NPXP the Webmaster Blog is currently a Google Page Rank 3 site and also has an alexa rankings of 36k. We on Technical Safari interviewed Mr Kamal so that our readers can get to know about the success stories of such great bloggers.
I sincerely thank Kamal for taking out time and answering my questions.
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Q1 When did you actually thought about blogging and since when are you seriously doing this job??
I thought about blogging about 2 years ago but then I wasn’t that serious to maintain a regularly updated blog. I would say it’s been 1 year since I started blogging seriously.
Q2 What was the amount of the first cheque you received??
It was exactly $131.82 and it took a couple of months before I could reach that milestone. Adsense is not the easiest to start off with, so like everyone else I did struggle a lot in the beginning.
Q3 Full time vs part time blogging . Share benefits and losses of both?
Full-time blogging: To be frank there is nothing full-time about blogging, simply because you would not take the whole day to blog. But if you choose blogging as your source of primary income then you would be concentrating on getting more readers to what you write every day, that does take some efforts.
Part Time Blogging: You will see more number of people falling into this category when you talk about Indian Bloggers. The reason could be plenty and the major factor that I would think is because of the mentality of our people. Certain element of negative thought is always around with Internet users about making money online.
People tend to think the concept of Internet money as scam and not possible for an average human being. So to be on the safer side and maybe due to responsibilities they just opt to be a part time bloggers with a full-time 9-5 job
Q4 What according to you should be the first year’s schedule for blogging. Also include how can one earn from day 1?
If you are new to blogging and want to establish yourself as a successful blogger in the long run then you should focus on:
1) Writing quality posts, each time and every time!
2) Getting more readers than visitors, because you don’t want people to come to your blog and just go away reading nothing.
To earn from Day 1 is not something everybody can achieve. Unless you have a source of traffic generally paid being pumped into your blog. Or maybe through paid links from popular blogs. So the conclusion is pretty simple, you gotta spend money to earn money like in any other business that you can think of. Or else just be a patient hard working person and wait for it to yield, it will hardly take less than few months before you start making some decent money off the Internet.
Q5 Define your blogging experience in one word??
Exciting
Q6 What is your marketing strategy now and are you following the same strategy since beginning share your experience?
No ways, I never stick onto the same for too long unless it’s working out great for me. My current strategy is to Guest blog on some of the top blogs that I have made a list of.
I always get caught up with different projects and then leaves me with no time to comment on other blogger friends of mine.
Q7 The best adsense alternative according to you is..?
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Q8 How according to you one can get more and more visitors every month ??
Guest Post on other relevant blogs similar to yours. It;s the best possible thing that you can ever do to increase traffic and readers easily.
Q9 How according to you is the best method increase your alexa rankings??
Alexa ranking is something tricky to understand and if you know how it works then you can easily rank. All you have to do is target visitors who would have installed the Alexa toolbar.
Having said that it is virtually impossible for you to know who has it and who doesn’t! So just target other bloggers and webmasters to get a good Alexa ranking.
You can always exchange links with other similar blogs and increase ranking as well.
Q10 What suggestion you would give to upcoming bloggers like us..?
Everybody begins at the same place at one point or the other, some start blogging soon and some at a later stage. For a new blogger it is essential to know that Success is not easy to get. You cannot buy it, if you do then it won’t last long anyways..
Q11 How according to you one can enhance adsense earnings??
Target search engine visitors and use link units (468×15) without fail, you will see an increase in Adsense automatically. First of all you just cannot earn anything with Adsense if you have very less traffic.
Q12 Blogging for you is…..?
My identity
Q13 Best affiliate according to you???
So far I would say it is Hostgator. But completely depends upon what your blog’s niche (category) is.
Q14 Share the biggest fear you had during all time of your career?
I have been blogging only since 1 year now, but am in the online business for about 3 years now. So if you ask me then I’d just give a hint of few instances, nothing in detail:
1) Being Cheated by a partner of a huge amount and he lived in a different country, happened during the start of my career.
2) Paypal banned my account once, it was unbanned after sometime but I was terrified during that time.
3) I sold a site to someone and that guy requested a refund from paypal and it got reversed. Lost some good money in that deal because of that scammer.
4) Digital Point forums stopped the Thread-bumping and it was a major blow to my business back then.
5) No Pagerank update for over 11 months. The worst thing was other blogs were still enjoying the 11 month no-pr update because it did not hurt their rankings because of this. But people like me had to face a major problem in terms of reputation because of this long PR update delay.
Q15 One thing we should not do in blogging…??
Not update articles for a long time. Being inactive in the blogging community is the worst thing that you can do.
So I am done answering all the questions and I want to thank Ashish for shooting great questions at me. I truly enjoyed answering them because while answering I just looked back at my past and made me feel that bad times are over for good. Thank you for reading this Interview and I hope you will learn a lot from my mistakes. You can always get in touch with me if you need any help regarding blogging
regards
Kamal.
