This week I had the pleasure of interviewing Zk from The WebTrafficRoi.com Blog. I have been reading his blog for the past 8-10 months and it is one of the best resources of traffic tips and SEO strategies on the Internet.
Q. Please tell us who you are, where you are from and a little bit about your
blog.
- My name is ZK, I am a Search Engine & Web Marketing professional based in Toronto, Canada. I run a web marketing blog called www.WebTrafficROI.com
Q. How long have you been blogging?
- Its been 13 months since my first post, the blog now has more than 160 posts and over 5000 comments.
Q. What was your first online project?
- It was a travel related portal that was launched in 2000
Q. What got you interested in blogging?
- Blogging is an amazing platform to get your ideas and views in front of an audience. With a blog I have my own publication and a readership of users who want to listen to my views, ideas and interact with fellow readers.
Q. Do you blog for money? If so, how is that working out for you?
- No I don’t blog for money, I started with the thought of provide value based content for the online community on aspects of search engine optimisation and web marketing. Follow your passion and money will follow you.
Q. Who do you think the top 3 bloggers are right now?
- It depends on the blogging niche,my top bloggers are Darren Rowse, Shoemoney, John Chow and Brian Clarke
Q. What is the single best piece of advice you would give a new blogger
starting out today?
- Get excited about your blog, nothing ever happened till someone got excited 
Q. What are your top three sources of traffic to your blog?
- Google and a few social networking sites.
Q. What is your best money maker for your blog?
- Advertising on the blog covers the cost of hosting and development, its now self funded.
Q. How many blogs do you own? What are your other blogs?
- Just one, www.WebTrafficROI.com
Q. How much time to spend on your blog each week? This includes writing and
promoting.
- 15 – 20 hours a week
Q. Where do you see the future of blogging heading?
- I see a lot of companies and brands looking to get exposure on blogs in the near future. Blogs and scoial media is where the future is, people want to know about brands through other people , not through companies websites. Testimonial will have a stronger impact in the coming years.
Q. What else do you besides blogging?
- I read a lot and watch a lot of TV
Q. What social network are you most involved with? How can we connect with
you there?
You can connect with me on Twitter and LinkedIn
Great interview. I’m enjoying this segment of your blog. Keep ‘em coming!
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The interview feels a bit stiff, even though it was interesting. My advice for you next time would be to create questions that are specific for the person you are interviewing.
- “In 2003 you did x. What have this resulted in?”
- “I read your post about x a few weeks ago. Why did you y?”
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Stafan >> Those are good pieces of advice. Personalize the interview and it would probably end up being a bit more effective.
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What ZK said is completely true…you have to be excited in what you are doing…because then your interest grows to learn news things and then there is no stopping….
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I agree with Stefan. It was good interview and I found out about a company that I never heard about before… but I would like to know more about that company.
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Well, the interview looks a “Quick Interview” as the answers are like one liners but it tells everything about the question asked.
Thanks for taking his interview as I got to know more about him.
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This was pretty enlightening, call me Doug Jr. I never heard of this company until now. I like how your really being diverse in your interview choices!
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I think the questions were good enough for such an interview, in due time, I’m sure Dan Keller will become much much better with interviews. To be honest, this is the first interview I’ve read on this blog, so maybe it’s on purpose?
However, I think that ZK guy was a bit stiff, or is it just me? Nevertheless, the information we came looking for in the interview was delivered without hiccups
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A very nice interview, I only came upon Zk’s website via this interview.
Seems to be a really cool website with loads of information.
Well done Dan, you are surely putting in great work with these interviews, keep it up bro
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Nice interview with ZK. I’ve been following his blog for months and I found his blog has a lot of latest news on the blogopshere. Btw, I do agree with Stefen too, we should really know more about ZK and what he did to make a success.
Anyway, it’s a good start.
Regards,
Lee
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Nice interview, just check out ZK’s blog.. look slike a lot of valubale information is present there.. need to follow his blog regularly
Thanks Dankeller… this interview has unleashed one more good resource
Cheers
Sandeep
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Before I came here, I came to ZK’s blog. He have nice Dofollow blog. I check his blog ranking on Alexa, he have good Alexa ranking.
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Thank you Dan for interviewing me and thank you people for your comments. If you have any specific questions about my blog please feel free to contact me.
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