The About page is the second most important page of any website/blog. So I’ll come straight to the point.
Hello there, I’m Shubham Davey
Note: Since this is the second most important page of a website/blog, I want to leave a good impression. So, it’s gonna be a bit of a long post. Get some coffee & hang on.
I’m seeing a lot of misconceptions about SEO as a digital marketing channel for promoting a business online. Many beginners want to get into blogging and are taking steps to do so.
However, they are falling short of a helping hand that can save them from making common mistakes that will not help them. I want to be that helping hand.
That’s my goal; that’s my target audience & I want to share all I’ve learned since 2011 via this blog.
If you’re here for the first time, I want to welcome you to this blog, where online business enthusiasts & brands.
Everything I share here is for those who want to learn to promote their businesses or ideas online. This blog’s primary focus will be SEO as a marketing channel. SEO to promote your blog, SEO to promote a business blog, SEO for e-commerce, and more.
HERE’S WHAT YOU WILL FIND HERE:
- Practical guides that will teach you various concepts of blogging, SEO, marketing, branding (Guides, how-to’s & troubleshoots) & make money online.
- Guides & case studies are ideal for freelancers, niche professionals, and beginners who want to build a personal brand online.
- Marketing guides: The whole point of this blog is to share everything I know about marketing. These things I discovered & taught myself to promote my blog and survive in this industry for over a decade.
I have multiple blogs targeting various niches & communities, but this blog is the most exciting & ambitious project & I’m very possessive of this blog.
Apart from these things, there are a handful of things that you won’t find here. Here’s what those things are:
- Quickfire ways to make money online. This is not a betting website. Sorry! I don’t know how to get rich quickly without inviting attention from the CBI/FBI or getting banned on Google.
- Forbidden ways to get traffic to your blog, i.e. black hat techniques: What I share here is 100% white hat SEO techniques & marketing methods that are globally accepted. I don’t have experience in doing something backdoor that makes sense only for a while. I play the long game. Good things take time. I avoid things with instant rewards, and so should you.
- Just like anything else & any other job, growth takes time. You can’t have hundreds of thousands of visitors in one month right after you start. You can start for free, growth comes at a cost, in this context, the cost is time. If you’re aiming for hundreds of thousands of visitors in a month of starting, this blog isn’t for you. However, I can help you improve this mindset.
ABOUT ME (SHUBHAM DAVEY), HOW DID IT ALL GET STARTED?
Yep! That’s me. Decent photographer. I’m rarely seen in front of the camera, posing.
As mentioned above, this blog is one of my most ambitious projects. Hence, I’m too vocal about blogging as a profession (on this blog & other platforms as well). I’m a blogger by the brain. I think as a blogger & my blogs are nothing less than startups.
I have a lot to say, but I’ll stick to the context & share what matters the most.
FLASHBACK
I was never into marketing at all. I used to hate marketing as a kid. I’ve grown up seeing salespeople running door to door, only to sell hardly anything.
But maybe my destiny wanted something different. During my college days, I was exposed to Blogspot. I have wanted to get into writing since childhood but didn’t know where to begin.
A friend of mine created an account for me on Blogspot & my first ever post was a complete copy-paste from another website – The post was about how Instagram was blocked in Iran, and I remember it clearly.
Fast forward a few months, and I got around 30,000 pageviews a month on my blog by repurposing blog posts on Google+. Yes, I’m that old.
This streak continued for a couple of months & then I decided to move to WordPress. I heard that I’d have better control of my blog.
Thanks to the lack of awareness of the difference between wordpress.com & wordpress.org, I ended up creating a free wordpress.com blog, which was the same as what Blogspot is I find Blogspot better than the free wordpress.com blog in so many ways.
I lost all the traffic from Blogspot & it took forever to get used to WordPress. I unknowingly killed my blog. I had to begin from scratch, but this time with experience.
That’s when I started blogging almost full-time (I had a job as a full-time side-income :p) & never looked back since then.
That was a bit about me; now, let me talk about where I want to reach – the next milestone.
FUTURE GOALS FOR THIS BLOG
I started this blog in 2019 (several others since 2011) & since then have grown substantially. Though I didn’t have a plan right from the beginning, I came up with a plan on the way.
The biggest hiccup came this year in April when my blog was hacked & I lost all the content. Every single thing I had published since 2017.
I was devastated, but I knew this was a good thing somehow. I got myself together & started writing guides that were published earlier from scratch; this was super in-depth & well thought out.
The results left me in shock. I got more traffic than in the last two years in 3 to 4 months. I wanted to update the content, so the hack was a good thing that happened to me.
This pretty much covers everything that matters the most. With this blog, I want to change how people think of the Internet. I want to help individuals attain financial freedom and become better solopreneurs.
This blog is just a fragment of what I want to build. It’s the most ambitious & a long-term investment for a reason. With this blog, I’m trying to change the mindset of people who think the internet is only for casual pleasure.
I want to help serious creators monetize their audience.
With this as a foundation, I want to take the game to the next level, where the blog becomes your identity & the credibility of that blog as your brand.
Personal Branding is what I do best.
Join my journey on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram & Facebook.
This page will be the least updated as most things will not change, except the future plans. If you’re here for the first time, check out the blog section to learn more about blogging, SEO, & making money online.
Let’s keep in touch & be the change.