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Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration is a power blogger. A computer engineer from IIT, Roorkee, Amit left his job at ADP two years ago, and turned into a professional blogger. He earns more money from his blogging than he did as an engineer. Besides blogging, Amit also provides web consulting services and writes for publications and a TV channel.
Two years ago while working for ADP in Hyderabad, Amit signed for a free blogger account on Google. One of his early posts, which was a product review of an HP printer saw a dramatic traffic spike to his site. Encouraged, he started writing other product and software reviews, and along with that offered productivity tips and other technology information.

Within a year of starting his blog, Amit saw the traffic to his website climb steadily, and today his blog averages about 25.000 visitors. His blog, Digitial Inspiration, is perhaps one of the most widely read Indian blogs on Web 2.0, software and technology. About 50% of the traffic is from the US.

A methodical person, Amit has a list of 250 blogs on his RSS reader. He often writes 5-6 posts a day and says that he spends 80% of his time reading, researching and reviewing products. Because of time constraint he often has to turn down requests for product reviews.

You can listen to Amit’s suggestion on how to improve your blog postings and site, and help drive up your traffic.

Amit lives with his wife, son and his extended family in Agra. He says one of the joys of living in Agra is the time he gets to spend with his grandparents, parents and his brother’s family.

Google has been a lucky charm for Amit. He and his wife are proud parents of a one year old boy, whose pet name is Google. Amit likes to cook during the week-ends. He is also an avid photographer and spends time reading up on how to improve his photography skills. That might explain why he constantly writes reviews of Adobe products.

Tech gadget: iPod Nano

RSS Reader: FeedDemon

City: Hyderabad

Food: Mummy’s food