Mani Karthik is a Search Engine Optimization expert from Cochin. Last week we did an interview with him about his popular daily SEO blog. Check out his blog if you need more information on how to market your blog for the search engines.

Thanks Mani for your precious time. We also wish you a bright career in SEO. 

Tell us more about you and your primary blog( http://www.dailyseoblog.com)
I’m Mani Karthik. I’m basically an Internet Enthusiast from Kochi. I work as SEO Specialist at Alamy Images, a UK based MNC at Technopark, TVM.
I’ve done numerous SEO projects for small and big firms both in India and abroad. I blog on topics like Search Engine Optimization tips, how to make money online on my blog www.dailyseoblog.com . I’ve been blogging since last one year regularly and have been involved in Search Engine Optimization projects and consultation with many Indian online portals and websites.

What prompted you to start a blog?
I took inspiration from popular bloggers like Amit Agarwal (Digital Inspiration) and Darren Rowse (Problogger). I’ve been webmaster to a couple of sites since my college days(that’s way back in 2000-01) and Internet was a passion or more an obsession to me. So it was not a big deal, but more like switching from one medium to another, since I shifted from designing websites to blogging.

And like many other bloggers in India, the opportunity availble to make money online from blogging also bited me a lot. Today, I make around US $ 200 each month as revenue from my blog.

What are the other blogs you write?
I am focussed on DailySEOblog, so I don’t run any other blog. But I write regular articles on Bloggingtips.com (co-blogging) and Abouttheimage.com . I’ve been blogging at more websites earlier on topics “Making money online” and “How to make it to the top of Search Engines” but not anymore due to time constraints.

Why do you blog? What motivates you?
As I said, am an Internet Enthusiast, so it’s a passion to me. But most of the time, on DailySEOblog, it’s a learning process for me. I keep note of my new learnings and blogging on them helps me and my readers updated on the latest methods to make it to the top results of search engines.

Your tips on Search Engine Optimization is very helpful. From where did
you learn all these?
Experience and self-study. SEO is not available as a course or an exam even now in any part of the world. To me, it’s more experience. Since I’ve been webmastering couple of websites, I’ve found out numerous fool proof ways of making it to the top of search engines. To back up, I keep myself updated on the Internet by reading lot of SEO related articles and ebooks, testing them on my blog, talking to SEO Experts around the world, and discussing with them. There are lot of communities on the internet for SEO’s.

Do you use any blogging tools?
I use Windows Live Writer and BlogDesk for writing and managing articles.
I use many SEO tools to research and to market my blog online.

Which blog post do you consider as your best?
It’s difficult to pick one however, I think all my SEO related posts are my blogs highlight because all of them are original and unique - You can find them here - http://www.dailyseoblog.com/category/seo/

What is your experience from blogging? (good or bad)
Good. Blogging is something that I enjoy doing. I don’t agree with bloggers who blog only for making money online. In their efforst to make money online with minimum work, blogging appears to be a pain. These people spoil the charm of blogging and is a disgrace to the community.
To really enjoy blogging you should take pain in writing original articles and actively participate with the blogosphere. The money automatically falls into place.

What are your favorite blogs that you read daily?
A lot of them. I’ve almost 100 hand picked blog subscriptions that I regularly read. Some of them are Problogger, John Chow’s blog, Digital Inspiration and Daily blog tips.

If you were to pick one blog out there that you want to own, which one
that would be?
Darren’s Problogger.net  I admire the man.

What are your future plans?
I want to do SEO consulting with more Online startups in India. I see a common probelm with Internet startups and entrepreuners in India. Since they are focussed on their business model very much, they give less or no importance to SEO and as a result fail to get the right kind of visibility on the Search Engine results. I hope more people get aware of SEO and its merits, and I want to help them on it.

Is there anything you want to tell Kerala Blogger Community?
Indeed yes. I’d like to tell all bloggers that there is a huge potential in blogging. Be it personal branding for an artist or be it money making from blogging. For either cause, if you will harness the power of Search Engine Optimization, you can make it really big on the arena. All the best.

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