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techcellent:
Hello,
I want to hand over all my website clients (about 10 ) to a trustworthy Lagos mainland based web developer. You will charge them for any maintenance they need and also for annual hosting and renewal.
You don't need to pay me anything for this but this will be based on our discussion.

Please contact me asap.
08026847945

Thanks

Hi there,
You can be sure your customers are in good hands with me.

Why are you releasing your customers, are you going abroad for further studies? I did the same a couple of yrs back.

Hit me up on whatsapp.
Regards HK

Slaybaby1:
Are you stuck for ideas as to what to write about next on your blog? Well, there’s no need to worry. Below are 7 Types Of Post To Write That Increases Blog Traffic.

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As bloggers we all get moments when we just can’t think of anything topical to write about. Even if you have a list of article ideas that you want to create, sometimes, sticking to the same type of blog post can become mundane and boring to write.

Which is why you have to diversify your content. Your blog is a platform that can stage any type of content if you put your mind to it.

You can embed videos, images, infographics, podcasts, you name it.

In this article, I’ll share 7 types of blog posts that can help you kick blogger’s block to the curb and keep your readers coming back for more.


7 Types Of Post To Write That Increases Blog Traffic

1 LIST POSTS
This type of content attracts lots of visitors each month. These kind of posts can be of any type – Top facts , Recommended Ways , etc. but if the topic is quite interesting, you should see an increase in your traffic in a few days. List posts always get shared a lot on social media sites and are linked back a lot so you will get social and referral traffic as well as a lot of backlinks.

2. RESOURCE POSTS
Resource posts bring traffic and backlinks from different sources.

When publishing resource posts keep in mind that any site or product you mention in the post should be working. It would be better if you personally check all those products and sites and see if they are working before adding to the post.

Though it will surely take some extra time but it will be definitely worth it when people appreciate your efforts.

3. HOW- TOS GUIDE AND TUTORIAL
Tutorials and how-to posts can increase your traffic considerably.
You have to search for problems that a lot of people are facing and put yourself in that situation and apply some solutions to solve the problem. When you are writing a post on “ how to take backup of your blog ”, you have to actually take a backup and show it to your readers using images and screenshots.

If your readers are facing any problems then you will be able to solve them immediately because you too have performed the same thing and you know which problems will come up and which ones won’t.

So if you are good at solving problems, then writing tutorials on your blog will attract a lot of visitors.

4. VIDEO
Videos are amazing and many people love videos! If given a chance to read a 1000-word long post and watching a 4-minute video explaining everything that you mentioned in the post, people will most likely choose to go with the video.

5. MASSIVE VALUABLE POSTS(MVP’S)
These types of blog posts are huge, they’re not your average 800-word blog posts, but more like 2,000+, and, they require a lot of time and effort to create.

Again, like case study articles, MVPs can provide an incredible amount of value and education for your readers.

Cornerstone posts or MVP’s are made up using all kinds of content from various mediums, i.e. text form, video, visual content, graphs and charts, presentations in PDF form, screen-captures, and more.

6. QUESTION AND ANSWER POSTS
These are wonderful posts to create for your readers.

First you have to listen to your audience, ask them questions and post surveys. Find out what they really want to know, and then create a question and answer post.

You can create a Q&A post on a specific topic or a variety of topics. Specifics often work best, for example – Email List Building: 20 Questions And Answers, or Driving Traffic From Social Media: 30 Questions And Answers.

7. STORY TELLING POSTS
Everybody loves to read an inspirational post. Whether you’re offering motivational tips, time management tips, or sharing a moving story, motivational posts can be great little traffic and comment pullers by themselves.

People can relate to good old story telling, especially if it’s relevant, or vibes well with them.

Writing a motivational post also demonstrates to your audience that you actually care about them, and respect their feelings, goals and ambitions.



CONCLUSION
I would really love to know your views about the post and also your experiences and results. Happy Blogging!

Would you like to guest post on our platform?
Original articles only
PM if interested.

regards
HK

Temolad:
Please guys, help me to review my website. please let me know any small or large suggestion that you have for my site. I will appreciate it a lot. Even if it’s a small tweak, please suggest the same. Here’s the site. https://pledgemultimediagh.info
taking some seconds reviewing the website + rating will be appreciated
cc: hostkobo, websitereview, todhost, copycracker, dmayor7, vickwinners and others

1) domain extension is a big-mistake. If at all you must use .info, why not think up something that sounds like a complete word with info at the end.
- pls go find a .com .net

2) Your front page header is too large. Do you think vistiors will want to scroll down after the huge belleza and pledge logo at the top? The combination of graphics makes viewers tired.

3) your choice of colors / color combination are bad.
- You are using a commercial theme for God's sake. Even if you can make it any better, at least you should achive exactly the same look as the demo
- your header has 4-colors: white, grey, red, black (normal + bold)...this is too much color in so little space.
- for the frontpage itself, you have a discouraging grey background black text and you have forgotten that the featured images each have their own colors. At the bottom of your site, you have a send us message with a blue-button

regards
HK

MariaDPettiford:
Great tips, I will take into account things you've mentioned. By the way, nice blog, everything is straight to the point. Maybe you will also be interested in this information https://celltrackingapps.com/surepoint/

thank you.

regards
HK

A high quality blog requires much work, time and patience. There is no shortcut to success. In this post, I present some tips, basically things I have learn’t and which I currently apply on my own journey having a high quality blog.

I wonder why some bloggers duplicate their pages and posts with exactly the same or mostly very similar worded content. Worse is that they give each post a different title. Perhaps, they think that the multitude of pages and posts gives them an edge over their competitor blog. That thought is quite dumb. Whenever I find myself on such a blog, I exit the site and move on as quickly as possible.</p>
<p>A user visiting your site is looking for information and the best service you can offer is providing that information as quickly as possible. Similar ‘content’ pages and posts are a huge turn off. It is better to have a handful of posts and pages with quality info that a multitude that leads visitors into confusion. Quality always wins over quantity

http://www.techtuti.com/5-tips-to-create-a-high-quality-blog/

techliteup:
[url]techliteup.com[/url]

Chief,

I did a review of your site:

1) why is 96% of your content copy and paste?

96% as in 96%

see if you want to focus on tech-blogging, it is better to concentrate on the technology you know, the technology you understand, the news that you have proof of; the technology you can explain to others verbally; the one you have access to.

First of all, copying pasting is not professional, especially when the author/source of the copied item is not credited. It makes you look like an authority on the subject matter, where you are not. Copy pasting is very obvious.

For example: see this your article:

http://techliteup.com/qualcomm-set-unveil-first-set-fifth-generation-5g-phones-2019/

Your second paragraph reads: "Qualcomm announced on the 17th of last month, October that its made the first 5G data connection using the X50...."

1) After reading, the first question I asked is:
- who did Qualcomm announce to? you(techliteup); the tech community? its competitors?, etc
- where did Qualcomm make the announcement? via social media? on its own company website? through a publisher? etc

Even if your own article was re-written, at least assuming some effort and time was invested to write your own article, the bottom line is that you could have verified what you were copying, do some research about the article, the points raised / technologies discussed in the article.....before copy pasting. Make sure it is something you understand, something you can talk about in normal conversation.

If you had done some research and tried to verify the article before you copied and pasted, you would have noticed that the original website where the 5G modem chipset was unveiled, talks about a laboratory, how the test went, what the results were, etc............

"last october" which you refer to........ was actually in June2017 as per original articles (google monthly archives) online......where the story about the 5G chipset started. Several sites have carried the news since June.

Here we are in November2017 and you are saying it happened last October2017.

Sey you see confusion everywhere?

2) Next thing to check will be when the domain was registered, who the blogger is, and why someone in Nigeria is reporting about Qualcomm, a company with a technology that has nothing to do with Nigeria.
- if the report is correct information, good; but when it isnt, this raises a lot of questions about reputation. If someone were to link to your site, even their reputation would be affected.

3) Another confusion: your post has summarily 3-paragraphs and all the point of views are present: first, second and third.
- all on top of a copy pasted article.

I always advise this: Regardless of the niche, blog about what you know, what you can talk about in normal conversation.

How do you evaluate what to publish and what not to publish?

Example: If I met you today and gave you a microphone, and requested that you explain your post (http://techliteup.com/qualcomm-set-unveil-first-set-fifth-generation-5g-phones-2019/), would you be able to give us a 10-mins verbal summary? telling us about Qualcomm, the 5G chipset, the Qualcomm technology?

If your answer is NO, you shouldn't publish the post.

Kind regards
HK

Read here: 5-reasons to limit or completely quit social media

Some weeks up, I caught up with a friend for lunch. He was with a couple of our other friends and his own friends. In the cause of the meal, I chatted up my seat-mate who happens to be a lady, a 3-year career Medical Doctor and aspiring Lawyer. I’ll not bore you with the gist of our discuss, but the most interesting news about her was that she said: “I’m not on any Social Media”.

After our first lunch, I tried finding out why she isn’t on any social media, and her reasons are very valid: time, attention span, relationships, social media addiction, etc,. She’s so vibrant, happy and friendly despite that she isn’t on social media. What amazes me is the fact that she doesn’t even behave as if she is missing something. She is complete without it. Well, I have been doing research and talking to people, asking them what social media they are on, which one they are off, and why. Reasons vary, but personally, I have been trying to reduce my own social media activities for a number of reasons – some of which are similar to what I gathered from discussing the issue with others.

http://www.techtuti.com/5-reasons-to-limit-or-completely-quit-social-media/

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sotimonpe:
Please I have tried to change my supper admin through phpmyadmin but I couldn't find any user under it but I have up to 50 users please how can I fix this problem or who can help me to resolve it .

Thanks
08075800577
Lowoa5@Gmail.com

Hi there,

Yes, I can help you recover your super Joomla admin pass

Hit me up on whatsapp. Give me details. Im online

regards
HK

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CEOcountry:
i co-masters,

By popular demand. as i always do, i will be giving out 2 stuffs today.

A wordpress theme (for wordpress gurus)
A template ( for the love of blogger)

Theme names: Trendy Stuff and Flat Press
Demo: http://themeforest.net/item/trendystuff-multiconcept-wordpress-theme/10191228
and http://themeforest.net/item/flat-press-responsive-blogger-template/6519543


Drop it to get it


Cheers

hostkobo@gmail.com

pls share the theme - wordpress pls

regards
HK

geniusng:
I need a web developer to work on this website for me www polisonline .com.ng

If you check the website on Mobile Phone, the top banner is not showing and the banner below is showing half way.
If you can do it, call me: on 08033398769 or Whatsapp 07083836437

Hi there,

The banner(prime touch) is showing fully.

Has the issue been resolved, or do you still need some help

regards
HK

KanesHost:
If you need help, or have any questions whatsoever, we are here to provide answers.

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Chairman, wrong info is also an advert....

1GB for N4k/year
10GB for N1,500/year

hope you get the gist on the typo....

regards
HK

OyiboUgbo04:
Am not a professional, just something to keep myself busy sometime.
Your criticism and suggestion on how to improve is highly welcomed
http://outravelandtour.com

You can also share your travel experience with us if you wish.

Hi there,

I have a couple of comments:

1) your domain name is not so tongue friendly:
It sounds:
- Out ravel and tour - which doesnt flow with your travel niche
- Ou travel and tour - which means nothing

Meanwhile: outtravelandtour.com would be tongue twisting.

For example, these two domains:
- ourtravelandtour.com .... our travel and tour
- ourtravelandtours.com ..... our travel and tours

are more tongue-friendly, easily pronounced and better remembered.

2) because your domain is not easily pronounced, they would rank lower than a similar better-pronounced domain name.

For example:

The domains - ourtravelandtour.com or ourtravelandtours.com are still available, unregistered as of this writing.

If I register domain name: ourtravelandtour.com, host it, and if I begin to copy paste all your content exactly into this new site, it will rank first before yours on google, even with the minimum or default seo settings.

So you see, choosing a good domain name is a key to your website's success.

3) I want to believe you have not visited all those places you published articles about....... well, for the places you have visited, you can mention that you were there firsthand, and for other information you researched about online, you can give credit to whom credit is due.

regards,
HK

kelechisblog:
In nigeria being an upcoming blogger is hard. No one to help for free, no one to read your contents even copied or original contents.

The worst part of it is that some of your so called friends don't visit your blog, they will visit those already popular sites to read news.

I am kelechi abia. Ceo kelechisblog.com.ng
.
Tho my daily earning is $10 but i still find it hard as an upcoming blogger.

Guys how can i improve my traffic ?

Don't tell me to stop copy and paste or pay you for traffic.

... I know a blogger who is doing copy and paste but his daily traffic is 10k.

Chief Kelechi,

this is a long one, so please grab a seat...............

basically, you have told us that you copy and paste and want to make loads of money from doing that. You should even be happy you are making $10per day, you shouldn't be making anything at all.

Why do you want to cut the wheel? why do you want to climb to the top of the ladder and step over the heads of those that have been on the ladder before you got there., considering you got nothing original to offer.

Dont you know that your copy and pasting actually 'downgrades' your site?

Even if you edit here and there, interchange paragraphs, there are 101 ways to know if its original or not.

Originality is the key to success. Even just a little originality will go a long way.

Let me give you an example:
For ex: website#1 publishes a news article titled: abcdefgh. Website#1 has done their home-work, site-wise, thus after publication, the whole world (internet, search engines, caching servers, google, dns's etc) know that website#1 is the original publisher.

Search engines immediately start publicising the news item, etc. Later you come along, look at the date the article was published, perhaps its not yet 24hours, you quickly copy and paste onto your own website, and you think you are one of the early birds. You are happy.

You start checking your traffic for this particular article and you begin wondering why ppl are not 'reading', since you are early in the copy pasting buisness.

You have forgotten that a host of smarter people than you are behind the wheels of how the internet works and is put together. You have forgotten that you are not the first person who has the copy and paste idea - and who has tried to eat from where he/she did not sow.

Mind you: website#1 has legal agreements with a host of other newspublishers such that immediately an article is published on the original site, theirs is auto published as well. Search engines are able to identify the original publishers and the legal partners via licenses and keys per article(latest technologies even have keycodes per paragraph), thus every other publisher is identified as illegal and copy paster. Search engines are notified of such articles, and would always publish the legal websites first and push all others to oblivion.

The idea of web-logging started with originality in mind, and the real web-loggers out there, have original content.

So you want to improve your traffic?

1) Try to be original. Just try and see the difference.

2) Your blog is about entertainment. Entertainment happens to be the easiest niche many people run into, coz they feel there are so many entertainment related news out there(mostly fake news) and the only work to be done is copy and pasting.

Example:
Your latest post is titled: Men Terrorizing Okigwe In Imo Shot Dead By Police (Graphic Photos)

here are the results of a black search:
- I got 184-links: (91.coms and the rest .com.ng) where similar news existed, with keywords such as terror, okigwe, imo and police, all published in the past 28hours.
- In fact, the exact pictures you used on your site were used severally across board, some more, some less.
- Your site is #136 with 55-words.
- There are 41-blogger backend sites who also carried the news before you published yours.
- of the .coms, there are 17-international websites who carried the news as well.

so you see, you arent faring very well, copy pasting. The less you copy and paste, the better.

TIP:
If you wanted to be original in your latest post, here is what you could have done:
- write a summary of news articles / items regarding men terrorizing okigwe in the in the past 6months. There are several unique incidents online(13+). Insert one picture from each incident into your own article and summarize every story in one paragraph each.

- If you wanted to be more creative, get a map of Imo state online, and after reading the unique incidents, place google map pins on each exact location of the incident as per the news items. Publish the map-picture / google map with an interesting title such as for example: 15-places in Imo State you should not be found after 6pm. You might be suprised you would get a phonecall from ppl asking you what exactly happened in those places. See, you have suddenly become a superstar.

Let me stop here for now.

regards,
HK

DualCore1:
This is how we will keep producing Wordpress/Joomla installers (drag and drop "web designers" ) who will fight tooth and nail for very useless 15,000 Naira websites and the rest of the world will keep on producing web developers who will earn (remotely) a minimum of $15 per hour in a 40-hour week or even go a step further to be freelance full stack developers.

@Mr Fullstack developer,

your reputation is commendable, but please let me take you to school and back.

Is there any software / stack development knowledge that you invented by yourself? I can answer for you: NO

You were once a novice and you learnt through example.

You are on a forum where a CMS not built by the site-owner was installed, he then customized it to his own liking, back-front end. Yes?

You are using a computer where you installed an operating system not built by you, right. Why didn't you re-invent the wheel.

The intenet you are using? why not re-invent the wheel? why not start from scratch?

And the full stack development you know, which part of it is entirely not a result of some wheels already created and crafted by someone else?

The point of the above is: Yes, there is no point re-inventing the wheel - as I said in my post. The fastest way to learn is by an example.

The OP is talking about a CMS and I have given him an example of one. Creating a CMS is not a walk in the park, it goes beyond just understanding PHP and putting a a bunch of codes together. Even after putting it together, the next question is workflow, security, applicability.

Let me tell you how I learnt CMS development, for example: wordpress.... and this is what I meant by my no need to re-invent the wheel.

- I installed it severally on my computers, and got comfortable first with administration

- then I dived into the code, file by file, I researched online and understood what they did, and why the code was there in the first place. I studied the coding style and understood why the codes flowed the way they did. I cross-checked with PHP references - just to give me explanations of what is this and why is it like this.

- I compared implementations of other CMSs. For example: what is the diff/similarity between how wordpress implements their user/admin login as compared with Joomla and Drupal. I checked out a couple of other cms codes as well.

- I figured out how to remove some functionality, add functionality, extend functionality etc., with just a couple of lines of code.... until I could strip it down to its barebones, and assemble it together again. For example, rather than installing a plugin just to get a slideshow, i can easily add my own custom slider-code which is eventually lighter (size-wise). Rather than adding bulky contact forms, I could add a couple of lines of code and my contact form is up and running. If I feel I dont need a functionality, I can easily remove it, thus making the entire code safer as the # of hacker loopholes reduce.

- at first, I couldnt write plugins, but after installing a couple of them, then I'll check the codes and try to understand them, how/why they implemented their functionalities, how other functionalities inter-relate, why this style, why not that style etc; what I can change and what not to change. Now, I can tell how good and secure a plugin is just by looking at the codes.

- I went further into the database and began to investigate what happens in the database real-time as I manipulated the site-administration / code wise; how operating systems handle databases, pros, cons, etc

- as I pulled wordpress apart, I went into Joomla, Drupal, compared both, asked myself why, what this, why that, what if and what if not.
I investigated having some Joomla core-functionality in wordpress without a plugin, and vice-versa; for example: having drupal views functionality inside wordpress and wordpress core functionality inside drupal. Thus, I can easily adapt to a customers request without necessarily re-inventing the wheel and without breaking the bank.

The above learning curve was very short because I have working example CMSs which is almost an industry standard if we can say so. If I screwed things up, I can easily uninstall and start all over, documenting what I learn along the way.

That is why it is called RESEARCH, because you have a lot of examples before you, and you can study what has been done and why it was done the way it is done; what you can add, remove, twist around, and an idea that was not implemented or that was implemented differently from what you are thinking about.

Honestly, before I started all of the above, I didnt know a single line of PHP, although I had some html and css knowledge. After satisfying myself with those 3, I went into their-shopping carts, other shopping cart implementations, forums, etc., and im still learning. Do I know the basics, yes I do, but i learnt it faster than waiting for someone to start teaching me why helloworld in php is different from javascript.

So if you ask me: can I build my own CMS?
Answer: Yes
why: I know how the structure is, what is required, where to start from, where to branch and where to get off

================

Do you know why the rest of the world keep on producing web developers / full stack developers, it is because they have shortened their learning curve.

For example: if we assume a newbie in the USA and a newbie in Nigeria who start learning computer programming at the same time, the USA newbie will get to the market first.

Why, because he will be shown tons of examples of how things have been done, and why. He will get to read of ideas of what has not been done, what projects and going on currently,etc. His natural instinct will start working immediately about what he can do, add, remove, improve, etc. We see him and say he is a genius.

By the time nepa takes light in Nigeria, our newbie forgets what he has learnt.

What does this mean for us: our learning curve must be shorter than theirs to compensate for our other losses "as Nigerians living in Nigeria".

It is one thing to study up, cram up, write down a lot of fundamentals before trying out an example/your first project. It is another thing to understand the fundamentals by example.

What is the best way to learn French: reading, writing, accent? it is by going to France and talking to french people.... by example. Yes, you will also learn it all in French village in various parts of Nigeria, but the non-French speaker in France will eventually speak it faster and better.

sorry the piece is long

regards
HK

LOSKYXANDER:
do you mean a folder in my laptop, that is before I even host the site? Please guide me on a step by step approach on how to go about it, I'm confused. thanks

Sorry for the late reply

Since you are using your laptop, yes install in a folder.

I assume your project is inside a folder of its own, so the cms is a subfolder

regards
HK

NaijaTalkTown:
I am having problems with this CSS codes. First picture is what I want to create. Second picture is my code. Third picture is what i got.
NOTE: The red footer is fixed.

Where is the picture?

LOSKYXANDER:
I am a web designer (I'm not an expert yet). I just completed my first project. it's a blog with home page, about me and contact me. That's just 3 pages. I am self taught by the way. If I am to sell this blog to a client that does not know anything about coding. How do I make it possible for him or her to be able to easily create/edit blog posts including pictures, place adverts on the blog etc. In simple terms, how can I make it possible for my client to have a dashboard where he or she can have control over the blog without having to code. Thanks

Hi there,

let us assume your project home page is at projecthomepage.com. Install wordpress in a folder, for ex: blog; thus it can be accessed as follows: projecthomepage.com/blog.

Rather than spending time re-inventing the wheel, spending a lot of time trying to get around databases, accessing the database, updating, deleting, etc, security; you can pick up a CMS such as wordpress, joomla, drupal, study the publicly available code, and customize it to your own fancy, package it up and launch for your customer.

regards
HK

mrtomola:
Pls i really need help from any guru who knows how to use online webhost or anyone familair to using Hub8.com webbuilder. I have being working on my new web with hub8.com and everything seems good but i hav being facing problem on posting/editing and making use of some tools. I really need someone to patner with or teach me some stuffs on it and compensate the person after. Pls anyone available to talk to about it here pls ?

What tools are you having challenges with? Please explain the problem.

Regards, HK

muyo2001:
can you help redesign a functional WordPress website?

if you are willing and able. pls send us a mail on

career@movepadproperties.com

Hi there,

I can redesign your functional wordpress website

I have sent you a mail.

regards
HK

grandstar:
I already have a domain name.

I need a webmaster who can host it and instal wordpress for me.

i'm not ready to pay more than 10,000 for this

if you're interested, reply me asap.

Call so we can discuss! 08033472004

HK to the rescue,

I sent you an sms as your #s were not going.

regards
HK

Tittusstar22:
nairaland.com hosted by Cloudflare . I have a website for sale (wazobiatvnews).com

Hi there, pls pm me, how much are you selling the site for?

regards
HK

Endico:
Hello,
I have a website currently being hosted by an Indian company that has no cpanel application. I am no longer interested in hosting the website with the India company and so, i need someone who can help me move or do something about the website to help me retain it while i host it with a Nigerian company.
If you can, call me on 07032081981 or chat me on whatsapp: 07087444352 for the website details.

Hi there,

I can help you move your website from your present host to a new host. I can as well host it for you if you dont mind
I have messaged you on whatsapp.
regards
HK

philo4realz:
I just created a blog and I need someone that can drive huge amount of traffic to it, if you know you are up for it, contact on 09025078829

Rather than look for someone to drive traffic to your blog , why not look for content... Better still, bring out your thinking cap. The one who produces the content is the king.

Regards, HK