can find out more about the book by reading the detailed description and viewing the table of contents. Or send me mail using the link at the bottom of each page on the MakeEasyMoneyWithGoogle.com site.

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