"Elvis Shrestha (Youngest Successful Blogger)"
Elvis Shrestha, is a 14 year old blogger who started blogging from nowhere and reached greater heights. He is a blogger from Kathmandu, Nepal living in Dubai, UAE. He is studying in 10th in OOEHS. Elvis Shrestha is blogger at Blogager.com. His blog Blogager.com is a blog having page rank 5 and He is our “youth blogging face” of 2012.
We have taken interview of Elvis Shrestha and he had shared his storey of success and tell us very useful things like how to get page rank and seo and how he started with blogging.
How you started Your Blogging Life?
I never knew what a blog was when I started, after stumbling a lot on how to share videos in a free website; I found a free host and started the blog. I did a lot of work on it and found some visitors coming in, and then I got interested and started researching on it. I learnt great things about blogging and how to make a blog successful, then started working on getting some backlinks and doing some SEO. After 5 months, i saw that my blog had got Pagerank 2, I was full of joy when i came to know about it and felt proud about it, but after a year I decided to start another blog, on December 03, 2011, I made a blog named Blogager and after learning some coding languages like PHP, HTML, CSS, CSS3 and Javascript, i started designing the blog to make it like Mashable which had inspired me a lot. I was so happy after I had finished designing the blog within 20 days. After some days I started adding some bloggers on facebook so that I could learn more from them and on February 5th there had been a Pagerank Update and I was shocked to know that my blog had got a Pagerank 5 within 2 months.
What is the best thing that you like about blogging?
My favorite thing about blogging is the interaction and engagement, which keeps me determined to it. This seems crazy, but every day I think of things I have to do when I wake up the next day, I mostly sleep 4 – 5 hours daily, and I dream a lot about my blog and doing things on it.
Do you blog Daily?
I don't blog daily but I maintain the post frequencies and post 2 posts every day, but I almost blog once a week, in fact I don’t need to blog every day, thanks to many guest authors who maintain the blog updates, this gives me time to maintain the blog and work on my other projects and my recent project is designing a site like Picnik as it is shutting down soon.
Do people know you offline?
Besides blogging and making blogs, I also have made 8 other sites including 2 social networks, 3 HTML only sites and some other small blogs. My goal here is to give the blog readers something new to read every day. I am not so well recognized by people offline, however almost everyone in my school would come and ask about my websites and get inspired by me and try blogging.
Would you choose blogging as your Profession?
Till now blogging has brought me good money and fame as a young blogger and a successful one too. I think that if i get some more time on blogging then I will be able to get more success, if I can make my blog well established then it's for sure that I would choose it as my profession.
How did you manage to get Pagerank 5?
You may also be wondering how i got Pagerank 5, well it’s a long story, the formula for me would be Hard Work + Determination + Backlinks = Success. I had worked a lot on building good backlinks. I tried many ways like blog commenting, forum posting, using free backlink exchange services like Voltrank. Voltrank, I think is not so good way but it gets you at least some backlinks with your anchor text and it's your luck if you get a high PageRank backlink. After sharing my success of designing a blog like Mashable, many people discussed about it and some bloggers mentioned it on their blogs which also got me some really good backlinks. Another way, I would say is that many people started copying some of the codes from my blog and forgot to remove the links, and got me some backlinks too. Small drops of water make an ocean, so I never considered leaving out any single free backlink I would get. Now, I have started another blog GeekOxide and hope its success will also reach greater heights.
Are you addicted to social media?
While blogging, I always keep in mind that "someday" never comes, if i want to do something, I shall do it now and not leave it for some other day. Many bloggers get addicted to social networks but, I use social media mostly for business and to connect with my fellow bloggers. I can live my life without social networks but I may not ensure that my blog may survive without that.
How do you get traffic to your blog?
I maintain my SEO myself, On Page and Off Page both and get many search engine visitors. I also do blog commenting so that I can get some more traffic. I also get 40% of the traffic from social networks like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Digg also has brought me great traffic but I still need to work on my stumbleupon following so that I can get traffic from there too. Blogager.com has grown insanely quicker than I thought; now my big challenge is actually to keep it on the stage, I really want a bright future for Blogager.com, but it’s hard to maintain success, wish me good luck!
What is the best way to monetize a blog?
The best thing to monetize a blog I think is advertising and affiliate marketing; however I am not still so well familiar with affiliate marketing.
You got blogging success in such a young age. Comment.
I feel really proud of myself as being one of the young successful bloggers and having a great fame online. I have around 5,500 facebook fans and 1000+ twitter followers, and that makes me feel determined to blogging. If I was to get fame and money as an option, I would always go for fame, because when money can't do anything, blessings can do wonders. I am also recognized as the youngest blogger of UAE or Dubai.
Ways that you use to monetize a blog?
I use many ways to monetize my blog, especially advertising and writing sponsored stories. I get paid around $50 - $400 for writing reviews for other business. I use online resources like ReviewMe and SponsoredReviews to find advertisers. I am feeling really get being interviewed at this blog and I would like to give special thanks to the owner of this blog "Mr. Vivek Mishra" and wish him success in his blogging career.
How to connect with “youth blogging face”:- Elvis Shrestha
Facebook: http://facebook.com/blogager
Twitter: http://twitter.com/blogager
Elvis Shrestha Profile: http://facebook.com/elvitosh
Last but not the least we like to thank Elvis Shrestha for giving his precious time and sharing some useful tips and providing me some ideas how to get good page rank for my old blog thetechface.com and latest youthface.in. so new and young blogger never lose hope learn from him and you will surely get success.
If you like to say anything about our “youth blogging face” so you are most welcomed.
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