Nigerian Entrepreneur

I have been a bit confused on which side to be in the controversial “DoFollow” and “NoFollow” debate. Each proponents have cogent reasons why their idea is the best for a blogger.

The term “nofollow” is an instruction to search engines such as Google that a hyperlink should not influence the link owner’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It is intended to discourage spammers, thereby improving the quality of search engine results. Unfortunately, it makes nonsense of the potential benefit that bloggers who drop comments on a site would have had since the links to their site adds no value to the popularity of their sites.
I read convincing points in the post of Mehul, I encourage you to read the full post (I do not want to reproduce the whole article here).

However, today after reading Jeff and Hardley Jane’s arguments, I have decided to join the “DoFollow” group.
In order to still take advantage of some of the points listed by the “NoFollow” group, I installed a plugin NoFollow Free that gives me some control on who I will allow to have a “DoFollow” and those I will deny. I will be experimenting with this decision for a month. If the result is undesirable, I will change and make an update to this post.

I sure will love to learn from your experience via your comments 😉 . Thanks for visiting. Cheers.

I got online this morning and I was greeted with a drastic drop in my Alexa ranking. Yesterday it was reading 315,865 but this morning I saw 102,798 that was too drastic a drop and I was wondering what happened overnight. Is there a sudden surge in traffic to my site (I wish that was the case)? When I visited the Alexa site, I was greeted with a banner announcing that the Ranking System has been changed.

Yesterday, a blogger, A Nairobian’s Perspective!, blogged about my ranking being 88 for Nigeria. I was excited then, but when I checked my ranking for Nigeria today, I discovered that it has dropped from 88 down to 157. So I guess the new system has modify the old algorithm that was being used for calculating site rankings. The Alexa team explained that the new Ranking System is more reflective of the popularity of the sites being ranked. Also the ranking is not restricted to the Alexa Users Community. I believe this is a welcome idea. You can read more about the new system on their website here.

I have often wondered how many blogs actually exist online (just curious). Some claim there are over 70million (that sounds like a very huge figure). While surfing today, I discovered that I am not alone. Some people have decided to find out how long it will take to get 1,000,000 blogs to list themselves on their site, Million Blog List. That to me is a herculean task.

Well, since it cost me nothing to get listed, I hopped in and listed NaijaEcash, it is number 390. From there I also visited their wiki site Wiki Blog Directory and listed NaijaEcash for free. If you are a newbie looking for traffic, I will suggest you try this out. I am positive that it will do no harm. It might possibly do some good. Remember it is free.

When you are through checking it out, I will like to hear your view. Who knows you may teach me something I never knew. Thanks in advance!

An average newbie blogger dreams of having a blog that receive thousands of visitors per day and earns 6digit incomes every month. Every new blogger wants to be like JohnChow, ShoeMoney, Yaro Starak etc. We want to be successful. We want to be famous in the blogosphere. What does it really take to achieve this?

Some assume that successful blogges were just lucky or genuies who possess extraordinary abilities. This is far from the truth. There is nothing extraordinary about successful bloggers. (A little research on their state in prior years before they became famous will confirm this) Rather they are just ordinary guys doing extra ordinary things because they have the right attitude, the needed blueprint and strong determination to persist until the goal is accomplished.  

For an individual to succeed in any human endeavour, he must have confidence in himself. If you believe you can, then you can. If you believe you cannot then nobody will be able to help you achieve anything.

It is a well established fact that knowledge is required. Without the right blueprint you will not be able to coordinate resources at your disposal to accomplish your goal.

Also, persistency is indispensable. Keep at it until you get what you want. It does not matter how many times you fail. Just keep at it until you get that one success that will make the difference. Remember, winners never quit, and quitters never win. A little research will show you that some of those bloggers we consider famous today were unknown five years ago. However, their personal belief and strong determination have earned them a place in the hall of fame.

So, get your attitude towards your online business right. Stop thinking about all the reason why you cannot accomplish your set goal and start thinking about all the reason why you can set a new record.Get all the help you can to acquire a blueprint that will enable you coordinate your efforts. Make up your mind to keep working at your goal until your dream becomes a reality. See you at the top!