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26
Sep 11

Interview with Lalit Indoria ($500/Month)


When did you started your blog project?
I started with BlogoTech on January 1, 2011

What was your motivation to start it?
I never knew what a Blog was until I saw my friend and college mate, S. Pradeep Kumar Blogging at HellBound Bloggers (HBB) I found it great and thought I must give it a try. I struggled in the beginning as I didn’t know much about it. As time passed by, I found Blogging really interesting, hence I started with BlogoTech on January 1, 2011

When did it start to be successful?
Success is something which you feel you would never achieve even if your Blog has great statistics. There is always something you want to improve on your Blog. I wish the same and I have a long way to go before I taste success ;)

How many unique visitors your Blog generates daily?
It is only now that I have checked out my blog’s Google Analytics profile. It lies around 700-1k.

Where are the traffic comes from?
Organic Search is the only source of traffic for my Blog. Being a student I am not able to concentrate much on social media, though I am trying to improve the traffic from social media too.

How many hours do you work on it daily?
Unfortunately, just 4 hours.

I saw posts from different persons. They are partners?
I am the only person working for my Blog. Rest are guest authors. I believe that developing a Blog as a community is more important than driving traffic to it.

How much do you earn monthly?
Around $500.

From where do you get the most Revenue? Google Adsense, Amazon Affiliate or other Networks?
Mostly from sponsored posts and Adsense.

What do you think is your secret to success?
Blog for passion and not for money.

Thanks Lalit!

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23
Sep 11

Interview with Pat Flynn ($20,000/Month)


When did you start your Blog project?
I started blogging in 2007. The Smart Passive Income Blog was started in 2008.

What was your motivation to start it?
I was forced to start to do business online because I was laid off from my 9 to 5 job at an architectural firm. I heard about a lot of people who were making a living online and I thought I could do it too.

When did it start to be successful?
The SPI Blog started to take off in 2009. I wanted to give up on the site a lot, but I’m definitely glad I didn’t.

How many unique visitors do you receive per day?
It varies between 6000 and 8000 unique visitors a day, depending on the day of the week – sometimes more.

Where are the traffic comes from?
Referrals from other websites, Google organic search, YouTube, iTunes (from my podcast), direct traffic.

How many hours do you work on it daily?
On average, probably 2 hours a day. If I’m writing a long post, it’s more, and some days I don’t write on it at all.

How much do you earn monthly?
My income has grown to about $30,000 per month.

From where do you get the most Revenue? Google Adsense, Amazon Affiliate or other Networks?
I have a number of different income streams. Some are from products that I sell (eBooks and Audio products), some income comes from Google Adsense, and most are affiliate commissions from products that I’ve used and recommend with an affiliate link. I live in California so currently the Amazon Affiliate network is unavailable to me.

What do you think is your secret to success?
Sharing as much free information as possible, being totally transparent and honest about what I do online, and making helping people my top priority. Karma has always come back to help me out and grow my income.

Thanks Pat!

 

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22
Sep 11

Interview with Pradeep Kumar ($2,000/Month)


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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