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As promised before, here is the first interview of a successful blogger. This celebrity gossip blog has been the number one blog in our top blogs list for ever in terms of traffic and is being subscribed by more and more people everyday via feedburner.

Without further a due, let me introduce you to the hard working blogger behind Celebrity Body Gossip : The 26 year old Anna. Her blog features latest gossip about celebrity body i.e. who lost and who gained weights. Here is the full interview with Anna exclusive on BOT Blog.

1. Tell us about yourself and your blog

I’m a 26-year-old girl that’s as obsessed with celebrities as anyone else these days.

My blog Celebrity Body Gossip mainly focuses on celebrity weights and diets, but I also post about celebrity fashion, pregnancies, celeb couples, and other interesting Hollywood news.

2. When did you start blogging and what/who inspired you?

I started blogging in November 2006. My initial reason for starting a blog was to have a place where I could collect my favorite celebrity pictures.

My main inspiration are the celebrity diet articles found in various magazines.

3. How many hours a week do you dedicate to your blog?

I spend at least 6 hours every day gathering celebrity news and pictures and posting them to my blog. I also spend one or two more hours networking with other bloggers and trying to promote my blog. So that would be at least 56 hours a week.

4. Do you advertise your blog? If yes, how /where?

I never paid anything to advertise my blog, but I try to promote it by exchanging links with other celebrity bloggers, and participating in blog communities (like MyBlogLog and DotSpotter).

5. Do you make any money from your blog?

I don’t make a lot of money at the moment, just enough to cover my web hosting costs.

6. If you were given a chance to swap your blog with any other blog, whose would that be?

I would love to have a lot of visitors like the big blogs (TMZ or PerezHilton), but I wouldn’t want to swap my blog with any other one.

7. Do you have any last words and/or blogging tips for beginners?

Don’t start a blog just to make money out of it. Try to find something that you’re passionate about - something that you know you’ll enjoy writing about even in a few years’ time.

Also, try to update your blog regularly, your visitors will come back for more if they know they’ll always find fresh content on your blog!

End Of Interview

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Here is an exciting news for our newbies: I have decided to take interviews of successful bloggers who have made a name for themselves in the Blogosphere. It is going to be hard and tedious, but I am going to try. I think the information provided by these successful bloggers will help new and struggling bloggers know what it takes to make their blog famous and hopefully inspire them to keep going on.If you believe you are a successful blogger and would like inspire our newbies with your words, please fill up the interview questions at:

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I try, but I have been slacking of lately due to other priorities. If you go back to the basics of successful blogging, you know how important fresh content is. How fresh? - Daily most preferably, but if you are a part-time blogger, updating your blog daily with quality content can be demanding. Not everyone can be creative and think of new ideas and topics to write about every day. It is a talent and not everyone has one. So, what do you do if you have absolutely no idea what to write about. You can call your best friends and ask them for tips, but that would be too cheesy. You can look up in the sky and pray for new ideas, but it is not going to work. Or assuming that you can at least write your own post when given a topic, you can:

1. Visit the hundreds of free articles directory (Links of some of the major free article directories given below).

2. Find the articles in your niche.

3. Choose some the articles that seem to be informative and/or educational (You should be able to determine the quality of the articles because it is your niche).

4. Read the articles and try to understand their thesis and argument.

5. Now, combine the information you have just read from various articles and write an article in your own words without looking at the original sources. That way you will be less likely to just directly copy from the sources and will not be penalized by the search engines for duplicate content.

Here is the list of free articles directory I have manged to come up with:
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When you start a blog, there is always a big question of how to monetize your blog. Before that, there is an even bigger one - when to monetize it. Some experts recommend focusing on your content and increasing your reader base before monetizing while others disagree. I am one of the “others” and believe you should not wait too long. Most bloggers blog to make money online and if you are one of them, you might as well start earning from the beginning. If you do not figure out ways to monetize you blog when its new, it is going to be hard to find ways when you get more traffic. When new, you can experiment with your ad placements, change the layout and the whole design of the blog to maximize views and ad click through rates. You have the opportunity to find what works and what does not. You do not have any readers at that moment so no body is going to care that your blog looks different than before. But, if you try to monetize only after you get loads of readers, you will have difficulties:

1. The layout, colors and the design of your blog is the brand of your blog. People recognize it as yours. But, if you want to place a banner at the top of your blog and your sidebar or whatever and the current layout does not let you do it, then you risk losing your brand image if you have to completely change the look of the blog to place the ads in the right place.

2. If you monetize before having lots of traffic, that means people will accept your blog for what ads it has, but if you suddenly add ads to the clean ad free blog they are used to seeing, it might have a negative impact on your readers.

Of course, I would like to hear from anyone who has views different than mine.