Interview with Atish Ranjan – The Blogger at TechTricksWorld

Hey Amplifiers!

Monday it is!

Today, we have Atish of TechTricksWorld as our guest for the interview series.

Down the memory lane – last year around this time when we had launched AmplifyBlog, it was Atish’s blog were we did our first guest post promoting AmplifyBlog.

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Atish Ranjan

Q1: Introduce yourself to the AmplifyBlog Community. Tell us how you got started, what challenges you faced early on etc.

Thanks for having me here, Shantanu. I am Atish Ranjan from www.techtricksworld.com, and I am from a small city called Sitamarhi of Indian state, Bihar. I am currently staying at New Delhi.

To be honest, when I started, I was not aware that what I started is called “Blogging.” I just started because I love to share stuff online. My online life got started with a Forum by Durgesh Chaudhary where I used to moderate the posts and used to reply to forum questions. Though that forum was taken down by him later; I got a friend Zainil while discussing in that forum. He only said that to start a blog if I love to share things online. There I started a blog on blogspot with him.

Later as we kept on learning, we moved to WordPress self-hosted.
In the early days, there were no challenges I faced because in those days, blogging was just a hobby for me, and I worked without any expectations.

So, I can say that I didn’t face any challenge in early days. However, when blogging started to be an income source for me, there were always challenges of improving traffic and earning in this competitive market.

Q2: Tell us about your blog, how it got started?

I think I have talked about it in the last reply. However, I would like you and your readers to check out my story on my personal blog to know more in detail.

Q3: What motivates you to keep going?

To be honest, money is the biggest motivation now because blogging is now a full-time business for me. Apart from this, there are many things that keep motivating me such as increasing traffic, many people asking me for my opinion, etc.
One more thing is there that motivates me, and that is the comfort of working from home in my pyjamas. I have worked for various companies for around 5 years, and I had abad experience in many ways. When I think of other people working in offices and getting scold from their bosses, and most importantly when they rush to theoffice early in the morning, I feel motivated that I have chosen something that doesn’t need me to rush in the morning. I can choose my own working schedule in most cases and that’s a great motivating factor.

Q4: What are some of the blogs that you follow?

I don’t follow many blogs rather I read those articles that are really worth of reading. However, labnol, problogger.net, backlinko, searchenginejournal, are a few blogs that I follow.

Q5: Do you have a mentor? Or someone you look up to.

In blogging, I have no mentor. However, I have gotten many technical help from my friend Durgesh Chaudhary in the early days. He was the one who set up my first blog on WordPress self-hosted.

Q6: What are some of your content amplification strategies? What are the various sources that you use to promote your articles?

To amplify my blog posts, I do thorough keyword research, and when I get a few profitable keywords with fair competition, I sit to write the content. Once the content is completed, I do good on- page optimization to it, and publish it. Once the post is published, I use social media primarily to amplify it. I use some communities as well such as inbound.org, bizsugar.com, growthhackers, etc. They help me get more traffic and engagement to my blog posts.

The main sources I target are Organic Search, Social Media, Email Newsletter, Communities, blog comments, and sometimes guest blogging.

Q7: What is your advice to new bloggers?

Whenever I am asked to advise something to the new blogger, I always say that don’t think of earning money from the day 1. First, work hard to build a good blog, and then you will see money flowing into your bank account.

I have met a few new guys who asked me for help in setting up their blog. I did, and after posting 2-3 articles, they start asking me when they can make money. So, I would like to clear to all that earning money through blogging is not as easy as it sounds. It is no less than a business, and you have to work very hard to make money consistently through your blog.

So, always work more on to build a great blog first, build traffic, and then monetize it with various advertising programs.

Q8: What is your biggest fear?

Normally, I don’t have any fear of anything but yes; I have always a fear of Google’s Black and White Zoo. They did some destruction in the past.

Q9: How do you maintain a work-life balance?

As I said earlier, I work from home I don’t find tough to maintain a balance. I work 13-15 hours a day while staying with my family. I take regular breaks to chit chat with my family members and to take rest.

There is nothing special I do for balancing my work and life; I just work as much as I can and need. And, rest of the time, I spend with family.

Q10: What are some of your favourite blogging tools?

– Long Tail Pro
– Ahrefs
– Grammarly