There are many interviews with famous bloggers around the Internet. After you read a couple of them, however, they start to get somewhat boring. Thinking about this problem I decided to try something more innovative and hopefully interesting, both for the interviewees and for the readers.
Bloggers Face-Off will be a weekly feature over Daily Blog Tips, where 2 famous bloggers will answer to some quick questions, and the results will be presented side by side. Apart from valuable insights the Bloggers Face-Off should also provide a nice reading for everyone.
Before introducing the interview I would like to thank both Darren Rowse from Problogger.net and Jeremy Schoemaker from Shoemoney.com, I could not imagine a better couple of bloggers to kick-off this project!
| Darren Rowse |  Jeremy Schoemaker |
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|---|---|---|
| 1. How long have you been blogging? | 4.5 years | 1.5 years |
| 2. Did you start with the purpose of making money? | No | No |
| 3. How many blogs do you have or write for currently? | I write on 3 personally, have another 5 that I own that others write and help manage a network of 172 others (b5media) | 1 blog |
| 4. How many hours do you dedicate to them every day? | I do blogging related activities 8-10 hours a day. I actively blog 2 hours a day on average |
Less than 1 |
| 5. Digg or StumbleUpon? | Digg and StumbleUpon | Digg |
| 6. How much do you make from your blogs monthly? | 5 figures | $10,000/month from direct ads |
| 7. What is your main income source? | Chitika and AdSense | My parent company, Shoemoneymedia |
| 8. How many RSS feeds do you track daily? | 666 – evil isn’t it! | 10 |
| 9. Have you ever invested money in promotion? | Rarely – I’ve dabbled with AdWords but have probably spent less than $500 on advertising in 4 or so years |
Yes |
| 10. Would you use Black Hat SEO? | No | It depends on what your definition of is is. |
| 11. If you could write a post on any blog in the world, which one would you pick? |
LifeHacker | My own |
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