This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. In an earlier post in the Effective Blogging series, I made a case for why every blogger should have a mobile-friendly version of their blog. In this post, I would be highlighting how to make your blog [...]

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. The Internet has evolved to a point where web access is no longer an exclusive preserve of desktop or laptop computers. A new demography has matured over the years and has since reached a critical mass that [...]

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. I recently got a message from Regina, a reader of this blog in Kenya. She asked: Tell me, how does one start a blog? I can see you have a very nice blog and I was wondering [...]

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. One of the basic ways of being effective with your blogging activities is to use a real domain name, as your blog address. It not only shows how seriously you take your blog, but helps your audience [...]

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. In an earlier post titled “How to be a better blogger“, Kenyatykoon asked: “how should i ask for back links from blogs that are more popular than mine but in the same niche?? there are a few [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Following-up on an earlier reply, Obafemi wrote me again, asking how best he could make money online. I chose to answer this question publicly, so as to guide other up-and-coming Internet-based entrepreneurs. I reproduce his email below: Thank you David, I do respect your expediency, I like your blog and I like eolutsin’s blog too. [...]

Web hosting is a service that provides individuals, organizations and users with online systems for storing information, images, video, or any content accessible via the Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Web [...]

Finding a good web hosting company on the Internet today can be very trickish or a nightmare indeed. This is even more so if you are using e-gold or some other form of e-currency. Searching for a good web host that accepts e-currency is trickish because of the anonymity that e-currency offers. Many web hosting [...]