“For a jaundice patient - everything looks yellow”
— Some wise guy.

Who is the most popular Indian professional blogger?
Who’s got the most read blog in India?
Who’s listed at the top ranks in almost all directories you knew?
Which Indian blogger has had the oppurtunity to ’smile away to stardom’ by publishing his own face in the top read magazine in the country?
Which Indian blogger is fortunate enough for being featured on a top notch news channel?

The answer is rather obvious, and the above are fairly good reasons for someone being shot up to stardom. For when you are famous - it brands you with panache and style -i made it easily! - utters your fame.

It is this phenomenon that made Amit Agarwal rise to stardom in India - TV shows - Magazine covers and the hip,hep,hype and hooplah.And everybody today looks up to Digital Inspiration - yes, you guessed it - for inspiration.

How many times have you done that Shahrukh khan act in front of the mirror or that Big B one in Sarkar? Atleast once? A similar kind of phenomenon is happening in the blogosphere too. When you look at labnol, the recent upcoming bloggers are inspired - and a feeling runs to their mind - “I should/could have done that too”.
And i would underline - should - because that’s where the difference is - you could have done that - but you didn’t. Why? Because you didn’t see any good reason that you have to. Now you have a reason - fame. But it’s just too late.

And there are many -many -many who think that there is still a possibility. To make out something like it yet again- to carve out a niche.Like labnol - a technology blog. What goes into it?

He made it with no investment (forget time).
On a free blogger platform.
What does he have that i don’t? I too know tips, tricks and hacks - but i have never told that to someone.(But where was blogs at that time?).

And so, you try to mimic - that is do the same thing to you.

You register a blogspot account - give a fancy name, get a free template, you get an adsense account - and you write down all the things you know - you try to copy stuff by googling down - but hey, your SEO skills don’t allow you to do that, so you write again. Tips - Tricks - Tweaks - Hacks and what not, just basically everything that’s on Labnol only to realize at one point or the other that - whatever you wrote was once written on labnol. You try your best to bring in “Quality content” , increase your CTC, try adsense layouts, keyword targeting etc - some of them who believe in - No pain, no gain - concept goes out buy a domain and pick a sleek adsense customised wordpress template and kickoff a brand new - TECH-somethingsomething.com

After writing so much with pain, you see that your archives are only 1/16th of what’s at Labnol, so you get upset.You take a break. But then you get a newsletter from labnol saying that there are 6 new articles on labnol today. Damn!! You do the painful part again, finding topics and write again.

So isn’t this inspiration? Very much - Digital Inspiration has grown out to be a true inspiration for millions(with exagerration) of bloggers in India(mainly those who started blogging in the mid 2005′).

And this is proven to create many-many-many(without exagerration) mirror blogs in India to Labnol - those are the now cliched - Tips,Tricks,Hacks technology blog…by so and so(Ur name in bold.)

Having said that there are many new blogs around that have quality content, and some wicked ideas! But it’s just that they need to find individuality by making them their own and break from the - tips,tricks and hacks bandwagon(fine, if that’s what you’re good at) and keep consistent.

Thanks,
Mani

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