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This is going to be a big fight

A combination of hatred and disappointment.
They seen other men act like fools because of sex and just assume all are the same.

Let me stop replying before I get banned for spamming (it happened if you make too much comment on a single post or section).

I appreciate all the inputs and trust me, I have taken note... So much work to be done.

Just hoping.

Rgade:
I think your niche might be the problem.
Especially considering your locality.
Art? Yeah okay.

Yeah, why I was initially thinking of ways to integrate trending topics with it. Frustrating.

bluefilm:
Blogging is dead.

People don't want to read as much anymore.

The in thing now is Video blogging, AKA Vlogging.

That's my own opinion anyways.

wow

hassan4:
Very profitable but do not limit yourself to Nigerians. We have a way of not supporting small businesses. Your friends will feel reluctant following you or your posts unlike foreign folks; so look at a larger audience. Buy real followers regardless of their nationality. Followers from Top countries like the U./S, Australia, Canada, the U.K help you make more USD per impression/click anyways.

Have a YouTube Channel especially for a niche like Arts so like minds will find you, go on Reddit, Have Instagram followers (You're into a visuals already), Twitter and Facebook followers too will help, Run Google Ads, just have a budget of $100 and see the outcome in 3 Months.

Thanks for the tip (it make sense). Even those nations you mentioned has higher return per thousand impression (in ads revenues). Anyway, "no be work o if not the money invested would be wasted"

ainas247:
OP

Blogging is very profitable but you should'nt follow anywhere belle face.
You know today in Nigeria everyone wants to start an Entertainment blog and optimize it with AdSense...

This is what you should do OP

1. pick a niche, health, wealth, relationship, pick sub-niche of these.
2. Buy Your own domain and hosting
3. Go to google and start doing research on what people are searching for.
4. Do keyword research and pick the one you can rank on google first page.

For Example
If your niche is wealth.

how to make money online in Nigeria
affiliate marketing in Nigeria
how to start a business in Nigeria

etc...

Then to monetize this, you can start recommending some products or services
on your blog...

This is what I have done over and over...

You shouldn't expect result in 3 Months
but when it picks it you will enjoy it.

check the result below is less than I started the blog
Jan 1, 2020, and I have been super lazy about it, see the last 1 year clicks

as I am talking to your right now... I started another one in the Insurance industry...

http://insurancecompanyinnigeria.com.ng/

I am not expecting a result in 3 months

I will try to rank on Google, I will be an insurance affiliate.

hope you get it just my 1 cent.

Thanks for the tip, I would consider it (including the affiliate marketing)...

I love the dynamic design of your website however it doesn't feel like a blog (with regular updates) but a website.

ednut1:
Its dead. Who get time when blogging dey instagram already

It seems social media is taking the place of blogging
The thing is social media is 'flowing'. For example you can't easily find the post from last week published by Punch Newspaper on Facebook (because it has been pushed down and it doesn't show up on search results). That is my frustration with social media (your account must be active all the time or your page would disappear into oblivion).

mofedamijo:
Get an Instagram account if you don't have one. Post pictures of your stuffs nd include your blog site on your profile. Don't forget to write something very creative on every picture you post.

Do not forget to use the hastags correctly and select the ones with high number of followers.

For example #artlife might have 20 million followers. When you post your pictures, use such creative hastags with high followers. It helps. Then add famous people in the Art field to your account.
You are likely to make it better that way.

Thanks for the suggestion... It's in my ToDo List (even though I already have an account, I need to be more tactical about it).

ibietela2:
Better remain where you are, entertainment is worse..

I make a living and employs 10+ via blogging

I don't even think I would enjoy writing about that because those things are not not interesting to me (who is dating who, what happened in Big Brother Naija, writing bout those things would be pure punishment to me).

TheCalculator:
You could blog on IG too, these days, not really mandatory to have a website

With good and funny content on IG, your followers would grow overtime and then people pay to run advert on your IG page

Great idea. It seems like a lot of work growing a following...
You know, social media is not like Blog that can be found on Google Search (so you have to be active 24/7 and unfortunately, old post to just disappears except you go to that specific profile).

OriginalCEO:
@ Bolded cracked me.

You are quite lucky to have those views, there are over 300M websites in the world today people don't want to waste their time surfing each site. It's not easy but you can not just create a website and sit down.

The real work begins when you need to find your target users, get to them (do some research on that), over time, you will build a loyal audience, if that doesn't work then you can consider switching nitch, that your niche is one kind, it would be more tedious and painstaking to blow there ( but what do I know )

Whatever the outcome, just make sure you have learnt one or two things, this will help you in your venture. Peace out.

Thanks

Reex12:
everybody wan turn linda ikeji

She is a success story. Even 1% of her income is okay for me.

Lamanii22:
what's wrong with nigerian accent?

Nothings "wrong", it's just podcast is like 30 minutes to 4+ hours, not everyone can tolerate my accent for that long, it has to grow on them (or they get use to it).

I don't listen to much of his music but the man is a legend. Confirm.

Website is important because it is yours. You can get banned from Nairaland, they show their own ads and other people's content.

Just as Alex Jones. H was banned from all social media platforms at once. If not for his website, he would have lost millions of his followers. Just have a website as standby.

Ajax1211:
My website with them is always down, i have complained to them severally, it keeps going off and on like nepa and they don't seem to have a permanent solution.

Might be network. Hope you are not using Glo? Some of my websites does load if I try to visit them using Glo (I don't know why).

I was with them for 10 years (since they were AimTech). It is in my opinion expensive.

Their service is great but I cut off from them when I got a newslatter back in 2015 that was pro-Buhari. Dollars was 200 naira instead of 180 naira so they increased their price and say may be we should vote for "change"... Now dollars is 400+ naira they didn't increase prices because they would be out of business due to affordable competition. That was how I ended my 10 years relationship and have no regrets. They are too expensive. Apart from that political newsletter, their services was professional.

I now use DomainKing and one other Nigerian company (partly because I want to support local business but DomainKing has great and affordable service I can't resist).

The admin at Art, Graphics and Video do not play. erad & seun
Recently got free from nairaland prison.

Didn't notice but I think it has been resolved (it's showing).

4everisaac:

Las las one useless lawyer will defend them in court.
These kind of people should be shot dead without trial.

dead on the spot. They probably have powerful customers that might need their services in the future (which is why they must be killed quickly).

This is an evil practices however, is 10k too cheap for two hearts (even if its 10k each)?

Professor wants to tish... I thought he was in jail or custody?

My God, we are not paying our doctors and health workers?!

This country.

Buhari is no more. It would be a major taboo if the man impersonating him to start holding his widow in public like husband and wife. That is why even his children distanced themselves from the impersonator (who is currently updating his plastic surgery in London).

The rules are the rules.

stonemasonn:
sorry I've been seeing this UGM...what's the full meaning?

It's not war zone but I hope the so called unknown gun men are the killer Fulani's and not innocent indigenous people.

I wanted to come back here and try it (since you brought it to our awareness), but Google suggested it to me after I search my own name.

I think it looks cool and professional at the same time.

juman:
They sent themselves to army.
Despite there are other jobs they could do.
I dont pity them.

The worst thing ever happened to this country is the nigerian military.
Their generals are utterly corrupt.

That is where they produce rubbish creatures like Buhari. They simply don't care about the welfare of their subjects.

lilvicky68:
Instead of you to talk about food..you're asking for cigarettes allowance...una dey chop tobacco?

Don't be insensitive o. Remember these men has weapons and can easily kidnap citizens and get hundreds of thousands of naira minimum.

It's just the name of the allowance (for people who doesn't collect bribe shamelessly like the Nigerian Police).

Even when you blindly want to patriotic, they would frustrate you.

Unfortunately, Nigeria is not worth dieing for.