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Juxtified:
I have a question that has been bothering me. How do sites like Olx - where anyone can advertise their goods and services free of charge - make money? Because I'm thinking of something in that line

1) They offer some premium services, and 2) they make money from advertising. It could be direct advertising or third party advertising.

Between Blogger and Wordpress, which is better?

If blogging is your business, Wordpress all the way. But if your blog is just an hobby...settle for less - go with blogger.

Betboss:
How Important Is Link Building?

How important is link building for your blog is what this article will be explaining so that your can up your game in building high quality backlinks to your blog.

Link Building Definition

Link building accounts for one the most important part of SEO that you should take very serious if you ever want to see your blog rank top for your target keyword on SERPs. Link building can simply be defined as the act of acquiring backlinks for your site. This inludes both paid and unpaid means of acquiring backlinks.

How Important Is Link Building For Your Blog

Link building is a major part of SEO which cannot be overemphasized .Link building is as important as creating quality contents for your blog. To rank high online you need high quality backlinks pointing to webpages on your site. Say for instance, though I can't really say this is how Google algorithm works in other to display results to search queries, but if you are serious with keyword research, you will notice that most of the webpages that rank high on Google search result pages all have one thing in common , which is high number of backlinks. It clearly tells us that backlinks are very important for your blog to rank high online and the act of acquiring backlinks is simply termed link building.

Why Your Blog Is Not Getting Organic Traffic

Having a good blog is one thing, getting it out there in front of people is another task you must take very serious. This brings us back to the base discussion, how important is link building for your blog? Even if you have really cool contents , you should also try to broadcast it, that's simply how you can acquire backlinks to your site. This include submitting your blog post to "social bookmarking sites, social networking sites, forums , related blogs, and any other public directory you can think of. Though some of this sites might have the nofollow tag in the links you submit on their platforms, but certainly their is an increase in your blog authority preference. So if you want to start getting increased organic traffic from search engines , then you should add more effort to your link building strategies.

Is Link Building Still Important?

Link building is still very much important for the health of your site and getting more traffic from search engines. Link building determines how well your site ranks for your target keyword on SERPs. If you get high quality backlinks to point to your site , you increase your chance of ranking high on SERPs which will then drive more organic traffic to your blog. So link building is a major decider on how well your site ranks for your target keyword on SERPs.

Link Building Strategies

There are tons of link building strategies you can implement right away and see your blog backlinks increase. I will leave that topic for another day, but now I will specify some very common but effective ways to build backlinks to your blog site.One of such ways is broadcasting your site content to social bookmarking and networking sites, commenting on high PR dofollow blogs, posting your contents on high PR forums sites and other directories. Its a two-way profit, you gain backlink and more traffic. The more backlinks you acquire the better your chances of ranking high for your target keyword on SERPs. So why not start your link building campaign by following the above methods and see your backlinks sour higher.

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Source: http://herokeys.com/article/why-link-building-is-important-in-seo/

That's a good write up....keep it up.

However, I'll like to call your attention to something, "typo error". After writing your post, before hitting the publish button take some time to read through every word from top to bottom.

Or better, install this google chrome extension "Grammarly". You'll see the big difference in your writing once you install this chrome extension.

Just try it.

amosbz:
Web traffic is the only thing that really matters in internet marketing as location is to real estate so is traffic to website. If you cannot generate targeted visitors to your site, you will not make any sales.

The major tool use in generating web traffic to website is the search engine. Though advertisement can also be used, but it comes with cost. Using the search engines to generate targeted (interested in your product) web traffic is the least expensive method known.
Many website owners do not understand the importance of search engine visibility, thereby placing more importance on producing a "pretty" website. Not that this is bad, but it is really secondary to search engine placement.

Absence of XML Sitemap/Robot Text File
Most site owners often neglect either or both of the above mention files, both serve as powerful document often use by search engine/bot(not all) in getting information relating to your site.

Choice of Keywords
For each post, it is important to choose the right keywords and potential customers will find your site. Use the wrong ones and your post will see little, if any, web traffic.
Make sure your Keywords centralize on the theme of the post and mostly used in the post.

Using keywords that are not related to Website /Post
Unethical website owners/designer try to gain search engine visibility by using keywords that have nothing at all to do with their website. They place unrelated keywords in a page (such as "sex", the name of a known celebrity, the hot search topic of the day, etc.) inside a meta tag for a page. This technique is considered spam by the search engines and may cause the page (or sometimes the whole site) to be removed from the search engine listing.

Read full text here : http://www.cashnetk.com/xpeceg

These things you pointed out are good to watch out for but they're just the basic SEO stuff, plus if you're on Wordpress...some SEO plugins like Yoast will automatically take care of things like XML Sitemap. So you don't need to worry over it.

From experience, the strongest factor that increases search traffic is the quality, quantity and relevancy of external links pointing to your individual webpages.

The more credible and authoritative links you can get to your blog, the more Google believes your content are super useful and that people loves it and find it more useful than others.

This is why you see smart marketers engaging more in content marketing, guest blogging and all sort of link building tactics.

My take...

Brainaic:
Thanks for taking your time to view this thread. I need help with off page SEO, making use of social bookmarking sites to submit manually. How do I go about this? How do you submit a site to platforms like pinterest, Twitter, Facebook and the likes. Looking forward to your responses.

My question is...what exactly do you want to achieve? Is it backlinks? Or what?

Oliviaarims:
Pardon me,what's SEO,please? I want to start up a blog but I'm trying to understand what it FULLY entails first, so it would be successful. Could use ur help,if u don't mind.

SEO is the short acronym for “search engine optimization“, it is the process or technics (not an art or science) you can implement on (on-page SEO) and off your web pages to influence your search engine ranking positions, boost search visibility so that targeted audience who enter search phrases (keywords) related to your business can find your blog content while using search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and others.

And in my humble opinion, SEO is better learn and master from personal experiences, trials, errors, obstacles, victories, reading other people's blog, case studies, research, determination, focus etc….than to depend on someone to supply you a handout.

Here is a comprehensive post that goes more in-depth on what is SEO and How it really works.

http://cybernaira.com/2014/what-is-seo/

philsss:
Bros it seems u are an expert in this SEO stuff
Abeg help review my blog.. www.gistnigerians.com
I think there is sth am missing out that needs correction in other for me to drive more traffic

Sorry for my late reply...

You're doing good with your website but few things I see need improvement or immediate attention are:

1. Readers will find your articles hard to read because you're not making use of short paragraphs. Take a look at this article: http://www.gistnigerians.com/2016/03/ben-murray-bruce-said-nigeria-biggest.html

There is no way am going to read through that long wall of text.

2. Consider linking relevant articles together within your blog contents.

3. Linking out is a good SEO practice but for your type of blog topics, you might not want sending your readers away for more information.

4. To improve SEO traffic, you'll need to get quality links to your web pages and this is an on-going activity. The more credible relevant links you get to your web pages, the better your chances to drive search traffic.

5. But for your type of blog topic is better to go the paid content route because most of your content are time-sensitive. The quicker you get the word out to your target audience, the better. Nobody wants to read yesterday news.

6. Try spending what you can afford without going broke on adverting your content. You'll reach wider audience quickly.

Here is a detailed post I published on how to generate SEO traffic to your blog. It's a massive 3,000 plus post...so read when you're less busy. http://justwebsitetraffic.com/increase-organic-seo-traffic/

In our today’s overcrowded online marketing space, starting a new blog project on a complete zero $0 marketing budget and want it to be successful isn’t impossible, not going to be an easy ride either.

In this post, am going to share with you 6 proven time-tested tactics you can start using immediately to generate website traffic with zero marketing budget.

1. You're going to discover the 6 most proven time-tested content marketing tactics that cost absolutely no money to execute. 2. How to research for high traffic blogs that you can tap into their existing traffic stream and the right tool to use for such purpose. 3. How to set up your blog for maximum search engine visibility from the get going. 4. How to use long tail keywords to improve your blog traffic growth and drive more organic search traffic. And many more...

Read more>>>http://justwebsitetraffic.com/generate-website-traffic-with-zero-marketing-budget/

Deeplydanoo:
Please, Those That Are Good InSEO Should Help Out, Share The Ideas With Us

Drop Comment

I like your style!

Well, I don't claim to be an SEO guru or traffic junkie, but from my experience in online marketing, I can share some tips with you. Some of it will not apply to your niche, especially if you're in the news and entertainment industry.

But if you're writing on every green topic, many of what I'll share with you here will help.

First, if you have started your blog or about to start...take a few moments to examine this things:

Who are your target audience? Are you blogging on a specific topic or your blog is about all topics under the sun?

I know this is not what you're expecting to hear but you see....if you haven't identify your ideal audience but running after how to drive traffic to the blog, you may ended up driving bounce traffic or at most, hit and run readers.

So take that first assignment.

Note - the more you narrow down on your audience, the better for your blog growth.

When you're done, follow these steps:

1. Write less, promote more to the right audience.
2. Always make sure every piece of content you publish are of top quality, if you don't have something better to say, don't hit the publish button.
3. Take advantage of content syndication sites, participate in the community so your content can be seen by relevant top figures in your industry which can lead to mentions in other publications (assuming your content are of top qualities).
4. Answer your audience question with your content not running after high volume keywords. You only need to align your content to a topical keyword in other to give it a boost in search traffic.
5. Always interlink your articles together, most importantly, your earlier posts.
6. Don't be a selfish blogger, in other words....always link out to relevant contents on other people's blog.
7. Links are the bedrock of great search visibility, if you want to generate organic search traffic....do these two things well: Write very top quality content and generate quality backlinks to it (plenty of it).
8. Each of these tips I shared with you stand alone as a content topic that can be explore further, I advice you visit relevant top blogs to learn more on how you can get the best out of each tactics.

Sorry I fogot some...

9. Find out what is onpage optimization and how to get it right.
10. Don't bother about off page optimization because it's all about link building and I already share that with you above.
11. Whatever is not useful for your blog users, remove it on your blog. Make your blog design clutter free.

I can continue going on and on and on......but, start from here first.

Hope this little things help
.

ikihealthplus:
Thanks@op,,,,its easy to get traffic but maintaining the traffic is a difficult task,,,coz I would like a situation where even if u don't post articles on ur blog,,,people still visit ur blog

Yes, it is possible not to be posting content on regular bases and still drive consistent traffic to your contents. It depends on lots of factors and the niche you're in.

If you're in the news and entertainment, technology, events niches etc....You have to be posting multiple times per day, otherwise traffic may drop.

But if you're blogging on evergreen topics, like online marketing topics (blogging tips and tutorials, SEO, affiliate marketing, content marketing, Wordpress related etc) yes, I say it with confidence.....you can be publishing once every week or so and still consistently drive targeted traffic.

Even once every two weeks is still a viable option and your traffic level won't be affected.

I have seen bloggers who blog once in a while and still drive close to 100,000 monthly unique visits. It all depends on knowing what really matters and doing them well, consistently and stop waiting time on things that don't have direct impact or effects on your online business growth.

As a matter of fact, I don't post content more than once per week and am doing okay base on my marketing reach and efforts. If I had put more effort on "content marketing" (note I didn't say publishing content) am sure my traffic growth will increase.

If you're in the every green niche, focus more of your attention, efforts and content marketing strategies on activities that will earn you quality links to your contents. This is because search engine traffic is going to be your surest bet if you want to consistently drive traffic to your contents without pouring out contents upon contents all the time.

Among all Google ranking factors, link profile get the lion share.

Without quality relevant links pointing to a page, even the best of content may struggles to get reasonable search traffic.

goldenmulip:
Can a good domain name I mean just the name be sold for thousands of dollars? Awaiting your views.

Try Google how much domain names like s*x.com, p**n.com, wine.com etc are bought. You'll begin to discover there is more to business than what the eyes can see.

For a blog to be successful, it needs more than just awesome content even at consistent pace of publications – there is more to managing a blog that builds your business than just publishing “great contents”.

You need proven tactics on how to increase website traffic that positively impact your blog growth.

Without it, your publishing efforts might not yield the necessary result.

As you might have seen on the web with so many blogs out there, some blogs so successful that they command regular thousands of readers every month, while many blogs are just struggling to meet up with 1,000 unique visits a month.

What are these top blogs doing differently that makes them stood apart from the rest?

In this 3,500 plus word post, I share 9 prove time-tested website traffic generation tactics the pros are using to consistently drive targeted audience to their contents.

You too can start driving targeted audience to your contents today.

Read more here>>>http://justwebsitetraffic.com/how-to-increase-website-traffic/

In today’s post, and for those ready to take on the challenge, let’s look at how you can increase organic SEO traffic to a new blog with proven SEO techniques that will greatly influence your search engine ranking.

If you’re still in doubt whether your business needs to care about organic search engines traffic, here are some stats that might come shocking to you and make you rethink about your decision.

With 93% of online experiences begin with a search query, and 70% of links users clicks on the search result pages are from the organic result, you should definitely consider your traffic growth marketing strategies to involved tactics that will influence Google organic SEO traffic.

According to another study, search engine is the #1 source of traffic to content websites, 300% more than social media sites. And that SEO leads have 14.6% close rate than other display advertising channels with 1.7% close rate.

That make sense to you? Let’s move on!

In order to attract targeted audience to your blog using SEO to drive traffic, there are certain things you might want to look into first. These small things will serve as the foundation that your subsequent SEO techniques will leverage to maximize your search engine ranking opportunity.

#1......

Read more>>>http://justwebsitetraffic.com/increase-organic-seo-traffic/

SurefireAsoOke:
I dnt think so. Here I'd the 2 major problem:
1. Providing original and quality content.

2. Traffic/makin money with it.

The OP is damn right, except that you're leaving in some area in Nigeria where electricity is constant or you have enough money to burn on fuel, then you might think otherwise.

Your points too are valid and I understand why you mentioned them (many bloggers in Nigeria are copy/paste and lack effective content marketing tactics), but from my practical experience with the impact/effects of constant power supply on the ICT industry and output of an individual blogger/online entrepreneur, except the Nigerian government address this power supply issue with utmost urgency, sincerity, honesty and make it affordable to all Nigerians.......

I doubt if poverty will not gulp up this nation one day.

Let me tell you, sometimes I use to spend four to five days writing some in-depth articles that in a well-favorable situation, shouldn't have taken more than 24 hours to complete.

Why, you may ask?

Answer: no electricity to power my laptop. And sometimes, fuel scarcity, or maybe generator faulty. In fact, just last night I wanted to power on my generator to work on some articles I need to submit for guest post, but to God who created me, the generator couldn't start and no PHCN supply.

Another valuable time wasted.

Compare to some advanced countries that guarantee 24 hours power supply, bloggers can work to any point on his internet business and do all he wants atany time.

mascot19:
Pls help me,i bought AdSense acc, I want to ask if to buy traffic is good

First, you need to know that paying for advertising/traffic hoping that some visitors will click on your AdSense ads is a hit and miss game which in most cases, you're likely to burn your money on candle light.

Starting a blog because you want to make money from Adsense is not advisable, except that you're an established blogger who has vast experience, skills and required expertise to make things work out, this type of blogging mindset is not ok.

Nevertheless, if you need inspiration on how to drive targeted traffic to your website, here are 11 proven tactics that if you put in the required efforts, time and resources will have positive impact on your blog traffic level. They are not magic bullet, each one of the tactics required that you work on it for a reasonable time before you start analyzing your results to see if it worked or not.

11 Kick Ass Tips to Increase Organic Traffic Without Building Backlinks

SEO (Search engine optimization) is one of the most complex tasks to do in online marketing, not many webmasters have the courage to handle it. What most people who run an online based business resort to is outsourcing this area of their internet business management to SEO professionals.

What you don’t know is that besides the technical knowledge/skills require to do effective SEO, great tools are the most important factors that makes the life of any SEO professional easier.

In this post, I discuss with you 28 of the very best SEO tools most search engine optimization professionals rely upon to make their job easier, effective and gives the expected results.

http://cybernaira.com/2015/best-seo-tools/

360jamng:
Talk of Blogging, linda ikeji no go give me chance.

Forum, nairaland no go gree


Music, tooxclusive no gree me

image, instagram no gree


classifieds OLX no gree


Search engine Google no gree

I'm tired!!! Please help out.


Which type should I create?


Any one that gives me a great idea, I'm ready to show love....


Please nairaLanders, Help!!!

Before Google there is Yahoo and before Facebook there is MySpace. and lots of them.

My brother, if you believe in your dream........start taking actions on it immediately.

No one can hold you back, the only person who can do that to you is "YOU".

ProGSM:
The success of a site depends on the hits and this is very very important if you are a blogger. or if you have a blogsite.

I want us to share ideas on how to generate upto 5k PV in a day.

This might seem impossible but it is doable.

Do share with us.

Thank you.

Getting such pageview per day is very much realistic, but it won't come by easily. Depending on how fast you want this level of traffic will determine the strategies you're going to apply.

If you want it so so fast, I mean like you need to generates such traffic rate to your blog in next two, three or even two weeks time.......I would suggest you get your pocket ready for paid advertising or if you know how to get on front page of sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, etc.

Am not not talking about just bookmarking your article to these sites, but really getting your article to be posted on to their very home page.

Imagine if your article get to the front page of reddit and stay there for let's say 10 hours........Am sure your host will send you an email notification of bandwidth exhausted.

Starting a blog with almost zero capital is impossible if you want to have that professional look from a premium theme like what studiopress and Genesis offer..

But sometimes, even big things comes in small packages, and many of the times, "FREE" doesn't mean "CHEAP". If you're on a tight budget or just starting out with your WordPress blog, but want to have that premium blog theme so your blog too, look kinda love-vendor!

Check out these 16 FREE Genesis child themes today, I'm sure you're going to find one that pretty suit your needs and gives you that user experience your readers will want.

http://cybernaira.com/16-free-genesis-child-themes-for-your-wordpress-blog/

In the brick and mortar world, old fashion street/market selling needs lots of customers passing foots to consistently making sales, otherwise……the business will eventually go bankrupt, right?

Same thing apply in internet marketing, a website needs quality targeted website traffic on a consistent basis, otherwise the blogger may throw in the towel and maybe, in some cases, dump the blog and move on with life – end of mission to a dream of building something worthwhile.

Consistently hitting the publish button “may” not be a good approach to increasing blog traffic, especially if you’re the sole author/marketer of your blog, and if you care about quality and not quantity. I mean…if the responsibility of promoting your published content is 100% depends on your efforts – i.e you have no marketing automation in place, no marketing budget, etc…

You will need to slow down on things a bit and figure out how to go about achieving what really matters in blog business – Targeted Traffic.

So….How do you Increase Blog Traffic That Generates Sales?

Here are 5 proven time tested blog traffic generation strategies to help you generates more leads and increases your revenue.

5 Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic And Double Your Sales Today

There has been a lot of hype around StudioPress Parallax theme over the years, either this theme worth the hype or not is a matter of who is talking.

Last time I used Parallax Pro Theme from studiopress, I encounter some CSS styling error, but was wondering if is just an error on my part or something else.

But recently, I created a review blog on Studiopress theme and the Genesis Framework and was hoping someone might have a similar experience to share with us on Parallax theme.

Feel free to leave your honest review>>>StudioPress Parallax Theme Pro Special Review

Thanks.

HAkorehdeh:
I really need an urgent answer. I currently wanna start a review site for Internet marketing. And i am on a very little or no capital. Perhaps, after i receive my first earnings, i would purchase a domain +hosting. Which free platform is better 'wordpress or ' ??


I'll appreciate it more if suggestions are backed with reasons?

Thanks!

My advice here doesn't mean you shouldn't start a "review" blog with free platform, but just want to let you know and understand that you can only do very little with free blogging platform when it comes to a review site.

To build a kind of review site that will attract buying audience, you need a quality review blog with some basic elements on the page.

Base on your current situation, go with blogger.

caoalvin:
please why are Nigerians not paying for any online ideas that someone introduce online be it membership site, online stock report, ebooks etc. Nigerians just love free things both online and offline its not encouraging as an entrepreneur. pls let's know the reasons why Nigerians don't pay for any online ideas apart from webhosting fee, any other ideas they don't pay.

I thought am the only one experiencing this Naija attitude; I usually receive at least three calls each week for one on one internet marketing coaching, when it comes down to coaching fee.......these people will start talking another thing.

It is either they complain of distance, promise to come some other time or just won't show up again. So I think, after spending years, money, time and energy learning what I know today.....putting up a blog and maintain it for 3 years....these people expect me to download everything I know into their skull for FREE?

No way! am not going to do that!

I have writing a book on bloggjng and give it out for free, another one about to complete which is going to be also free, but to say I will sit for hours with you in front of computer teaching you what I know for free? is not going to happen.

Lets face it......among more than 200 Google ranking signals for webpages, "quality and relevancy" of links pointing towards your pages plays BIGGER role in how you rank in SERP.

So how do you find relevant pages with high DA and PA linking to you without you paying or begging for links?

This is what you're going to discover in this short article.

Read more>>>Broken Link Building For SEO with Domain Hunter Plus.

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One thing I didn't like about the pics is that both guys carrying MI are not of same height. If they're of same height and physics it would have been lovely.

You need an image optimizer tool up there in your WordPress plugin arsenal, check out : Ewww image optimizer.

And also a schema code plugin...: check out : Schema Creator By Raven.

BiafranPrince:
This isn't blogger or wordpress template.

Respect us!

OP didn't make it clear he is talking from "developer" aspect, he just saying "is your website mobile-friendly"?

Any one these days has a website/blog, and considering that vast majority of Nigerians uses CMS such as WordPress for their website/blog.....I assume he is talking about ensuring your website is mobile friendly to everyone in general that owns website.

Hope you're clear?

emmyw:
[b]1. Adsense placement matters; I visited your blog and was looking for the ads,why hiding your ads on the footer of your site?

2. Unique contents; people are really looking for something unique to read,try and make your content different from others using the same niche.

3. Avoid copy and past; seriously you may think that its paying but that not good,it also kill your indexing to search engine,I once wrote an article recently that earned me $5.70 within an hour,so google are human they only send bot to monitor you.

4. Hardwork/passion first; your question shows that you created your blog just to earn from adsense,and this is the most silly mistake bloggers make this time and they keep quitting blogging daily,if its only to make money,do you know how many blogs that are created daily? My advise for you is to work,blog your passion and not just the money,remove your mind from the money and you will see it coming,if you are google,will you pay someone that are not interested in your product? Stop complaining and work,then you will see the result. And never think that Blogging
is a get rich quick things,its patience and hardwork.

5. Web design; your design matters a lot,when you have a good blog design,readers will stick to see more articles from you.

6. Reaching your audience; I can see you have about 4,000+ facebook likes but yet still complaining,how are you sure they are really interested in your posts? That's why am not in support of people paying for likes.

Well,I would have love to give you more tips but am busy now, but check this link below for your adsense placement.[/b]
http://www.ngschoolz.com/top-5-ways-to-increase-your-adsense-earning/

The number of the likes isn't the issue, but the source of it. Paying for likes may not completely be a waste of money if you have done your homework well before placing your fb page on ads.

Many marketers don't knows who their best audience are based on what they offer on their website, they just run after a particular country traffic because their friend or mentor told them is best kind of traffic.....whereas it may not be the best traffic for their kind of offer.

Age, Interest group, location, sex, likes, etc are parts of what one should consider before running an ads.

yemolz:
I really want to be a blogger pls, I need more info

Follow the link in my signature and download the ebook, it will supply you with a vast knowledge about blogging and how to turn it into a business.

osimataylor:
Pls I want to link up with you.
Teleiyi@yahoo.com.

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