Web Design and Marketing South Africa

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I’m fortunate enough to be doing an internship at a very exciting and professional Web Design and Marketing company located just-off-the-beach in Gordons Bay, South Africa. The focus of PixelFuel is to provide professional and clean Online Identities, powered by WordPress, to the individual, small to medium-sized business owners as well as larger corporate groups. [...]

South African Affiliate Networks

As your blog or network of blogs grow you will ultimately move into other areas of “monetization”, apart from the traditional contextual banner and text ads from services such as Adsense and Addynamo. Most people will agree that using your blog to promote affiliate products can  be a great second source of income and will [...]

SABlogAwards 2011 Now Open

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Registration for the annual SABlogAwards is now open. If you’re a South African blogger who spends countless hours creating awesome content for faceless crowds and all you have to show for it is a calloused wrists and elbows….. then the SABlogAwards is for you. It’s your chance to get the recognition you deserve, the five [...]

Geotag your website

Geotagging (also written as GeoTagging) is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as a Geotagged photograph or video, websites, SMS messages, or RSS feeds and is a form of geospatial metadata. – WikiPedia When applied to websites you basically show your visitors and search engines where the post comes from [...]

South African Blogger Reddit

I recently started two new subreddits (or reddits) for South African bloggers. You can now use RSA or sabloggers. RSA being for all news regarding South Africa and sabloggers being for all South African bloggers and SA blogging resources. Update : I only now remembered the South Africa (southafrica) subreddit, so feel free to use [...]

Free Resources For South African Bloggers

As you might already know, I’m a South African blogger and I manage a bunch of South African projects, which on average, do better than my “international” blogs. In my opinion this is simply because it’s more targeted and relevant to that specific audience. Also you don’t have as much competition for your topic on [...]

South African Social Bookmarking Service

Being a South African blogger, it is important for me to be able to showcase my work to an international AND local audience. A great way to do this is by submitting the latest articles from all of my blogs to international and local social bookmarking services. Unfortunately the only social bookmarking service made specifically [...]

South African Bloggers Network

I recently noticed a lot of South African bloggers mentioning a Ning powered Blogging Social Network, located at http://sabloggers.ning.com . It seems, however, that the site was closed down. I decided to setup a new Ning powered community at the same adress. So, if you’re a South African blogger who would like to share and [...]

FNB finally answering our Paypal prayers

It’s not exactly official, but it seems that Paypal could be available to South African users, in it’s full glory, come April. According to the Twitter buzz FNB is in talks with Paypal to make their services available to South African users in April 2010. So far FNB has kept quiet, but did confirm rumors that [...]