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It’s time to Interview with Pro-Blogger. Today I’m glad to Interview with one of the famous blogger, Hongkiat. Hongkiat is a Web designer and developer that very pro in Graphic Design.

Hongkiat blog about Tech, Online tips, and Graphic Design stuffs. I like most of his post about Graphics Design, PhotoShop Tutorial, Wallpaper and Icon. I never seen such talented graphic design blogger like him!

Interview Hongkiat

Let’s see how this Pro-Blogger answer my interview question. And think what can we learn from him? (more…)

I’m sure you glad to get experience from the first interviewee, Chris Garrett. I’ve written a blog review about Chris on last year after I started to blog. Since then I followed his blog till now.

Chris is a professional blogger and Internet marketing consultant since 1994. Very experienced guy huh? Do you know the hot selling blogger book at Amazon “ProBlogger” book, was written by Daren Rowse and Chris Garrett?

Interview Chris Garrett

I’ve setup 6 questions related to blogger. And I believe these are the commonly ask questions. Many blogger interested to know the answers. Hear what the Pro-Blogger say. (more…)

Many bloggers claim that they are problogger. I am curious on what problogger means? I search for the word “problogger” in wikipedia but have no answer. Does it mean someone earn a lot of money and traffics from web log? Or someone have a lot of RSS readers?

I don’t think so. Why? Let’s analyze this question from the aspects below:

Money

This might be the most concerning part by most bloggers. Many bloggers thought that more money they earn from blog, more professions they have in blogging. That’s the reason why many bloggers use this aspect to compare or criticize one another by using their monthly earnings.

But, let’s think. Does it mean that bloggers that does not earn money is not, or cannot be a professional blogger? How about bloggers that blog with their profession in certain niche without putting ads? Can we call them ProBloggers? Sure! Spammers might earn a lot of money from their websites, but does it mean they are professional blogger? No! Hence money is not a factor to become ProBlogger.

Traffics

Certainly, traffics is a factor. But it should not the only criteria. For example, a car technician might blog about car technical knowledge. His blog traffics inferior to everybody here and none of us have interest to read his blog. Does it means he is not a professional blogger? No. Who knows his blog has high authority in the niche of car maintenance?

RSS Subscribers

Same thing above applied in this aspect. If someone does not have RSS subscribers, does it means they are not professional blogger? Definitely RSS subscriber quantity should not be a qualification to determine a professional blogger.

Definition of ProBlogger

So what is the definition of ProBlogger? In my opinion, there are 2 main factors to determine a professional blogger: (more…)