Top 9 Most Trending and Influential Young Bloggers in Nigeria 2014

Blogging is most trending in African Countries. Many have come to see the power of blogging. This has been activated through plenty of local contents from the continent. Many African Youths especially from countries such as Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Ghana e.t.c have made attempt to venture into the Blogging sector.

For now I'm going to mention nine Nigerian youths in the watch:

No 9: Darlinton Omeh

 He is a Tech Entrepreneur based in Lagos. Founder of wealthresult.com. and contributor to Bizham.com

Best Qoute: “What you know determines what you'll become. But most of the times, people are enslaved by ignorance and those that knows, take home all the wealth and stay in comfort! That's why you rather be in the 'Know'”

He says, “You Can Build Something out of Nothing”

No 8: Don Caprio

He is a seasoned blogger and web designer. He owns one of the top ten most popular blogs in Nigeria, Doncaprio.com, which has become a brand on its own. Don offers helpful tips on blogging, coding, and tech. His blog has over 12,000 -20,000 newsletter subscribers and records several thousands of page views daily.

No 7: Jide Ogunsanya

Jide Ogunsanya owns Ogbongeblog.com, a blog popular  for its helpful tutorials on how newbies can start their online businesses and make money throgh internet. On his blog, Jide offers blogging tips, online business ideas, technology tips, and lots more. He is also a graduate student.

No 6: Bamidele Onibalusi

This “wonderkid” started blogging in 2009 at the prime age of under 18. Since then, he has been a successful freelance writer, producing content for high profile clients, and making thousands of dollars every month from freelance writing alone. On his blog, Bamidele Onibalusi shares proven success tips for freelance writers. He started withYoungprepro.com but recently changed the blog’s name to one that more closely reflects the scope of the blog, Writersincharge.com. 

No 5.  Chude Jideonwo

Chude Jideonwo is the CEO of RED media group. He owns YNaija.com (culled from “Young and Nigerian”), a blog has been nicknamed the “high priest of Nigerian culture.”

The youth-oriented blog has segments for daily news, politics, opinion, enterprise, TV, teen, and lots more.

No 4.  Loy Okezie

Being a graduate of Business Administration, Loy Okezie chose to carve a niche for himself in the technology world. His blog, Techloy.com is the best tech-related blog in Nigeria. The blog features authentic breaking news in the tech world, tech product reviews, and tech market trends, among many more. Loy Okezie started blogging in 2008, with startupsnigeria.com, but as the blog saw exponential development, Loy changed the name to “Techloy.”

No 3.  Mola Ogundele

Mola Ogundele is the founder of Notjustok.com, Nigeria’s best known online music brand. The blog features the hottest gist about the Nigerian music scene. 

No 2: Nmachi Jidenma

She is of no doubt,  She has firmly established herself in the blogging business, with her blog CP-Africa, which has become a domain for getting latest happenings in Nigeria and the African continent. “Celebrating Progress Africa”, which the acronym stands for, is the owner’s dream place of projecting the good side of Africa to the world.

As more and more get to know about the concept of this site, its popularity is sure to triple in 2013 and beyond. As a respected female blogger who started sharing her ideas on her Facebook wall in 2009, she later moved to Blogger platform and then to her current domain which now has PR5, Alexa 96,000; Domain authority of 49, More than 40,000 Facebook likes, and large number of  subscribers. And …………

No 1: 

 Jide Ogunsanya

This guy really deserves to be mentioned in this blog.

He is the young Microbiologist-turned-blogger, and the man in the pilot’s seat at Ogbongeblog, a multi niche blog with interest in writing blogging tutorials, media and money-making ideas. His knowledge of Java Programming has helped to position Ogbongeblog as a place to acquire some basic SEO skills.

Ogbongeblog is really pulling crowds especially amongst the youths in Nigeria, because of the special tutorials on blogging and internet related solutions it provides to readers. average Pageviews of 220,000 per month.

How To Park Namecheap Domain in Blogger

What is a domain parking page?

When you have registered your domain name but do not have your website ready yet, you can setup a parking page (Website Coming soon page) to be displayed on web browsers when users try to access your domain.

Namecheap allows you to park domains for free. You can even customize the parking page to display your own text.

How do I use my domain with my Blogger account?

In order to set your domain to your Blogger account, you need to take several simple steps:

1 Set your domain within your Blogger account.

Once you login to your Blogger account you need to click on Settings tab and choose Basic.

Then you will need to click on Add a custom domain button under Blog Address field in Publishing section:

1 Once this is done, you will see a field to put your domain name in. Input the domain name and click Save button

Note: blogs are not to be placed on bare domains (like yourdomain.tld), so you need to input a subdomain, for example, www.yourdomain.com or blog.yourdomain.com

1 Once the page refreshes, you will see two CNAME records which should be created in your domain’s Zone File

1 Now you may create necessary records for your domain in your Namecheap account

- You need to sign into your account, mouse over your Namecheap username on the black bat at the top of the page, then click Manage Domains on the drop-down menu;- Click on the domain itself (please make sure to click on the domain, not just check box next to it);

- Click All Host Records in the left-hand menu. (Note! If you do not have All Host Records option for your domain, this means your domain is pointed to third party nameservers and you need to contact your hosting provider to create these settings).

- Here you create two records for your domain. For your @ field you puthttp://www.yourdomainname.tld(make sure you put your domain name and do not forget  about the http://www. part) and choose URL Redirect as a record type from the drop-down menu.

- In the www field you put ghs.google.com and choose CNAME as a record type from the drop-down menu.

- Enter the value listed under Name, Label, or Host field in "Host Name" field, verification string (xxxxxxxxxxxxx.domainverify.googlehosted.com.) listed under Destination, Target, or Points Tofield in "IP Address/URL" field and select CNAME from the "Record type" drop-down menu under "Subdomains Settings"

- Then please click Save Changes button at the bottom of the page.

  
You may see an example of settings below:

And that's it! It may take up to a couple of hours for Blogger to verify settings created for your domain.