Chief06: My guy we run over 200 sites... Oldest of which have been around for close to a decade. I speak from practical experience. You want to make it in the game, provide what people want to see, and let them come to you because they want to, not because you're gaming the system.

Listen dude, i ain't gaming the system. What makes one succeed? Isn't it knowing how something works and playing by the way it works? I am sure you do understand now what i mean.

Understand how it works play by the rules (which includes exploiting the weaknesses of some rules). You will definitely come out clean. SIMPLE AS THAT.

blogging is lucrative from what i hear. But wat i want 2 ask the gurus is this. I want to start a blog but i dont know how 2 design a website. Must i be a webdesigner to start blogging ? If no how can i just go about it. Reply me. Lofty900@gmail.com.

I read all these posts with my eyes open. I must say, I've been living under a rock! My fellow bloggers, I humbly beg u all, I am on my knees o, no be shakara, Abeg HOW do I increase my blog traffic? That's all I ask. Adsense can come later. Please guys, just direct me. I keep checking online and see the same thing. Pls how do u do it? Is there a site u direct the traffic from? Pls help! Sincerely: frustrated blogger

No problem.

ribechi:


Listen dude, i ain't gaming the system. What makes one succeed? Isn't it knowing how something works and playing by the way it works? I am sure you do understand now what i mean.

Understand how it works play by the rules (which includes exploiting the weaknesses of some rules). You will definitely come out clean. SIMPLE AS THAT.

You don't need to be a web designer.

lofty900: blogging is lucrative from what i hear. But wat i want 2 ask the gurus is this. I want to start a blog but i dont know how 2 design a website. Must i be a webdesigner to start blogging ? If no how can i just go about it. Reply me. Lofty900@gmail.com.

Incoming links is the way to rank higher for keywords, that's the best way to increase incoming traffic...

berekete86: I read all these posts with my eyes open. I must say, I've been living under a rock! My fellow bloggers, I humbly beg u all, I am on my knees o, no be shakara, Abeg HOW do I increase my blog traffic? That's all I ask. Adsense can come later. Please guys, just direct me. I keep checking online and see the same thing. Pls how do u do it? Is there a site u direct the traffic from? Pls help! Sincerely: frustrated blogger

Chief06: Incoming links is the way to rank higher for keywords, that's the best way to increase incoming traffic...

Well you didn't tell him how he could get such incoming links to his website. I am putting a method together to make this possible on how to get free traffic. The journey starts before you even buy your domain and host. Stay glued to this thread.

Hi everyone,having read through the entire post ,I discovered a lot of people here needs help with making money from blog,getting organic traffic and also getting ranked in google. My one and only advice is you folks to go for google sniper2 its the best solution you can ever think of and also its dead simple to implement or you buy an ad space on nairaland or any other high authority site(depending on the target audience) this option can be expensive though.
Stop wasting valuable time seeking for traffic and conversion how to's that don't work. Majority of Nigerian internet marketer are out to rip you of money that you don't really have.
I knw this for a fact cos majority have never made a cent online ,they make money by simply reselling the bunch of craps they purchase from a fellow like them.am sure they will hate me for saying that.bt you can be the judge.
Everyday lots of craps hit the market promising to get you on the first page of google or getting you high traffic,all I will say is they are mostly time wasters and not worth your penny or time.
As you can see I didn't put any affiliate link or my website link here...that's cos am not here to promote any product but to simply make a recommendation based on what's working for me.
Google sniper is a product that I have been using in the last 2yrs and its been extremely awesome.
For those than wanna quit blogging, Even before they start cos there are lots of bloggers out there,I don't think internet money is for you, go get yourself a 9-5 job, also for those that feel a million bucks is not feasible, wait till you try google sniper.
Am awaiting your success stories.
Demola

demoreon: Hi everyone,having read through the entire post ,I discovered a lot of people here needs help with making money from blog,getting organic traffic and also getting ranked in google. My one and only advice is you folks to go for google sniper2 its the best solution you can ever think of and also its dead simple to implement or you buy an ad space on nairaland or any other high authority site(depending on the target audience) this option can be expensive though.
Stop wasting valuable time seeking for traffic and conversion how to's that don't work. Majority of Nigerian internet marketer are out to rip you of money that you don't really have.
I knw this for a fact cos majority have never made a cent online ,they make money by simply reselling the bunch of craps they purchase from a fellow like them.am sure they will hate me for saying that.bt you can be the judge.
Everyday lots of craps hit the market promising to get you on the first page of google or getting you high traffic,all I will say is they are mostly time wasters and not worth your penny or time.
As you can see I didn't put any affiliate link or my website link here...that's cos am not here to promote any product but to simply make a recommendation based on what's working for me.
Google sniper is a product that I have been using in the last 2yrs and its been extremely awesome.
For those than wanna quit blogging, Even before they start cos there are lots of bloggers out there,I don't think internet money is for you, go get yourself a 9-5 job, also for those that feel a million bucks is not feasible, wait till you try google sniper.
Am awaiting your success stories.
Demola

Clap! Clap!! Clap!!! Very gooD I am glad people who do researches just like I do are here. He has told you guuys some important secrets. Guard intelligently. Good work there man.

ribechi:

Well you didn't tell him how he could get such incoming links to his website. I am putting a method together to make this possible on how to get free traffic. The journey starts before you even buy your domain and host. Stay glued to this thread.

@ribechi tnks for the good words.
Getting incomin links is as easy as ABC,
Hi nairalander,
Just to save your time, I'm going to cut the crap and go straight to what is being discussed here. For the past few months, I have bn testing Lots of techniques and tools to find highly effective backlinks, including .edu backlinks
Dt can really boost the search engine ranking of my sites.
I realized that a lot of nigerian bloggers could probably benefit from it so have decided to share it since Chief06 didn't go into details.
This post originally appeared on my Help site but it’s worth reproducing here as it’s very relevant to driving web traffic to your blogs…
A while ago I asked my email list what topics they’d like
me to write about. One of the top requests was on how
to drive traffic to their websites. So with that in mind…
A blogs survival depends on the web traffic and site visitors they get. And to get that traffic, bloggers and site owners have to promote their sites.
There are various ways to do site promotion, which I’ll
look at below, but they all revolve around one purpose: getting backlinks to your website.
I want you all to forget all the jargons you must have heard.
So what is backlink ? It’s simply a link that appears
on someone else’s site that points back to your site.

In on of the threads here on nairaland, lot of bloggers were asked to post there blogs and websites to on the thread. Now that's are perfect example of getting backlinks as Nairaland.com is an authority site with google pr of 4, alexa ranking of less than 1300, and has backlinks of abt 51,000.

Link building techniques include submitting articles to
various article directories, leaving comments on blogs,
submitting videos to places like YouTube, sending
articles to Social Networking sites, sharing webpage
URLs on social sites, adding your webpage address into
your signature at any forums you’re a member of, and
so on.
The more back link building you do, the more links point
to your site and the more relevance the search engines
place on your site.
Now how do you get Website Traffic
There are both free and paid ways of driving traffic to
your sites. Of the paid ways, expenses runs from a
very modest couple of bucks to $100+ per month for
subscription based services.
While free methods are fine, their big drawback is the
amount of time it takes. The more sites you have, the
more time you have to spend doing back link building.
For the normal akpos with just a couple of hours free in
the evenings to dedicate to his blog, that time can be
quickly eaten up by all the manual backlinking that has
to be done.
That’s where the paid tools start to come in. If you want
to save time , or spend less crafting link building
campaigns, you’re going to have to put your hand in
your pocket. Time is money as they say.
However, various people have various budgets and
while one might be able to afford $100+ per month on a
subscription service, another may only have a couple of

Q: How do I create a link?
A: Well, it’s pretty simple – you hyperlink some words.
But what words you hyperlink is important. The words
you hyperlinks are called anchor text.
Q: What’s so special about anchor text?
A: A lot of people will use their website name as anchor
text, or their name on blog comment for example. The
words you use as anchor text should be the keywords
you’re trying to rank your site for. So, unless your
website name is actually a real, searched for keyword,
you’re not making the best of your back links if you’re
not using keywords in your anchor text.
Q: If I’m building backlinks for several keyword
phrases, should they all link to my site’s
homepage?
A: No. If you have a page dedicated to generating recharge cards,build backlinks to that page using the “generating recharge cards” keyword (as an example). If you had a page
about bis cheat, you’d create a backlink to that
page using a related keyword like bis cheat
Recipe as your anchor text.

Q: How fast should I build backlinks?
A: That’s down to you. They key is to be consistent.
Building 100 links in one day and then no new links for a
couple of months is nowhere near as effective as
building one backlink per day over 100 days. Automated
software will allow you to build substantially more than
100 links per day but, again, consistency is the key. If
you build a lot of links this way, keep building lots of
links, Don’t chop and change. And don’t stop for long
periods.
Q: When can I stop building backlinks?
A: Whenever you want, but backlink building is a long-
term proposition. It’s painful, tedious and time-
consuming but without it your website is dead in the
water. It’s like writing the greatest book in the world
and not telling anyone about it. Imagine if J.K. Rowling
hadn’t sent Harry Potter to the publishers; a better
analogy would be if the publishers had never sent book
to the book stores and just expected that people would
come knocking on their door instead. It’s not realistic.
Q: How do I reduce the pain of backlink building?
A: The only way is to invest in some semi-automated or
fully automated tools. Be aware though that even the
most sophisticated tools like SENukeX still require setup
time for building a backlinking campaign. What paid
tools allow you to do is build more backlinks, faster in
the time available.
Starting With The Free Methods For Driving Traffic
When you’re starting out with building backlinks, it’s a
good exercise to do some manual backlinking so that
you become familiar with the process of building
backlinks to your sites on other websites. You’ll then
have a better appreciation of what the automated tools
can do for you.
Getting Traffic To Your Websites – Free Options
You can also write articles for the various article
directories like EzineArticles, GoArticles and
ArticlesBase (there are many others).
There are other traffic systems available but these are
the ones I’ve had direct experience of. I use all of them
to one extent or another. If you can drive traffic, then
any sales you make will sort out there fees and purchase prices but there’s no denying that some kind of financial
commitment will be required if you want to take site
promotion to the next level.
So What Next?
My advice would be to start small and work your way
up. SENukeX has the most potential (I’m still assessing it)
but it’s also the most expensive and unless you’re
generating sales or have money to burn, I think it’s too
big a financial commitment for most people.
So start small and slowly build your way up, choosing
tools that build links the way you want to build them,
whether that’s in article directories, social networking
sites, forums, video sites or wherever.
Sorry for the long post
Awaiting your feedback

@demoreon, thanks 100+.
U've made my day.I was almost giving up,but not any more.
Blogging is hardwork? Yes,but success in it is attainable. pls can u mail me ur site or mail ID so I can get more doubts cleared.
mine:e.brain78@rocketmail.com.

lillyveezy: @demoreon, thanks 100+.
U've made my day.I was almost giving up,but not any more.
Blogging is hardwork? Yes,but success in it is attainable. pls can u mail me ur site or mail ID so I can get more doubts cleared.
mine:e.brain78@rocketmail.com.

Thanks lilly!
I really appreciate the kind comment and am happy I made your day.
Am also glad you found it useful and i hope you can turn the info into profits in 2013.
All the Best,
Demola.

@demoreon:i praised you also but my post was hidden...u correct abeg

bara pistis: @demoreon:i praised you also but my post was hidden...u correct abeg

Am sorry about that. Thanks for the word. Feel free to ask any question, will answer asap.
Awaiting your success stories.
Demola

demoreon:
@ribechi tnks for the good words.
Getting incomin links is as easy as ABC,
Hi nairalander,
Just to save your time, I'm going to cut the crap and go straight to what is being discussed here. For the past few months, I have bn testing Lots of techniques and tools to find highly effective backlinks, including .edu backlinks
Dt can really boost the search engine ranking of my sites.
I realized that a lot of nigerian bloggers could probably benefit from it so have decided to share it since Chief06 didn't go into details.
This post originally appeared on my Help site but it’s worth reproducing here as it’s very relevant to driving web traffic to your blogs…
A while ago I asked my email list what topics they’d like
me to write about. One of the top requests was on how
to drive traffic to their websites. So with that in mind…
A blogs survival depends on the web traffic and site visitors they get. And to get that traffic, bloggers and site owners have to promote their sites.
There are various ways to do site promotion, which I’ll
look at below, but they all revolve around one purpose: getting backlinks to your website.
I want you all to forget all the jargons you must have heard.
So what is backlink ? It’s simply a link that appears
on someone else’s site that points back to your site.

In on of the threads here on nairaland, lot of bloggers were asked to post there blogs and websites to on the thread. Now that's are perfect example of getting backlinks as Nairaland.com is an authority site with google pr of 4, alexa ranking of less than 1300, and has backlinks of abt 51,000.

Link building techniques include submitting articles to
various article directories, leaving comments on blogs,
submitting videos to places like YouTube, sending
articles to Social Networking sites, sharing webpage
URLs on social sites, adding your webpage address into
your signature at any forums you’re a member of, and
so on.
The more back link building you do, the more links point
to your site and the more relevance the search engines
place on your site.
Now how do you get Website Traffic
There are both free and paid ways of driving traffic to
your sites. Of the paid ways, expenses runs from a
very modest couple of bucks to $100+ per month for
subscription based services.
While free methods are fine, their big drawback is the
amount of time it takes. The more sites you have, the
more time you have to spend doing back link building.
For the normal akpos with just a couple of hours free in
the evenings to dedicate to his blog, that time can be
quickly eaten up by all the manual backlinking that has
to be done.
That’s where the paid tools start to come in. If you want
to save time , or spend less crafting link building
campaigns, you’re going to have to put your hand in
your pocket. Time is money as they say.
However, various people have various budgets and
while one might be able to afford $100+ per month on a
subscription service, another may only have a couple of

Q: How do I create a link?
A: Well, it’s pretty simple – you hyperlink some words.
But what words you hyperlink is important. The words
you hyperlinks are called anchor text.
Q: What’s so special about anchor text?
A: A lot of people will use their website name as anchor
text, or their name on blog comment for example. The
words you use as anchor text should be the keywords
you’re trying to rank your site for. So, unless your
website name is actually a real, searched for keyword,
you’re not making the best of your back links if you’re
not using keywords in your anchor text.
Q: If I’m building backlinks for several keyword
phrases, should they all link to my site’s
homepage?
A: No. If you have a page dedicated to generating recharge cards,build backlinks to that page using the “generating recharge cards” keyword (as an example). If you had a page
about bis cheat, you’d create a backlink to that
page using a related keyword like bis cheat
Recipe as your anchor text.

Q: How fast should I build backlinks?
A: That’s down to you. They key is to be consistent.
Building 100 links in one day and then no new links for a
couple of months is nowhere near as effective as
building one backlink per day over 100 days. Automated
software will allow you to build substantially more than
100 links per day but, again, consistency is the key. If
you build a lot of links this way, keep building lots of
links, Don’t chop and change. And don’t stop for long
periods.
Q: When can I stop building backlinks?
A: Whenever you want, but backlink building is a long-
term proposition. It’s painful, tedious and time-
consuming but without it your website is dead in the
water. It’s like writing the greatest book in the world
and not telling anyone about it. Imagine if J.K. Rowling
hadn’t sent Harry Potter to the publishers; a better
analogy would be if the publishers had never sent book
to the book stores and just expected that people would
come knocking on their door instead. It’s not realistic.
Q: How do I reduce the pain of backlink building?
A: The only way is to invest in some semi-automated or
fully automated tools. Be aware though that even the
most sophisticated tools like SENukeX still require setup
time for building a backlinking campaign. What paid
tools allow you to do is build more backlinks, faster in
the time available.
Starting With The Free Methods For Driving Traffic
When you’re starting out with building backlinks, it’s a
good exercise to do some manual backlinking so that
you become familiar with the process of building
backlinks to your sites on other websites. You’ll then
have a better appreciation of what the automated tools
can do for you.
Getting Traffic To Your Websites – Free Options
You can also write articles for the various article
directories like EzineArticles, GoArticles and
ArticlesBase (there are many others).
There are other traffic systems available but these are
the ones I’ve had direct experience of. I use all of them
to one extent or another. If you can drive traffic, then
any sales you make will sort out there fees and purchase prices but there’s no denying that some kind of financial
commitment will be required if you want to take site
promotion to the next level.
So What Next?
My advice would be to start small and work your way
up. SENukeX has the most potential (I’m still assessing it)
but it’s also the most expensive and unless you’re
generating sales or have money to burn, I think it’s too
big a financial commitment for most people.
So start small and slowly build your way up, choosing
tools that build links the way you want to build them,
whether that’s in article directories, social networking
sites, forums, video sites or wherever.
Sorry for the long post
Awaiting your feedback

Bravo! Bravo!! This is cool

Good morning nairalanders,
DO YOU NEED A WEBSITE TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE?

My first website was an epic mess.
 
I was literally working from my dads
computer in our dining room.
 
(True story.) 
 
It had a black background (wahala!) nd red
Line on the screen (double wahala!). 
 
And here's the thing: it took me WEEKS
2 learn how to build that site.
 
In fact, I'd be willing to bet that it took me
about six months to get anything close to
being "adequate" at building websites. 
 
Today (thankfully), things are a lot easier.
 
There are all kinds of tools and editors that
make things so much simpler.
 
But the question remains: 
 
"Do you HAVE to have a website to
make money online?" 
 
And the answer is simply NO. 
 
There are three ways that I can think
of in reality that require absolutely
no website in order to make money.
 
They are: 
 
1) Drive traffic to an affiliate link.
 
2) Consult with local businesses.
 
3) Flip websites (other people's websites,
that is). 
 
I'm feeling a little hyper this morning (I 
just had a baileys with a 
bunch of chips) , so I'll
focus on #2 and #3 in this post.
 
Mostly because those are the ones
That requires no traffic and have seen a lot of
people been successful with them.
 

Working with local businesses is one
of the most rewarding things that I do.
 
Why? Because
a) it's super easy and 
b) because you help a lot of people.
 
For example, most business owners tink you are a GENIUS if you know anything about what they can do to even SHOW UP online.
 
Which, of course, requires you to basically
wake up and have a heartbeat. 
 
I had one company pay me abt 150k just for 
helping them get a website and show up on
Google. 
 
Anybody can do that. FYI, I outsourced all
the work anyway. lol
 
The second thing I do, flipping websites,
well, it basically requires you sell your websites to a clients
You can also sell other peoples sites and get a decent commission
  
so yeah, this is already the spaciest email I've 
ever sent you. I blame the baileys (sorry).
 
 
Ok, cool, waitin for other ideas.
demola

@demoreon,if other peep in this field clap & bravo @ ur ideas,I think a whole lot of others who want to learn should pay closer attention to what u got to say about online biz.
Well done!

lillyveezy: @demoreon,if other peep in this field clap & bravo @ ur ideas,I think a whole lot of others who want to learn should pay closer attention to what u got to say about online biz.
Well done!

Thanks for that
My advice to all is
Do WHAT the GURUs Do AND NOT WHAT They SAY.

I make over $1000 (one thousand dollars) monthly, now on a regular basis.
I am also paid from N50, 000 - N500, 000 for special promotions of movies and other products.

One thing is this,though i have a passion for bloggin but trust i gat earn with it....Do visit:www.the4trend.com for updates on Education{admission,career and scholarship}, Entertainment{music and movie}, Fashion{beauty and tips} and Tech{computer,mobile and tutorials}....trust me its worth checking out

berekete86: I read all these posts with my eyes open. I must say, I've been living under a rock! My fellow bloggers, I humbly beg u all, I am on my knees o, no be shakara, Abeg HOW do I increase my blog traffic? That's all I ask. Adsense can come later. Please guys, just direct me. I keep checking online and see the same thing. Pls how do u do it? Is there a site u direct the traffic from? Pls help! Sincerely: frustrated blogger

though boss,i dnt knw or wont advise u on illegal means of getting traffic cos it wil hurt ur site...ways of gettin traffic are advertisement of ur site on oda big blogs,forums etc or research on sumtin u knw pple wil like to see or know den share on facebook,twitter and any oda social sites u knw....dnt 4get to publish new posts on ur blog or forum cos it realli brings bck traffic to ur site....Do visit:www.the4trend.com for updates on Education{admission,career and scholarship}, Entertainment{music and movie}, Fashion{beauty and tips} and Tech{computer,mobile and tutorials}....trust me its worth checking out

nex: Well, I'm not a blogger, at least not in the sense which every Nigerian has now become a blogger. I have a blog, but it is actually my own personal weBLOG. I rarely share it. I'm a microblogger though, and a Social Media Marketer. I make an average of N100,000/month tweeting as @Bar_Baric for various Nigerian brands, and in the month of my highest earnings, which I had a deal with Nigeria Breweries, I made up to N600,000 that month alone (July 20012).

Aside from that, most bloggers exaggerate the amount they make from blogging. Ask them for their tax receipts, that's when they'll start sweating. No Nigerian blogger makes millions from blogging! None! Don't be deceived into giving up your day job please!

oga show me the ise na
twitter account just dey dere

Please am new to blogging and i need help both in traffic and guidance, please email me on eneubane@gmail.com

Abujafood:
On my 3 blogs (not including www.abujafood.com) I make roughly N20K per month and I've abandoned them for months not even responding or approving comments.

There was a time I used to dream of earning N150K per month but with so many people going into blogging you're better off chasing other online income sources. That's my opinion!

bro can we exchange sometin or dash me plz with the AdSense

I need blog with AdSense for exchange or sometin