₦airaland Forum

https://www./Bloggerjointventures/
The objective of this group is to encourage bloggers to promote each other’s content. It may involve any of the following:

1. Blog Comment Promo: Here, two members will agree to place comments on each other’s blog.

2. Social Share Promo: Do you have a fan page or a FB account? Invite members to share your post on their timeline or fan page and you’ll reciprocate. State clearly, the number of fans or friends you have and use that to negotiate with interested members.

3. Forum Promo: In forums, people don’t like replying to topics with very few posts. Interested members here can supply you with enough posts to keep the topic alive


HERE IS HOW IT WORKS:
1. Tell members what you want by posting a topic.
2. Members will reply and tell you what they want in exchange for doing what you want.
3. Reply and tell members whether you agree with their proposal or not.
4. Negotiation can go on until you come to an agreement.

Alternatively, you can invite only members that want the same thing as you. For example, if you want comments, invite only members that want comments on their blogs. This will prevent long negotiation.

IMPORTANT: Quality matters a lot! Any member can reject your post (comment or forum post) if it has low quality.

OTHER BENEFITS YOU CAN GET
1. Advice: If you need advice on anything, ask members.
2. Service: Let us know if you offer any service like article writing, webdesign etc. You can also hire members.

WHAT TO AVOID
1. Don’t Copy & Paste: Nigerian bloggers are known for plagiarism. We frown on it here. You’ll be ban if you publish other members’ content. Your site must not contain plagiarized content because we want only honest members.
2. Don’t Spam: Don’t spam. This can mean a lot of things. So just use your brain and obey warnings if you receive them.

3. Don’t Scam: Scammers are not wanted here. Your site must be legitimate.
4. More updates later.

JMOI: Lovely site you've got there, but your contact page needs to be fixed. It's not working. Thank you.

Thanks. It's now working. I just finished transferring the site from static html to wordpress. That's why it was not working.

Lawmann: Nice work.how many birds will this contain?

500 layers.

Great post. Thanks very much. Have you tried this or do you know of anyone who is doing it?

Note: I have not completed this cage yet. Once completed, I'll post the picture here.

Stay tune for updates. When I finally buy the chickens (500 layers), I'll keep you updated as I progress.

8. Wire Mesh Floor for the Chicks

My aim here is to prevent the chicks from coming in contact with their droppings. The method I adopt here can only minimize contact by up to 90%.

The reason why I’m doing this is to minimize infection by Coccidiosis. I believe this can reduce mortality to zero (Ceteris Paribus). Now here is how I go about the construction:

Dimension: 3x6ft.
Wire Mesh: N4,000.
Wood: Already available.

In all, there were miscellaneous expenses like the cost of nails, transport, loading and offloading etc.

In the future, I'll be adding grasscutter and goat. I hope this helps somebody.

8. Poultry House Completed

Wire Mesh: rolls – N15,000. There was left over.

5. Roofing Completed

6. Foundation Work
Cement: About 16 bags – About N25,200.

Workmanship for Mason Work: N40,000.

7. Dwarf Wall Completed

In this post, I’ll share with you what it took me to build my poultry farm. I'm doing this bc it will help many people who are interested in poultry farming. But first, you may want to know why a mechanical engineering graduate decided to go into farming in the first place. Well, farming was my childhood passion and it still remains a passion till today. I also have passion for mechanical engineering but as of now, farming will make me more money than my field of study and it has a cheaper start-up cost.

Also, I wasn’t that interested in getting a job in the first place. Rather than spend 6 months or more looking for job, it is better to start something if you have the capital. So that’s how I came into poultry farming.

I just hope that this will inspire Nairalanders like me that have interest in farming.

1. Cutting Down Trees

2. Carpentry Work in progress
Cost Estimate:
WOOD:
1. 2X4x18: 16 pcs at N650 each: N10,400. New ones cost N850 each.

2. 2X4x12: The name of the wood is called Achi. 30 pcs at N430 each. Total: N12,900

3. 2X3x12: Name of the wood is Meliner. 60pcs at N230 each. Total: 13,800. Additional 26 pcs was bought, totaling the price to N 20,240.

Baton: 1 bundle – N1,600.

Workmanship for Carpentry Work: N30,000.

There were left over.

3. Preparation for Roofing
Zinc: 4 bundles – N40,000

4. Roofing in Progress

We're still waiting fr update.

You can get N 5000 worth of info on how to rank a website in Google. Visit my signature.

Thanks for the book. Let me check it out.

I just visited the site and noted the following:
1. That image of men shaking hands is too big. Reduce it.

2. Grammatical error in your category name. U wrote "Online busines" instead of "Online business".

Use Google analytics.

Oh! Spammers never die.
Admin have probably kill that spammer, good job!

I hope this will help newcommers:

Here is how you add url on nairaland: [ur l=http://nairaland.com]This is nairaland[/url]. Note that there is no quotation mark as in url="http://...". Also note that there is no space in "url". I wrote it that way to prevent this example from becoming a url.

Link building is a very time-consuming activity. That’s why you have to be very careful if you don’t want all your efforts to be in vain. One important thing you should bear in mind is this: One quality backlinks is worth more than a 100 spammy backlinks. The 7 tips below will help you build quality backlinks and ensure that your time is not wasted.

1. Pages have PageRank (PR), Not Websites:
Here is where a lot of Nigerian bloggers get it wrong. If the homepage of a site is PR 5, some bloggers tend to assume that every other page on the site is PR 5. But unknown to them, that site can still have a lot of pages that have lower PageRank, and some pages can even be PR 0!

So while building backlinks, look at the PR of the page the backlink is coming from. Don’t look at the PR of the home page.

2. Vary your Anchor Text:
Another important thing is the words you use in the anchor text of your backlink. Due to the Google over-optimization penalty, you have to vary the words you use in the anchor texts. There are several ways to do this. Let’s look at them while assuming that our main target keyphrase is “dog potty training”.

• Use Related Phrases: e.g. dog toilet training, potty training a dog etc. You can get a lot of related phrases from the Google keyword tool (Now Google Keyword Planner).

• Use Generic Words: e.g. click here, here’s the link, this article, read more etc.

• Use your URL: e.g. read more about it at <a href..>Bleep.com</a>.

3. Get both Dofollow & Nofollow Backlinks:
Definition: A nofollow backlink is a backlink that has the nofollow attribute. This type of link will not increase you Google ranking. On the other hand, a dofollow backlink is just a normal link and it can help your ranking.

Some think that nofollow backlinks are a taboo but they’re not. Remember that search engines want to see natural link profile and you’ll satisfy this want if you acquire both dofollow and nofollow backlinks.

4. Get Quality Backlinks:
A quality backlink is a backlink from a page that has high PageRank, useful content, and traffic. This is the type of links you should strive to get. Avoid spammy links like the ones created by automation tools. In case you don’t know, spammy backlinks can now hurt your entire site. That is why Google launched the disavow link tool.

5. Keep Building Backlinks:
Build as many backlinks as possible. If time and resources will permit you, keep building even after you have achieved the number one spot in search result. You don’t know what your competitors are doing. Also, identify your best performing pages and keep pumping links into them.

6. Deep Linking Strategy:
Don’t build links only to your home page. The best practice is to build links to both the homepage and subpages.

7. Relevancy:
The pages you get links from should be relevant to the topic of your page. For example, if you have a page on dog training, don’t go and place your links on pages that talks about hair dressing, body building or weight loss.

I believe that these tips help someone. Give me a like if you appreciate it. Feel free to ask questions.

Hello Nairalanders, I’ll like to share with you this tip on article optimization. If you want your article to appear on the first page of Google, read on. I’ll assume that you’ve already:

1. found a profitable niche with low or medium competition and
2. do a proper keyword research

Now you just want to optimize your article for one particular keyword you just found. But wait, what do I mean by: optimize your article? Here is what is means:

Assuming you want to optimize an article for “how to make money online”, what this mean is that you’ll use the phrase several times in your article. You’ll also insert the phrase in places like the page title, subheadings (h2), alt tags etc. Doing so will make your article to rank higher in Google.

While optimizing your article, don’t just focus on a single keyword. You’ll do better if you optimize an article for more than one keyphrases. Below are 2 types of keyphrases you can use while optimizing your article.

1. Related Phrases: You can get a lot of related phrases from the Google keyword tool. If your main keyphrase is “how to make money online”, related phrases will include “earn money online, make money on the internet, make dollars online etc”.

2. Semantically Related Phrases: These are phrases that will naturally appear on pages that talk about your main keyphrase. For example, a page about Jaguar (a car) will naturally contain words like wheel, dashboard, steering etc. These words are said to be semantically related to Jaguar car. In the same way, an article on “how to make money online” will likely contain keywords like online income, online business, job etc.

You can find semantic words by using the Google keyword tool to extract the keywords from your competitors’ pages.

I just hope this help. If you have any question, please ask.

In this short thread, I want to share some tips that will help your site to rank high in Google.

If you have a website and you want it to appear in Google, you have to build backlinks to it. Now let’s assume that you want to rank for the keyphrase: “dog toilet training”. That is, whenever somebody searches for “dog toilet training”, your website will appear on the first page of Google.

To achieve this, you have to use the keyphrase in the anchor text of your backlink (Note: Anchor text is the word or phrase that is clickable). However, you don’t have to over-do it or else Google will penalize you and rank you lower. This penalty is popularly known as the Google over-optimization penalty. You can avoid the penalty by diversifying the phrases you use in your anchor texts. You can do that as follows:

• Use Related Phrases: In our example here, related phrases can include “dog toilet training, potty training a dog, potty train a dog etc”. You can use the Google keyword tool to find such phrases. Note: Google keyword tool is now Google Keyword Planner.

• Use Generic words: You must not use keyword-rich anchor texts all the time. Also use generic words like “click here, here’s the link, this article, here, this article, read more etc”.

• Use Your URL: Here, you simply use your domain name (YourDomain.com).

You can also use singular and plural forms of your target keyphrase. By varying your anchor text this way, you’ll escape the Google over-optimization penalty.

I hope this tutorial really helped. If you have any question, please ask and I’ll reply as soon as possible.

Dual Core: Keep aside the issue of monetizing your blog and focus on informing your audience and getting quality traffic, views and comments. Money making will fall into place when the time is right.

Wrong advise. Monetize as soon as possible. His website is over ripe for monetization, don't wait. If adsense doesn't work out, try CPM networks

Have you heard of Blogger Joint Venture http://www./Bloggerjointventures Blogger Joint Venture?

The objective of this group is to encourage bloggers to promote each other’s content. It may involve any of the following:

1. Blog Comment Promo: Here, two members will agree to place comments on each other’s blog.

2. Social Share Promo: Do you have a fan page or a FB account? Invite members to share your post on their timeline or fan page and you’ll reciprocate. State clearly, the number of fans or friends you have and use that to negotiate with interested members.

3. Forum Promo: In forums, people don’t like replying to topics with very few posts. Interested members here can supply you with enough posts to keep the topic alive


HERE IS HOW IT WORKS:
1. Tell members what you want by posting a topic.
2. Members will reply and tell you what they want in exchange for doing what you want.
3. Reply and tell members whether you agree with their proposal or not.
4. Negotiation can go on until you come to an agreement.

Alternatively, you can invite only members that want the same thing as you. For example, if you want comments, invite only members that want comments on their blogs. This will prevent long negotiation.

IMPORTANT: Quality matters a lot! Any member can reject your post (comment or forum post) if it has low quality.

OTHER BENEFITS YOU CAN GET
1. Advice: If you need advice on anything, ask members.
2. Service: Let us know if you offer any service like article writing, webdesign etc. You can also hire members.

WHAT TO AVOID
1. Don’t Copy & Paste: Nigerian bloggers are known for plagiarism. We frown on it here. You’ll be ban if you publish other members’ content. Your site must not contain plagiarized content because we want only honest members.
2. Don’t Spam: Don’t spam. This can mean a lot of things. So just use your brain and obey warnings if you receive them.

3. Don’t Scam: Scammers are not wanted here. Your site must be legitimate.
4. More updates later.

Join Blogger Joint Venture here: http://www./Bloggerjointventures

Alfa Seltzer: Maybe there are many creators. Each specializing in his/her own field. You cannot tell me that the same creator that designed the moon on jupiter also spent time designing the vagina of dogs.

u don't believe in God but u belong to Satan. So u're a devil sent by satan to deceive the weak minded.

aManFromMars: Lmao..

Let's see...

Go into a quiet place, still your mind and ask God to reveal himself... Just keep waiting...



Didn't know when I dozed off..

u weren't serious enof or it was due to ur sin. U'll neva enter God's kingdom if u're not like a child. U think u're wise? Open ur eyes and see the foolishness b4 it's too late.

I guess somebdy might have taken the job. If you want something that looks like: Dreamonlinemoney.com, contact me thru my site's cntact page.

I'm inviting everyne to join this new group on Facebook. It's called Bloggers Joint Venture and its' objective is to encourage bloggers to promote each other. The group url is https://www./Bloggerjointventures/

AyodejiCharles: You can rank for the keyword Antihistamines but you may not make much profit from it. We are looking for a Buyer keyword for this keyword research. Someone may just want to know more about Antihistamines and may not be interested in buying any product that treat allergies on your site.
Therefore , we re not going to stop at the above keyword "Antihistamines " we are still going to dig deeper for names of drugs that are referred to as Antihistamines. This will benefit us because we are also going to be using Amazon affiliates as one of the monetization means for the sale of the Particular drug to visitors on our website.

But if we stick to Antihistamines, it may not favour us because, Antihistamines is very broad as a keyword and we may not provide the real solution to those who may want to buy or are likely to buy the specific drugs that can treat Allergies.
I will explain how To dig deeper for the specific drugs that we are going to use for this live training in my next post.
Stay Tuned.
I would have recorded this training on Video but I don't have the Camtasia Screen Capture software that I can use to record it and upload to YouTube.

What I mean is this. Assuming you finally get a long tail keyword, how do you know if you can rank for it in Google? That is, if somebdy type the keyword in Google, your site will come up. How possible is that?

Kairoseki77: This is done by people benefitting from various scams.

Local generator dealers
Scrap Part Scavengers
Etc

90% of the time, it is done as a way to collect bribe. The people from the FG will destroy the local transformer and then collect bribe before repairing it. Sometimes they come from PHCN, sometimes they come from other agencies.

Nobody gets power until EVERYONE pays the reconnection "fee". If your neighbor cannot afford to pay the bribe, you either go without power, or everyone puts a few kobos together to pay the neighbor's share.

No sane person would go near a transformer. No crazy person would go through the trouble of destroying a transformer just to leave it untouched. A thief would at least take some metal parts to sell as scrap.


@Sincere9gerian, if you think this practice is "evil" you should face your front and ask your ogas to stop vandalizing the transformers. Maybe if you left your "compound" you would know that this is common practice.

Here's a video of it happening:

From the video description: "Staff of NEPA in a bribe stand off in Asaba. Camera started rolling after the demand for the bribe... See the Naira notes and the NEPA folks turning away on seeing the camera...

A bunch of public pick-pockets who go around the neighborhood disconnecting and accepting bribe to free customers... when there a lot of service calls that require their attention..."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JFQ3zMPs8E

I am saddened that the supposed "elite" in Nigeria are so out of touch with reality. If you think a political party is going around destroying transformers then you really need to evaluate your life. You have no business debating politics if you don't even know what the issues facing Nigerians really are.

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Here's an except from a newspaper article: "But shortly after the transformer was installed, PHCN officials first demanded N100, 000 before they could activate it. Members of the community refused to oblige them. “When that move failed, they demanded to be given extra two units of the transformer but we maintained our stance.”

He further stated that it was after the community turned down their request that their long journey to darkness began, as PHCN technical staff moved into the community and disconnected the wires that supply light to the community from the transformer.

“Shortly after they disconnected the community from the facility, they also took away the key to the transformer. They came back in the midnight to remove some components. Thereafter, they returned the key to the community and alleged that the transformer is damaged beyond repairs.

“But after much pressure, some officials of PHCN confessed to leaders of the community that they were working on instructions from above.

Source: http://thenationonlineng.net/new/community-phcn-at-daggers-drawn/

i love dat video. I like the zeal.

THE TRUTH MUST NOT BE HIDDEN. lET IT OUT OF THE BAG!

Whether any body like it or not, sex before marriage is totally wrong. Can you ask yourself how many ladies have been disvirgined and dumped in the name of testing? If you are supporting sex before marriage, your problem is lack of self control. That's exactly what you need. Such sick attitude is nothing to be proud of.

FarmTech: Please guy I need your help.

I tried to convert my static website to wordpress but encountered a problem. Now visitors cannot access my site and I can not log into wordpress.

While doing the transfer, I followed these steps:
1. Install WP in a subdirectory
2. Create posts and pages
3. Install plugins and make sure that the site is running fine
4. Log into Cpanel and Move WP to the root directory
5. Use PhpMyAdmin to edit the urls that need to be edited. That is, I remove the now defunct subdirectory where WP was installed from the urls.

After doing all these I encuntered the problem. Please help me, what should I do? My site is http://www.dreamonlinemoney.com

Wow!!! I figured it out! Here is what I did:

I went to wp-config.php and corrected the path to wp-super-cache. I found this code:

define( 'WPCACHEHOME', '/home/MY-HOST-USER-NAME/public_html/test/wp-content/plugins/wp-super-cache/' ) and change it to:

define( 'WPCACHEHOME', '/home/MY-HOST-USER-NAME/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-super-cache/' )

I simply deleted "test", which is the sub-directory I installed WP in.

I also went to my .htaccess file and deleted "test" from the file paths. There was a lot of them.

This is a big sigh of relief. I hope this will help someone one day.

FarmTech: Please guys I need your help.

I tried to convert my static website to wordpress but encountered a problem. Now visitors cannot access my site and I can not log into wordpress.

While doing the transfer, I followed these steps:
1. Install WP in a subdirectory
2. Create posts and pages
3. Install plugins and make sure that the site is running fine
4. Log into Cpanel and Move WP to the root directory
5. Use PhpMyAdmin to edit the urls that need to be edited. That is, I remove the now defunct subdirectory where WP was installed from the urls.

After doing all these I encuntered the problem. Please help me, what should I do? My site is http://www.dreamonlinemoney.com

Wow!!! I figured it out! Here is what I did:

I went to wp-config.php and corrected the path to wp-super-cache. I found this code:

define( 'WPCACHEHOME', '/home/MY-HOST-USER-NAME/public_html/test/wp-content/plugins/wp-super-cache/' ) and change it to:

define( 'WPCACHEHOME', '/home/MY-HOST-USER-NAME/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-super-cache/' )

I simply deleted "test", which is the sub-directory I installed WP in.

I also went to my .htaccess file and deleted "test" from the file paths. There was a lot of them.

This is a big sigh of relief. I hope this will help someone one day.