₦airaland Forum

henryobinna:
People can talk nonsense, you don't have any emperical proof for your insane claim and you want some to come agree or disagree with you

Since nobody who's a top earner would show you 'empirical proof' of their earnings, how would you ever know what any big site earns? How about making enlightened conjectures? Would Linda Ikeji ever show you her Adsense dashboard?

But at least we can make enlightened guesses based on our estimates of the site's search engine prominence/daily traffic (some of us search countless random Nigerian focused topics on Google daily and it's crazy how Naij.com results turn up on the first page everytime) , adsense strategy, etc.

If you know something you know (more credible candidates for top Nigerian adsense earners), why not let us know?

I think Naij earns even more than Linda Ikeji and anyone else. Clearly thousands of $$$ daily on Adsense alone. Do you agree? Their traffic should be in millions. It's the ultimate example of 'blogging as a business' and that's where I am deriving inspiration from.

By the way, what's the story behind their domain name change/redirection from Naij.com to Naija.ng?

questechie:
Those two questions you can find the answer by going to the blog itself, and it's not all questions you'd expect to get an answer.

Then you should be just ignored the post/questions instead. No need to be so condescending. Best of luck.

I've had the same issue for N10k, since second week of April. Since then up till now, my money has not been refunded.

Abujacarhire:
My current rating on Uber. Nice riders,however,the fares are too cheap,couple with Uber 25% commission.

If fares are too cheap, the options are to either quit or take it up with the company (Uber/Taxify). I've noticed many drivers grumbling and acting nasty with a rider after the trip ends and they see a fare that is not as high as they expected.

You people should never take out your frustration on riders. It's disgusting. The fares are set by the company. That's the whole idea behind Uber. It shouldn't be a source for quarrel between driver and passenger.

Nothing. Life is meaningless...

questechie:
Finally, I can recommend HTTPS to anyone that cares for better ranking and traffic from Google, while the initial impact may be discouraging, but longterm even is worth it. Our site traffic has gone over the roof this month and Alexa ranking from 3m to 500k with a month. Could this be the impact of the switch, or was there a Google update?

How regularly do you create new content (articles) on tour blog, and how many posts do you have now altogether?

The savings part is particularly true.

Of all the frustrations we face in a failed country like Nigeria, avoiding tax trouble should be my problem? I'm not interested.

I rather work for myself, to enjoy myself with the proceeds of my hard work, and work for my family (precious mum, old dad, siblings, and my children), thank you very much. No way in hell I'm working to please any leeching woman.

questechie:
It was really that bad! Started around early 2014, which I believe coincided with Google's Penguin update, https://www.questechie.com was so severely hit that it won't even appear on serp with your search for the name itself. It lasted for about 3 years, Alexa ranking fell from 300k to 6m, and I lost all sponsored posts client except for some few Chinese clients that still check in once in a while. The problem with the site was technical and had to do with structured data which was badly coded in the former template, I then changed to this current template and the next penguin update saw the site recovering partially until now that it's fully recovered.

I have no idea what you mean by badly coded structured data. Would like more insights about this. Can't imagine not appearing in serps for three months, not to mention three years!

How can a new site avoid this

questechie:
Getting sand boxed is one hell of a situation for website owners, I've been through it, and to be candid if not for passion for blogging I'd had given up!

How do you know for sure that you've been sandboxed? And how long did your sandbox imprisonment last?

I suspect I night be in the same situation with a relatively new website that I have. How much longer do I have to wait and what can I do to reduce my sandbox jail time?

Stop posting your blog links on Nairaland and other similar forums. There are a lot of lazy Nigerian youths here who just want to feast on your hard work.

I've learnt that lesson. My new blogs would never be posted here, as I'm depending only on organic traffic and traffic from US/Europe targeted FB/Twitter campaigns.

But I'm sure the charging port will be messed up as usual. My experience with Nokia smartphones is hellish. Their charging ports are usually weak and get spoilt easily. To fix it will frustrate your life.

Prestdude:
Posting your links on nairaland is not bad, as a matter of fact, Google will notice your blog quicker because Google crawls nairaland regularly because the site is a busy site, however, excessive posting of your link on niraland can be harmful, Google might see your multiple links as spam, so if you must put your link, you'll have to do that cautiously, also traffic from nairaland is not as strong as traffic from Google, always aim for Google traffic..

For a new blog to start gaining organic traffic, it depends mainly on your ability to work tirlessly [/b]and your willingness to study the niche you're in, consider factors like the competition in the niche, hunt for your [b]competitors keywords, know your competitors and search for those keywords that is making them rank higher than you (Use tools like SEMRUSH tool, you can use the free version for 14days worth $199, write better articles with more words (1k+) strategically place your keywords, do your on-site and off-site SEOs properly, build backlinks by gradually dropping your comments/links to sites on your niche, mainly sites from US, UK, Canada etc, don't spam these sites, some won't accept your links, look for international forums like nairaland, drop your links there too, gradually oooooooh... As per how many posts it will take for traffic to start coming, can't really tell, all I know is that you need to make posts on trending topics or keywords on your niche, it's not a matter of how many posts, it's a matter of posting relevant topics, post on what people are search for, with SEO tools like SEMRUSH, you can track your competitors most profiting keywords, you can also track keywords with the highest CPC, you'll get to know that there are keywords with as much as $5 to $8...

Don't apply for new AdSense, it's a capital offence, trust me, if they find out... You will lose both, just link you AdSense to your new site, CPC is determined by the following factors, niche, location where your traffic is coming from and then keywords, for instance, in your naija blog if a keyword like[b] Big brother Nigeria[/b] is $0.08 you will get 0.08 for clicks on that keyword, while on your health blog, a keyword like maleria drug may have a CPC of 0.26, a click as a result of search on that keyword gives you $0.26....

Blogging na real hard work oooh, just do your due diligence, don't rush it, give yourself one year, post like 2 or 3 times daily and watch out for results, I always advice people to build blogs that will last a lifetime, health blog if properly built may even outlive you because it doesn't have season, people will always need medical advice, when you do your due diligence very well....

Thanks a lot for the heads up. Appreciated.

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Which one is God of Ibiyeomie again?

Hmm

CilicMarin:
Building fly over where there is no traffic is the height of foolishness.

Meanwhile Ekiti state civil servants are being owned backlog of salaries.

Between this man and Nnamdi Cownu, I don't know whose mental case is worse.

Should we wait until there's traffic before we build flyovers? What's the essence of development planning then? I guess that's the difference between us and the whites. They plan for tomorrow while we are always myopic and live for today alone.

Prestdude:
What is your niche? Your niche is a huge contributing factor when it come to CPC rating, take for example, if you are blogging on Nigerian news, Nigerian music industry etc, most of your visitors will be from Nigeria, so trust me your CPC will be very poor, no matter the age of the blog...

An open secret -
One of the reasons for a $0.01 and other low CPC revolves around the country were your visitors are coming from, the niche you are blogging on, your content quality (no copy and paste or rewriting other people's post) etc etc...

When you blog on the following niche your will get a CPC as high as $2,

1. Blogs on Law
2. Blogs on insurance, you can have a micro niche on this. Insurance is wide
3. Blogs on banking, finance, credit card
4. Tech blog
5. Blogs on health..... Etc etc!!

the lowest CPC on my blog is $0.13, most times they are clicks from Africa, I've had a CPC of 0.87, I have a site on finance and will soon be starting a new insurance blog, that's my highest, a friend once had a CPC of almost $5, that was from about 8 clicks before it went down...

In conclusion, having or blogging on high paying niche does not mean authomatic high CPC, your visitors must come from USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany etc... Even South Africa has a high CPC, my point is that your post must target audience from these countries, don't post news on BBnaija and expect someone from Germany or USA to have interest you..... My final advice is for you to visit Google and carryout an extensive research on this issue, read up and make the necessary changes, startup a new blog if need be and stop posting your link on niraland for backlink, that act may condemn the site to a Nigerian site...

I've always wondered whether pasting one's blog link on Nairaland for traffic and backlinks does more harm than good for Adsense CPC. But I do think it somehow helps in drawing organic search engine traffic...

By the way, how long does it take, in your experience, for a newly registered website to start drawing organic traffic with seo only? I have a site that is about a week old now (focusing on the broad health niche), with about 10 high quality seo optimised, keyword rich posts targeted at the US... But so far, I have only about 2 organic visitors from Google search. How much longer do I have to wait and how many posts would do the magic?

I have another older blog with predominantly Nigerian visitors where my adsense is linked. I intend to later link this same adsense to my new US targeted blog. Is this a good idea (as in, will it affect the CPC for the new blog) or is it better to apply for a brand new adsense for the new blog?

Sorry about the plenty questions. Lol.

We know how annoying sense of entitlement is, but come on. Once we are successful in this part of the world, we have the moral obligation to take care of our families as long as we have the resources to do so. I see some of you shouting go and work hard, but life doesn't work like that. Lots of people work hard everyday with nothing to show for it except being able to feed and put a roof over their head.

If something terrible happens (an illness, eviction from your house, etc), you will understand that you have been living in abject poverty. When you need only N1m to save your life or solve a desperate problem, but all your life savings from your salary and earnings is not even up to N200k, who do you run to for help? And yet you have a first cousin or nephew who has billions, come on. Life is unpredictable and dynamic. We have to look after our own if God has chosen to bless us in his infinite wisdom. God's blessings are not for us alone. It's for us and everyone lucky enough to be close enough to us. It's really important.

3html:
Yes on Monday yesterday around 2pm from diamond bank but dorm account

Adsense released payment on Sunday but payment reached my account Monday


If you have not received and adsense has already released the money know that it's from your Bank.
At times it takes about 3 days for some bank to pay however if it exceed 5 days then go to the bank

Is it the same for payments directly to a Nigerian Naira bank account (not dorm)? And do you have any idea what rate the local bank charges to convert Google's payment to Naira before depositing in your account?

kelvinnaira:
If I were to start all over again and had an extra $10 to spare, I would use $5 to order a manual social media share gig on fiverr

Couple of questions for you bro..

How does the social media share work gig ordered on fiverr work?

How do you rank a new website quickly?

Hope the file has not been backdoored with a trojan. Some of you guys can be funny.

questechie:
I think Nairaland is typically a no-follow attribute by default, and has no seo value, except on traffic!

I thought so too.

Donraqh:
Well detailed and simple. This must be a product of experience and experimenting. Sometimes it's always good to have been there to tell the lessons better.

Keyword research before content creation is the way to go if you expect to get organic traffic from search engine, I use think it's a mere say till I almost got frustrated with my first blog.

I don't write contents now without doing a keyword research first and aim at a target and profitable keyword. Since I imbibed in it, my blog has been getting organic traffic like mad. There's no rocket science.

Creating quality back links will as well compliment your effort, this is very very important for search engine to rank your site.

Having done that carefully, relax and be patient while your dividends matures.

What's your backlinks strategy? And by the way, how useful are backlinks from Nairaland to one's blog?

What are the members demographics?

YorubaEmir:
Slightly negotiable
Very active
Face to face transaction if you insist ( I can send persons around Enugu, Delta, Abuja, Ibadan, Lagos whom you can meet)
Contact: 07068097535

Which country or countries are the group's members located and what's the niche?

What kind of meaningless question is this? And to think this thread made the front page.

Nothing wrong in being a noob, but at least a simple Google query would answer this question and educate you in less than 1 minute. But some people are just too lazy to shake off their ignorance.

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