Interview of Youth web developer Face Sai Praveen

Youth web developer  Face

 Sai Praveen is , a regular B.Tech Student, fun loving person and a Gadget freak. He is  a part time blogger and he  own few blogs with a strong base on Education and Technology
Niche.

Where are you from?

I am from Kavali, a small town in Andhra Pradesh which takes a journey of 9 hours from Hyderabad and 4 hours from Chennai. My Town is well known for Cloth Merchants right after Mumbai and has quite a number of Bloggers despite of its small population.

What is your Education Profile?

I am an Electronic Graduate surprisingly confused in Electronics field but interested in Computers. I am a fair student with good academic background (Good to me). I symmetrically brought up my studies along with Blogging.

How you started you Blogging Journey?

Uhh! I love this Question because there is lot to say about it. (Digging my past :P)…

Up to Tenth Standard I was strange to computers. I used to harass my friends by asking the function of Computer like How to switch on the Computer, How Internet works etc., Quite often they get irritated and they ran when saw me( Question Bank ;-) ). Moving front, after my schooling most of the time I sticked in Internet cafes (No Personal Computer L ) to get familiarly acquainted with Internet.

One day I came across a small column in daily newspaper on How to start a blog. To my curiosity, I ran away to nearer internet center and started to create a free blog using Blogger. As usual like newbie’s I copied content from other blogs which was nothing but a waste of time. In 2010, Blogging has changed my career. As time progressed I learnt many things from senior bloggers and finally succeeded in achieving a copy free blog which was now giving me some decent amount of money. I am very much thankful to the ultimate Blogging Groups in Facebook like Bloggers Lounge, Tech Bloggers and Techism where I learned many things about Blogging.

What is your Goal?

It is complicated right now to answer because I am very nearer in completing my graduation. Anyway my dream is establishing my own Solutions. I follow the words “Be a work giver, than a work taker “.

Who is your Idol?

My initial journey in blogging started by idolizing none. But, at present I idolize my co-blogger Naveen from my home town who lend me support most of the time and given me precious tips on Blogging. Apart from him Arup Basak, Rahul Banker and few encouraged me a lot in my journey. I owe them a lot.

How many hours you work in a day?

On weekends, I spend most of the time with my work about 15 hours and rest of the days 6 to 7 hours after my academic classes completion.

How many blogs do you Own?

For saying purpose there are blogs in 2 figures but I concentrate mostly on 2 blogs. I think purchasing domains is not a big deal but maintaining them to rank well is what really matters.

What made you to learn HTML and CSS?

Well...As an Electronic graduate i am strange one to computer languages. So I learnt them with the help of Online Tutor Uncle "Google". I learnt in course of time that swiftly loading WebPages are loved by legend search engine Google. So this lead to a thought of editing my own web page to Googles Convenience. In order to share my template editing skills to all my fellow bloggers i started my own web solutions for free called Praveen Solutions  recently(Under Construction :D).

What would you advise to new bloggers?

Initially it would be very difficult to climb up and starting to earn. But hard work, patience and interest will helps you to attain desired results.

Final Quotes...”To reach final step, start from first one" and "There is no shortcut for Success”.

Finally I would like to Thank Mr. Vivek Mishra for giving me a title “Youth Template Modifier Face“ and  I wish him All the Best.


Last but not the least we thank sai praveen for his precious time and my friends you need any help contact him anytime always ready to help.

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Interview of Soumya Pratihari "youth Blogging role model face"

Soumya Pratihari

Soumya Pratihari is a young and our "youth Blogging role model face" of 2012.He owns 35blogs.He is a simple man and proved that how you start from a simple blogspot and your creativity can take you to heights.
Where are you from?

I am from Cuttack, the old capital of Odisha. It’s not a that big city, but still famous for Barabati Stadium that hosts ODI cricket matches.

What is your academic background?

I am an engineer in IT. I can’t say that I was a very good student throughout my career, but most of the times my academic reports were having over 80% marks on it. During schools I was very good in Maths and Science, and average in History and Geography.

How you started your journey?

Hmmmm, it’s a long story, actually! To cut it short, I was not an another job oriented youth. From my school days, I was very much sure that I would not serve for any company in my life. Even today if some company offers me a job with 10 crore CTC, I will turn that down without any second thought.

My dislike towards job inspired me to do something on my own. Again, I was against taking any financial help from my family, and hence the picture was not clear before me as you need money to make money. And then this “blogging” happened.

One of my friends was into blogging and he asked me to get into this! That time I was not even aware of this term, blogging, but decided to give it a try as it sounded something new, exciting, and promising to me.

My journey started with a free blog on Blogspot platform, and it’s http://orkut-guide.blogspot.in

What is your goal?

Money matters to me a lot, but at the same time it hardly matters to me. You see, few times you need money to get something for yourself, and few times you just spend money to make someone else happy.

I would like to earn hell lots of money and spend a part of it on me and my family. Rest amount of money would go for a noble cause where I can use my money to make others happy. It might take few more years to build a “Old age home” for helpless old people, and a large chunk of my earnings will go there only.

As far as my career in business goes, I have plans to grow my organization and add more value to it. Then there are some new online and offline business models in my mind that I would like to start eventually.

Who is your idol?

I always advice one thing to newbie bloggers, “Learn from everyone, but don’t follow anyone”.  Following one person will keep you limited, but learning from everyone will help you getting unlimited source of knowledge. That’s the reason I don’t have one idol.

Which new blogger inspired you the most?

There are many. I belong to the 1980s while most new bloggers are from 90s era. Many times I find their way of thinking different from me, a huge transformation took place during the above two eras and it happened for good only.

They are fresh, vibrant, and open to challenges. They don’t see the stuffs in the same aspect as we do, and that brings the difference. It always feels good see their concepts, read their articles and wonder how different we human beings are!

Apart from thoughts, they are born-techies! I got the opportunity to use a mobile phone during my 12^th, and now they are using them in schools. Their access to technology in early stage of life makes them very comfortable and familiar with them. And hence their write ups sound more professional and personal, at the same time.

How many hours you work in a day?

There is no specific time. Few times it’s close to 20 hours a day, or no work at all. On an average, I work for at least 14 hours a day.

Which goal you have not achieved yet?

Hmmm.. many actually!

I won’t feel comfortable to leak my planning here, but there are a number of new sites that I am yet to make. A number of website concepts are still there in my mind and yet to get the WWW access.

I do not start anything all of sudden without dedicating enough time in planning and preparation. I have seen success and failures in blogging. Few of my sites are getting millions of hits every month where I am not being able to drive at least 1000 monthly traffic to few sites. These success and failures are two essential part of my journey and I am proud of them. I could learn “What to do” from my success and “What not to do” from my failures.

I will use them  to achieve my goals, eventually!

 How many blogs do you own?

Currently we have got over 35 blogs and majority of them are being managed at iDev Blogs. Few of them are handled by some freelancers who work for me at a fixed monthly compensation.

Apart from those 35 blogs, I have got a number of micro-niche blogs and work on them. It’s me who work on those micro-niche blogs and no one except me is aware of those sites. In total, yes, we have got over 100 blogs.

How iDev happened?

In 2009, I was working for close to 18 hours each and every day on my blogs. But still that much hard work was not enough to start and work on few new blogs. This limitation or you can say inability of stamina to work more than 18 hours a day made to to think of starting a new blogging house.

It was a tough decision though! Finding people to work for a startup and that too as a content writer which is still considered as an unconventional job in Odisha, became a tough job for me. However, I could manage hire some 20 people in the very first month and iDev took birth on 14^th July, 2010.

How is iDev doing now?

Since the inauguration day, I have seen many people leaving and joining my company. I take this behavior normally as I am not there to please everybody with their expected salary, and facilities. It’s the employees who need to adjust with a start up, and it’s not going to be vice-verse at any condition.

I have seen many ups and downs during this close to two years time period. I have laughed hard sitting on my chair, smiled with a proud look on the success of few sites, eaten birthday cakes of almost all employees, frowned on some unacceptable things, and then few times there were tears in my eyes.

We, at iDev, have seen success, and failure. We have spent happy moments and then very tensed atmospheres. We are like a family now and happy to be like this.

What are you Future plans for iDev?

Originally I founded iDev to be a blogging firm. But now I am going to make it the parent company and add two sub-profiles to it. iDev Blogs and iDev Labs.

iDev Blogs will continue following the exact concept of iDev. It will develop blogs, and that’s it.

iDev Labs is going to be service provider. We are going to launch many sites that will provide different services related to WordPress and I am all set to start the hiring process soon. iDev Labs should get started in full phase by June, 2012.

Finally, what would you advise to new bloggers?

Work hard, earn hard, party heard. All the very best!
At the last i like to thank soumya sir for providing guidance to new blogger , sharing his ideas how to become good blogger and how blogging can take you to another height's.


It is all what i and soumya sir can say now its time for you my friends come up with your comment what you want to say about our ""youth Blogging role model face" of 2012.

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ICC denies Match Fixing Allegations in India Pakistan semifinal

ICC denies Match Fixing Allegations

ICC denies that there is nay evidence of match fixing between India and Pakistan semi final. ICC, chairman  Mr.Haroon Lorgat  said that "There is no such kind of Match Fixing allegations because we have to tell a thing that the players might not even know as we made some arrangements to follow all the players and as expected no one was found to be guilty in the match fixing allegations and we are sure that no such sort of things would have happened during the World Cup.""So people should not believe the rumour which are spreading through televisions and Newspapers.Coming back to the Domestic Cricket, some news were been saying that due to the low money out there as a profit, more match fixing deal can be done.It is all fake reports.And we conclude that these reports will be strictly viewed if this continues still" said Lorgat.

What senior say about this:-

Sourav Ganguly said that "It is weird to hear that Indian team is involved in Match fixing.May any one say like this but we are the World Champions and no one can beat us or else no one can get the cup from us."

Bishan Singh Bedi said that "I was really upset when I heard that Team India's name was also coming under the fixing allegations.Being a part of the Indian team at the past I was also upset and don't know what do they expect from us.If any sort of Match fixing have took place means then the ICC would be taking actions and I advice many of them to spread these type of comments".

BCCI official said that "Unless or Until, The ICC asks us we would not be able to start the investigation among the players.If they request us then we will proceed on and many of them are saying that Bowlers were given some money to give extra runs and Batsman were given money to score less runs.We will be keeping mum until the ICC asks us". 

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Interview of Elvis Shrestha - Youngest Blogger

"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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