brushparke:

www.samuelonongha..com

that is quite a beautiful blog, but last updated 6 months ago! I am sure if samuelonongha knows that he could generate income from his "Intelligence First" blog, he would be posting everyday to build content. his niche is a potentially fertile one.


this proves my point again that the dearth of Nigerian bloggers in the blogosphere is rooted in our ignorance that we could make money from that favourite pastime.

that wont also stop us from participating in "excellent forums" like nairaland, if I must quote Seun.

gbengaijot:

Mine used to be www.gbenga.blog.com but i am moving to www.naijabrains.com and anyone who is willing to be a volunteer blogger with me can always .

gbenga, that is quite an active and informative blog. I couldn't access your naijabrains.com, Is it still under construction or what?

Seun has close to 10,000 visitors daily- that is a terrific traffic, but you will be shocked to learn of his abysmally poor CTR (click through rate). Why? because we have refused to embrace the techniques of optimizing our sites

How do you know I have an abysmally poor clickthrough rate? What do you think I make from this site? Is this a trick to make me reveal my income? I may not be as incompetent as you think.

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aderaskeey:


Do you know that our million times goodwill to Seun would not have stopped him from closing shop if he had not monetized Nairaland. Why not let us go the whole hog by telling our people the TRUTH about monetized blogs. In two weeks since May 14th, I have had a poor but encouraging blog-traffic of 162 guests and an Adsense earnings of over $34 Dollars. All on my http://tahitianoni..com

If You truly want an explosion in the Nigerian blogosphere, then you must point the way to Nigerian bloggers. MONETIZED BLOGS!

HAHAHAHA I hope you know what you are talking about

hi friends,

i am a very transparent fellow. i am not an alarmist. Kazey and Seun are one of the very esteemed and respected leaders of the web. i can't help but reverr your achievements as webmasters and traffic builders. I bow to the God of Heavens who enriched you with such rare talents and wisdom of leadership.

this is the basis of my projection: as at December 2005, seun had 17,000+ registered members on nairaland and a daily traffic of 5,000+. Now if Seun now has 26,000+ registered members (an increase of over 52% in 5 months!); is it not logical to project a conservative daily traffic of over 7,500 now?

Seun, What is CTR? when i said "abysmally poor" i don't mean failure or lack lustre performance. with an impression of over 7,500 daily if you have 500 daily clicks, that is a superlative achievement!!! but the ctr of that would be around 6-7% that is what untrained eyes may call "abysmally poor ctr"

But that is where the story ends! At the very low-end and impossible side of say, 15 cents per click, that is $75 dollars a day and and $2,250 Dollars a month which translated to at black market rate 146:1 over =N=328,000 per month.

Seun, you are a leader, don't descend to arguments of adsense earnings with me, afterall, you have said it many times here and on "Technology Times" that you earn more than what a telecom, oil & gas or banking graduate takes home. permit my speculative and idle projections. i know it is an insult to your current level of adsense income

I know of friends in US and Europe who had 5 to 6 websites before they could cumulatively gross 2,000 dollars from adsense, and even at that, their combined traffic for the half dozen site don't come near 30% of Seuns's traffic.


"Ohun ani l'angbe l'aruge; eba mi gbe 'Treasure' yi l'aruge" My brother, I am exceedingly proud of you, don't diminish your destiny, you ain't see anything yet. If you don't know, it is not late for you to know that, you remain an inspiration that cannot be annulled for some of us. even if our age doubles yours. the age of Methusella has nothing to do with the wisdom of Solomon. Period!

Finally Kazey, moneytized blogs is not the type that i created on blogger.com You guys are more experienced than me on the web i am just about 14 months old in the game of numbers. Kazey, don't begin to scare newbies with an attitude of "HAHAHAHA I hope you know what you are talking about". Sharon Guirel is not anywhere better intellectually than any of you guys, yet she makes a cool 650 dollars per day from just ONE WEBSITE!!! If she could I believe we can do better. when I say we, I mean you guys and any body devoted to better their lot in this our noble calling as web entrepreneurs!

I have made good (and I am still making) money from affiliate marketing. My adsense experience started in August last year, but i was sleep-walking until I woke up in April/may this year. So

Now I get your point Thanks for being explicit.

check out - www.davidylan..com

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Thanks gbenga.

newayz i am not of the "Rich" adenuga stock, we happen to come from the same area though.

Aderaskeey,
Commercial blogging or whatever you choose to call it depends on what you want from blogging.

I know the tricks of the trade in making more money from AdSense and the other Adverts. But most of them are "black hat SEO" (tricks such as cloaking and spamdexing).

I cannot tell you what I am making online from AdSense or Commonsense.

N.B:
Sokari Ekine is still on http://okrasoup.typepad.com/black_looks/

But that is where the story ends! At the very low-end and impossible side of say, 15 cents per click, that is $75 dollars a day and and $2,250 Dollars a month which translated to at black market rate 146:1 over =N=328,000 per month.

Ok that is way, way, way more than I earn! All the other stats are overestimated, except for number of impressions (Nairaland has many pageviews per visitor). That'll be my last statement on the Nairaland pittance.

@david dylan, thts cool ooooooo. anyway, our far with ur end?

@david dylan, thts cool ooooooo. anyway, our far with ur end?
I am having trouble putting adsense on my blog, its not displaying seems like it doesnt display javascript. you have any idea what i can do?.

Now we getting somewhere guys! estimate or no estimate, we all have our own lives to live! keep clicking Seun and here is my Blog http://whitesoftx..com/

gbengaijot:

@david dylan, thts cool ooooooo. anyway, our far with your end?
I am having trouble putting adsense on my blog, its not displaying seems like it doesnt display javascript. you have any idea what i can do?.

I dey kampe! thank you. You have to sign up for adsense and then they automatically add the ads to your site. I use blogger so the html popped up in my template. i have no idea how. i signed up, indicated where i wanted the ads and voila it was there.

I totally agree with not creating a mirror of nigerianbloggers it is more than duplication of effort. lets innovate instead of undermining something thats already taken off and is successful and I would like to know more about the "black hat SEO" (tricks such as cloaking and spamdexing).

I have the best KEY WORDS for SEO to boost your traffic. But I am not giving out the inventory gratis.

It is for sale.

Just contact me and ask for it and I will tell you the price.
I will just give you the link to confirm how the KEY WORDS can boost your traffic and I will give you all the KEY WORDS.

raskey, I have changed my blog name to realities2006..com

I appreciate your constructive criticism.

wande:

raskey, I have changed my blog name to realities2006..com

I appreciate your constructive criticism.

Wande, that's a nice blog. . . Are all the stories true -- they're pretty engrossing? If you worked on your writing style a bit you could consider making money from writing .

Thanks Zahymaka , it is actually a true story.

Mine is

www.nigerianamerican..com

@Ndipe
I am not trying to be rude or show off but damn since april till June U have made only ONE post

View this http://queenzy.

It was for a school assignment, that's it


Queenzy, that is a very informative website you have there on poverty. Keep it up!!

Thanks Ndipe.

U can also post issues on that blog. Besides U choose a nice layout for it

Poverty. UNICEF. Hmmm. Keep it up, Queenzy.

You are welcome

Actually, I posted several other posts, one of them about childhood memories in Nigeria. For some strange reason, it is not uploading.

But yeah, the picture of the little boy crying on your blog really touched me.

Seun:

Poverty. UNICEF. Hmmm. Keep it up, Queenzy.

Thanks Seun. I so much I appreciate.

Ndipe:

You are welcome

Actually, I posted several other posts, one of them about childhood memories in Nigeria. For some strange reason, it is not uploading.

But yeah, the picture of the little boy crying on your blog really touched me.

Thanks Ndipe
That picture was to really potray what I was speaking about. Children crying, suffering and dying everywhere.

But I hardly come across these suffering and dying children (except those that are frequently beaten up by their 'well-meaning' parents). And my neighbourhood isn't a rich one or middle-class one. Where are they hiding?

Seun, they are destitute, ain't they? No home, No food, No shelter, No hope, infact, No No. so, if you see them in street A today, dont expect to meet them there the next day because they keep on moving on, what you can do is to HELP them whenever, whereever and however you meet/see them. they need our help!

Anyways, I still keep blogging here: http://whitesoftx..com, its all about human rights and IT.

There is this new online nigeria forum check it out www.naijablogvillage.com