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jossywayne:
It’s always possible to schedule ur appointment, but make sure the date u pick doesn’t exceed the date on ur I-20 form.

But before all this try and get ur i-20 form at hand.

Thank you

Good evening, from experience is there a time when it will be totally impossible to schedule student visa appointment for the fall season?

I’m slightly worried because my I-20 is taking longer than ever �

127$ (100 pounds) Paypal needed please at attractive rate.

Time2win:
Your i20 won't show any form of funding with such agreement. It means they only give GTA after the student must have spent a semester with them

I thought as much... Thanks.

A bit of update:

The department is willing to grant GTA, but the policy is that all GTA spend a semester as Graduate Teaching Apprentice (No waiver, No stipend for the first semester)

I’m confused/worried because I’m not sure the I-20 will show any form of funding with this arrangement.

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ayodeji481:
Pls when did you finish your application?

One of the three lecturers submitted the last recommendation last week. It took him a while. Other part of the application was submitted earlier on.

solihp:
Hello, congratulations on your admission. Yes, I was notified about funding immediately as it was included in the admission letter, you can reach out to the graduate director of your department

Thank you, I will do that.

Hello everyone... I just got a mail from GSU about admission decision for fall '19. (Msc Biology), but nothing was said about funding.

Should I wait for few days before reaching out to the department to ask about the possibility of funding? or what would you suggest?

@Solihp Were you notified of funding immediately or it took a while? Thank you

Please would anybody be willing to help me review my SOP. I spent the best part of last week putting it together, and I would appreciate some feedback from an experienced eye. Thank you.

Please would anybody be willing to help me review my SOP. I spent the best part of last week putting it together, and I would appreciate some feedback from an experienced eye. Thank you.

Yonline:
hello sir what metric in expired domain you search for mysite though

It’s not a rigid thing.

First it must be in my verticals. I won’t buy a spot betting domain for a home niche site.

Then the backlink profile. Quality links pointing mostly to homepage with brand anchors.

That’s about it

Thank you

Time2win:
No, you can go ahead. It's all biology related

I am interested in submitting an application (Spring) to two different departments in a university, but I am a bit worried about the implication?

Obviously, the statement of interest would be different, would this not give me off as a confused person?

I am interested in their biological Sciences as well as the Kinesiology program.

I would love to have your opinion on this please.

Hardheolar:
I don't have the balls to spend that amount on a niche site. Planning on starting one with 50k though. But Don't really know if it will yield in 6 months.

Start small.

Spend more on contents. Very low competitive keywords.

You can read up about KGR if you’re not familiar with it then target KGR keywords.

Write as much as you can and wait till it gets out of sand box.

Six month is enough to know if a site will fly or not.

oskaaay:
OP, this in fantastic. The only issue is that most Nigerians can not afford to spend that much to start a website with costly expired domains.
You can give this whitehat seo method called Foskaay SEO Technique a try. It best to rank Page 1 of Google within 30days even for fresh zero authority domain.

True.

We (my partner and I) can spend as much because it’s a business I’ve been doing for years, and I make profit from several sites. And also when these sites blow, the blow massively.

I love experimenting when it comes to building niche sites. Sometimes I get my fingers burnt, some other time, I get amazing results.

This article is about one of those amazing results… And I want to share the exact thing I did with you.

Kindly take note, that what you’re about to read is not a typical representation of the outcome of building a niche site on an expired domain. More often than not, the result is not always amazing, or it sometimes takes as much time as building on a new domain for the site to gain traction towards the niche you’re repurposing the domain to.

In this experiment I am about to share, I will give you an idea of the timeline, and what we did to get things going for the domain.

Basically, we had a huge budget, up to date, we’ve spent close to #500,000 on the project, and we’re still spending. We’re yet to make any profit whatsoever, but the project is just four months old.

In building niche sites, such expenses don’t freak you out, because you know that two to three months of earnings can recover the whole expenses and still give room for a massive return on investment.

Without many stories, let me give you the breakdown.

#1. Deciding the Niche:
The first thing my partner and I did was to think about the niche we would target. We made a HUGE mistake here because we settled for a medium competitive niche. That is not the mistake though.

The major mistake is that the Amazon commission for that niche is not so great. We would make a lot of money from the site during festive seasons, but aside from that, it would be a $1000-$3000/month regular earning kind of site.

But we’re making a deliberate effort to try some other type of contents on the site, if it works, then there is a prospect of making more from it on a regular month.

What you should learn from this is that selecting your niche goes beyond competition. Yes, competition should be an important aspect, but then what’s the point of ranking if you can’t make serious money from it?

#2. Getting the expired domain.
Once we settled the niche selection issue, we moved on to hunting for an aged domain.

Our goal was simple, we wanted something that will give us the initial push we need in the niche. It does not necessarily have to be a thousand dollars domain, but we had $500-$700 budget for the domain.

We wanted something with a strong backlink profile, and most importantly, something that is targeted towards the audience in our niche.

What that means is that, if our niche is about plumbing, for example, we want a domain that is targeted towards home, family and maybe men. Or for better understanding, if the niche is about kids gift, we want a domain that is targeted towards parenting, and mothers, something in that vertical.

We did not do the research ourselves, because we don’t have the experience or the tool to scrape. so we settled for a service that does something like that. TBSOLUTIONS.INFO is a great place to start your hunt for super expired domain.

After checking through their inventory for a while, we settled for a .org domain, we had to cough out $730 (#260,000) for the domain.


[img] http://sposhmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screenshot-2019-02-17-at-5.56.41-PM.png [/img]

As you can see, the domain name is pretty short. About six letters, but it’s a .org extension. It used to be a government-owned domain before we got it, and we’re enjoying the trust that comes with that right now.

#3. Repurposing The Domain:
After setting up the domain, the next thing is to repurpose the domain for our use.

There are various schools of thought as regards this.

Some SEO will suggest that you restore the content directly using the Wayback machine and let it be for a while. Some will advice that you put in the new content on it directly. Our approach was a little bit different.

What we did was to first check the link profile and make a long list of the pages that had the highest proportion of links. We want to squeeze all the link as much as possible. So we conducted a thorough analysis of the pages and ranked them based on the number of links pointing to them.

We had about five important pages aside from the homepage. These pages were getting massive links from important sites, so we knew we had to restore those pages as it used to be. That way Google will get the signal that the site is back online.

I used the Wayback machine to copy the content that used to be on the page, and then created a new page with the same URL and posted the content on the page. There was a bit of challenge in that regard because the site was built using an old CMS style, so most of the URL ends with .asp or .php extension.

I had to create the same URL structure and then initiate a 301 redirect from the .php extension to the new URL.

This might sound a little bit complicated if you’re not used to the technical jargons, but the main information there is that, I had to make sure that the pages that were getting massive links appeared back on the site they way they used to be.

Once I was able to do all of that, I went back to the pages that were pointing to those articles, and clicked on the link, just to make sure that it is directing them to the pages I have created on the site.

Everything seems fine. I installed Google analytics, and also activated the site on Google search console.

Now is time to wait.

The initial plan was that we would wait for at least eight weeks, to see how Google reacts to the domain. As we wait for Google to show us, love, we commissioned our writers to get to work on the content for the site.

#4. Content Planning.
This is where most of the money is going into.

Our approach is simple, we will target three categories of keywords:

The KGR keywords: This should be an easy win because it virtually has no competition on the internet. And if the domain is super enough, we should rank for this in a month or 8 weeks at most.

For this type of keyword, we instructed the writer to write 1500 words review articles for these ones. Nothing deep, just review of 5 products, introduction and conclusion. From experience, the content will rank as long as the content is detailed enough to cover the topic.

Because the search volume for these keywords is always very small, less than 300 searches per month, we don’t want to go hard on it.

Medium Competiton: This type of articles are a little bit competitive. We commissioned the writer to write 3000, to 4,000 words article on these keywords. They’re a bit competitive, and we know it will take a while for them to rank. We’re talking of four to five months, to see them move to page one, and then before the end of the year, they get to top 3.

High Competition: These keywords are very very competitive. The goal is not to automatically rank for them, but to structure the article in such a way that it will rank for some long tail keywords over the years before ranking for the main keyword that is being targeted.

We have about five of such articles on the site. They’re the longest and most detailed article you will find on the internet about the primary keyword. We’re talking of 7,000 10,000 words for each article.

For an informational article: we did not go crazy about it. we just wrote 1,500words articles about topics that will let us link out to the review products. We wrote about twenty of those, and that was it up to date.

But in the future, we will be writing more informational articles, targeted at promoting some other affiliate products on click bank, or we might end up pushing our own products as well. Only time will tell.

#5. Google LOVES Us.

After waiting for a month, I noticed in November that we’re good to go! Some of the keywords were showing up on google already, so we began to publish our monster contents.

In some of the articles, we reviewed up to 50 products and in some, we reviewed 25-30 products. In our KGR articles, we reviewed just 5 products.

And that was it.

That’s the screenshot I took while working on this article. We got the domain in late October, but we had to let it wait for some months, so we did not start publishing articles on the site until November.

As you can see from the screenshot, we literally started getting traction in December, a month after we started pushing contents on the site.

Over the last three months, we have moved massively for some heavy keywords. Check the screenshots below. Surprisingly, Google started ranking our KGR for medium keywords, so we are currently making plans to flesh up the content of those KGR that Google is picking up for medium competition so that they can easily compete in that space.

#6. Link Building Effort
Aside from building a site on a strong expired domain, you have to make a conscious effort to rank, part of the effort includes, publishing a rock solid content, as well as sending some backlink.

I wanted us to diversify our link profile, so I commissioned a friend to do blog commenting on some sites. We agreed on $100, and I paid $50 upfront. for a while, he commented, but soon he stopped. I believe he got lazy…

Aside from blog commenting, we recently paid for a PBN link rental to some of the money page, we paid $300 for six months link rental. The goal is to see how the site reacts to some PBN link love.

It’s too early to know the impact of those links, and only time will tell if we can send more of it to the site or not.

#7. Earnings So Far.
I know this is the part most people are interested in. If we’ve spent this much on a site, by now, we should be making a profit?

The answer is no.

We’re not making any profit from the site yet. But we clearly have a winning site, all things being equal. What this means is that the only reason why we’re not making money right now is that we are still young, and we need more time to claim that number one spot for most of our targeted keywords



Continue Here: http://sposhmarketing.com/building-niche-site-on-expired-domain/

pfadom:
The assertion of OP is a lie from the pit of hell! LAUTECH is a glorified college of "anything goes", corruption, and dishonesty

The education sector in Nigeria like other sectors of the economy is in shambles. However, the cause of the crises rocking the all-important sector upon which other indices of growth and development is hinged is not traceable to the government, but much more to the other stakeholders who are silent partners in crime. The unending critical situation of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso jointly owned by Oyo and Osun States comes to mind.

In the words of Apostle Paul gave a glimpse of the end-time in 2 Timothy 3:13, "...while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived...". Does this clearly describe LAUTECH? Are the present travails of LAUTECH mere circumstantial or an obvious trend?

Many wise and intellIgent people knew it would come to this level. It is a University where academic dishonesty, financial mismanagement, and administrative immorality with chunk of the people living above their means. A university where sycophancy is embraced even by the Vice Chancellor. They follow them to church/mosques, meet to discuss frivolities, major on the minors and minor on the majors.

It has always been a university where:

1. full-time lecturers work as though they were part-time.
2. lecturers hardly stay in the office,
3. they attend classes only when they feel like,
4. discuss only the exam questions with studnets weeks to exams,
5. collect money from students to pass and sleep with femaie students.
6. students contribute to buy a set of vehicle tyres or buy new cars, generating sets, refrigerators or even help complete houses for staff.
7. A staff in one of the Faculties was found to be parading himself with an imaginary PhD from the University of Ibadan with which he was promoted many times, yet the verdict of the system was place the said lecturer on the rank that matches his qualifications? What a university? Could this be an end-time university?

What a useless University management and thoughtless staff. Did they all not see the present predicaments coming?

This is the only university that keeps passing NUC accreditations through backdoor arrangements and manipulation even when they know nothing is working - no working laboratory, the library is just a building with outdated books, no reasonable collections of journals and current conference proceedings.

During the last NUC accreditation exercise in May/June 2018, they thought they were fooling the world - NUC inclusive. They issued fictitious appointment letters to every jobless graduate and postgraduate student they could think of, created files for them as potential staff, yet no letter was handed to those hapless individuals. They use them to beef up the staff-student ratio on paper, but deep down they know they were no staff, they signed no assumption of duty document. What kind of university would decide to write official letters duly signed by the registrar, received by the Deans and the Heads of Departments with the knowledge of ASUU, SSANU, NASU, NAAT.

The university has always passed accreditations be it NUC, COREN, etc on the basis of fraud and dishonesty. How could such an institution conveniently produce graduates that are worthy in learning and character? The university that carries a motto of excellence, integrity and service which are grossly deficient in everything that defines the pseudo-university.

Many of these Departments, Units, Sections have Pastors, Imams, and other so-called Born-again Christians and Muslims - where is their conscience?

Less than two months period was used for registration, lectures and examination in the last semester. All the staff and students know this! Any future for this system? Find out their recruitment strategies - (1) politically inclined, (2) through back doors, (3) appeasement god fathers, (4) how many sound-minded academics remain in the university? The staff are divided along ethnic and religious lines to the detriments of the students. Right before their noses, LAUTECH is undeniably regarded all over the world as the only Accredited Yahoo-Plus University.

Truth be told all of them - management, staff, students, religious fanatics- are part of this mess! What was the outcome of the staff and financial audit? Great revelation of corruption!

This was not the LAUTECH led by Professors Olusegun Oke and Akinola M. Salau.

Though it seems to be the end-time LAUTECH, I can only pray that this will not be the beginning of the end of LAUTECH.

I wouldn't be surprised to know that you're a jobless fellow.

I graduated from LAUTECH, it's not the best of schools, but it's a breeding ground for intellectuals.

If you graduated from LAUTECH without influencing your grades, you can be rest assured that you will survive anything life throws at you.

Also, those that ended up being fraudsters had it wrong from the get go, the have low moral standard, blaming LAUTECH for what they choose to do with their life is a faulty way to think.

The school is non-residential, so you can't say you're really influenced, if you did not actuvely search for what is not missing.


To rubbish, the entire institution and her product based on your shallow experience is a total prejudice that shouldn't be entertained in a modern society.

Goodluck with life.

For link juice? Not so much; aside from helping create diversity for your link profile. You don’t want all your links to be do follow links; it raises red flag.

But the goal in 2019 is much more higher than link juice; the goal is to establish relationships with the owner of the blog through commenting. That way you score some links through guest post in the future.

I teach affiliate marketing and seo.

Did they get the appropriate approval before embarking on the protest?

You have to put the state of security into context here.

The skepticism on this thread explains why most Nigerians are poor.

This is why I rarely sell course to Nigerians.

Their unbelieving mind would not make the process work for them.

Omoluabi9:
Hi iwriterng

I was inspired by your post (below) on the 1st million thread:



How do you carry out Keyword Research to pick the RIGHT niche for your Amazon sites?

Good morning...

I use a technique called KGR: Keyword Golden Ration. You can read about it.

To those reaching you to me, yes, I offer amazon affiliate training, I have a free ebook, you can download it here:

http://Sposhmarketing.com/free

Beyond that I have a six hours video training on amazon affiliate niche site. This course is expensive for most people, but it’s the cheapest I can offer for my time.

#17,499.
http://sposhmarketing.com/amazon


Good luck in your grind!

It doesn’t have to be online anyway, just be good at something then think of how to get people to pay you for it.

22.

Made roughly 4million that year. (That was 2016 when dollar was crazy, made $5,000 in November and $5200 in December that year.)

It was all from amazon affiliate marketing.

I still do amazon affiliate marketing, and I have several sites now.

I’m worried I can’t get a regular job anymore, because I would be depressed to work for such little pay.

I have been in the online space since 2011.

I had to mention that, so you would be rest assured that I have been around for a while, and I have done a whole lot of things, ranging from freelancing to forex trading, to blogging, as well as affiliate marketing and SEO.

The truth is, the same strategy applies to all these businesses; both online and offline. And in today’s post, I would be sharing the top 10 things I wish I knew about making money online.

If I had access to this sort of information when I was starting out, two things would have probably happened; it’s either I give up on the idea of getting started, or I assume a more realistic expectation of what would happen at different phases.

It goes without saying, that my goal in this article is to simply enlighten you about the online space, and how making money online really works. I would be plainly sincere with you because I am not trying to sell you anything whatsoever, which makes it easy for me to tell you the truth and the truth alone.

It is my hope that after reading this article, you would be well informed about what it takes to make money online, and how to specifically guide your actions and expectation towards online businesses, if you eventually decide to embark on one.

#1. No Overnight Success.
I decided to put this as number one because I cannot stress it enough. I offer amazon affiliate niche site training every now and then, and the first thing I tell my student is that making money online is NOT an overnight thing.

It takes time. Sometimes, it takes more time than a regular business. As a matter of fact, it usually takes more time than normal offline business.

What I am trying to imply is this; if you’re interested in a business that would make you thousands of dollars in two months or so, then you should look away from an online business because you won’t find any. You might want to call my bluff on this, but it is the truth.

If you’re this desperate to make that kind of money within a short period of time, then stay away from any online business. If anybody is preaching this kind of business to you, I can bet it; 9 out of 10 that they’re interested in milking you of your resources.

Online business; like every other business takes time and consistent effort…

…more on the consistent effort…

Things take time; especially now that the competition is much stiffer than it used to be.

If you’re just starting out, have it at the back of your mind, that you might have to grind for a year before you start seeing appreciable results. This is not to negate the fact that, some people make huge success within four (4) months, or six (6) months. But coming from somebody that has seen a project of over one year not take off, and also a project of 3 months take off, I’d say you should settle for anything above one year.

#2. You Need Money
Is it possible to start an offline business with zero capital?

Maybe some businesses can be done with zero capital, but frankly speaking, you NEED money to start any business, if you’re really serious about making a reasonable income from it in the nearest future.

I currently train students on Amazon affiliate marketing and SEO, and one of the major ideas of filtering students to serious ones is by charging about #10,000 for the course. The truth is, the cost of the training doesn’t matter much to me, I can as well give out the course for free. I wouldn’t feel the impact because I have other sources of income.

But I have since realised that money is needed to make money online, and as such, I need to bring in students that are not extremely broke to finance their online hustle.

Let me clear that up a little bit, before you have my head…

It’s ok to be broke and have dreams, heck! I used to be the most broke person I know. But aside from being broke, I did not understand the basis of hustle. I was broke, and would never invest money into any online business or training because I lived with the mentality that online business does not require money.

Now, I know better.

If you want to invest in any online business, be prepared to spend money, as if it’s a regular offline business. Be ready to raise the capital needed to get you educated about the business, as well as the money needed to set up the business itself.

Interested in blogging? be ready to spend money on hosting and domain, on hiring a designer for your logo, on getting the tools needed to keep your blog running.

Interested in affiliate marketing? be ready to spend on training and other tools and cost associated with setting up your sales funnel.

#3. Avoid Shinning Object Syndrome
All you need is a single system that works!

See! there are hundreds of ways to make money online. In fact, you can literally make money from an idea online. From writing to programming, to design, to affiliate marketing, to voice over, to animation, it is a very long list, and each of these methods has it’s pros and cons.

But one problem I had when I started was what I now call “Shinning Object Syndrome” which I will refer to as SOS henceforth.

SOS is a terrible problem for most newbies online, today you ready about a guy that made $1,000 daily from bitcoin, and then you start to think about going into the cryptocurrency businesses, then tomorrow you read about a guy that made $50,000 freelancing for a year, and then you remember how good of a writer you are, and you decide to try out freelancing.

It happened to the best of us when we first started. We want to do everything, and usually, we ended up doing very little.

Avoid falling into this pit. Be determined and focus on one thing and one thing only.

Let me give you an example; I have been promoting my course about making money from amazon affiliate niche site, but then out of the blue, somebody called me and wanted to hire me to help their publishing company publish their books on amazon.

While I know how to get this done, and the offer sounds extremely nice, I politely declined because it does not align with my current interest.

You should learn to focus on one thing that interest you at a time. Failing to do this will result into you wasting a lot of time jumping from one idea to the other, which at the end of the day will not amount to any profit.

#4. Learn The Basics
No matter your choice of online business, there are some skills that you would always need on the fly. If you don’t master these skills early enough, you would be spending a lot of money outsourcing to get people to do it for you.

While outsourcing is a good thing, in fact it is one of the things that would push your online business to the next level, you should also realise that, your early days spending would be on a shoe string budget.

Aside from the financial consequences of outsourcing, doing things yourself will go a long way in establishing your root in the business. Take for instance you’re into affiliate marketing like I am; you should be able to setup a basic website using wordpress, you should be able to work with FTP, hosting and all those technical jargons.

It doesn’t come easy, but you should learn how to get the done.

The truth is, you can learn anything online these days. All you need is a good internet connection, YouTube and Google. The rest is the amount of time you’re willing to put into the learning process.

Learn the basics, such as setting up your site, basic graphic design, how to write, and how to interact with people. These might sound mundane at first, but looking back now, I wish I mastered these things early enough.

#5. Focus On Your Strength, Outsource The Rest
This is a sharp contrast to the previous lesson.

Yes, learn the basics, it will save you money in the early days. But outsourcing is equally important, if you’re interested in going far in this business.

You must be willing to outsource some aspect of your business. Even though you can do it in the basic form, if you need a complete professional touch, or you are simple occupied with something else, then you should focus on outsourcing some of the other task.

My case for an example, I outsource some writing task, not because I cannot do the writing myself, but because more often that not, there are so many stuffs to write on, so I have to keep my sanity by getting another hand to help out.

I am not also great when it comes to graphics, in fact I suck at it, so i usually outsource that aspect of my business. My main strength is in analytics, more like the executive functioning aspect of the business, and this is what I love doing the most, because I don’t get tired of it.

Find your strength early enough and focus on it, the rest, you should outsource as much as you can.

Those are the top five (5) things I wish I knew when I was getting started with online businesses back then, the benefit of you reading this post is that, it would guide your expectation and keep you in a right mental frame as you work towards building an online empire for yourself.

If you enjoy reading this article, then don’t hesitate to share with your friends and enemies.

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cybertek:
Use shoptomydoor they do clearance for you no ish with customs

I have used them and still using them (US) shipping not tried UK before

Thank you. I’ll check them now.

lionlee216:
Cargo only..dem full UK

Can you please explain this please.


I’m in urgent need of means to get the laptop here without having to deal with custom duty and all.

Please can anybody help me out here.

Someone wants to send a used laptop to me from the UK but I read about custom, DSS and NDLEA issues with goods in Nigeria.

Please is there a way around this?

Shugavee:
This is nice tho but why did u hv to put the lady as last??

All these gender sensitive people ehn. Na so you go do reach the level of not kneeling down on your traditional wedding day. ☹️

TheNoble007:
Bro, are you going for medical photonics at jena? Let's connect

Yes boss. Tried sending you a pm don’t know how the thing works sef

Sakasitay:
I thought the fintiba account opening was instant. They said I should wait for verification.
How many days would it take?

Mine took about three days. Started the process on Thursday so that might have been a factor.

GreatDIM:
Which address did you use and which date did you get?

student@lago.diplo.de August 29th.