Blogging on techy africa claude ayitey

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A lecture I gave on Blogging and on Techy Africa on Friday, 12th April, 2013 during the Business block in my class, MEST 2014.

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It sets you apart!!!

Techy Africa

we started by

Charles

Mensah in

early 2011…

and I joined

last

December.

The Team

Startup action in Africa, especially

related to software

entrepreneurship

To Write About What?

How Far?

How We Publicize Articles

231 fans

493 followers

45 followers

Content

Content

• Text – easier in SEO

• Images liven up reading

• Use links – shows you have read

• Beware of Copyright

• Self Generated.

• Ask for input from concerned

individuals

• Example from StarAfrica.com

• Comments?

Monitoring Traffic and Rankings

• G Analytic

• Couldn’t pay for Kissmetrics yet

• Facebook Analytics

• Google Trends

• Alexa.com

• Technorati – claim your blog

• Simple Google searches

SEO and all…

• Google AddURL

• PageRank(tm)

• SEO in wordpress

• Blog post meta tags

Spammers are here too?

• Spammers are everywhere.

• Spam-proof with plugins.

Blogs for the Globally Successful…

WordPress? What’s that?

Who’s on WordPress?

Thank You!