Exclusive Interview with Anil Agarwal from Bloggers Passion Making $125000 Yearly

YES… this interview at QuestionCage is happening after a long time.

This time we managed to bring one more skilled professional blogger Anil Agarwal from Bloggers Passion. He has been in the blogging industry for more than a decade now.

He is well-known in the blogosphere for his SEO skills.

Certainly, this Interview with Anil Agarwal is going to be interesting.

I am excited. Aren’t you?

Well, before getting started, let’s see what could be your takeaway from Anil Agarwal’s Interview.

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Learnings from this Blogging Interview?

Hi, Anil Glad to have you at QC(QuestionCage).

Let’s discuss your whole journey. I am sure our readers will learn a lot from your huge experience in blogging.

Fingers crossed to bring your expertise out.

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Personal Sneak Peek

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1. Please introduce yourself and your blog

Thanks a lot, Navin for inviting me to be a part of the Pro Blogger Interview series on your blog.

Let me introduce myself to QuestionCage blog readers.

My name is Anil Agarwal and I own a couple of blogs including BloggersPassion.com and HostingMonks.com

I started working on BloggersPassion in 2010 and HostingMonks was launched in 2019.

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2. what made you get into blogging?

After completing my MCA course at a small institute, I was looking for any kind of job. It was at that time, I got a job as an SEO executive.

Since I was getting a very low salary, I had no option but to look out for other ways to survive.

I started with free blogs on Blogspot and continued working on them for a couple of years.

Later I started using self-hosted blogs to create blogs in the finance and health niche.

But most of them were failed projects as I was working on something which was not my core forte and I was least interested in writing on those topics.

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Deep Dive into professional Blogging

Once I started working on BloggersPassion.com, there was no looking back.

Though our progress was slow for the first three years, we were moving in the right direction.

That’s the most important thing. Things have improved a lot since 2016 as we were able to hit four figures ($1000 plus) every month.

Sharing a couple of important stats to help you understand how we are progressing with BloggersPassion:

In 2018, we made $106,000 only from BloggersPassion and in 2019 our revenue reached $125,000 (some part of it came from HostingMonks.com as well).

Read – Another Expert Blogger and Content Machine Interview with Ryan Biddulph.

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3. What are the strengths that helped you in blogging?

It was my search engine optimization expertise that helped me in blogging.

Initially, I was not good at content creation. But with time, I tried to improve my content writing and marketing skills.

Nowadays, I’m giving a try to videos. You can check and subscribe to my YouTube channel.

YouTube is a really big platform and no one should ignore it.

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4. What was your biggest failure and what did you learn from that?

There have been lots of failures and learnings as well for me in my blogging journey. Sharing one such failure.

Initially, I monetized my blogs with just Google Adsense Ads. One day, my Adsense account was banned for no reason. At once I had a feeling, that everything was gone.

But soon I started finding other methods I could use to monetize my blog traffic.

I was able to find methods that were giving me more revenue than Google Adsense.

I was not using affiliate marketing for revenue generation at that time.

Most of the revenue for me was coming from paid reviews, banner ads, text link ads, etc.

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SEO Strategies to Follow

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5. Five tips you want to share to grow new Blogs? (SEO/ Traffic / Money)

Tip 1. Keyword research is the most important. Target long-tail keywords with less difficulty level. Look at the top 10 ranked websites and their authority. If you see a few low-authority websites ranking for your target terms, you should be able to replace them with some effort.

Tip 2. Focus on creating high-quality content. Your content should be 10X better than the ranked websites. Add videos, images, infographics, etc in content for better engagement metrics and Google rankings.

Tip 3. When working on a topic, come up with a series of posts on that topic so that you can create enough depth and have a good amount of posts for internal linking purposes.

Tip 4. Spend some time to link to new posts from existing content and vice versa.

Tip 5. Spend some time drafting headlines, the first few lines, SEO title, and Meta description for your content. Optimized SEO titles and Descriptions will help you with better CTR in Google search. The content headline and first few lines will set the tempo for your content.

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Strategies to Promote New Blog Posts

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6. What are the few best ways to promote any new blog post?

Sharing a few ways you can use to promote your new blog posts:

Note: Don’t miss to check this video if you want to do well on the Quora platform

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7. What would be your ideal working environment?

Navin, I don’t like any type of clutter around my workspace.

I keep it very clean. No posters or notes. Sharing a picture of my laptop and the area around it.

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8. How do you manage time to run your blog efficiently?

We have a team that helps me with different purposes. My job is to take care of both the blogs and get work done from my team.

I happen to be part of the whole process whether it’s about creating new content, creating a new video for our YouTube channel while trying different monetization methods, or looking for ways to get more traffic from different channels.

Things become easy for you when you have a team in place and each of them knows their role and responsibilities well.

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9. Best SEO strategy to move up the pages from 2nd and 3rd pages in search engines?

That’s a great question. Let me share a few pointers that should help QuestionCage readers in getting better search results:

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Affiliate Marketing Tips

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10. What are your five Affiliate Marketing tips for more sales?

If you want to get better results with your affiliate marketing efforts, you should pick a genuine product and give it a try before starting to promote it to your audience.

Analyze your reader’s problems and how that product is going to help them with those problems.

Write your content while understanding your reader’s problems and how that product is going to fix those problems.

Try to create information and commercial intent content around products of your choice. Do reviews, comparisons, How-to’s, List posts, and deal posts around a product you want to get more sales for.

Add Calls to Action in your content at important positions.

It should not be difficult for your blog readers to find links from your content which helps them in buying a product you are talking about.

Now it’s time to drive quality traffic to your affiliate product pages from search engines, social media channels from your email list, etc.

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Social Media Strategy

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11. Your social media strategy for getting more exposure and visitors to a blog?

I try to offer as much value as I can give on social channels of my participation.

I try to connect and interact with bloggers in my niche. Share quality content they are creating with our community members.

In return, our content is also shared by my blogging buddies in their respective groups, profiles, and pages.

I’m managing an active Facebook group here and have an active Twitter handle here. Let’s connect and grow together.

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12. Who has impacted you most in blogging and how?

When I started blogging, I was inspired A LOT by Darren Rowse, JohnChow, and Jeremy Schoemaker’s blogs.

Currently, I’m mostly reading blog posts from Brian Dean, Neil Patel, Pat Flynn, Matthew Woodward, etc

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13. What are the few books you can recommend for bloggers?

Sorry, but I’m really bad at it. I haven’t read a single book after my studies.

I always feel amazed when I see my blogging friends finish reading a new book within a day or two.

Hopefully, soon I will become good at reading books.

Then I will be in a position to recommend a few good books to the blogging community here.

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14. You have come too far already. But what would you like to achieve in the coming years? (Your Aim)

I’m aiming to take my blog’s traffic and revenue to the next level in the coming years.

I’m also trying to lower our dependency on Google search traffic.

Google is making too many changes these days. So trying different methods to drive target traffic to our blogs.

With that aim, we created the Facebook Group and started replying to relevant questions on the Quora platform, going to focus more on videos and Twitter to start with.

In the coming days, we will give a try to paid traffic methods as well.

If we can get good results with paid channels, why keep running after organic traffic?

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15. What is the biggest difference in your life post-blogging?

When I was doing blogging and job side-by-side, it was too difficult to manage everything.

The pressure to meet job KRA’s, family demands, and growing my blog at the same time to name a few.

Since I’m blogging full-time, things have become much easier for me now.

I can focus more on my blogging business and at the same time give more time to my family.

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Take Away: It’s me, Navin

Wow, those were some amazing tips about Anil. And now we know why a blogger’s passion is so successful. 🙂

Thanks for sharing the whole story behind your all achievements in blogging life.

I realized blogging is all about discipline. Proper Schedule, Proper Content Strategy, Proper SEO, and Proper Social Media Strategy.

Those who could manage all would be noticed by search engines and also in the blogosphere.

So, what do you think about this blogging interview?

• What interesting things you have learned and adopted?
• What do you like about Anil?

Important update, recently Anil Agarwal has introduced an awesome e-book for all levels of bloggers. Keyword Research Made Easy. at a discounted price. It’s Worth every penny.

“A Proven System for Generating 1000’s of Profitable Keywords”

This is a kick-ass book for any level of bloggers to start finding profitable keywords for their blogs. Keyword Research is the base of content and should be done right.

If you have any SEO or Blogging-related questions, START pouring your thoughts.