Despite of the many scam reports associated with so called "internet marketers", I was lucky to come accross this nice and honest guy online, Smartzul.

This Panduan Asas Wordpress is a Malay ebook written by Smartzul, one of the Malaysian internet marketers.

From that title, it means Wordpress Basic Guide when translated to English.

I must admit that I knew nothing about blogging and Wordpress until I bought this ebook more than 2 years ago for RM45 ( around USD13 ) at bloggingsteps.com.

I regularly visited Smartzul's blog at blog.smartusaha.com and I got many useful tips and info about internet marketing.

This built my confidence, trusted him and made me buying this ebook later.

Now you can see the power of blogging. If you continuously provide useful info on your blog, you can influence your blog readers to trust you and maybe some other time they will buy your products or services as well as buying from your affiliate links.

I thought installing my own Wordpress blog was difficult but after reading and follow the step-by-step instructions in this ebook, now I know that I was wrong.

Actually installing your own Wordpress blog is very easy and perhaps the only drawback of this ebook is it is only written in Malay without English translation or version.

Yes, of course I could easily find the free wordpress tutorial online but no free guide can rival this Wordpress ebook guide.

Furthermore, Smartzul provides unlimited support on a special forum dedicated only to his customers,

So, when I get stuck, I can always go to the forum whether to ask or refer to the lots of answers there to fix my Wordpress problems.

The ebook shows you how to install self-hosted wordpress blog using either automatic or manual installations.

But it recommends you to use the manual installation as it is much easier to upgrade to the new Wordpress version later.

When I bought this ebook, the wordpress version was 2.2 and there were no pre-installed widgets.

On certain areas, I needed to play with trivial PHP codes which is cumbersome.

Now I don't need to touch any PHP codes as the new version of wordpress has widgets to facilitate most of the technical stuffs.

Now, the newest wordpress version is something like 2.6.xx.

In my point of view, the previous versions like 2.3 through 2.5 are easier to manage and use.

You don't need to install the latest wordpress version as you can choose the older versions at this URL wordpress.org/download/release-archive.

Only wordpress 2.0 and later are compatible to be installed on your server.

For newbies, this Panduan Asas Wordpress ebook is just perfect for you.

Although specifically focus on basic wordpress guide, this ebook also shows you how to get traffic and make money from your blog without very detail explanation.

I forgot to mention that you'll be shown how to change your blog design to a beautiful one, customizing the sidebar, make a new post, claim your blog at technorati.com and many more.

I'm pretty sure this worth of my money spent on this ebook.

Although the information provided in this ebook is complete for beginners, your knowledge gained from it is useless unless you apply it.

You need to update your blog at least with 2 posts a week.

Just find the profitable niches ( avoid internet marketing niche ) and blog about it on regular basis.

Take action now, happy blogging and get profits from it.