Monday, March 19, 2007

South Africans now using Blogs like never before


Bloggers have been growing in stature but now only taking flame in South Africa.


There are now more South Africans lately making use of blogs & its fast becoming a big trend amongst families, friends, corporate workers, etc.


Blogs which was first used by high end techies in South Africa is now also used by many website owners, website designers/developers & webmasters to promote & optimize their website rankings for Googlebot.


More people use the blogs as the platforms available allows anyone to create a blog in a few simple steps.


Many users also use the blogs to get their voices heard against large corporate e.g. http://saeagle.wordpress.com/ which can be use to express your frustrations, etc.


South African users also use their blogs to post on topics such as politics & to update company website. Some government public private partnership initiatives like e.g. http://roadsafety.wordpress.com/ is some of the blogs used currently to support government.


You can also register your free blog at either http://www.blogger.com/ or www.wordpress.com

Bloggers can submit their blogs to http://www.technorati.com/ & they also have a cool feature which you can use to ping your blog every now and then so it can pick up all your latest updates.


You will have to register on Technorati website to be able to make use of all its features.

There are currently over 70 million active blog users world wide.

Have a nice week :-)


Nelio de Sa



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