The Story of my Blogging Success and Passion for my topic (For Your Inspiration)

Hi Warriors,

This is a post about me and my blogging journey. I just want to post it up so that someone would get inspired by me and start their own blog if they have been thinking about it but not yet taken any action.

I had finished my college degree by the month of May last year. I got a job offer from an IT company, but refused it because I hated working 9-5 under a boss. During that time I was making good money in affiliate marketing and had confidence that I can make a living online. But campaigns go up and down and bidding prices for search marketing were going high and I stopped working on marketing other's products.

I wanted to do what I loved and had a passion about. So I looked into blogging as a lifestyle. I was very inspired by the Australian car blog - CarAdvice.com.au (Started 2 years back as a hobby and now grown into a company which makes 50,000 AUD/month) and it gave me a wonderful idea. I was very fond of motorcycles and I started BikeAdvice.in - A blog for review and news of Indian bikes. It is something which many youngsters are passionate about and unlike anyother country, Indian has 99% bikes and only 1% cars.

I really did a lot of work in it. I would go out to showrooms and take pictures of the bikes with my cam. I test drive the bikes myself and come back home and write about it.

On the second day I noticed that I had 22 visitors from Google search. I know some SEO, so I did optimize the article with right keywords in titles and content. I knew I was getting lucky and started posting reviews and bikes, one after another.

There was 1 blog out there which was dominating the SERPs but it was about automibles in general. That guy would blog about both cars and bikes. So I sub-divided my niche and blogged only about bikes.

After 2 weeks, the google search went to 0 and remained like that for nearly 10 days. I was not able to sleep and I literally had no future for my blog if it was not for Google. I hated Google for showing me results and then taking away for no reason.

I sent a request for reconsideration through google webmaster tools, I am not sure whether they looked into it or not, but I got my results back, better than ever. I started getting 200-300 visits per day.

Today, after 4 months. I have 1000 - 1500 Uniques, 4000-5000 hits per day, 1500 RSS readers and Alexa Traffic Rank Close to 100,000.

I am still working on optimization and monetization and planning to replace adsense with direct sponsorships.

My Goals are:

1. To have 5000 RSS readers within 6 months from now.
2. Have 10,000 uniques per day within 6 months from now.
3. To be contacted by Companies. (Reaching out!) and have them deliver the bikes to me for reviewing it! (Right now I have hard time convincing dealers to give me the bike for a test when they know I am not going to buy it).

The main message that I want to give out is that it can be really fun to start a blog about our passionate topic and forget the money part for the first few months. And just add a little bit of persistence to your blog journey. Wish you Good Luck.

Deepak Raj
Bike Blogger from India