Blogging 101-Tips and Tricks For Kenyan Bloggers

I am moved by necessity to write this post more or less because ,after Nairobi barcamp 2008 ,it became openly apparent that most of Kenya's over 700 bloggers are "blogging blind".A term i have coined to denote blogging without any technical know how or basic information on what blogging entails.Indeed due to this is suggested that an exclusive Kenyan bloggercon be organized.I bet it would be the first one in Africa.

There are various issues that few bloggers tend to recognize such as:

1. The importance of Google/Alexa page rank and how to improve it!
2. What content to capture!
3. Plagiarism and or duplication of published material
4. Search Engine Optimization/website optimization(Peperuka has a post and tips on it though there is one myth therein that you loose page rank each time you give out a link thats a fallacy!)
   
5. Keyword Density
6. Link building and Link Baiting
7. Basic HTML and how to insert metadata
8. Which blogging platforms to utilize i.e word press or blogger or typepad etc
9. Blog Aggregation/blogging tools, pagerank checkers!
   
10. Syndicating content
11. Monetization of blogs(Google Adsense or Adwords are not enough, a dollar a month may not be worth it!)
    
12. Legal Liability, "fair use" policy and Defamatory content
    

Its due to these issues that i have put some links above but since the above issues are lengthy once again i will take upon myself the task of regularly updating my readers on this issues especially with respect to the legal bits(there you have it free legal advice) .I'm sure non of the bloggers would like to find themselves facing hefty legal charges and fines for defamatory articles, one can even get arrested or the blog removed from blogger or other platforms!Keep tuned to these blog.Interestingly next month i will have accumulated nine years of experience as a blogger,my first blog being a personal/private one!