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ndubisik:
Due to popular demand, here is my complete step-by-step guide I wrote on how to start a blog. Note that this post could get very long, so please be sure to bookmark it so you can always come back and make reference to it. This post will be updated from time to time so I make sure the content stays fresh just the way you like it.

This post is dedicated to Nnamdi, and Abdul, who’s been asking for advice on how to build the best blog. I hope this post helps you. Good luck dominating your niche! Hopefully, one day you’ll be making millions from it. It will definitely change your life!

Contents

Try not to skip any sections if you’re just starting out. You’ll thank me for it!

How I got into the world of blogging

I started blogging in the year 2011. Back then I didn’t know much about it and so I had to make do with the little information available to me at the time. My first blog was about technology and phones. I wasn’t making any money from the site but I wasn’t bothered much, seeing that I didn’t spend a dime on it as I was using the Blogger platform.

I spent hours and hours every day uploading content and tinkering with the site. It was my first baby and so I pampered it a lot. I began to get worried over time as the time I put into the blog wasn’t yielding any sensible results. Very few comments were coming in, my traffic was rising and falling and I thought all I needed to keep on doing was updating posts and it will eventually work out.

That was when I heard of AdSense. Finally, a way to make money from my efforts! After going through a rather rigorous process to get my AdSense approved (that’s a story for another day), I thought finally now the money will come rolling in. Still, AdSense proved me wrong. I wasn’t making any sensible money from the system.

That was where I knew I was doing something wrong. I stopped updating my blog in October the next year and decided to take the time off to learn the basics of blogging and how to make money from it. I didn’t want to make peanuts anymore. I wanted an income that will justify all the hours I had been spending. So I went in search of that information, spent a few bucks here and there in the process.

During my months of research and learning I discovered many things I didn’t know about blogging and learned from other people who had made the same mistakes too. So I decided to put all my knowledge and past experience together under one platform and to help other bloggers plus people who are new to blogging to achieve their goals.

Maybe you’re blogging because of the money, or you’re like Abdul and you want to dominate your niche. The advice I give here is basically a guide in the right direction and sort of a road-map for newbies who want to achieve huge success in blogging.

Ok, let’s begin, shall we?

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Choosing the right niche – Miss this step and don’t bother about blogging.



I keep getting questions about choice of niche for blogging. To make this post as short as possible, I’m going to summarize what it is all about. You have to locate a need that people are willing and able to pay money for, and then provide a solution to that problem.

Read also: How to find a profitable niche for your blog

After choosing a niche, you need to find keywords related to that niche that people are searching about. A free tool for doing this is Google’s keyword planner tool. I can also carry out keyword research for you if it’s too much trouble but you need to know the basics first.

Now about interest in your niche, this tends to cause arguments. Some people argue that you should only blog about what you love while others say you should focus on the money. For me, I suggest you find a balance between what you love and what people are willing to pay for.

If there are already people in your niche, you need to study what they are doing to know how they are making progress and also to detect areas where you can do better than them.

Source: http://oyamakemoney.com/start-a-blog-today/

cc lalasticlala

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MsBliss:
Everyone of us was once a teenager so what's the big deal anyway ?

Abi o, as our dear PEJ said " I was once a shildren, everybody even the president was once a shildren".

Mogidi:
This news is from Tinubu owned "thenation Newspapers" we however know the real truth.

APC members fighting themselves since there's no GEJ to fight.

APC sabi spin ehn. Una nor get quarrel yet common NASS position una nor fit share peacefully. nPDP elephants in APC China shop can be seen even by the blind. Tinubu and Atiku scheming like no tomorrow. They can deceive change chantoids as usual but not us.

ok

dapyd1:
What if she serves up like that but she is uncultured, unteachable, has bad manners, doesn't seem like a good mothe[/b]r and is a [b]spend-thrift.
For all we know, the rice may be salty or too peppery.

God bless you jare.

Food wey sweet, na money kill am.

Blood covenant ko, urine covenant ni.

Mogidi:
Are you people inviting anarchy?

Yep, if anarchy is the change changeoids want, let them have it.

Suppose the senate refuses to consider requests from the executive in retaliation? Like budget, ambassadorial and ministerial nominees?

Should we have to live with party leaders behaving like motopark touts who cannot sit down and work out positions among themselves?
Even within same party?

ttmacoy:
Really? That's all you can say?

This has nothing to do with white supremacy but simply a country who wants to control immigration especially with the rise of anti immigration sentiments all over Europe. The rise of UKIP and other right wing parties is putting pressure on governments in Europe to control immigration and the UK already has loads of EU citizens coming everyday which they cannot control due to EU laws.

The next sensible thing to do is control immigration of non EU citizens.

Let's face the fact there are many people who go to the UK on student visas , just keep playing the system and not leave. I know Pakistan colleges in the UK where they will just keep enrolling you as a student so you keep extending the visa but do not attend class and just work.

I know a nepalese guy who we started as students together in 2006. He is still on student visa now 2015 and working most of the time.

If you attend a top university in the UK you have no problem getting getting job with a company who can sponsor you. The problem is we all flock the cheap low ranked schools and expect to get the best jobs when we finish. How will that work?

L[b]ook at Nigerians that studies in the UK in the 70s and 80s. Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester etc. Look now, London met, east London university et[/b]c.

The bolded is so true. Instead of going to lowly ranked schools in UK, except for professional courses like nursing, radiography, physiotherapy and so on, better stay in 9ja. If you attend Oxbridge, University of London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Warwick, Durham, Imperial College and so on, your chances are still bright. It seems we have really fallen behind since the 50s to 80s.

A guy criticised me for applying to one of top universities many years back. He said "how you go dey put your hand where your hand no reach?" Even without knowing my academic pedigree.

I was surprised to hear that. We were told in 9ja those days that if you pass your GCE with top grades, you can walk into any university in the world. That was always my belief. And I was admitted. A long course too.

We need to be more ambitious like 60 to 20 years back.

saxywale:
Those Chinese and Arab students eehn. Over rich dey worry them. I remember Chinese students like buying £1000 SLR camera and £2000 laptops, then start snapping funny stuffs like leaves, insects, traffic lights e.t.c
The northern Nigerians too would just disappear back to Nigeria after submitting their projects. Some won't even return for graduation ceremony. Too much money.

Those Northern people with foreign degrees tend to get jobs in their states easily. Or secure more scholarship from their state government to study for higher degrees abroad.

miniziter:
As a fresh graduate of Animal Nutrition and Biotechnology, I shall be writing my NIAS professional examnation (that will make me a GAS (Graduate Animal Scientist)) this Saturday. If you practice livestock farming in Nigeria, you can also be a part of this institute by writing the same exam. All you have to do to get yourself registered with NIAS and they will conduct exam for you. Although, your own certificate may differ. Please wish me success.

What of Computer Scientists, Molecular Biologists, pharmacists and so on who also practice livestock farmimg, how can they register and prepare for the exam? Or is it strictly for animal science people? And what is the significance of the certificate? Is is both theory & practical exam?

Although your exam should be over by now, good luck anyway.

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
Actually, there are much differences in favour of PDP at the centre.

The last elections were all about conspiracy against the personality of Goodluck Jonathan and his minority ethnicity's right to govern.

The choice for Buhari was the only magic that had the chance to topple Jonathan hence the gamble.

And now that the target of conspiracy is gone, it suddenly dawns on them that "oh yes, we don't really have much in common. Every man for himself. Operation grab whatever power you can. Betraying even mama & papa is allowed."

nPDP wing of APC will torment that party. They owe loyalty to no-one except their ego, power and pocket. Embrace traitors and political prostitutes at your own peril.

In which country is this thing happening?

The guy is serious sick. He needs urgent help. He should not be allowed near ANY kid or vulnerable person!

Hokay.

feldido:
Nigerians have always made other countries step up their game.
We always push dem to the wall.

Actually India and Pakistan even more. They hope to woo the large segment of rich Chinese of nowadays. In fact they just want big spenders, richer 9ja people included.

Mods, Abeg check the guy out BECAUSE I SMELL OLX- style SCAM!!

While I salute his courage, I doubt if this zoo of a country is worth dying for.

Millions have died already, is this the nation they died for? Where things are getting worse and tribalism/nepotism everywhere?

The only thing that has changed is that APC brought Gerontocratic Photocracy. Dazall. Over to you Shem.

berrystunn:
[size=20pt]I think APC plans and arrangement is how to fight GEJ if they lost the election...

NO plans and arrangement on how to rule if they win the election.

am sure this is the problem there having ....making plans and arrangement now they're in power, is not easy for them.
its obvious there is noting to show for the first 90days in office

how will they face , economic challenges, and oppositions[/size]

APC were too busy planning incentives for Boko, treasonous act of a parallel cabinet that they forgot to plan for an actual government. If they had been declared losers, they would have presented a parallel government/cabinet next day.

Now they are confused, anxious about their scam promises and party leaders mistrust themselves.

docphresh:
Una no sabi read 5 governors +18 man delegate plus top officials and blah blah blah.. Maybe up to 50 in total.. For 3days visit..

No mind them. You're going to USA soon and you sack your ambassador there days earlier. Na wa o. Common sense nor common.

Basically at the time he will visit he won't have a sitting ambassador there. Maybe the next ambassador candidate will be in the entourage.

I won't be surprised if Tinubu recommends shunting Amaechi away to some distant ambassadorial post. He doesn't like oerambitious people

Ethnic bigots couldn't wait to vote out Jonathan.

Ganging up against someone is easy, forming a truly progressive unit to make a positive difference is much harder.

APC can now see it.

They welcomed the same people who ruined the country when they were PDP members and blamed GEJ for everything.

People who betrayed their party (PDP) that gave them platform to be senators, governors, HoR members, ministers and so on, should be faithful to APC after already achieving prominence & made money? That's very naive.

searider:
This is a serious mouth infection she has got. Why have you allow it to linger so long before seeking remedy?

How i wish you could bring her to the Nigerian Navy Reference Hospital for her to be treated properly.

She needs a sensitivity culture analysis to determine the causative organism to determine the kind of antibiotics needed to treat this infection. And should be administered intraveinously.

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Don't you think in this day & age, they would have tried several hospitals by now? Since age of 5 he said. I may be wrong though.

This is unlikely just due to oral thrush/infection. This may be due to due to auto-immune condition.

@OP,

Seek advise from a consultant microbiologist (a specialist infection physician) if you have already seen a dental surgeon.
Wish she was here in Europe. My former prof is a very good immunonology & Infectious disease physician.

To understand her condition, details of any allergy, infections, medication, immunisation and general medical history are crucial.

Nothing new about that in Lagos. Decaying bodies spend days on the roadside. People just cover their nose with handkerchief and pass by.
We are not a caring society that maintains human dignity.

Such things say a lot about a society.

jcross19:
This is revenge. How can leader survive when vengeance runs in his blood I smell doom around mr president.

This may surprise some. But not me. He spent his 20 months as dictator closing FG parastatals, sacking civil servants, intimidating the likes of Awo, sending both the guilty & innocent to jail, not building a single classroom or a hospital ward and cancelling Lagos Metro project. Only WAI announced by Idiagbon was left.

Well, we discussed all these before elections. 9ja being a place where the loud, arrogant, agberos and the violent rule the roost, we were abusively shouted down as "TANOIDS".

I don't think Mrs Oga will be a pauper should she resign now. Why tolerate dictatorial shinanigans?

Chibuhealth:
Am proudly 0+

Second in the queue

Donpizzle:
B.tech u re funny. Do u knw hw difficult it is to get B.tech. Incase u dnt knw, B:tech is used by FEDERAL UNIVERSITY of TECHNOLOGY nationwide. We spend extra year in school to get dat b.tech. For instance; studyin mathematics in other schools is 4yrs while in technology schools we spend 5yrs. In otherwords,respect dat honour and knw dat it cant b used for polytechnic. Thanks

I went to an Ivy league (Russell Group) university in UK. Only in Nigeria is emphasis on 'difficulty' not on what you actually learn or preparation for real life out there. Why should BTech even take 5 years? I do not see the ground breaking inventions of the graduates. Focus should not be on honour or respect, it should be on finding a solution that brings near parity in curriculum and grade to make it fair to all.

OreMI22:
[size=14pt]Exactly!!!

Let the dulllard keep believing in the old military tactics of banza charge to show valor.
What Nigerian military need is what Jonathan did. Provide an attack helicopter force that goes in ahead of the army to destroy all the Boko Haram heavy weapons and vehicles.Then the soldiers can charge and over run the dazed Boko haram force.

The dulllard keeps thinking the attack helicopter crew flown by experienced SA ex-pilots is useless against Boko Haram, so he disbanded it. The reversals of fortune has been acute and immediate since he disbanded the South African pilots helicopter crew, proving the helicopter crew was a vital component of victories against Boko haram. Buhari will know this when Boko Haram push our troops into Abuja.

Anyway, it is obvious Buhari wants Boko Haram to defeat our army to make his case for an amnesty program easy. So let them keeps wasting innocent soldiers life playing amnesty politics y for Boko Haram[/size]

You totally got the memo my friend. GMB doesn't want to deploy any effective tactics /weapon against Boko (The North as he called them). He hopes Amnesty will work. But he forgets we now have ISIS, not just Boko of years back. When he finally decides to fight them, maybe after secret Amnesty offers are rebuffed by Boko, it will be with a heavy heart.

Got the update too.

Thavybe:
Probably, you know a few good ones from the above polytechnics you mentioned but it is wrong to generalize by saying polytechnic students are better than university students in accounting, that is a fallacy of hasty generalization.

Well, you misread what I wrote.

I said "Poly teach it better". It's up to the student to learn. On the average, poly students have been praised for their application of knowledge, even in engineering, while the university students might be very good in theory. It's no surprise. The polys were given a mandate to train middle tier cadre of workers/technicians for our industries. Only that the industries never came.

Poly managements soon figured out that running arts/economics based courses is far cheaper. Arts and social science students are more in number anyway, right from secondary school.

I have a cousin who studied computer science for good three years at a reputable Federal university but had never been to a computer lab and never even touched a keyboard. .

Yes, it was in the early 1990s but still. He left to continue studies abroad.

skyface00:
That's one of their game, even if u carry them, make sure u don't use their room, if u do mistake enter with her, she won't show u any sign, when u are about 2 go police go come arrest them and u will be among them, she go dey advice u 2 pay, and I'm so sure u won't want ur family to come and bail u on such parol.... police and ashy work in hand to hand... that's why they called them government daughter

The bolded cracked me up.
Imagine a respected deaconess & hospital matron, Iya Kunle, coming to bail her first born son who should be on campus, on ashy parol.

Thavybe:
I vehemently disagree with that statement.

The country's educational system is poor but majority will agree that polytechnics are far worse than universities.

Accounting graduates from Auchi Poly, KadPoly, The Poly Ibadan and others are reputed to be very good. More practice-focussed.

I believe Polys should leave courses like management/Business to universities and concentrate on engineering and other technical courses.

This is not a joke anymore.

HND should be scrapped and replaced with a BTech to make it equivalent to BSc. Even if it takes 5 years to get it.

I feel sorry for poly friends.

One more reason my cousin should go to university even though polys actually teach accounting better than most universities.

ronald4lif:
What's Prince scared of and trying to protect for rejecting a court wedding?. His properties and assets should in case of eventualities I suppose. He should proceed with the court wedding but must ensure they sign a pre-nup and states clearly what he's not willing to forfeit should the marriage collapse.

Amaka will vamoos if Prince mentions pre-nup. Amaka seems very money/ wealth conscious and Prince seems traditional. Amaka's threat to quit should make Prince look b4 even leaping. Would she also quit if Prince became incapacitated or poor God forbid?