What was your motivation to start a blog?
Apart from the desire I can earn money and get recognized, I always wanted to have something useful, to own something useful precisely. So I started a blog named “HellBound Bloggers (HBB)” and now it’s growth is mammoth. Blogging was like a clay to me then, got different shapes and outputs, now it is pretty!

When did it start to be successful?
Almost after one year only I got full interest, and even I got some responsibility. Since I never defined success in terms of money, I always looked into several factors like readers engagement, comments, guest posts and the way my blog moves. I guess after 365 days I was happy by the fact I can help people, I declared myself successful. Our monthly income and traffic report doesn’t fascinate me much, I always target on making each and every commentator and guest author to be satisfied for the purpose they picked my blog.

How many unique visitors generates your blog daily?
We get around 7,000 unique visitors and tens of thousands of pageviews from all over the world. Majority of the visits come from the United States followed by India and United Kingdom.

Where are the traffic comes from?
Search engine and direct visitors are the top ones. They are followed by Social Media (Facebook, StumbleUpon, Twitter and so on) and other referral sites (normally other niche sites and forums).

How many hours do you work on it daily?
I’m not a full time blogger unfortunately, so the time I dedicate seriously depends on my academic works and performance. Per day I may spend around 4-5 hours and it increases according to the projects and loads I get. HBB’s Guest Authors reduced my load and thus the hours I spend on my blog.

How much do you earn monthly?
I have not revealed my blog’s monthly revenue/report for some reasons, but it is a four figure amount say around 2K$. I use Technorati Media and it pays well for our blog. Majority of HBB’s revenue comes from Sponsored Posts and Direct Advertisement. We optimized our blog well for that. We are not yet organized with Affiliate Marketing, but we’ll step our foot on that one very soon.

What do you think is your secret to success?
The secret to my success will definitely be the way I developed my blog. I accepted criticism and negative feedback, after that people stopped doing that. I believe blogging is like journalism, you can monetize it, but content should be the main aspect. Readers visit your blog for seeing your posts and not your ads. If you want to be successful, do blogging and not money making!

 

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