Archive for March, 2008

Independent Publishing Platforms and Aggregators

For a professional look to your work as an independent online publisher, various tools are used to facilitate independent publishing. Some of the tools such as publishing platforms or Aggregators are available as open source softwares or for a fee.

Below is information from one of the leading authorities in News aggregation, Mysyndicaat which allows Independent online publishers “news/content” collection pipeline from various sources and the ability to publish directly to your site.

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Independent Publishing:Basic SEO Tips

To monetize by your blogs or website one needs to drive maximum traffic via major search engines by gaining good page ranking on Google, Yahoo or MSN. This is achieved majorly by having good and relevant content.

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Independent Online Publishing In Kenya

Recently Kenya was named as the next technology Hub in Africa. Google recently chose Kenya as the headquarters for its African Operation overlooking South Africa meaning in a few years the ICT industry in Kenya will tremendously grow creating job for the many who are unemployed.

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The major obstacle currently is lack of cost effective broadband Internet connection in rural Kenya. Currently Kenya is laying fiber optics network nationwide to connect to The East African Marine Systems (TEAMS) which will lower the cost of broadband connectivity substantially in rural Kenya.

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