₦airaland Forum

Blogging may be the solution to your financial challenges, yes blogging, but how? To those that do not know blogging, it is the creation of an online personal journal; bloggers will update this journal from time to time with relevant content that will keep readers coming back. I don’t need to convince you that blogging will be a good solution but will just refer you to the story of Linda Ikeji, a Nigerian lady that is making more than $3 million about N700,000 0000, seven hundred million naira only, per year in blogging alone.

Here is my blogging plan to each and every blogger, aspiring blogger and any other netpreneur that wish to make money in the blogosphere, this plan is for serious bloggers, it need time and patience. this blogging plan is design for one complete year, it depend on your internet access, your income, where you live and what level of computer experience you got.

· Category one: for those who are already blogging, I will suggest that you pick a profitable niche or still stick to your already established niche, but should change or improve your blogging approach, I will suggest you create at least 3-5 post per day, targeting a particular niche , avoid copy pasting and create your original evergreen content.

· Category two: if you are not already blogging but have a reliable internet access, I wll suggest that you start it from today, go to blogger.com or to get free blog domain. Pick a niche and start to write grammatically correct articles of at least 4-5 hundred words. Write at least a blog a day and stick you will thank me later.

· Category three: for those that lack reliable access to internet, either due to financial or the part of the country they are living put still have their laptop, I will recommend they also pick a niche, create their articles and save them in folders, they should be able to create an article every day , what I know, they can get access to the internet one day to upload all their content

· Category four: to those that lack access to computer, you should be able to blog also, how? I will suggest you buy an exercise book and write; pick a niche/area and start blogging, what I know is that one day you will get access to computer to typewrite your contents and internet to upload your contents.

What I know, from whatever category you fall into, at the end of your blogging year ( one year ) you should be having around five hundred to one thousand well written, original organic content of your own. With this you can create a very profitable blog that can compete favorably online, generating a lot of money for you.

Apart from the general challenges that a common blogger will face in the blogosphere, Nigerians have their usual challenges that they must face in blogging, issues like creating a profitable blog niche, choosing a blogging topic to build your articles around, choosing an ideal domain name , brands awareness, traffic generation , search engine optimization challenges among others, Nigerian bloggers have a peculiar challenges they must face , of which each and every new blogger should know:


· Lack of electricity: this may sound somehow, but believe me. This is a serious problem, lack of power to recharge your laptop is one of the problem that a typical Nigerian bloggers are facing, no one will tell you this until when you delve into world of blogging, any experienced blogger knows this, you will observe that blogging need your time as a starter, at least 8 hours a day , then tell me where will you see light to recharge your laptop and blog like your counterpart in other part of the world.

· Lack of reliable internet connectivity: in most advanced nation, this is not a problem at all, in fact there are even free internet access in some cases, but in Nigeria reverse is the case, more than 90% of Nigerian bloggers rely on internet service providers from telecommunication network like mtn, glo, airtel etc. Most of the internet services provided by this companies are slow, very exorbitant and most of the time not available and therefore are not reliable.

· Lack of reliable online payment platform: the world most trusted online payment provider is now the paypal, a company that blacklisted Nigeria, Nigerians are only allowed to spend but never allowed to receive money. There are money company that integrated paypal as their only method of payment and therefore in other way sidelining Nigerians. The only reliable alternative is make payment through proxy in paypal “white-listed” countries or to use direct credit or debit card payment which is risky.

This poses a serious challenges to most new Nigerian bloggers who may try to obtain their domain name or pay for any online services. also many successful Nigerian bloggers have one story or the other to tell, on how they get their hard earned affiliate commissions trapped in paypal .

· Social stigma; many Nigerian youths, even graduate do not know that common blogger can earn a living online, some believe that you can only make it when you indulge in fraud and internet-scams aka yahoo-yahoo. Therefore the first impression you will receive the moment that people know that you are making money online is a negative one, this has a moral implication to the blogger and his personality and this is bad for a good business.

All these challenges listed above are only faced by Nigerian bloggers, as most international bloggers faces none of the above, therefore whenever any aspiring blogger or web developer want to delve into the world of the blogosphere he/she should know that he will face challenges of electricity , internet access and may not even make a simple update not to talk of integrating seo and it its likes

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