It’s quite surprising to believe how these little kids at their young ages become so focused on their work. But it’s true. They have done it and proved it also. One such name is Rohit Langde, a student of Mechanical Engineering of Government Polytechnic College, Nagpur, who is presently doing his Bachelor Degree at G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering in Nagpur.
Starting Up with Blogging
Like any other person of his generation Rohit also used to spend most of his time on internet. Helping out people by sharing thoughts and opinions with others seems to be quite interesting to him.
Later, one of his friends whom he met on a social networking site and coincidentally whose name was also Rohit told him about blogging. Finding it quite an exciting job, Rohit started blogging to share the movies and software on Blogspot blog. He used to do all these things in Orkut communities also.
Passion Turned to a Means of Livelihood
Since he started blogging in 2007, Rohit was unaware of the fact that his love for blogging could make him earn his livelihood. Completely he had no idea about the advertising revenue from blogs and the advertisement banners on different sites. Gradually his inquisitiveness made him to know more about those advertisements which he later started using in his blog too.
When he came to know that from writing own blogs he could earn money, he started his own blog in 2008 and thus became the founder / owner of
Blogsolute.com. His income from blogging is enough to meet all his personal expenses along with the expenditure of his whole family.
Made His Technological Interest as the Subject of His Blog
As soon as Rohit came to know about the tricks and techniques of earning from blogging he left sharing those movies and all which he used to do earlier and started his own blog to share thoughts and views on computer software and technology. Technology has always been his favorite subject and he is always very keen and eager to know the newer technical inventions in electronic gadgets like mobile phones. This way he moved to his own area and started to share latest news on technology as also writing reviews on software on his own blog at blogsolute.com. His blog deals with all the information regarding web technology and the latest softwares.
He tries to make computing easy by giving certain tutorials and guidelines to the new comers to understand them quickly. His passion for technology kept him involved to earn money.
Success of Rohit in Blogging
Being a part-time blogger, Rohit finds it quite difficult to manage it alone. Recently some contributors joined him. It is he himself who made his blog popular but according to him some guest articles posted in his blog have undoubtedly helped him to make his blog famous.
As per the current statistics, monthly page views of his blog are about 1 million with more than 16,600 Facebook fans of his blog. Besides India, his traffic comes from United States and U.K. He mainly targets home users and students who are eager to know more about computer and thus he covers all about computer knowledge using windows software for a proper guidance. He loves to explore new ideas and techniques from various sources like various Forums and News sources.
Major portion of the revenue comes from Adsense while he has also Direct Ad Space sell on his blog. The income he is earning now is sufficient to meet his livelihood but being a student, till now he has not yet decided to take blogging as his profession. But obviously within the next few years he wants to make his blog bigger and popular all over the world.
Inspiration to Blogging
Darren Rowse of Problogger.net, Keith D’Souza of Techie-Buzz.com and Mr. Amit Agarwal of Labnol.org are some of his favorite bloggers who inspired him a lot. Darren Rowse and Amit Agarwal are his idols.
According to him one has to be a good reader in order to express himself through writing. Rohit is a regular reader of his favorite blogs Make Useof, OMGUbuntu and Problogger.
Principles Followed by Rohit
Rohit believes that blogging is not a medium of quick money making. One has to be patient and fully devoted to what he is writing, keeping in mind the importance of bringing traffic to the website. He says that sincerity and dedication could obviously bring success one day.
Blogging has made him more patient, imaginative and expressive. It is his favorite pass time also. To him staying connected with social networking sites are really helpful to flourish in the career of blogging. Several networking sites like Facebook and Twitter help to create your own image in the web world.
Being a technical person himself Rohit believes that the advancement of technology has made people lazier.
His Favorites
Being a bollywood fan Rohit never misses a movie released on every Friday. He loves unconventional movies like Wednesday and comedy serials like Sarabhai V/s Sarabhai on television. He is moved by listening Sufi songs. Apart from movies and listening to songs, Rohit likes to play games and hanging out with friends and family. Switzerland being his dream destination, he would also love to visit Cape Town, London and Kashmir. He loves South Indian dishes and also never misses the opportunity to have Chinese.
Rohit’s Wishes
He wished if he could meet Sir Isaac Newton once whether dead or alive. And one thing if he could change in this world is corruption.
Achievements
Rohit is building his own home and according to him it is his biggest achievement till now. But the happiest moment in his life is when he got his own Desktop Computer.
Comments He Enjoys on His Blog
Among the various technical topics that he shares in his blog, he enjoys the comments of those related with the topics on mobile phones. This is so because an admirer of a particular mobile-set easily gets into tussle with the one supporting the manufacturer, which he finds quite funny.
This is an inspiring story of a successful young boy from Nagpur, who is a bit conservative and reserved but trying to be more social and popular with his writing capabilities. Rohit can be an icon to upcoming bloggers who also want to make their name in the web world.
