Interview with Harsh Agrawal Founder of ShoutMeLoud – Famous Bloggers Club
Interview of today is going to be with Harsh Agrawal the founder of ShoutMeLoud blog, Harsh was working with an IT firm Convergys, Gurgaon India but now he is a professional Blogger. He make money by working from home. Sitting in front of computer and writing what he like. Let’s proceed with the interview!
Q. Tell the world something about your self and what you do in life?
Harsh: Hi I’m Harsh Agrawal, a Software engineer by education and and a Blogger by profession. I’m from the land of diversity “India”. I would love to connect to more Bloggers friend on Twitter, but word of caution , I tweet a lot and my Facebook is always full of updates ( though only useful content), so before adding me have a nice look into my profile 
Twitter – @denharsh – Facebook – Friendfeed
Q. What was the story behind your Blog? (how you start Blogging – since when – how did you named your Blog).
Harsh: I started Blogging out of interest, I love technology and I started with blogspot and started writing on technology. Once one of my story made Digg FP and that has a crazy effect on me. After understanding the importance of wordpress, I moved to my self hosted blog and continue with what I always wanted “Knowledge sharing”. Later on I started writing my experience on how I’m creating and promoting my blog, and somehow my articles on Blogging attracted more audience over tech post.
About my blog name Shoutmeloud , Instead of going for some keyword rich name, I wanted to brand myself with something unique. Shoutmeloud was something which strike to me while listening to some song while traveling and Immediately I signed up with it.
Q. Have you earned any money from been a Blogger? (How you did it – add links to useful websites for making money online – If NOT then tell us why you blog)
To be honest , making money online was a myth for me, I remember when I got first 10$ from a freelancing work and I shared this with every close friend of mine. Later on I realize the potential of Blogging and I find, if you market yourself very well, you will be sitting on a gold mine. I started with AdSense and moved to affiliate marketing.
I started my own set of services like Blogspot to wordpress and free wordpress blog set up.
And I was lucky enough that none of my client ever complained about my work and more over there page rank increased in the last PR update.
Maximum monthly income from my blog and my freelancing work which I have earner till now is 1160$
But somehow this month seems to be good to me as I have made almost 500$ by the 6th of this month.
Talking about any website which will tell you to make money online, In my opinion there is none. Every website tell you to make money by making money for themselves. The best way is read every where, even a spam post has an idea underlying between it. Understand the concept and start your own model of making money online.
For an example: AdSense is the best way to make money online, but for some people it never works. It doesn’t mean you can’t make money out of your blog. Look for alternative, try your hand on affiliate marketing or start your own set of services. Never follow anyone style of making money, always develop yours.
Q. Would you tell us about ONE of your famous posts? (Why you think it’s famous.. it could be because of “content – traffic – comments – search engines”)
If I talk about from search engine point of view, one of famous post is 10 most expensive domain name.
It’s because it was also promoted on Digg and other social bookmarking sites and that helped it to get good ranking in search engine as well.
Q. If I asked you to suggest ONE Blogger friend to send him/her a Famous Blogger Club invitation, who you will suggest?
George already appeared in Famous Blogger group else I would love to invite him again. One of my real source of inspiration is Rahul from Devils workshop.
He is one amazing and cool guy. He guided me all the way at the starting days of Blogging. I’m sure you will love to have him on the board.
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Great interview love the shoutmeloud blog, it’s always filled with great information.
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Hi Harsh,
Nice Interview I had been reading a lot of your in your own blog, and learning a lot from your. Looking generate more targeted traffic to my blog.
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Really a great Blogger from India. Who doesn’t shy to share secrets of successful blogging and making money online.
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Harsh Agrawal Reply:
September 8th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
@TechGyo, Thanks Techgyo for your nice words…
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congrats dude, ur genius .every blogger must learn something from you. i think by now ur more skilled person then what u were before(during this interview).
i have been always following your blog. the one thing which i dont like about ur blog is your blog design.
i wonder why you don’t change ur blog design, is there any benefit of making it so lite?,. .hope u will change it., n make it dashing.
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Harsh Agrawal Reply:
September 8th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
@hacker9, Hey Hacker 9 thanks for your feedback but I like the simple design of SML as it’s taking care of everything which I need:
Readability, Bounce rate, Ad placement ….. So I’m sticking to this design for now but someday in future I will surely make a big change in design…
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I know he is a smart blogger, I visited his blog and always enjoy the tips
Just added you on FB and twitter Harsh. Thanks for this interesting interview.
Harsh Agrawal Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
@Latief@AnotherBlogger, I’m glad Latief you like my work.. Will catch more often..
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Latief@AnotherBlogger Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 6:07 pm
@Harsh Agrawal, Sure bro, I always monitoring your activities
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Good Interview…
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Harsh Agrawal Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
@Ankit, Thanks for your comment Ankit.
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He is a nice person.When i call him at night he gave a good responce for my query.My problem was solved.Thank you Harsh….
Harsh Agrawal Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
@aravind, Ha ha…And I never complained about this (-: Coz u asked interesting questions.
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Great interview again.
Hope you grow and become more famous in blogging community.
All the best!
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Harsh Agrawal Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
@Nihar, Thanks a lot Nihar.
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He is really give very good post on WordPress and Seo tips all those tips defiantly help a new blogger. I am also daily visitor of his blog.
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Harsh Agrawal Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
@P.K.ARUN, I’m glad Arun that you enjoy reading my posts. Hope to see you more often.
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I know harsh you are doing good, good to see here.
Harsh Agrawal Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
@Make Money Online with a blog, Thanks man!!
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@Harsh: Really u are a genius.. u interviewd here..definitely u are going to be very high.. I think u sud start of think ur own company.. really.. $1160 is gud amount.. I have followed u on twitter and facebook
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Harsh Agrawal Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
@Atul, Thanks Atul for your comment and just to let you know I have started WordPress dev. company with the name rtCamp.
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TechOfWeb Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 9:37 am
@Harsh Agrawal,
so rate reply after a year
Anyways good u replied
I know u have strted rtcamp and doing well with it
good luck man.
all the best for u always
if i wud be intervioewd one day definitely i wud recomend u as u mentioned devils workshop
ATUL
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Great interview. I think i will learn a lot from his blog,will follow his blog.
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Harsh Agrawal Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
@Shabnam Sultan, Thanks Shabnam and it’s always good to see your comment on Shoutmeloud.
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Great interview from a Great Blogger
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Harsh Agrawal Reply:
September 8th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
@Aswani, Thanks Aswani for kind words….
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Dude.. glad to see you here !
If I introduce interviews in my blog, will u be available ?
Seriously ?
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Harsh Agrawal Reply:
September 8th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
@S.Pradeep Kumar, Anything for you Pradeep…
U know as a blogger I adore you… (-:
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S.Pradeep Kumar Reply:
September 10th, 2010 at 2:10 am
@Harsh Agrawal, Ahhh.. same here brother!
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Harsh is an amazing guy with loads of enthusiasm and knowledge on everything related to WordPress and blogging. I am happy to see his interview featured here.
Way to go Harsh. We are here following your footsteps.
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Harsh Agrawal Reply:
September 8th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
@Suneel, Thanks Suneel and you are also awesomeness.. You keep trying new things and I’m sure you will be a great blogger and inspiration for many some day soon…
Thanks for your comment.
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Congratulations for another achievement Harsh!
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Congrats Harsh… I knew that this gem of a blogger would certainly get recognition one day..
Am proud of you.. Keep up the good work
Harsh Agrawal Reply:
August 18th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
@Karan Batra, Thanks Karan . thanks for all your support .
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Shoutmeloud is something very special for me, I love this blog because I followed this blog from the first day of blogging and I learned lots of things there. Harsh is just an amazing friend, helped me always when i need him. Thanks Harsh for your amazing work and support.
Harsh Agrawal Reply:
August 18th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
@Himanshu, Thanks Himanshu for your kind words. I’m glad Shoutmeloud helped us to become friends and more over Your work is superb. Best of luck with your new ventures.
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Harsh Is Just a Genius!
He Rocks!
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Harsh Agrawal Reply:
August 18th, 2009 at 6:18 am
@Chethan T, Thanks Chethan.:)
Nice interview keep sharing harsh i love ur blog yaar…
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Harsh Agrawal Reply:
August 18th, 2009 at 6:02 am
@Sid, Thanks Sid.
Nice interview..I am one of the regular follower of this blog..
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Harsh Agrawal Reply:
August 18th, 2009 at 6:04 am
@sham, Sham Good to see you on board and I’m glad you follow my work.. Hope its helpful for you any many others..