So Far So Good and Am Lovin It

last month i completed my one year as blogger, here is a retro right from the beginning.

“Blogging is now a very common term among youth today. As of August 2008, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 130 million blogs.”

If you still wonder what a blog is then let me explain what it’s all about.

blogging?

Blog is a specific website where posts are written in sequential order and commonly displayed in reverse sequential order. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject such as food, politics, or local news; some times it regards as personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of blogs.

Make money with blogging?

As most of the people do I was also wondering how someone make big money out of blogging. But it’s true; people are making huge money out of it and we have some big bloggers who are earning up to 30,000 Dollars per month only thru blogging. Darren Rowse, Shoemoney and John Chow are to name a few. That’s a pretty cool idea, isn’t it?

How I get into blogging and making money online?

I was searching on Google that “how can someone send money from overseas to his Indian relative real fast”. Surprisingly this search took me to a website which was a blog about how to make money online. I was so impressed to read some of the best article that were written there about how to turn your blog to a money making machine. Immediately I decided that I will start my own blog and try my hands to do the same, I set-up Shanker Bakshi dot Com in august 2007 and rest is history.

Is making money online is the only motive of my blogging?

Never ever think like that, you can not keep on talking on your blog about money all the time, blogging is about expressing your views thought and passion on a particular issue and the money is a peripheral attached to it., it comes along, provided you should hard work to make your blog to that level where your it start earning for you. You need great content written on it. You should have tons and thousand of readers visiting your website and your blogs should rank higher and receive thousand of hits per month for becoming a money making tool. Beside, you need to be a good writer to make your readers come and visit your blog everyday and comments on what ever you express.

How people make money out of blogging?

Now this is very interesting. There is a big possibility that your blog will be a failure if you start it just by the thought that you have to make money out of it. People are doing it to sooth their passion. But Yes you can earn big money out of it, now let me explain how.

It earns money through the three major sources i.e. is private ad sales, paid review and affiliate links.

As we know that Google controls 80% of organic search on internet, now tell me how you use internet, if you need any particular information you just open the Google browser type your searching Keyword and it displays several links related to your search. Now the question is that how it displays the information related to your search results.  How it decides to put a particular website related to your search at the top of index page and so on. Actually it is based on algorithm which is called Google PageRank

So to appear higher in Google search results index is  depend on the importance of a web page, now the question arise how web pages get importance. The answer is; they get importance when some other web pages link them or refer them for particular information. Google consider this linking as a vote. And this vote decides the PageRank of a particular web page. The other significant factor is that how important that web page is which is giving back link or reference to a particular web page. In other words in order to rank some web page at high PageRank it is necessary that this web page is back link or refer by some other highly ranked or important.

This means that there will be sites which can pay you money to buy back links from High PageRank blog In layman’s language there will be so many sites which want you to write about them on your blog and give backlinks for a particular search keyword and they will pay for you for doing so provided your blog has a High Google PageRank See it’s a simple mathematics. What’s say?

The other sources are private ad sales and by selling affiliates links but to achieve this level your website/blog must have that capability to send several visitor to your advertiser site or register them self with your advertiser sites if he wants them to do so. Again you can do it if your blog gets lots of visitor visiting and seeing those advertisements displayed on your site and off course click those ads and do the action as required by your advertiser.

How was the journey so far?

Initially when I started blogging I was not sure what I am going to write about, so I was posting on several subjects like Bollywood, television reality shows and so many other aspects of the society but now most of my posts are related to teach others bloggers that’s how they can make money by blogging and how they can make their website popular among other by putting their contents on various social media sites, how to gain popularity among various search engines, how to understand difficult term on internet business  and how they can optimize their blog content for search engines like Google.

As I said there are 130 Millions blogger so when I started blogging I was at the lowest rank of 130 million but after spending so many months learning the techniques of blogging, various Search engine optimizing techniques; now my blog ranked at Technorati 75000 in the world which is itself a great achievement so far.

The greatest moment came when a renowned blogger from America Margaret ask her readers in her blog that “Is Shanker Bakshi the next John chow”, if you wonder who is this John chow then let me tell you that John chow is the blogger who ranked at No. 15 in the World.

Whom I owe my little sucecess ?

I am married and blessed with a boy child named Aditya who is three years old now. My wife shivani don’t know much about my blogging but she always support me. She knows that my dream is to achieve much higher rank in the world which is possible only with her support.

About dot Com Guru Status

Now this is something very interesting, I admire John Chow a lot and try imitate him so when he refer himself a “dot Com Mogul” I proclaim myself “dot Com Guru”. I love to see when people refer my name as “dot Com Guru”.

What I was doing before blogging?

I did anchoring for feature films and television shows. I’ve been voiceover talent for documentaries, interactive media, and audio books. Voiceovers for station imaging & station promos, movie trailers. I enjoy opening my mouth for others, worked as a private producer and a Radio Jockey for local Chandigarh FM 103.1, But after trying my hands on so many arts now I decided that the blogging is the field where I have to claim my stake.

And I am sure one day I will achieve it.

Articles & Reviews
· Is Shanker Bakshi Next John Chow?
· Entrecard Blog Review: Shanker Bakshi dot Com
· My Revenge To The Dot Com Guru

Interview with a local news paper

I was lucky that a local news paper of city chandigarh “Dainik Bhaskar” called me up to have a conversation about blogging. The article is in national language Hindi. featured photograph in the article is from news papers archive and not mine.

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The most valuable friends that i earned during last one year

I would like to thank my two blogging freinds who were with me all this year long journey , one is Marlene who inspired me to have my own domain name and start blogging with WORDPRESS and the other one is Amor, she is always there and commented on almost every post that i wrote.

and also thank my reaaders for thier support.

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