Top 4 content tools for Nigerian Bloggers

With millions of blog posts published every day, there is the need for bloggers to be conscientious in planning and developing engaging content for their unique audiences and business needs. Every blogger in Nigeria understands how difficult it can be to create original, interesting content as unlike it is with ordinary information, content is specifically targeted and the emphasis is usually placed on quality over quantity. Luckily, there are certain tools available for bloggers to sweep their content before publishing it, helping to maintain the quality of their posts and reduce chances of plagiarism. Jovago.com, Africa’s largest hotel booking portal lists 5 of these tools below:

Grammarly:

Perfect for beginner bloggers, Grammarly is a browser and application extension tool that helps check content for grammar and spelling to a far further extent than the default program on your computer or word processor. It can also check your content against 8 billion websites for plagiarism. All you need to do is Copy and paste your article into Grammarly’s online grammar checker to how it performs against checks for spelling, sentence structure, punctuation, style, and more. While the full version of this tool is not free at $11.66/month for a yearly contract and go up to $29.95 for just one month, it is very handy as it can be used in Chrome, Outlook or Word.

Hemingway

Although a grammar checker continuously compared to the Grammarly tool, Hemingway is slightly different as it creates a way to check content for readability : it checks your content structure, analyzes your text for readability, highlighting sentences that are a bit too complex or dense. The Hemingway tool is easy to use, all you need to do is simply copy and paste your content into its window. It is normally free and can be used on its website, however, you can also download the desktop application for Windows or Mac, at a cost of $9.99.

Headline Analyzer

Most bloggers focus a lot on the body of the blog post, failing to pay attention to the headline. However, the headline is actually what attracts readers to your post and while you spend time on article content checking and correcting grammar, spelling, and overall structure, you need to optimize that headline as well. The CoSchedule’s Headline Analyzer tool, a free handy online tool helps you analyze your tentative headline, giving you a detailed, graded report on it withing seconds. It scores your headline quality and rates its ability to drive social shares, traffic, and SEO value.  The report, gives you many practical tips on how you can make your headline the best possible.

Portent’s Content Idea Generator

One of the difficult stages of writing a blog post is the idea generation stage. For most bloggers, coming up with fresh ideas can be an arduous task, especially when they do not have access to external sources. The Portent’s Content Idea Generator tool comes in very handy as it helps the user to generate ideas for blog posts. It is easy-to-use and require no training whatsoever, all the user has to do is enter the keyword of choice, then hit the “arrow” sign. The tool then come up with as many titles or topics to blog about as possible.

Ndem Nkem

Travel/Tech Writer Jovago Nigeria

Top 3 ways Nigerian bloggers can make money without Adsense

The first go-to for any Nigerian blogger when it comes to monetizing their blog is AdSense.  It is no surprise as AdSense is one of the best contextual online advertising networks for any blog as well as one of the safest blog monetization networks available to today, thanks to the quality of ads and recurring income it generates.

 

Adsense is however not for newbies. Basically, before you can earn tangible income through Adsense, your traffic must be in tens of thousands, nothing less, and new bloggers find this very frustrating, even discouraging. Luckily, there are other ways bloggers looking to make substantial income with their blogs can monetize their blogs without Adsense. And with that in mind, Jovago.com, Africa’ No.1 online hotel booking site offers top 3 ways Nigerian bloggers can make money without Adsense.

PAID ADVERTS

This is an easy and direct way to make money for your blog. You find a lot of Nigerian blogs already doing it, with LindaIkeji blog and BellaNaija blog at the forefront.  All you need to do it is sell space on your website for advertisers to display a banner. Deals are worked out so that an advertiser can display an ad for a fixed amount of time for an agreed fee with the blog manager. This can be a very lucrative method as it allows you to cut out the middleman and charge what you want for other people to advertise on your site.

AFFILIATE MARKETING

This method is slowly gaining recognition in the Nigerian online media market. Affiliate marketing is a huge money maker as it can earn any blogger a sizable income from their blog. It is also an easy process: You place ads or links of your chosen affiliate product/service on your blog, when a reader clicks on these links and makes a purchase, you get paid a commission from the product/service provider. It however requires researching and analyzing your niche to understand what your readers are looking to buy. You need to be smart in choosing the product or service you want to promote and you have to make sure you do not overdo the promotion and lose your readers. Jumia, Jovago, Dealdey, etc are some popular affiliate networks. You can also choose to directly join an affiliate program offered by websites like ClickBank, ShareASale, Skimlinks, AffiliateWindow, e.t.c

SELL YOUR OWN PRODUCT

Nigeria is a large society filled with enthusiastic consumers! Rather than just blog about something, why not sell the product, service or skill directly on your website? Perhaps you are a beautician and have whipped up a product that can help people track with skin issues or you are a good cook or chef who has a special spice mix that you use in your recipes,  you could sell these products on your blog for a small fee. Maybe you are a writer and you have short fiction stories or you are programmer and you design apps, you can upload your work or designs on the site and allow people to download them at a fee.  From designing the product, to pricing and marketing it, you are the boss of it all, so, the more effort you put in the more money you can make. With time, they can gain popularity and it becomes a full-time business for you, aside from your blog. The unique thing about this is that you have the world to sell your product to, compared to selling a product in an online shop with a small customer basis.

Ndem Nkem

Travel/Tech Writer
Jovago Nigeria

Blogger to pay US$150,000 for libel against Singapore’s PM

A 34-year-old blogger Roy Ngerng has been slammed with libel against Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

The blogger has been ordered to pay the sum of S$150,000 (3.8 million baht) in installments over the next 17 years, his lawyer said Monday.

 

Under the agreement with the prime minister, Ngerng’s lawyer Eugene Thuraisingam told AFP that his client would pay S$30,000 by Wednesday to cover the costs of an assessment hearing.

 

To pay the actual damages the blogger would then fork out $100 a month for the next five years before the amount increases to $1,000 a month until the amount is paid, which would take a total of 17 years.

 

 

The blogger was found guilty in November 2014 of defaming Lee after accusing him in a blog post of misappropriating state pension funds.

 

A source familiar with the case told AFP that Ngerng had initially asked to be let off the remainder after paying S$36,000. But this was rejected by the prime minister, who agreed to the payment in installments.

Singapore has consistently ranked highly in surveys as one of the world’s least corrupt countries, but rights groups say its leaders have used financially ruinous defamation suits to silence critics and political opponents.Singaporean leaders maintain that the lawsuits are necessary to protect their reputations from unfounded allegations. The blogger initially offered S$5,000 as compensation to Mr Lee, who rejected the amount.
After being sued by the prime minister, Ngerng was fired from his government hospital job for administrative reasons which he did not contest.
He successfully raised more than S$112,000 through crowd-funding but the cash ran out during his defense.

The local media in Singapore is tightly controlled, leaving bloggers and other online commentators as the strongest critics of the long-ruling People’s Action Party.

Uche Pedro wins 'Best Blogger - Africa' at Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards

 

Nigerian entertainment blogger and media star Uche Pedro, founder of Bella Najia, won the “Best Blogger – Africa” category at the awards. Uche beat fellow bloggers Sylvia Kamau (“Style by Sylvia” - Kenya), Aisha Baker (“Baked the Blog” - South Africa)and Theodora Lee (“Theodora Lee” - South Africa) to take home a coveted KCA ‘blimp’ trophy.

Uche and her fellow nominees Sylvia, Aisha and Theodora flew into the US a few days ago to attend the star-studded event.

Commenting, Uche Pedro said;

“Wow! This is such an amazing moment for me and the BellaNaija brand. Thank you to my husband Bode, our wonderful children and our families. BellaNaijarians and BellaNaija team - we made it! Thank you for all the votes and positive vibes. Thanks Nickelodeon for the opportunity and to my fellow nominees, you are an inspiration! To everyone out there with a dream, this is a testimony to never give up, be a rebel with a purpose and vision.”

Congrats to her!

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How To Upload A Logo In Blogger?

Like every person has a unique signature of his own, every company has it's own unique logo which defines the aim, fame and name of the company. It's just like a signature of the company or any institution. Blogger platform has provided option for it'a bloggers to upload their site's/company's logo in place of header text. This gives their blog a unique look and make it distinct from others.

Well uploading a logo in blogger is very easy and simple, then also we are going to instruct you a little bit so that the process of uploading a logo become much more easier and simpler for you.

Step 1 : Open blogger dashboard and go to Layout

Step 2 : Find Header section in the layout page and click on the edit link of that section.

Step 3 : Now Choose any image file (recommended .png format with transparent background) and upload it.

Step 4 : Select any one option like Instead of title and description.

Step 5 : Click on the save button and you're done.


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How To Install Custom Blogger Templates?

Installation of Custom Blogger templates in your blogger blog is neither a very tedious task nor it's too difficult. You can easily do it once you learn how to do it. So here we are going to teach you : How To Install Custom Blogger Templates?

Along with the steps we have provided a screenshot of the process because we know images guide better than words. So let's proceed ahead

Step 1: Open Your Blogger Dashboard

Step 2: Now Click On The Templates

Step 3 : Now Click On Backup/Restore, a new pop-up window will appear then.

Step 4 : Now Choose file from your storage and click on Upload. The Template will be installed successfully.