Interview with Iftekhar Ahmed from iftiseo
Interview
Hello guys, with me today is Iftekhar Ahmed, the founder of iftiseo, a problogger and also a SEO consultant. He is a young dazzling blogger and a mastermind in the blogosphere that has really impacted into the minds of other bloggers.
Hi Iftekhar, hope you are feeling good with us. In this interview section, we would be asking you questions that relates to your blogging carrier and we would appreciate your accuracy to the answers of the questions being generated by the panels.
First off- We would love if you'd tell us little about yourself? Also include your hobby.
Firstly, I would like to thank Chinonso for giving me this opportunity. Well, I’m Iftekhar Ahmed from Bhopal, India. Currently I’m pursuing my engineering in Computer Science. Besides studies I’m also a part time blogger owning many blogs on different niches.
Coming to iftiSEO.com, this is my main blog which I started in Nov 2013. Here I share many tips and secrets of blogging and online earning. I usually share away all my secret strategies here to help all those who are new to blogging.
What motivated you to start up your own blog?
Right from my school days I was very much into computers and spend hours online trying to find different ways to earn money. I tried many sites but never ever got a single buck out of it. Then one day I came across this word “Blogging”, I searched about it for many days, studied how it works, and then found some top blogs like Mashable, Shoutmeloud, Labnol etc which inspired me a lot. And this was the time I took a step into blogging.
Do you get inspired by books/blog posts?
Yes I do read books and blogs a lot, some of them inspires me a lot. I read mashable, ShoutmeLoud, Quicksprout and Labnol regualarly as they always get something new for me and other bloggers to learn.
Amit Agarwal, Harsh Agarwal and Neil Patel are my inspirations to blogging.
What were the biggest trials you faced when you started up your blog and how did you overawed them?
First off when I started my blog I faced a lot of difficulties like I had ran out of post ideas, I didn’t knew SEO well etc. Such things are very much common with every new blogger.
So to overcome them firstly I tried to approach some established bloggers but unfortunately it didn’t help me much as most of them asked for money which for me was a little hard to invest. Then I started doing some research on Google and YouTube and believe me, it worked out as a charm. The tutorials out there on YouTube helped me a lot to learn SEO.
What is the best advice you've ever been given in your blogging career?
I’ve got many advices by some top bloggers, but the best would be
“Focus on your content rather than focusing on your traffic”
How do you make money blogging?
There are 100s of ways to earn money blogging and I’m trying to learn all of them.
IftiSEO is not very much into earning but yes my niche blogs are working well. Currently, I earn via Adsense and other ad networks, Affiliate marketing, sponsored posts and some direct ads.