It’s been like decades ago since we had the last Bloggers head to head matchup! To view the past matchups we had, you can do so by clicking the Head to head category.
Ok, so this is probably my most favorite head to head matchup ever created here in this blog. Today, we would pit two bloggers who teach people how to become better bloggers. They do show people how to get things done by showing real examples, doing real case studies and really handing out superb value for their readers. And probably the best thing is, their blogs are AD-Free (unlike this blog), a thing that always amazes me.
So enough talking, I’m talking about Marko Saric from HowToMakeMyBlog.com and Alex from Blogussion.com. Here we go!
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Alex Frasier |
Marko Saric |
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| Describe yourself in less than 5 words? | Passionate and always looking forward | I’m blogging about blogging. |
| What is your favorite breakfast? | Over-easy egg, sausage and a a hash brown. 🙂 | Something with eggs, peppers, tomato, avocado, mozzarella… |
| Any story behind choosing that domain name | On the blog I was going to create, I was going to be discussing blogging. So, I took the two words, merged them and formed Blogussion.com! | I am always thinking about what would my target audience type into Google when searching for my topic and “How to make my blog” was one of the best sounding… |
| Why did you choose a saturated niche? | It’s a niche I am okay talking about and can talk about for a long time. I don’t feel like the blogging tips niche is saturated however. It is crowded for sure, but the amount of quality blogging tips blogs out there are few. | I had some websites / blogs since late 1990’s and wanted to share what I have learned. If niche was saturated or not didn’t really affect my decision. |
| How hard is it to blog about blogging tips?? | I am always learning new things about blogging every day. Some things just hit me in the oddest of places, and it is very easy to tie life into blogging (at least, that’s what I have found). | Not really hard, whatever you do to make your blog better is a blogging tip so there is always something to write about. |
| How many uniques are you getting monthly? | A few thousand, let’s just say | 14344 unique visitors in August 2009. |
| How many hours do you spend with your blog? | It depends on what I am doing. If I am working on new things (like the theme I just recently reworked) then it could be a few hours a day. But writing for the blog takes no longer than two hours max. | I am on a one-blog-post-per-week schedule now so that doesn’t take more than couple of hours. Most time is spent on answering comments, answering emails and promoting the blog. |
| Any other venture aside from blogging? | I freelanced for a while, but I decided to quit because I could not handle all of the business I was getting.. | Not at the moment, blogging only… I have some 3-4 blogs that I work on. |
| How much are you making with it? | I’m not freelancing at the moment, but I am going to be getting into theme markets and a few other markets. But, nothing really for me besides a couple hundred dollars a month from affiliate sales. | Very hard to say as it fluctuates a lot. I have some stats on my blog about it. But I hear Thesis Theme 2.0 is on the way out and Thesis is my main monetization method so that should affect my earnings. |
| How do you split your time with blogging, and your other stuffs? | I focus on usually one or two tasks a day when it comes to blogging. I work less, but harder when I blog so I can equalize my time spent on other activities. | It’s not very hard. When I blog I am in the blogging space, 100% concentration, but when I finish I am in the other stuff space and the blogging takes a backseat for a bit. |
| How do you persuade people to read your blog? | I make my designs as aesthetically pleasing as possible, write the catchiest headlines I can and cross my fingers that their attention is grabbed! | I write the best blog post I can and I send a tweet or two about it. The rest takes care of itself hopefully. |
| What’s the biggest goal for this blog? | I would like to earn some form of recurring income before I am 18 years old from my blog. Another thing I would like to do is meet with the people who play major roles in the growth of my blog in person. | To help me learn and improve on all things blogging, WordPress, web-design, CSS, marketing and so on. |
| Give me a blog you admire and why? | I enjoy reading Marko Saric’s HowToMakeMyBlog.com. I am a big fan of Marko and his blogging tips, and he is actually one of my biggest motivators. | Steve Pavlina I like because every time one of his posts hits my RSS newsreader I tend to spend an hour or two browsing his archives via his internal links structure. I hope I can have that effect on some of my visitors at some point. |
Nice head to head!
Would love to get asked to do one of these!
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Galing! You actually interviewed these two big time bloggers? Amazing Bro!
I haven’t visited much Marco’s blog but I always frequent that of blogussion.
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Nice Head to Head comparison. I visited both the blogs. Blogussion has a nice design.
Both have quite nice blog with quality readers.
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very great head to head!
both people are very talented bloggers.
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Great Post.
I enjoyed reading this post. I read this 2 blogs almost daily so it was quite fun to know some personal stuff about them. Keep up good work.
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Ah wow, I can’t believe I got put up against Marko. He’s probably my biggest inspiration for blogging if you haven’t figured that out already from my last answer!
I think this was a cool idea for a post here Melvin. I love the way you set it up too. 🙂
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Thanks for the nice words Alex!
And thanks for featuring me Melvin!
Not only a nice setup for a blog post, but also a great way to attract some traffic to your own blog… good job!
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I love Alex. He’s Lively!
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both are amazing blog.. but since have to decide on i go with blogussion.. 😀
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Cool idea Melvin! I really like the head to head idea rather than doing a full interview, makes a nice change! 🙂
Personally I love Blogussion; it’s design is amazing, the content is amazing, and the people behind it are pretty cool too 😉
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Alex is really awesome and I really like the design of his blog. His blog design is such kind of which will remain in your mind and you always wanted to go to his blog to see that design. Once you go there his words will do the rest.
In few months he really show a major improvement.
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Melvin tell us about your choice … we do not want diplomatic answer here.
.-= SW @ Social Bookmarking Service´s last blog ..Social Bookmarking Service =-.
Yes Alex got extra point because of his design and catchy titles.
.-= SW @ Social Bookmarking Service´s last blog ..Social Bookmarking Service =-.
hey guys, there’s a poll below the post. Vote! 😀
This was an interesting read. One of the best interviews I have ever read I think … or at least among the top 3.
Nice to see that these popular bloggers are also mortals who eat breakfast and that anyone can do it with passion and hard work.
Keep it up guys!
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I’ll go for Blogussion.
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Checking out both of the blogs, I must say they are worth a look. Well researched posts and I am dead sure they will be grow bigger n bigger as you interviewed them (Remember you interviewed me here 😉 Things have changed since then)
Blogussion design is cool.. Marko concept, case studies are awesome too..
Good luck guys!
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good Poll and a good head to head post, didnt knew about those blogs. but now will read those for get better in bloggign world. seems to be helpful and u also follow them, right ?
and whom did u vote in the Poll ? 🙂
@marco thanks.
@Alex, actually i laughed when I received your answers and when I found out your head to head matchup is the one you admire.
And just in case you guys dont know, Marko had answered this thing I think 2 months ago already (it took long for Alex to pass his answers 😀 )
hey thanks dude for those kind words. I believe their blogs are even more popular than mine. heheh. I think its actually the other way. Me, benefiting from their traffic. 🙂
just subscribed to your blog Alex and also commented on few posts and with some doubts as well 😀
Haha, yeah I saw that I was against Marko after it was published and I immediately thought of my last answer!
I don’t think it took me two months to answer them though!
.-= Alex Fraiser´s last blog ..How to Connect Better With Your Community and See Results =-.
Nice to see that Alex and Marko comments here as well.
Hey Alex, you have unique design and I think you should start your own website for selling templates.
.-= SW @ Social Bookmarking Service´s last blog ..Social Bookmarking Service =-.
Well Alex really reach at such level very fast and I think his design really attracts me.
.-= SW @ Social Bookmarking Service´s last blog ..Social Bookmarking Service =-.
it’s amazing because I believe he’s a student like me and he doesn’t spend much time in internet as most people but when he does, he’s just very focused.
yea i like Alex blog that is blogussion as am already subscribed to his blog.
i saw Marco’s blog as well now and it seems to be very helpful posts as well for us. subscribing there as well.
Good Luck to both and u too Melvin for such interesting post 😉
Thanks for the post ! Great!
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