We had no interviews on BaB for some time recently as authors were busy with their professional life and bloggers to whom questions were sent were busy with Christmas and New Year Celebrations.. There were few posts now and then about performance of the blog and asking feedback of the readers about various things. But none of them was able to get out of abyss called “Saved Draft”.
Today I present interview of a very resourceful blogger, Abhinav Sood, whom I met on Authority Blogger Forum
Q. Hey Abhinav, Would you like to acquaint yourself to readers of BaB?
A. Sure, socializing is a great idea. Well, I am a student in my first semester of bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering. Apart from blogging, I like to hang-out with my friends like anyone at my age (I am 18, finally!) does. I hate exams like anything. Not because I don’t like to study or anything… But because they don’t let me blog regularly! And thus, affect the visitors and subscribers to my blog, something that I don’t appreciate.
Q. I sort of Love exams..Could you explain a bit about your blogs and how you got into blogging?
A. I have wanted to try out every new concept that I have ever come across. This, combined with my love for computers and internet since very early age, got me into blogging about 4 years back. I started with a personal blog on “Blogger/Blogspot.” Since then I have wrote many blogs on various topics like art, photography, games, etc. but finally settled at web, computers, technology and internet with my blog techXtreme. This is the one that interested me the most out of all and the one where I found it pleasant to write. I have recently moved to a wordpress blog, Inspirit Blog, where I intend to blog-effectively. Now that I am more deeply engaged with Inspirit Blog but I don’t want to delete techXtreme as the rest, because it is very close to me.
Q. What are your goals for your blog & what benefits do you see in blogging?
A. The biggest benefit that I have seen in blogging is the social culture it is spreading. It is good to know some really intelligent, resourceful and talented people around the globe. I have found more good friends to talk to, online, than I have at college. You learn and gain from the bloggers around you, you are helped when caught in bottle-necks and you come across some great ideas and concepts when interacting in the blogosphere.
I blog for passion, monetary gains have just been a side-effect. And I don’t really want to avoid this when the side-effect is so healthy 
As far as the goals for my blogs are concerned, I must tell you that I have virtually moved completely from techXtreme. And I want to concentrate on Inspirit Blog fully. I aim to build an active community of readers at Inspirit Blog, this year rather than just getting more number of visitors who won’t stay for long.
Q. You mainly write about blogging SEO and design in one blog and tech in another… How come two different niches?
A. With Inspirit Blog, I wanted to move out of a binding niche- computers and technology, as with techXtreme and explore the available wider scope. I wanted to be able to express myself more freely and write comfortably about anything I ever feel like. For kick starting Inspirit Blog, I found offering targeted content as the best option for building up readers and developing a network. And hence, the SEO and design tips. I will explore new horizons with time.
Q. What are your basic sources of visitors and contacts in blogosphere?
A. The friends at BlogCatalog, MyBlogLog and DIGG are great assets in bringing me traffic. Besides that I I use various other social networking social services like StumbleUpon, Technorati, twitter, pownce, etc. to attract visitors. Leo of Feedest and Richard of Untwisted Vortex, are good friends and provide great help and support for any kind of problem I face.
Q. Which blogs do you like the most and why?
A. Blogging is not about just writing. It’s about reading as well. That’s where you get inspiration from. That’s where you get an experience of the trends being followed, and get to sharpen your writing skills. There are numerous great resources on diverse topics. For anything from nothing to everything. I regularly read Maki’s and Mert’s blog for great tips on improving blogging skills, RT’s blog for improving my writing skills. He writes everything in the most effective and innovative way, David Airey’s blog for my dose of GFX and design. There are hundreds other nice blogs that I read and like but it’d be hard to list all of them here.
Q Any shout-outs or something you would like to share some success secrets with other bloggers?
A. Work for your work, and let your work, work for you.
Good Luck Abhinav for your exams and blogs. Thanks for wonderful tips 
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Thanks for the mention, Abhinav, and for reading my blog.
Best of luck with all your blogging endeavours.
You are most welcome, Nishu. Thanks for the interview & thanks for the much needed good-luck wishes,too.
Inspirit Blog
Those were quick responses David and Abhinav.. I was just busy adding plugins and editing categories of Posts .. You comments reminded me that I have to add recent comments plugin ..
@David
You do everything appreciably well and have a great blog. Thanks for being a source of creative inspiration.
@Nishu
I wanted to make a threaded comment to David, you might consider adding Yet Another Threaded Comments Plugin as well…
One released by brain ..or the one for which you gave the link ..
Added the plugin now .. thanks for advice ..
Nice blog man. But there is an overkill of blogs on blogging. Everyone seems to have dozens of blogging tips - nothing personal. But your blogs neat nuff.
Looks good now
“Work for your work, and let your work, work for you” sounds inspiring and made my day as well
Best luck to Abhi with the new blog
and Nishu! it’s a great interview!
Thanks pulkit..the aim of this blog is not yet clear to the authors too.. but some how we want to show that blogger > blog.
Thanks Audee
@Nishu,
You added the plugin and changed the comments template?
The comments are not showing as threaded comments! I’d want you to goto the plugin homepage and double-check if you followed the instructions right? You have to change a function call to make the plugin work.
If you already did that, then tweak the YATCP’s CSS.
@Pulkit,
in future.
Thanks for the kind words about the blog design.
InspiritBlog never meant to be all about blogging. Its about more. But because Inspirit is new, I had to base it on something, and blogging is the current buzzword. Hang on tightly for more
@Audee,
I am glad that what I base my beliefs on, help others. Its lovely to see you around and supporting.
awesome interview ….
very interesting…
@Nishu: Ya get ya. I agree blogger > blog. It is such an empowering media that has truly changed the landscape of communication and more importantly expression. I am a writer and I believe that language is a tool. just an expedient of expression, so in the same vein blogs are a tool and blogger is the emanater of art, the expression. Nice work. I have no problem in being confused, it is a state I like being in because sorting out a mess is an amazing feeling. Also if you want me to contribute to your blog I am willing maybe as a guest blogger - I don’t mind paying the hosting bills also :). Anyways i would love to blog here coz i am generally free right now for the next few months b4 i get started with my first web startup.
@Abhinav Sood: Yeah man probably you are searching for your blogs identity. Anyways there is no problem in blogging abt blogging itself. I just said something in general that there was a lot of bloggers blogging about blogging. Nice work keep da good work going mate.
@everyone: I am a freelance writer and a pro blogger. I write on a lot of blogs like stopahmadinejad.com, gamertell.com, needgrub and starting out with electricwicket.com. Just like your blog there is more to me than blogging, so, guys temme abt yourself if ya feel like.
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yeah i read his blog for quite some time and find it useful (though i haven’t subscribe yet LOL). But I have to agree with him that it is fun to know people around the globe with the same goal and vision. Sharing is caring!