The Internet is in an uproar over the Stop Online Piracy Act. The battles lines are drawn. Big Media (the record labels, movie studios and TV networks) support the bill while Big Tech (search engines, open source platforms, social networks) oppose it. The bill, introduced to Congress by Representative Lamar Smith, is ostensibly supposed to…

Poor bounce rates on a website is one of the easiest ways to bleed pageviews and while sometimes you can’t help it when users leave your site after a quick read there are some “best practices” you can implement in your writing and throughout your sites structure to ensure your bounce rate doesn’t reach astronomical…

The use of "www" in website addressing will make a comeback with new top level domain names. Type in any correctly configured domain name and you don’t need to include www. Technically www is merely a subdomain, that is why you usually see ads that just promote something like DNW.com instead of www.DNW.com. People know…

There are as many different types of bloggers as there are faces. But there’s something that every single one of them has in common: they all started with a hope, an excitement, a feeling that what they were beginning could actually be something. And if they could just do it the way they could feel…

Google has trained us, as searchers, to believe that the top results are the best fit, most relevant and the most likely place to find the answer to our question. So the top of the search results is right where every site wants to be because, that is where the traffic is. Google may decide…

There’s no secret that times are tough right now. Money is tight, jobs are scarce and that’s true across all professions, including bloggers. It doesn’t matter if you’re an amateur blogger doing it mostly for fun, a part time blogger doing the work as a secondary income or a professional blogger who does this to…

WordPress and iPad are two pretty significant things in my life right now. Recently I bought my very first iPad and, inbetween playing World of Goo, making music on my Korg, and buying apps, I’ve been trying to figure out if I can replace my laptop with my iPad so it can be my number…

I am often asked whether it’s recommended that a person buy the .net and/or .org domain names when they purchase a .com domain name. In my opinion, the simple answer is yes if you are going to develop your brand name, but no if you aren’t. While it’s nice for a publisher to own other…

What Is A Blog? It’s quite clear that if you want to make money on the Internet and want to increase the Search Engine Optimisation (S.E.O) of your website then, without question, you absolutely, 1000%, NEED A BLOG! 77% of Internet users read blogs (you are reading ours right now!) and that, right there, is…

Wordpress is probably the most popular blogging platform in Nigeria and of course, the world. There are other popular and free blogging platforms out there like Joomla!, Blogger and Drupal, but WordPress has been able to carve a niche for itself because of its eztreme simplicity and ease of use. For those that don't know,…

When it comes to setting up your own blog, it’s pretty well understood that you need to have your own domain and that it needs to be under your control. However, people view the process of setting up a domain as being completely different from that of setting up hosting. Where most people are meticulous…

The Internet's been around in some form for decades. It wasn't until the mid-80s, though, that the Web as we know it started coming together -- and those precious dot-com domains started getting snatched up. As we finish out the tech-centric year of 2008, we thought we'd take a look back at the Internet's oldest…