₦airaland Forum

There is hope for this country. GEJ may be slow or may not think the way we all think. He is definitely the best president we have got so far.

Most Nigerian online businesses are a complete joke and a waste of time because the Nigeria business environment have very little trust on any business without a physical presence.

For any online business to succeed right now in Nigeria, the business model should be able to marry both offline (physical presence) and online business concepts.

Phate07:

Seun, why not make Nairaland more social? The ability to create groups, blogs, send and receive private messages should be able to increase engagement and traffic. And you might even increase your revenue by basing the new features on a subscription model.

I think making Nairaland a social network or a blogging platform will kill the forum more.
I think what Nairaland can do is extend the forum reach through providing pluggable widgets for other sites. You can have a nairaland widget that streams the hottest issues or discussions right now in Nigeria so that several other portals and blogs can add it on their sites.

NL is not really utilizing its users power to connect. Its social circle is very poor. If you look at its fan base on facebook and twitter, you will wonder why it is so small given the number of active users on NL. NL needs to keep a facebook and twitter connect area on the website. This will skyrockets its social circle within 30days.

Also NL can impliment an opinion polls or votes technology that can be featured on the home page. I mean not just a link but an image enabled polls or votes system.

Right now, Vanguardngr.com has finally taken over the number 1 spot as the most visited sites in Nigeria. It has a better global and local traffic ranking than Nairaland.

NL traffic ranking has been going down in recent time. It has left its #1,600 alexa ranking to over 1,880 and its chart is facing down meaning it is shielding weight gradually.

I have been wondering what could be causing this?

Fash still reamains the best gov in Nigeria!