Nigerian Entrepreneur

What is RSS and why the consistent call for you to subscribe? Well, it happened that last week, I wanted improvement in my blog overall performance, so as is my custom, I cried out for help with a post. Guess what, the response was encouraging. There were several suggestions, but one of them that really got my attention was tips on how I can improve my RSS feed subscriptions. Ok, enough ramblings lets talk about RSS.

What is RSS?
RSS is an acronym for Rich Site Summary. It is a simple way of getting the web content of a site to users of such site regularly once there is an update (such user must have subscribed). (more…)

This article is a guest post from a blogger friend Mwangi of the Displaced African. He has been a great encouragement to me and he is full of wonderful ideas. Read and Enjoy 😉

My name is Mwangi and I come to you from the blog known as the Displaced African. Technically speaking I have been blogging for a lot more than five months. Like all professional bloggers I have left a small trail of dead blogs. One was a blog where I left only entry: After watching the movie “the Corporation“, I left one blog post on a quickly created blogger account. I paraphrase:

“I Loved the Corporation! If you did too, say something!”

Of course there was no traffic and of course no one left any comments. Clearly I missed the memo that said that blogs do not automatically become communities because I have written one sentence on them, I have to provide value first. Fortunately I have grown as a blogger since and am enjoying a steadily growing readership, an Alexis Ranking that jumped about 20,000 points the day I wrote this and a commenting community that I just adore.

So today, I thought I would share with you three things that I have learned about this blogging thing from the school of trial and error 101.

1) If You Want Your Readers to Do Something, Ask Them….Nicely 🙂

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Internet is all about speed. The online users are always in haste. Usually, the visitors want to spend 1sec and then hop to another site. The only way they will spend extra seconds is if something grab their attention and keep them hooked (unconsciously). Leading them from one interesting bait to another until they have finished consuming all that is available. So you as a webmaster or blogger are immediately saddled with a new task after accomplishing the difficult task of bring the visitor down to your site (no room for relaxation). You have a new goal to accomplish. Simply put it looks like this: (more…)