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yes excellent stuff. The creative director got it right.

I love the concept and the angle. Despite their flaws MTN is still number one in Nigerian telecommunications. See glo etisalat and airtel lolz, Funny


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzMt7Nm6BIc

feldido:
Bring it on... I'm here to learn

In 6 months time you will be glad you made a decision

Good morning nairalanders and fellow website owners. I am forced to write this short article after seeing this post: SEO tips: How to build free quality backlinks by primebasegq
The article was featured on front page and I was happy seeing a topic I love on frontpage, but when I started reading the article it is neither readable nor actionable, the technique is so 2008 and dead. Those techniques will not rank your site in 2016 as many things has changed, SEO in 2016 is a different ball game entirely and the tips in that article will not rank anything.
I will be showing you 3-5 latest super actionable ways to start ranking your website on Google, Bing and other search engines with high quality niche relevant backlinks and at the same time networking and making friends in your niche.

1. Guest posting:
Guest posting has been around for some years now as an effective method of gaining traffic and getting backlinks. Its importance cannot be overemphasized.
What is guest posting? This is reaching out to other websites/blogs most especially blog owners in your own niche and offering to write an article for their site in exchange for a backlink. Note this method should try and focus more on high PR/DA blogs. Am not saying you should only guest post on high DA sites alone it is good to diversify your links between high DA blogs to lower DA blogs DA means domain authority it’s a metric used to rank sites based on their strength.

Step by step method of how to get guest post opportunities and how to get a relevant backlink.

I. Search for sites that accept guest post
Goto www.google.com type niche + “guest post” or niche + “guest author” or niche + “write for us” we have several footprints but these ones are enough for now. Niche means what you are writing about. So let’s say your blog is about dog training you will type this into google. Dog training + “write for us”.

II. Analyse the results
You need to download an extension called mozbar from moz.com, just search for mozbar on google and download for chrome or firefox. What this tool does is that it allows you to see the DA of the search results on google.

III. Contact the site owners
Select 10 good blogs that has high DA, save them in notepad or spreadsheet, we are going to contact them one by one.
Goto their site, you should be able to contact them via the contact us page or see their contact information on their blog,
After that send them a mail telling them you’ve been reading their blog and you find it interesting, you can use this script

Hi (name),
I’m a long time reader. You may have noticed my comment on your post on X (awesome article by the way).
I’m writing to you because I’d love to contribute a guest post to Example.com.
I’ve been brainstorming some topics that I think your readers would get a ton of value from:
-Idea #1
-Idea #2
-Idea #3
I’ll make sure the piece overflows with information that can’t be found anywhere else.
To give you an idea of the quality I’ll bring to your site, here’s a link to a guests post that I recently published on Example.com.
Cheers,
Me

As you see in the script I provided you need to suggest 3 article topics and let him/her select one.

IV. Write the article and get your link
When the blogger you contacted replies you, just write a well-researched article and send it off to him or her, I won’t teach you how to write articles but make sure it is unique and well researched.

That’s it you now have one good backlink there are two ways you either get your link inside the article you wrote or in the authors box, both are good ones, but try and get it inside the article as you will also have another one in the authors box. You also need to write a short authors bio and send along with the article it’s just a short description of the author.

The importance of a good backlink cannot be overemphasized, aside from the authority it gives, it helps in SEO ranking your site and you also get lots of targeted traffic. Next we will be getting links via resource pages.

Well this is just a method out of the five powerful methods I will be revealing over the next few days, Please don’t read alone it is actionable enough and if you have some 30 minutes on your hand today you can get a quality link starting from today, links are very important to a website as it is the first of 300 ranking factors google uses to rank websites. Take action now improve your site rank and take it to the next level.

If you don’t know how to create a website based on your passion and make money from it, there is an opportunity as am posting my own journey on how to make money from amazon niche sites and going from nothing and start making 1000 dollars per month in just 6 months. You can join the journey now and build your own site along with me free. https://www.nairaland.com/3116292/building-ranking-making-money-amazon.

Introduction
Threads about making money online has been setting nairaland ablaze for quite some years now. Let me take you down the memory lane when domain name business was the most talked about thread on NL business section, then forex trading and then bitcoins came aboard. Recent front page domineering threads like importation business, free lancing, fiverr and several other stay at home and get rich schemes is taking its toll firmly in our minds as most people think that they are the only positive means of making money online.

I am not discrediting these online schemes, I can even attest to fiverr. Anybody worth their salt should be able to make money off fiverr. But then GIGS are hard to come by these days as it is growing and getting more competitive each day professionals offering same gig as you are willing to offer half the price per gig service.

Without wasting much of our time reading my epistle. Website building has not been much talked about although few threads has been posted about website building and adsense but intently the information about the topic is not very complete or I’d rather say half complete. I then ask myself why are people not talking about this lucrative scheme? Is it that we don’t have enough expert on this? And by experts I don’t mean unscrupulous charlatans parading themselves as dons after downloading and reading a 10 page free ebook about website building and adsense I am not parading myself as a don either but as time goes on I will be posting enough information to put us on the right path to a successful online business venture.

So I will be talking about how you can start with a very little budget to building an amazon associate (affiliate) website that makes 1000 dollars monthly, I will also be talking about ditching your corny attitude to owning a reputable branded website that solves people’s problems; that is, provide them with the much needed information, position yourself as the expert and make money. It will help you understand various topics that means reading wide as a learning tool to be an expert and also to know different human emotions like love, care and commitments.
Every time I see threads on frontpage about how bosses are being mean and giving their workers hell of a time for a paltry salary. The problem in Nigeria is that there are more job applications than job availability, the demand for work is much more than the supply and that is why most people with job will do whatever it takes to keep their job, this is an opportunity to fire your boss or be his boss within four to six months it can also be an avenue for a second source of income for people who are committed to their current jobs. You just need like 3 hours daily to achieve your goals, also students and online freelancers who want to make some money from a proven source without much time and effort.

Enough of the introduction

Spoiler alert!!! this thread is not meant for some people.

Lazy people: there is no room for laziness you have to be hardworking to achieve ultimate success

Spammers and blackhats: You are successful for short periods because you only exploit loopholes. We are not tlking about loopholes here so don’t come in unless you have dropped that attitude and ready do honest work according to sound business principles.

Derailers: These are set of unserious entities so please don’t waste your time attempting to derail this thread.

Here we are, the next post will be about our goals, so who is ready to set his/her next big goals and achieve them?

happy married life. the bride is from my location.

keep flying the FUTA and ENACTUS flag high.
lalasticlala see good news

If I hear say one futarian mention futa SUG. I go vex slap am.

They should be last on the list. they have different types of SUG president from SU's to omo mummy to the present teenager.

Pained, exactly what happened to the pressid students. God save us

These things are strange to me, i was taught a for apple b for babu, etc, and i can still remember.

Secretario:
GREAT

Please it will also be nice if you can give a well detailed tutorial on filling these forms and also tell us the major requirements.

Thanks.

wao, I expected korede Bello for the next rated award

Moderators should change the name of the school, its fed ploy ado ekiti, and not FUTA, it also happened this year in a competition when they wanted yo announce those who qualified and called federal university if agriculture akure.

Lalasticlala come and correct this

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Trace where that money is going to, and we may be hearing more touching stories.

Types of headphones:

As you all know and can see there are different types on headphone based on design. They are:

EARBUDs: The commonest and often cheapest type of headphone are the earbuds also called in-ear headphones, they often come with phones and music players, they have very simple designs and do not cover the ear, the good thing about them is they are suitable for all type of use and also very portable.

It also has an advantage over others as it can be used by someone using glasses because it doesn’t pass through the head, it usually comes in different colors but the major colors seen around are usually white and black. There are varieties to choose from.

The downside of in-ear headphones is that some are not very efficient and not well customized, many in-ear headphones that comes with phones are just basic headphones just to hear the sound and scarce to get best earphones with bass, they are not advanced and most of them are made for the larger audience in mind.



ON-HEAR OR SUPRA AURAL HEADPHONES: This is much different from the in-ear headphones. It goes over the head and press on the ear not covering it entirely thereby leaving some spaces that allow noise and sound interference to enter and consequently it allows the music to be heard outside it just stays on the ear.

It is not very effective when used where there is noise as most of the noise will interfere with your music and also it’s not effective where there is silence as the music will not be heard only by you it will be also be spilled to the surrounding. It comes with different designs too they are all similar.

OVER THE EAR OR CICURMAURAL HEADPHONES: They are very similar to the on-ear headphone/supra aural but the main difference is that it cups the ear rather than press on it, there are many over the ear headphones best rated in this list. It cups and covers the ear entirely with the aid of extra foam around the ear. It also applies pressure over the entire ear area.

OPEN BACK: Open back leak more sound into the surrounding and allows ambient noise to filter and interfere with the sound. It makes the feel of the music more natural and gives the impression that you are hearing the sound from distance.

CLOSED BACK: The ends of the ear cups are blocked from the surroundings, making the headphone more ear tight and less likely to permit ambient noise, it makes the sound distance closer and gives the impression that the music is coming from inside the head. Many best bass headphones are of this type.

SEMI OPEN: This is partially open and partially closed it is designed so that it can eliminate the negatives of both open and closed back and combine the positives of the two. It blocks sound partially while it leaves some to pass through.

NOTE: open back, closed back, and semi open are all types of supra aural headphone and cirumaural headphone. So we can have an open back supra aural as well as an open back circumaural.

HEADSET: A headset is an headphone that is combined to a microphone they are commonly used for telephone and gaming, they are also used in aviation and telecommunication, many voice chats e.g. skype needs headset and it is commonly found in voice-over studios.



BASS HEADPHONES BASED ON USE

NOICE REDUCTION HEADPHONES: As the name implies they are used to reduce the noise in the surrounding by eliminating ambient noise. Closed back and in ear headphone can do a great job of reducing noise up to 20db. The headphone blocks out the noise by passive noise cancellation and/or active noise isolation.

Passive noise isolation simply uses the body of the headphone, that is, the design of the headphone to block out the noise from entering the ear, in-ear headphones are very effective while closed back headphones also do a good job of reducing noise with passive noise cancellation.

Active noise cancelation uses speaker, amplifier and headphone to reduce ambient noise, it places the ambient noise in phase reversal.

Some are effective when there is constant sound, while some are designed to reduce engine noise when travelling e.g. in airplanes and trains the microphone collects the noise from the environment and the headphone plays an inverted version of the sound with the same frequency thereby cancelling out the original noise, they are very effective and expensive, they also uses battery.

SOURCE-->> http://headphonesarena.com/7-best-bass-headphones-2016/

Types of headphones:

As you all know and can see there are different types on headphone based on design. They are:

EARBUDs: The commonest and often cheapest type of headphone are the earbuds also called in-ear headphones, they often come with phones and music players, they have very simple designs and do not cover the ear, the good thing about them is they are suitable for all type of use and also very portable.

It also has an advantage over others as it can be used by someone using glasses because it doesn’t pass through the head, it usually comes in different colors but the major colors seen around are usually white and black. There are varieties to choose from.

The downside of in-ear headphones is that some are not very efficient and not well customized, many in-ear headphones that comes with phones are just basic headphones just to hear the sound and scarce to get best earphones with bass, they are not advanced and most of them are made for the larger audience in mind.



ON-HEAR OR SUPRA AURAL HEADPHONES: This is much different from the in-ear headphones. It goes over the head and press on the ear not covering it entirely thereby leaving some spaces that allow noise and sound interference to enter and consequently it allows the music to be heard outside it just stays on the ear.

It is not very effective when used where there is noise as most of the noise will interfere with your music and also it’s not effective where there is silence as the music will not be heard only by you it will be also be spilled to the surrounding. It comes with different designs too they are all similar.

OVER THE EAR OR CICURMAURAL HEADPHONES: They are very similar to the on-ear headphone/supra aural but the main difference is that it cups the ear rather than press on it, there are many over the ear headphones best rated in this list. It cups and covers the ear entirely with the aid of extra foam around the ear. It also applies pressure over the entire ear area.

OPEN BACK: Open back leak more sound into the surrounding and allows ambient noise to filter and interfere with the sound. It makes the feel of the music more natural and gives the impression that you are hearing the sound from distance.

CLOSED BACK: The ends of the ear cups are blocked from the surroundings, making the headphone more ear tight and less likely to permit ambient noise, it makes the sound distance closer and gives the impression that the music is coming from inside the head. Many best bass headphones are of this type.

SEMI OPEN: This is partially open and partially closed it is designed so that it can eliminate the negatives of both open and closed back and combine the positives of the two. It blocks sound partially while it leaves some to pass through.

NOTE: open back, closed back, and semi open are all types of supra aural headphone and cirumaural headphone. So we can have an open back supra aural as well as an open back circumaural.

HEADSET: A headset is an headphone that is combined to a microphone they are commonly used for telephone and gaming, they are also used in aviation and telecommunication, many voice chats e.g. skype needs headset and it is commonly found in voice-over studios.



BASS HEADPHONES BASED ON USE

NOICE REDUCTION HEADPHONES: As the name implies they are used to reduce the noise in the surrounding by eliminating ambient noise. Closed back and in ear headphone can do a great job of reducing noise up to 20db. The headphone blocks out the noise by passive noise cancellation and/or active noise isolation.

Passive noise isolation simply uses the body of the headphone, that is, the design of the headphone to block out the noise from entering the ear, in-ear headphones are very effective while closed back headphones also do a good job of reducing noise with passive noise cancellation.

Active noise cancelation uses speaker, amplifier and headphone to reduce ambient noise, it places the ambient noise in phase reversal.

Some are effective when there is constant sound, while some are designed to reduce engine noise when travelling e.g. in airplanes and trains the microphone collects the noise from the environment and the headphone plays an inverted version of the sound with the same frequency thereby cancelling out the original noise, they are very effective and expensive, they also uses battery.

SOURCE-->> http://headphonesarena.com/7-best-bass-headphones-2016/

Tmonex:
yh i.hv long tail pro already and woozone full version.....pls stay with d thread as we progress....and as u mentioned choosing d right non competitive keyword is d koko.

i am on spencers email list and i follow hos mails keenly....its just harder to start but the residual incone that follows makes me marvel...you just sit down doing nothing and keeping making ur money easily

Wow you are already on the way, and as they say the most important thing is to take action. I wasted 4 years gathering IM products and reading all im sites warrior forum NHD digitalpoint, etc without doing anything i even wasted a 2 year hosting.

What is your plan on contents?

Tmonex:
Well thank u very much ...i will stat by saying i currrntly run upto 3 blogs a fiverr vig of my own...a bulk sms company...a web and graphics set up of my own and i am currently exploring other businesses before teaching others hw to be successful in it.....Yes I am also new to Amazon affiliate Niche websites ...I bought my domain to setup a.niche website of my own.....I hve dne a lot if research and got an ebook worth 5k that talks about everything about this business...everythin...both SEO Niche Researching settin up the websitr is in there and that is what i intend to share as we move along in d tutorial.

So to answer ...i may not be fully into it...i have experts who are successful in it and with all d researches i hve done....it is quite a lucrative business

Yes its very lucrative, that guy in your picture nichesiteazon makes $4k permonth with just two sites

If you want to learn faster just read spencers post on nichepursuits.

But the SEO part the most difficult, although you might not need it if you select a simple keyword.

You can use longtailpro for kw research.

If you need anything, just let me know.

I would be glad seeing you successful with your site.

Wow. Am seeing a lot of IM posts lately and they are very interesting ones.

First was niche site, second cpa with bing ads and the third is now fiverr.

I saw a guest post from a Nigerian on matthewwoodward's blog, using similar method to push his fiverr gig to page one.

I would love to do this, not really this method i will be offering video animation gigs.

But the fiverr account i have has been banned, i was told i have multiple accounts, how can i get a new safer account?

Do you have amazon affiliate site of your own?
If yes, how many?
How much are you currently making from them?
Do you outsource your seo or do you do it yourself.
Its good seeing fellow Nigerians making it with IM

Futa 13,200 returning student
Fresher 80k plus futa branded tablet

this wedding no dey finish?

telim:
The problem of unemployment in these country is because the youths as refuse to try other alternative means. of generating income eg internet marketing which as the potential to generate huge roi if done effectively but instead we are brainwashed by our parents/lectures/society that we have to graduate with a good grade, waste a year on a fruitless nysc and start hunting for a highly competitive job due to the saturated labour market. Op i recommend you start learning internet marketing tricks, eg ppd, cpa and ppi from cpaelites.com, make sure you pay the little fee to upgrade to a Premium member these will allow you to access their premium threads and ebooks were the real cpa,ppd and ppi strategies are hidden from the public view and within a week you will start earning $$ depending on how fast you learn.

Wow, well said you one of few Nigerians who really know what internet marketing is. Most of them only know how to sell eBook(information marketing), but when it comes to real IM like niche sites bing ads fb ads teespring cpa ppd ppi seo they suck.

So what do you do? Lets talk.

Roviarsguide:
source:http://www.roviarsguide.com/seo/5-enemies-of-search-engine-optimization-in-nigeria

After my point by point analysis of Top 7 tips for Search Engine Optimization, i decided to approach SEO from a different angle and discuss the enemies of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This time I will talk about a big obstacle that exist in Nigeria, for the development of organic positioning, customers / companies. There are different types of customers and different excuses or problems that arise when doing SEO, but there is a common denominator in all of these hindrances: IGNORANCE.


Enemies of Search Engine Optimization in Nigeria:

1. The Market: “Search Engine Optimization is not for me, I don’t need to appear on Google”

As a first consideration, this statement is true. Not everyone can benefit from your work on SEO. Maybe it may not be immediately obvious, Search Engine Optimization does not always to increase traffic, sales and brand presence, there are some (few) markets that are beyond analysis. For them, this does not account for their customer turn out and this is true in some cases.

Many times I have met entrepreneurs and corporate executives with this thought that there’s no need for their businesses to be visible in search engines. And the first big mistake of this is to draw conclusions from their potential market precisely without doing an analysis. In most cases, one can say without hesitation that someone who personally does not use the usual search engines will not be considered a standard for your industry.

They ask: “If I do not use SEO, and my competitor does not use it, will i use SEO because my clients would use it?” (Question for the gods).

It’s quite difficult convincing these business Owners to consider Search Engine Optimization because they feel : "that’s the way things are and have always been” It is difficult to reason with people like that, most of the time when they change their mind (if it ever changes), it’s because someone close to them said their business got good sales from results obtained through search engines. It is illogical to continue with their logic: “I do what others do, when SEO is popular i will do it,” without raising a conscious analysis of whether it is actually useful for your business.

2.”I want to be first on Google for X”

Where X is the most generic keyword that they may be useful to your industry. This another form of attentive ignorance against same result you would expect, because sometimes it is impossible to achieve e.g (“I want to be first on Google for auto” when your business is from a small town, with a budget).
But sometimes it is achieved, but the result is not the desired one e.g (“your company ranked first in using the keyword ‘wheat flour” but you own a bakery and half of the people searching are looking for the manufacturers of “wheat flour”). It is often the next step to deny the usefulness of Google, going from not caring at all, to wanting to be first for anything (as if Google was something that only a few know and nobody would have thought of being first before on the same search ). This is pure lack of knowledge, nothing more.

3.”We want to be market leaders and we have $100 for full use of it”

Why can’t my Business appear on Google for free? and why should I spend to be to be in the top positions? You know there is what we call the “Nigerian Factor” where most business owners are not ready to employ (professional) Search Engine Optimization Experts to boost their online sales. The volume of investment needed in Search Engine Optimization to achieve a goal will depend on many factors, but if the client does not understand this, then things will definitely go wrong.

It is amazing how here in Nigeria, we undervalue technical and creative work on some things, and hyper-value other things that do not bring desired results. Creating a graphic piece for publication for adverts on television can cost much more, than if that same graphic piece goes to Facebook. Do you understand the logic ?? The effort and the work are similar, but the latter brings in more conversions to your business. After all, there are more Nigerians online on Facebook than those watching the television (quote me if I’m wrong) But Search Engine Optimization is not magic… something that not many understand despite the fact that SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION has been around for more than 20 years of the existence of search engines (The first search engine of the web, Wandex was released in 1993).

4.”Our priority is the offline market”

While this may be true, people who are offline beings all have an online life. Again, this argument lacks a basis in data, and is based on a completely subjective opinion. If there was a market study that determined that the target audience does not use search engines at least to get to your product or service, then it is valid to consider a better investment destination before you do it digitally. But if, for example, 97% of people with internet in Argentina frequently use a search engine (data from the “Digital Future, Argentina 2013″ by ComScore), this means that the previous statement is increasingly at least suspect.

5.”I want this and I want it now”

The objectives maybe coherent and well formulated, but if an immediate result is intended, you can choose to only promote ads. There are no magic solutions in SEO, let alone instant solutions. This can cause a very rapid disillusionment and the business owners who may end up having issues with their SEO specialist.. Managing expectations is key to SEO, and again, customer ignorance often is the cause of these issues.

Well friends, this is my analysis of our local SEO clients, many jobs fail to materialize for these reasons and while many may begin, before long it ends with customer frustration.

I hope that this will help our local SEO experts to be more aware of the difficulties that still exist in our NIGERIAN market. These difficulties start from ignorance; the worst enemy of Search Engine Optimization in Nigeria. Listen to opinions, open a dialogue with your client as a first step to advance .
I would really welcome comments, because this an issue for most SEO experts here in NIGERIA.

source: http://www.roviarsguide.com/seo/5-enemies-of-search-engine-optimization-in-nigeria

Nice piece roviar, but i think the number one factor like you said is IGNORANCE but not only the ignorance of the client, the ignorance of the buyers/prospects, there are not enough searches for businesses in Nigeria, Nigerians are also a long way from trusting websites enough to buy and as we all know we prefer reading celebrity news all day than reading other things. With that said, what do you think are the top 5 factors that will promote SEO in Nigeria?

Ondo state, largest producer of cocoa in Nigeria:
1. IDANRE
2. ILE-OLUJI
3.ITA-OGBOLU

Cocoa 370naira per kilogram