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I ain’t looking forward to this weekend @ all as I’ve got to work but it will be a nice surprise if the Trauma Center stays quiet throughout my shift

Are you one of Kenneth Ifeanyi – Austin Azubuike’s victims? Smart B has launched a crusade to hunt him down. Seems like he knows the guy’s home address in Lagos.

When starting a new blog, some of us worry about coming across as experts in our niche so that we can garner loyal readers. Murray Lunn shows us just that in his post: How To Become An Expert: A Simple 3 Step Guide.

The Google team contacted Harsh Agrawal and let him know that he could make more money via Adsense by slapping on more adsense ads on his blog: Google Adsense Team started Sending Optimization Tips. This TOTALLY destroys the myth that adding more than 1 Adsense unit to a blog can be detrimental.

Following this news, I’ve added one ad unit below every post and one ad unit in my sidebar. I’ll continue showing adsense @ the top of my blog posts ONLY to search engine visitors. If you don’t know how to do that, check out: Show Adsense To Search Engine Visitors With JavaScript (W3 Total Cache Compatible).

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SCAM ALERT!!: Emmanuel Samson’s ECashPro which was previously been promoted via email has finally been launched online but with a brand new name: Atomizer and with a brand new author: Professor Jerry David. Thanks to one of my readers, Ola, for pointing me @ the site.

Whatever you do, THOU MUST NOT FALL VICTIM OF THAT SITE!

Web Hosts especially Nigerian web hosts should be very carefully who they "rent" their servers to ’cause you all owe a responsibility to the public, to prevent them from falling victims of scams such as the Fraudulent Interswitch website @ BroadNigeria. I’m aware it can be a tasking effort to monitor all websites on your servers BUT at least do please TRY a little.

Did I forget to mention that these spammers/scammers could ruin search engine rankings for your customers who are also sharing the same server as they are?

The campaign against PayPal keeps growing each day especially when digital goods and services are involved. Alex blogs about his experience with HostICan where PayPal didn’t do jack to help matters @ all: Beware Of HostICan Hosting.

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Over the weekend, I had a lil’ business meeting with one of Nigeria’s young entrepreneur, Ahmad Mukoshy about the possibility of a collaboration between EzBlogSetup and Aimtech Nigeria Hosting. The meeting ended on a good note with the terms that EzBlogSetup’s services will be included to Aimtech Nigeria’s shopping cart as an add-on service @ a discount of 25%.

What this means is that folks ordering hosting from Aimtech Nigeria have the option of hiring the services of EzBlogSetup for 25% less than the normal selling price of $30 (N4,000).

NOTE: The Aimtech Nigeria Hosting + EzBlogSetup offer is open to Nigerians ONLY for now!

In the mean time, EzBlogSetup was given a facelift design wise and is now open to International customers as well, thus the reason why the ad banners around the net now are showing the dollar value of the service which is $30 .

When I launched StrictlyOnlineBiz back in February 2009, I signed up for a 2CheckOut merchant account for a one time fee of $49 but I never got to use it as I wasn’t successful in coming up with a proper product to sell. By default, 2CheckOut only allows one URL per account and any change to the URL costs $19.

In my case, probably because I haven’t made a sale on the account, 2CheckOut waived the $19 fee and changed my URL for FREE so I can now accept Credit Card/PayPal payments @ EzBlogSetup .

A big thank you to the guys @ 2CheckOut for been so understanding .

Here’s another reminder. The Free Blog Setup Services For Five offer is still on. Please kindly assist me in spreading the word via retweets, emails etc. I’d TOTALLY appreciate the gesture .

Some folks as still having doubts as to which WordPress cache plug-in is the best. Kyle Robinson Young reviews the most popular caching solutions for wordpress in his blog post; WordPress Caching: What’s the best Caching Plugin?

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My battle  with what I have always thought was Sir Malaria/Typhoid Fever continues. Mum scolded me and ordered me to do a complete blood work. She was right anyway. We doctors are fond of asking patients to do a complete blood work BUT when it comes to our own health, we sometimes can be negligent .

Test results came out and all were Negative including HIV (Thank God ) and Malaria/Typhoid (WTF. Something must be wrong somewhere. It’s not normal to have a malaria free blood stream in this part of the world).

Woke up yesterday morning, feeling unwell. My senior colleague takes my BP and it’s a 120/90mmHg. Now he’s placed me on Lexotan and a different kind of anti-malaria drug. He says I might be stressed out and he might be right though I pray he ain’t ’cause that would mean giving this blog a breather.

Wednesday’s blog post, How To Show Adsense To Search Engine Visitors Only Using JavaScript gave rise to an attack by trackback spammers (Over 30 spammy trackbacks) and Hostgator spat another resource alert. Now I’m left wondering if the attack by the spammers, Akismet or WP-Spam Free is to blame. I decided to deactivate trackbacks and pingbacks. Let’s see what happens.

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I casually logged into my CPanel last week to find that I had 13 Resource Alerts. Apparently a script/plug-in on my server has been running MySQL queries for over 15 seconds which is against Hostgator’s TOS.

As they suggested that a wordpress plug-in might be the cause, I deactivated Yet Another Related Post Plug-in. Dev of Technshare had his Hostgator blog suspended for hours for the same reason. Apparently some bloggers have been experiencing the same thing: [Plugin: Yet Another Related Posts Plugin] Broken in 2.9? Unfortunately the Resource Alerts till today still persist and so I’ve deactivated Database caching for W3 Total Cache, Enhanced Contact Form and GoCodes.

Here’s hoping I find the culprit before my blog gets suspended .

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It’s been such a busy week that I almost forgot I had to write this post. I just registered a new domain name for my yet to be launched blog setup service and I’m putting finishing touches to SearchNigerianJobs, the first blog I’ve ever setup for a client .

If you’re looking for ingenious ways of displaying ads on your blogs without fuss, James Adams in a guest post @ MillionClues, shares nine of the best WordPress ad management plugins that can successfully generate revenue for your website: 9 Best WordPress Ad Management Plugins.

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Apologies to everybody who tried to access my blog using Internet Explorer but got an error message. This was caused by the bookmarking plug-in to the left of this post. I wasn’t aware of the problem until I carried out one of my routine browsers tests yesternight.

From my end, everything seems to be working fine now across Opera 10.60, Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.6, Safari 4 and Google Chrome 4.0 .

Thanks to Mani Viswanathan, I discovered a plug-in that I’ve been searching for all my blogging life. Tweet Old Post is a wordpress plug-in that enables you promote your old posts on Twitter without ever lifting a finger. I personally have it configured to tweet my old posts once every hour. I’ll be monitoring to see if it does any good in increasing my twitter traffic .

I’ve been monitoring the reviews of the SEO Wordpress theme, Thesis and up until now I’ve seen nothing but glowing reviews. Cyrus leaves a honest review that reveals some cracks in the famous theme: Review of Thesis Theme.

FlippaChick shows us an interesting way of cloaking affiliate links without the need of a plug-in:  How to Mask or Cloak Your Affiliate Links. If you’re romancing the idea of making money online flipping websites, I suggest you read another of FlippaChick’s posts: Common Site Flipping Lies and How to Overcome Them. There she attacks the misconceptions surrounding this make money online niche.

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It’s been a great week both @ work and online. I think I might finally be launching a paid service. I’m thinking of going the blog setup services and blogger to wordpress migration service path. At the moment, I’m helping my roommate setup his first site. I can’t wait to be done with the site so I can show it to the world and get your reactions .

As always, I shall be setting up his blog with a free theme as I’ve done with this blog

This week was almost ruined by the news that Hostgator was slyly adding links to their hosting service via the WP-Super Cache plug-in which is now included with each new Fantastico installation of wordpress: HostGator Automatically Adding Plugins to WordPress. It’s somewhat worrisome that they would succumb to such sneaky ways to make sales given that they have such an awesome reputation online.

I’ve always been aware of Hostgator’s monetization of my Error 404 pages but after reading this post HostGator Monetize with Default 404 Page, I decided to create my own Error Page which I’m loving by the way .

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We finally step into the month of July and boy am I glad ’cause it means 7 months to go for NYSC . The only thing I ain’t so happy about is my traffic stats.

After being a few visitors close to 3,000 uniques in the month of May 2010, I was really hoping that June 2010 would mark my passing the 3,000 absolute unique visitors mark but alas I installed a Google Analytic plug-in for wordpress with a bad configuration and that saw me losing stats for like 4 days before it was detected.

Now I sit back awaiting Google’s Toolbar PR update and hoping that the month of July will see me accomplishing my current goal of 3,000 absolutely unique visitors

Being that I suffer a tinge of paranoia , I’ve many times envisioned my online enemies trying to ruin me blog via spammy links but after reading RandFish’s What if My Competitors Point Spammy Links to My Site?, I’m happy to say that I feel a lot less paranoid.

To monitor spammy links pointing to our sites, I highly recommend learning to setup Google Alerts which is one of Google’s top 10 products for bloggers.

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As the month draws to an end, some bloggers await Google’s PR update with so much anticipation. Till date I still maintain my blog’s PR 3 and my home page’s PR1 BUT that is not to say that it couldn’t all vanish in a few weeks time .

The week has been quite hectic with me having a dizzy spell while assisting in the suturing of a motorbike accident victim. I’m still wondering if it was just a random vagal response brought on by stress or not. Hopefully I’ll be able to get some proper rest this weekend.

My best blog post of the week is NaijaEcash’s What Is A Pyramid Scheme?. I’ve been wanting to write this post for quite some time but he finally did. Here’s wishing that some Nigerian Entrepreneurs and buyers as well would read and understand what kind of businesses represent Pyramid Schemes and do their best in avoiding them.

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