It's been ten years since I started blogging. It began as a fun thing (and it still is!). Also, blogging was just another random stuff that I used to do at that time. But today my blog is much more than a random thing for me, and that's the only difference.
I don't know if I'm one of the so-called professional blogger or a hobby blogger or yet another nerd. It's something that I'm trying to figure out. But I just know for sure that it's been a long amazing journey so far. :)
And it didn't happen in one day and it didn't happen in a couple of years time. It happened over time and is something that's still happening.
I don't know if you have read this blog post of mine:
Over 201 Google Products & Services You Probably Don’t KnowWell, you should. You know why? Because that's my first (original) evergreen blog post and apparently that's my first (real) listicle too. It eventually became one of my first pillar blog post and taught me a lot of things that I never thought of.
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First things first. I didn't write Over 60 Google Products & Services You Probably Don’t Know (the original blog post --- thanks to Wayback Machine) for SEO. And I didn't write it for traffic either. I did it as I was using (or tried) almost all of Google's web products and services. So I just wanted to show my gratitude plus create a useful list as it wasn't there on any other blogs. Moreover, it was also just another random blog post that I did which happened to became the foundation of my blog's SEO. You know why? Because it taught me a lot of things about Google SEO that I couldn't find anywhere else. Oh yes, that post was published way back in 2009 when there was no Google Pandas or Penguins. Also, I didn't know any Neil Patels or Rand Fishkins of the SEO world. Back then I gathered most of my internet marketing knowledge from the Digital Point forum. Coming back... Here are the things that I learned about blogging and SEO from my favorite blog post --- let's call it "Google 101". Okay? So yeah, they are all more or less related toDon't Miss: 10 Blogging Years. 10 Blogging Lessons. 10 Blogging Tips.
I first started creating web pages on Yahoo GeoCities, Tripod, etc. back in early 2000s. It was fun. Later, I tried blogging platforms like Blogger.com and WordPress.org and also started creating HTML web pages without any coding skills (thanks to Microsoft FrontPage). And that's how I started web development.
Now with the advent of web 2.0 people want more. People no longer like static HTML web pages with dull designs. They want rich features with a great user experience. That's how blogging platforms became massively popular.
I get a lot of emails (because of this 
Bloggers can't live without tools! I mean, without their favorite blogging tools. And you probably know that there are hundreds of thousands of free and premium blogging tools on the web that lets you streamline your research, writing, and publishing process.
Over the past several months I have published a variety of tools lists: 
I have already published 
Whenever I visit a blog that I haven't come across before, I try to find out how different it is from others or what makes it interesting. Not just that. I also notice things that I don't like in it.
Your blog might be very popular. But it wouldn't stop me from finding things I don't like. I can't stop myself from doing it.
Over the past few months I started curating such a list 
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