Interview with Mohammed Intekhab Khan

BenSpark

Hi Mohammed, thank you very much for sitting down to talk with me. Please tell the readers about yourself.

Mohammed

Myself mohammed intekhab khan,I am student and a freelancer .i am perusing MCA(Hons) +Mtech from “LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY” India. I am crazy about photoshop.

BenSpark

Fantastic how about you tell us about your blogs.

Mohammed

Currently i run 3 blogs. First is intekhab online where i write the photoshop tutorials. This is the first blog where i learned various Netiquette. i love this blog.You can see various “How to” article here http://intekhab.co.cc

My second blog is http://pixelerator.co.cc “Pixelerator Designs” Where i give free photoshop PSD of website and last is my personal diary blog pixblogger.

BenSpark

Why did you start blogging?

Mohammed

Frankly ,When i stated my blog in testing the free hosts and in the process i registered my name which is intekhab.co.cc.and in between that i realized i have developed my own website. Then i decided whatever i will learn on the net, i share it.

BenSpark

Why do you monetize your blog? What are some companies besides IZEA that you work with?

Mohammed

I monetize my blog because everybuddy do. And i only work with izea like socialspark and payperpost. Yes i have account in others network also but i don’t take seriously there.

BenSpark

What is your stance on Disclosure?

Mohammed

I think that whenever we make a review of product and website it is good to tell the reader prior to the article that the review is sponsored or not. This way reader can understand your honesty. I think transparency always be there.

BenSpark

What is your favorite feature of SocialSpark?

Mohammed

My Favorite feature of socialspark is “spark opportunities”
with the help of spark any blogger can easily advertise his/her blog and second important feature is demographic of blog where i easily track the types of user my site have..

BenSpark

What should be improved on SocialSpark?

Mohammed

One thing i don’t understand at socialspark is that when your blog doesn’t qualify for verified blog. we don’t even know why it is not qualified, because if we know we can easily
solve that problem and submit again. I think reason should be given.

BenSpark

Yes, I have heard that from many other people. More explanation would be better. What Advertisers do you want to see on SocialSpark?

Mohammed

i am an Indian therefore i want more Indian advertiser on socialspark. In India nearly 60% blogger and advertiser doesn’t know Socialspark.

BenSpark

What is the Ultimate Goal for a blogger, in your opinion?

Mohammed

In my opinion ultimate goal of the blogger is to fullfill the readers need .The bloggers should focus on content rather than the ads unit..

BenSpark

Which one plugin would you suggest all bloggers to have?

Mohammed

Google AJAX Translation :-you can see on my http://pixblogger.co.cc itis the easy way to translate the post without loading the page..

BenSpark

What is your best blog post ever?

Mohammed

My best post ever on which i spend nearly a day is
How to approach a design

BenSpark

What are some odd keywords people use to find your blog?

Mohammed

Syllabus, intekhab meaning, silver.

BenSpark

Outside of blogging what are your other interests?

Mohammed

outside of blogging i love to design the desktop you can see my design at http://rediffkhan.wincustomize.com/ when i first came to the world of web .The first site on which i spend nearly 5 hour a day is http://p.mobile9.com/mohammed_intekhab/ i also won 21 awards there and i am also part of the famous hazard blue group..
I made nearly 149 themes which have nearly 1,400,517 Download.

BenSpark

What is amazing about you?

Mohammed

I don’t take too much time in understand any new language by myself. i learned nearly 6 languages in one year by reading articles on the net..

BenSpark

Ipod or other music player?

Mohammed

Definitely Ipod

BenSpark

Pirates or Ninjas

Mohammed

Pirates

BenSpark

Favorite Movie? TV Show? Book?

Mohammed

Fav movie-Mindhunters
Fav TV show -Hannah montanna
Book 3 mistakes

BenSpark

Do you play Facebook games?

Mohammed

Some time

BenSpark

What is the most motivational advice you can give other bloggers?

Mohammed

Concentrate on the content not on the no of article you can write in a day. Always be original.

BenSpark

Favorite Blogs?

Mohammed

• http://www.ted.com/
• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
• http://gizmodo.com/
• http://www.readwriteweb.com/
• http://www.techrivet.com/

BenSpark

Favorite podcast

Mohammed

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/resources/photoshop-podcasts.html

BenSpark

Well, thank you very much for a great interview. Glad to have you as part of the I’m Not A Famous Blogger Crew.

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