Blogging tips from Monik, fellow blogger from India

This a guest post by Monik Pamecha, student in his actual life, a blogger, entrepreneur, web developer and designer while he’s on-line. Passionate soccer, table tennis player and amateur photographer. Read his Tech Blog Etiole or catch him on Twitter and Facebook.

Blogging, ha? What the Hell is this Monik?, What do you do sitting in front of your computer for hours? Why don’t you come with me and play video games than sitting on the computer? – These questions were thrown at me when, I started blogging 4 years back.

It all started in an amazing way, unexpected though. I had a big fight with one of my mates at school, and at that time, all I knew was internet for finding project information on-line. But that day, I was just jumping from one website to other and landed on wordpress.com. I don’t remember exactly which blog it was, but it said you could make your voices heard by just making a account on wordpress.com and then publishing it. Once published it will be up and you will get famous.

I wasn’t good with my grammar at that time, so all I knew was how to use pics. So with some support from WordPress Help and Forums I found how to add images. One thing anyone would notice of my friend, that he had lots of hair over his body… So I posted something, called Hairy Potter. That was just the beginning. Within 2 days the post got 200 visits as the message spread all over the school and children started teasing the boy.

Proud I was, as I was too young to understand the consequences, later I was forced to pull of the content due to force from higher authorities (you know who I am talking about ). I just thought that night, if I could do something like this, why couldn’t I use this tool to spread info! There my journey began.

First, I started blogging on monik2kinom.wordpress.com , which later got shifted to etiole.blogspot.com and as I started generating revenue I shifted to etiole.com as a custom domain on Blogger. More progress and then finally I jumped to wordpress . Well, that’s my journey till now. I hope to go a long way, and spread my knowledge to affect and mostly to improve .

But my journey has gone through many up and downs. From 1000 visits a day or none at times, I still focused on blogging, as at that time (I mean now also) I blog for my love for writing and not for attracting readers, but what can iI say? Humans want attention so, I am forced to follow it. But it feels nice to know, that what you are writing, someone is reading. But you should not loose focus on your content or you may crush out your dreams of making a successful blog.

Don’t just post stuff that’s online, give your opinion. You can find news everywhere but your opinion, insights are all what differentiate your blog content from others.

Marketing also forms a important aspect, but concentrating on content is major part of marketing being done. If you have amazing stuff, then you really don’t need to worry much about consumers. They’ll come running to your blog. Check out a blog post by me on how to increase blog readers which mentions some marketing tips .

Using media is an amazing way to enhance your content, video’s and images will make it easier for readers to understand stuff you write and if you do some math then, a video is worth 1000 words and if a video is worth 1000 images then a video is worth 1000000 words!

Also, respect your readers. Always reply to comments and be interactive with your commentators. If they have taken the pains to leave a comment, you can surely give a reply to them. It will make them feel happy, and you too!

That’s it for now. I do give tips on blogging and free consultation Contact me anytime – monik@etiole.com