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If someone where to ask me right now, what exactly blogging was all about, I’m almost 100% sure that I would look clueless for a while before trying to explain what it’s really about.

Don’t get me wrong. I KNOW what blogging is all about but my problem is I don’t really know how to explain to a TOTAL newbie what it entails and how they can really stick to it and make a success of it.

According to BBC’s Ask Bruce, Blogging is a way of collecting links to web pages and sharing thoughts and ideas with people online.

For the guys are Tech-Faq, when one writes a web log and maintains it by adding or removing entries that is called blogging.

If you’re still somewhat of lost, not to worry, Karo Itoje of Blogging – The Beginner’s Complete Guide, has just written her very first e-book which rips into the whole blogging thing .

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I’ve been taking a look @ Kothapally Arun’s free e-book Search Engine Optimization for Wordpress 3.0 blogs and with over 500 retweets and counting, it seems quite a popular e-book.

I’ll be airing a few opinions of mine with respect to the topics discussed in the report

Step 6 of the report deals with modifying wordpress post title tags. Arun makes a good point that the H1 tag is the most important of all tags in a wordpress theme and thus all post title tags should be enclosed in the H1 tag.  This advice suddenly goes wrong when he suggests making the change to the post title tags on your index.php file i.e your blog’s front page.

With the little I know from reading loads of SEO posts especially those by Google’s own Matt Cutts, on a proper wordpress theme, the H1 tag is supposed to be used once on any page. Following Arun’s suggestion, applying the H1 tag to the post title tags on the front page of your blog (index.php) would mean that you’d be having more than one H1 tag on the front page and this is so not ideal for the search engines.

By default the only HI tag on the front page of a wordpress site should be the around the BLOG HEADER ONLY!

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Eromosele Aweriale who owns the spot for Alexa’s 4th most popular job site in Nigeria  (LatestNigerianJobs) has collaborated with Tony Areghan to create the first concise guide to running a blogspot blog.

The E-book titled How I Make 225,000 Naira from My Internet Business Every Month, covers the following topics in it’s 196 pages:

1. Registering and hosting a website for free (Blogger Platform)
2. Designing your website after registration
3. Updating your website
4. Registering with Google Adsense via Blogger and making money from it
5. Receiving your money here in Nigeria via DHL every month
6. Promoting and growing your website to the point where you can be making as much as N225,000 every month.

Loaded with tons of images to guide you through, this e-book comes HIGHLY recommended for those who don’t want to host with Wordpress.com or buy server space of their own. A primary school student could follow this guide to the tee without a hitch .

I must say that when my roommate showed me the e-book, I was stunned. Lord knows how many hours a day of hardwork, it took them both to get the e-book finished. Most Nigerian reports don’t even show that much dedication @ all.

Here are my favorite quotes from the e-book

Most people don’t make money from online website business in Nigeria due to three main reasons:

1. Ignorance, lack of knowledge and wrong information
2. Unseriousness and laziness
3. Lack of patience and perseverance

Only when the foundation has been laid and the website begins to grow should you expect to reap the fruits of all your hard work and sweat. But before that time comes, you will need to put in several hours building, updating, growing and promoting your website.

I can personally testify to this being so TRUE! Blogging for money is HARDWORK and the only way you can possibly keep going @ it is if you LOVE IT! Till date, I continue to learn and apply all knowledge gathered to this site in hope that @ some point in time, I’ll strike that elusive GOLD .

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If you’ve finally made up your mind to take your offline business online or start a new business venture online, you’ll be needing a quality domain name and web hosting.

With so many web hosting offers out there, you’d be tempted to go for the cheap offers so as to minimize your business expenditure but this could backfire, if you fall into the wrong hands.

This is one of  Daniel Scocco’s Top 50 mistakes to avoid when building a website.

As it is with most of Daniel’s free reports, the info contained within is straight to the point and holds very true.

This 26 paged free report covers six important aspects which cannot be under-rated when making a blog or website that’s intended to leave a lasting impression on visitors looking for quality information.

These important aspects of building a solid website are:

1. Domain Name Mistakes
2. Web Hosting Mistakes
3. Web Design Mistakes
4. Usability Mistakes
5. Search Engine Optimization Mistakes
6. Monetization Mistakes

My biggest mistakes on this blog are Opening New Browser Windows and Not Changing Color of Visited Links.

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Disclaimer: Before I proceed, I’d like to make it known that the information contained here are TOTALLY my own views/suspicions and should not be viewed as 100% TRUE. These are just stuff I kinda noticed and would like clarified by Austin Azubuike though he’s averse to approving my comments on his blog.

For quite some time now, there has been rumors flying around that Austin Azubuike is one and the same person as Kenneth Ifeanyi though Austin has publicly admitted buying some of Kenneth’s properties. What I’m yet to establish is how much of Kenneth’s business did Austin actually buy ’cause of recent he stinks a lot of Kenneth Ifeanyi.

The following is an analysis of Austin’s recent Product Launch: “The Most Dangerous Money Making Secret Known In The Universe and How It Accidentally Pulled in N6million+ profit Between January 2010 till date” and it’s attached Free Report.

UPDATE: Austin Azubuike on the 23 of June 2010, shut down the above site and download link. Hmm! I wonder why . If you need the free report, just send an email to madtragicat2030@gmail.com. He has since decided to sell to just his subscribers as shown in this email.

Hopefully this would help us draw OUR OWN CONCLUSIONS as to who Austin Azubuike really is.

SINCE WHEN HAS AUSTIN AZUBUIKE REALLY BEEN ONLINE?

On both sales copy and free report, Austin claims that his first website, www.nigeria-creditcard.com, has been online for about 3 years now but the WHOIS data associated to that domain says otherwise. It has only been online for 1 year and 4months.

Hmmm! Maybe the WHOIS database has a bug .

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Before you say it, I already know what you are possibly thinking.

"Not again! He’s "attacked" KodeSurveys, Facebook Naira and Utiware and Ecash Pro and now he’s taking on Austin Azubuike. When is he going to quit b**ching? Aaargh!"

Was I wrong? You let me know by leaving a comment below .

So where was I? Taking a quote from Austin’s Profit Rake Blog Offer sales page, I said Austin Azubuike needs to cut the cr*p now!

Internet Marketer Austin Azuibike’s mailing list is one of the mailing lists that I "MIRACULOSLY" subscribed to. I’d been following his emails without much attention until he started ranting in one of his emails on 20 May 2010. Funny enough this very email was turned into a blog post as well that same day.

Here’s his rant and my response to it.

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The Nigerian Webhosting scene has just gotten another addition to the market, by the name WazoHost Nigeria. The CEO contacted me about 2 weeks ago and asked if I was still entertaining free reviews. As a scheduled paid review had suddenly backed out on our deal, I decided to fill up the void with WazoHost.

NOTE: I no longer do free reviews on request. All request for reviews have to go through the Advertise page.

For $1 only, you can get their Nursery Hosting plan which looks like this:

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After months of waiting for the management of Utiware Web Hosting to tender some form of apology for the bad service I received while trying to host with them last year, they leave a comment and send me an email that’s TOTALLY unexpected.

Here goes their comment/email and my response in bold letters.

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Dear Udegbunam Chukwudi,

http://www.strictlyonlinebiz.com/blog/utiware-web-hosting-experience/713/

I am writing to ask you to delete the above blog post that you posted against Utiware last year. While we understand that your particular communication regarding the installation of Wordpress didn’t go well at the time, you have expressed your grievances. You have also received additional information from other Utiware customers who have not experienced the issue that you complained about (not being able to install Wordpress). We have numerous customers across Nigeria who use Wordpress on our servers. For example, this is a link to the WordPress Blog of Jide Ogunleye, our customer who responded to your post several months ago: http://www.jideogunleye.com/blog/

After 8 months of that post being up, you finally decide to pay attention to my grievances. Your damage control efforts are quite futile and late. Instead of apologizing for the f**kups of your customer care representatives, you give me the impression that my airing my grievances via that blog post = the apology you are supposed to be tendering.

Your customers aren’t complaining because they didn’t have to go through the anguish and lost deadline I did due to logistics from your end. You people just played dumb to my plight probably because it was a measly #3,500 ($22). Your present customers are having a ball hosting with you guys. Well I say good for them. I’m sincerely glad that they are having a better experience than I did.

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CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT NETFIRMS’ WEB HOSTING PLANS

For quite some years now, Netfirms has remained King of kings when it comes to offering low priced domains ($7.99 for the first year) without any catch whatsoever and with quite an array of freebies to go with them .

When it comes to web hosting, they don’t really freak me that much and that’s the reason why I decided to settle for Hostgator to host this blog.

NOTE: This is not a sponsored post/review. I’ve NEVER hosted a single site/blog with Netfirms and thus this review is based on my analysis of their offer. By the way, I host my domain with Netfirms

Here are 4 important things you ought to know should in case you wish to go for Netfirms Plus® Hosting plan.

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Sometime ago Ari Herzog of AriWriter promised to do a little review of some of his commentators blogs and I was one of the lucky few chosen. I had already forgotten about this until yesterday when I got a tweet from him, announcing the launch of 16 Video Critiques on Blog Content and Layout.

As you might have noticed, the review was based on content and layout and I most definitely learned something from this review with regards to my navigation bar thus I’ve got some "navigation bars revamping" in the works.

You can watch Ari’s review of StrictlyOnlineBiz below. Enjoy