This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. This week, I am examining an issue that has cropped-up since I started this “Effective Blogging” series. All the tips I offer are meaningless, when they are not put in proper context. Defining your motives at the [...]

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. Last week’s blog post in this series makes a case for the importance of statistics in the business of blogging. Running a successful blog requires that you give your readers what they want. This requires that you [...]

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. One critical part of effective blogging is having a good idea of the visits to your blogs. Stats programs tell you a lot about your blog including: what countries most of your readers come from, which blog [...]

A recent temporary change in algorithm for blogs ranking by Africa’s most authoritative blogs aggregator attracted a lot of debate and suggestions. After complaints by bloggers, Afrigator soon made a formal announcement via their blog: Blog ranking changes A lot of bloggers have noticed that there has been quite dramatic changes in the ranking of [...]

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. In your quest to be a better blogger, you should read other blogs as well. Blogging is not just about writing and giving out opinion or information. It shouldn’t be a one-way traffic. Blogging should be a [...]

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused 0n how to blog more effectively. Some are born to blog – or so it seems, while others though can blog, are not so prolific with doing it. To the second group of people, inspiration to blog only comes occasionally. They have the [...]

I have a flair for writing and thus enjoy blogging. Based on positive feedback on a few ideas I have shared in the past, I have decided to start a series of blog posts about how you can blog more effectively, if you are already a bloger or intend to be one. It does not [...]

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. A going concern for many bloggers is the  number of comments they receive on their personal blogs. Many bloggers consider comments on their posts a mark of endorsement, approval or popularity; this is true, to some extent. [...]

I suspect there has been a lot of rank dancing at Afrigator.com lately. I have noticed that the rankings of Africa’s top blogs have been shifting radically in recent times. Is it possible that they have improved the algorithm behind their ranking of Africa’s top blogs? One of the outcome is that as of now, [...]

I came by this event titled “Nigerian Bloggers Conference” via Deolu Akinyemi‘s profile on Facebook.com I added “2008″ to the title of this blog post because I believe there would be subsequent events like this in years to come. The host of this event is the man Deolu Akinyemi himself and it takes place tentatively [...]

Blogging as an online activity is increasing evolving in this part of the world. More people are getting online to share their expertise, experiences, passion, private life and more, for the fun of it or to earn some additional income to pay those bills. Although the motivation for blogging is as diverse as the various [...]

I had the honour and pleasure of meeting some fellow bloggers here in Ghana, last Thursday. 6:30pm was the time and Honeysuckle Restaurant & Pub, Osu here in Accra was the venue. The meeting was so nice and exciting we stayed for some 15 more minutes than scheduled. It was quite revealing as we had [...]

Upgrade of WordPress installation from 2.3.3 to 2.5

This young man named Oluniyi David Ajao has maintained a personal online presence since 2002. Well, in the context of Ghana or Nigeria, that’s quite early. I was then a Computer Science student at The Polytechnic, Ibadan (Nigeria). I simply wanted to acquire web design skills and wanted a personal website because I felt it [...]

When I was publicly requesting naijalive.net to remove my blog from their “aggregator”, little did I know that Akin Akintayo had already blogged his critique of the very same service on 3rd July 2007. Amateurs aping professionals Thinking aloud – I received an email/blog comment yesterday from someone who had decided to exploit an opportunity [...]