Posts Tagged ‘Blogging’

Upgrade Your WordPress Site Without Stress

Friday, April 4th, 2008

I have managed to upgrade my blog from WordPress 2.3.3 to WordPress 2.5 without stress. I used an automatic wordpress upgrade plugin. To me this is an important feat accomplished. I am a non-technical blogger, a total newbie to wordpress (less than 30days old)

Since the release of official release of WordPress 2.5, I have been scared to carry out the upgrade (remember I am a newbie 😉 ) I have been going round the web reading posts about how others upgraded from WordPress 2.3.3 to WordPress 2.5

The testimonies of fellow bloggers did not reduce my fear. In fact I got more scared as I read testimonies of people that got their website totally messed up because they failed to do something right. I have messed up my blog once, but then it was very new (so, it was easy to just redo the whole stuff). I cannot afford such at this point. So I told myself, I will upgrade at the end of April.

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5 Tips for Increasing your Alexa Rank without cheating!

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

5 tips for increasing your Alexa rank without cheating

When I started Nigerian Entrepreneur, my Alexa ranking was well over 5million. However, this morning, approximately 3weeks after, I have my ranking reading 610,255. I did not do anything spectacular to get the present ranking, just the usual tips suggested by more experienced bloggers. Find the tips below, they sure will add a boost to your ranking.

5 Quick Tips to Increase Your Website Alexa Ranking

  1. Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension and set your blog as your homepage. If you work in an office, get everyone in the office to install the toolbar and set your site as their homepage.
  2. Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website. I did this a few days ago and receive a fair amount of clicks every day. According to some, each click counts as a visit even if the toolbar is not used by the visitor.
  3. Write or Blog about Alexa. Webmaster and bloggers love to hear about ways to increase their Alexa rank. They’ll link to you and send you targeted traffic (i.e. visitors with the toolbar already installed). This gradually has effects on your Alexa ranking.
  4. Use your URL as signature in forums and social media sites. This will naturally increase human traffic to your site and that will sure increase your ranking.
  5. Get listed on as many search engines as possible. I learnt that if a blog gets a free listing in DMOZ then it will get a lot of traffic since it is the largest human edited directory on the web (I am yet to get listed, if you have any idea on how to do it, let me know :-)).

You don’t need to Cheat to Increase Your Alexa Ranking

I have come across several articles suggesting tricks for cheating the system. They are not worth it. Remember it is a matter of time, a cheat will eventually get caught!

  • Don’t use auto-surf scripts or auto-refreshing web-pages, you will only eventually get into trouble.
  • Don’t use Alexa redirect it no longer works.

Those 5 tips for increasing your alexa rank requires no cheating. Use them and see your alexa rank increase. You can get free updates to the post 5 tips for increasing your alexa rank without cheating by subscribing to my RSS feed. See you at the top 🙂

How to Get Rich Quick as a Nigerian

Friday, March 14th, 2008

A catchy title, well, you won’t be disappointed. I’ve not posted for some days because I have been attending tutorials both offline and online from those that have made a mark in my area of interest. This morning, I came across a lengthy article by one of Nigerian’s respected blogger, Dipo Tepede with the title GET RICH QUICK. Your guess is right; I dived for the article and read the whole lengthy post. At the end, he has succeeded in scolding me and supporting the “bitter truth” that my other mentors have been trying to hammer into my skull. It wasn’t pleasant, but I had to agree with him because he went to a great deal of trouble supporting his claims with facts, figures and living witnesses.

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The Nigerian Entrepreneur Seeking to Make Money Online!

Monday, March 10th, 2008

I’m a Nigerian Entrepreneur

I’m not ashame to say that  I am a Nigerian Entrepreneur. I am proudly Nigerian and I don’t attempt to hide it despite the bad reputation that some black sheep among us have earned for the entire country.

I set out to make money online after reading several articles on how to Make Money Online. Some of the articles were read on blogs and websites that I visited voluntarily. Some were read from spam emails that caught my attention. Of course some information were gotten from websites that were phishing.

Coming from a country whose image abroad has been bastardize by some greedy and unscrupulous citizens, it is my desire to demonstrate that a honest Nigerian Entrepreneur can earn money online without indulging in fraudulent activities.

The original copy of this post was first published on my blog naijaecash.blogspot.com. It was the very first step of the journey. Now, naijaecash.blogspot.com has metamorphosed into https://www.naijaecash.com However, my goal still remain the same.

Nigerian Entrepreneur’s goal

My main goal for starting this blog is to achieve the following:

  • Make Money by rendering services online.

  • Get famous in the blogosphere while retaining my Nigerian Identity.

To achieve this, my targeted audience will be

  • Newbie bloggers (like myself),

  • Newbie entrepreneurs online and

  • Nigerian Entrepreneurs in the blogosphere.

Nigerian Entrepreneur’s Plan

My plan is to start a business blog (titled Nigerian Entrepreneur) with zero dollar. I will be investing the following resources.

  • Time

  • Skills learnt online

  • Other peoples experience

  • Friends and Readers Contribution

After raising income online (it will be entirely raised online), I will move the blog to a paid hosting package. (This has been achieved. I earned some Entrecard Credit and loaned some from a friend to purchase the domain name and the hosting package. No physical cash was introduced into the online business).

Just like any offline business I have my goals well written out, I have set targets, and I am drawing out comprehensive plans on how to achieve them. Most importantly, I am determined to work relentlessly until I have achieved my goals stated above. (That I am now on a paid hosting using my own domain name is a sign that I am making progress).

Since the success of any business online can be zeroed down to a single phrase “quality traffic = profit” (that is the understanding I have for now), I will be focusing most of my resources on getting good content on my blog , Nigerian Entrepreneur and then using various social networks media to draw visitors to the blog. (You can bet that Entrecard is one of my very first point of call).

How will I measure Nigerian Entrepreneur success?

I will measure the success of my blog using the following parameters:

  • Numbers of Visitors.

  • Number of Comments

  • RSS Feed Subscriptions

  • Contact Forms

  • Newsletter Sign-ups

  • Business Directly Generated

That is it. Thanks for visiting and reading this article. If you like my post, encourage me by dropping a comment. Subscribing to my Nigerian Entrepreneur RSS feed will surely be much appreciated and of course I am looking forward to your return visit. Enjoy!

N.B – My focus is now on this blog. I may scarcely give attention to Naijaecash.blogspot.com. That blog has served its purpose. The focus now is on Nigerian Entreperneur. Enjoy!

Welcome to NaijaEcash

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Nigerian Entrepreneur

Welcome to NaijaEcash the Nigerian Entrepreneur. My name is Tony and I am proudly Nigerian. This blog is all about Entrepreneurs especially the small business owners. The small business owners will be given priority attention above other types of entrepreneurs. After-all we are in the majority in Africa though we get treated as the minority by the politicians.

The African continent is yet lacking in institutions that teaches modern method of doing business. Too many African Entrepreneurs are not even aware of the potential of doing business online! Of course, that will have to change, I intend to share what I have learned and still learning about starting and running a small business both offline and online right in Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa.

Entrepreneur Tips and Tricks

I will be writing from my personal experience and other African Entrepreneur’s experiences. Tips and tricks on how to be a successful entrepreneur will be shared freely.

Thanks for visiting my blog. Please do come by often. Meanwhile,  if you are a small business owner or you are desirous of becoming an entrepreneur, an infopreneur or a webpreneur, this website promises some free goodies to help you. I encourage you to subscribe to my RSS feed. It is free and it will ensure you get every update made to Nigerian Entrepreneur.

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