Interview With Abdylas Tynyshov

Posted by: Toan Nguyen Minh on July 22 in Interviews

Abdylas Tynyshov is a success blogger who is the owner of AdesBlog.com – his Personal Blog AdesClrPicker – His Software, Color Picker Tool (freeware) Malaysian Island Review – Read tourists reviews on Malaysian Islands.Web2Bookmarks.com – Collection of cool Web2.0 Links AdesBlog.4shared.com – Collection of his favorite programs (i.e freeware, shareware, some useful files..etc)

Toan: Would you please tell us something about you and your site?
Abdylas: I am Ades and I blog about internet and blogging related things at http://www.adesblog.com. My other sites are http://www.adesclrpicker.com and http://www.web2bookmarks.com AdesClrPicker is a free color picker software for Windows.

Toan: What got you getting started to build your blog?
Abdylas: I have been online since my university years in early 2000, internet was not a huge thing yet at the time. But still it was pretty interesting. I first started my website on geocities (now shutting down by Yahoo) and later got my own domain name. Running my website for about 5 years, providing tutorials on web design, in early 2005 I decided to shift to blogging. Frankly I was quite hesitant to start, that’s why I started late. In 2005 everyone was already blogging for some time. But nevertheless I have been able to achieve some success with blogging.

Toan: Where you got idea blogging?
Abdylas: It wasn’t that one idea got me started but it was more like a pressure that I should already move to blogging… As i said above, I was already late

Toan: How to become a professional blogger?
Abdylas: I wish there was a simple answer to this, but to summerize it all boils down to your own experience, your skills, your writing skills, your personality, perseverence…etc

Toan: How long does it take to become a professional blogger?
Abdylas: I would say potential people could become problogger within a year (if they launch everything successfully). Because there are many things to it, writing good posts is one thing and marketing your blog is another, SEO is another, your blog look and feel is another…etc

Toan: Which blogs would you recommend for any beginners starting to blog?
Abdylas: problogger.com

Toan: Which ebooks would you recommend for beginners starting to blog?
Abdylas: I am in the middle of writing an ebook about blogging so wait for my ebook
I am not familiar with any ebook on blogging.

Toan: What are your methods of marketing for your blog?
Abdylas: First and foremost writing good content and then marketing it effectively in different ways. For example I used to organize weekly contests at my blog – giving away free amazon gift cards and other things. Social network and social bookmark sites are very effective too, depending on your quality of your post if you make an effort to promote your posts in these sites they have the potential to bring thousands of users.
Networking with other successful bloggers is important too. When you know and become good friends with other bloggers, you will usually mention each others blogs or new projects.

Toan: What did you do when don’t have the idea to blogging?
Abdylas: I don’t blog just to blog, so when I don’t have anything to blog about I just don’t blog that day. I reason it’s better not to blog when you are not in the mood.

Toan: Did you spend time and money to SEO and advertising your blog?
Abdylas: I didn’t spend any money on SEO of my blog and sites. But time of course, lots of it. And i did spend some money on the advertising before.

Toan: What’s the best way to make money online from blog?
Abdylas: High Traffic + Ads. That’s probably the most common way to make money. Other ways are possible too, but not everyone will be successful in them i.e affiliate programs, selling things, providing services…etc

Toan: Recommended programs to earn money from your blogs ?
Abdylas: Text Link advertising services like TextLinkAds and LinkWords were great at one time, but not anymore. Most of the bloggers I see are making money from affiliate marketing these days – promoting SEO and blogging related courses, ebooks etc. As the time changes making money opportunities do change too, for example people are moving to Twitter to make money now (read my blog about it).

Toan: How much money did you got in first month blogging ?
Abdylas: Zero. I started making money only after one year i think.

Toan: Who do you think are the most professional blogger on the internet?
Abdylas: From blogging related bloggers Darren Rowse (problogger.com)

Toan: Which blogs do you regularly read?
Abdylas: Regular would be a strong word because I have very little spare time for reading other blogs regularly. Most of the time busy with my own blog and projects. But I do check from time to time blogs like problogger.com, shoemoney.com, inspiredstartup.com, blog.guykawasaki.com etc

Toan: What are your advice for beginners who starting to blog?
Abdylas: Don’t blog for money at least until your blog becomes successful. Don’t blog in a niche that you are not interested, because when it doesn’t pay for few months you will surely stop blogging.

Thanks Abdylas for this interview!