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Happy New Year guys (yes its my first post of the year). Its actually long overdue and the major reason is because I have been down with malaria for days and presently recovering.  I was also banned from  using the internet till next week, but I had to sneak to get this post in…lol.

Anyway, I won’t be doing my first major post until next week; however, I’d like to share a free report I wrote to help you jumpstart the new year.

Its titled “10 Things you absolutely need to do in 2011”

Simply Click Here to Download it. (Right Click & Choose “save as”)

And….Kindly come back on this blog  to comment on how useful it was to you.

See you guys next week.

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Have you ever got excited, started a blog and then few months after, you loose steam? Don’t crucify yourself, you are not alone. I personally find it hard to keep up writing on my blog when I started out. I mean, I still find it difficult keeping to my posting schedule, however this has greatly improved now based on the tips I want to share with you. I strongly suggest you use them as they’ll be helpful in creating the blog of your dreams.

Blog from your heart: I visited quite a lot of blogs and like the writing style of some bloggers. I sometimes feel like I am not good enough and want to copy these set of people. I later discovered that I can NEVER be that other blogger. So what I did was start writing my own way. I’d write like I am talking to a close friend and just do my thing. Guess what? After writing few blogposts, I started getting mails from individuals telling me they enjoy reading my blogpost and like my writing style….

Yeah, I was surprised too….

Advice: Write in your own style from your heart. Don’t compare what you write with other bloggers because sooner or later, you’ll start getting reviews from readers who enjoy how you write.

Report Events: Most individuals reading blogs are either less busy or whiling away time at work. If you have a camera, take pictures and blog about it, it actually helps to keep your readers captivated. Ensure your events relate with your blog. It makes no sense blogging about an event that has to do with computer tutorials on an entertainment blog or fashion blog etc.

Schedule Blog Post: Over the course of the week, I might get the inspiration to write 4 blogpost. The words will come easily, there are other weeks, where I encounter writer’s block. No matter how much inspiration I get, I simply do not write more than twice a week on my blog. If I get inspired to write 4 post, I simply write them and schedule it for 2 weeks, as against posting them all in one week.

Posting with schedule helps your readers know when to expect something new from you.  You could choose once, twice, thrice weekly or even blog everyday. Irrespective, always have a blogging schedule and try as much as possible not to deviate from it.

Ask readers to comment on your post: It will surprise you to know that only a fraction of people who read your blogpost’s will leave comments. Sometimes, it can be draining to write blogpost and not receive any comments. It doesn’t mean that they don’t read. Sometimes, you need to ask them to leave you a comment. Remember, the subconscious mind always like being told what to do rather than taking initiative. So, when next you write your blogpost, always ask people to comment.

So, guys, those are 4 tips to help in blogging effectively. Do you know any other tip? Feel free to share it in the comments too.

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I was chatting with a friend on Skype today and showed him one of my new projects; A Job website that runs on wordpress platform. He then asked me how I was able to put in one of the cool features on my site.

I smiled and told him It was a wordpress plugin.

Over the years, I have had people ask me how I was able to do something special on a particular website or implement a particular functionality etc. In actual sense I have used wordpress plugins to achieve them. Since i get asked a lot of times, I then decided to post my current list of top 5 plugins and why I use them.

Askimet : My blog won’t survive without this. I remembered setting up my first blog (Naijabrains) and was receiving massive traffic back then. It also increased the amount of SPAM comments in my blog too. Azuka advised I install Askimet on my blog and ever since….i have done that on the numerous websites that run wordpress and it’s saved me lots of time deleting SPAM comments

All in One SEO Pack – Search Engine Optimization simply means optimizing your website to rank in Google. Doing SEO sometimes requires learning a lot. Using the All in One SEO Pack can help you optimize your wordpress blog for search engines without having to learn SEO.

Google XML Sitemaps – When you have a sitemap, it helps Googlebot (Google Robots…lol) to find your blog and index it in their database. I love Google XML sitemaps and Google likes it when you have it on your website and really, you should love & use it too

Cool Author Box: If you check Deolu’s post on this blog or that of any other writer, at the end of each post, you’ll see the Author’s name, website and a profile about the author. This particular plugin helps to achieve that.

Google Analytics For WordPress: I started my personal blog two months ago. In the first month, I had 115 unique visitors. In the second month, it went up to 775 visitors. This is the third month and I have 364 visitors already. I was able to know these accurate figures because of the Google Analytics for wordpress plugin.

Those are my top 5 wordpress plugins. So tell me….what are your favourite plug in’s? Leave a comment to share it with me.

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