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bizbro:
How to earn only 300k traceable income a year 🤔🤔.

Boss, could you please break up the link in the quoted post with spaces?

Something came to mind yesterday that it would be better that way but network problem won't let me open the forum to make the correction. I just remembered now.

In other news, it appears Grey is preparing for the tax...this one they're asking for BVN.

moneymind:
I totally get you, although I feel certain kinds of names can only sell or have a higher chance of selling at Atom. From my research, getting to silver seller comes with 50 free coins, I plan to use the 50 coins to list my 50 names at afternic.

Could you shed some light on the bold, please?

moneymind:
What's your Atom premium portfolio size? Planning to add 10 more to make it to silver so I can access their sold database. Then cross list at afternic.

At its height, my entire premium-accepted domains on there was about 38. I have let some expire - currently down to 32.

I believe I have other domains in my portfolio that would have been accepted if submitted for premium listings to push the count past 50. I just decided to not waste more money for submission based on my experience with them.

As for the bold, they only allow you to list coin-submitted Premiums on Afternic. But prices set on the latter must be at least 10% higher and one must also not activate LTO. That's too restrictive for me, especially the no LTO part.

moneymind:
Atom go just dey sych person with data, 5 names out of 40 in top 10%. No retail sale yet.

As in ehn. Been on that platform since 2020 (I think). No single sale - not even the standard ones I did outbound for. Na just stats, likes, shortlists, Top 10%, hot, and what not.

I planned to stop using them since 2023, but I kept postponing because of new features. Seems this is the year I'd probably stop using them and just focus on Afternic.

Individuals who are worried about the proposed tax coming into effect in 2026 may check this calculator to have a rough idea of how much they'd be expected to pay: https:// fiscalreforms. ng/index.php/pit-calculator/

Heard Mr. Oyedele being interviewed on the issue on Nigeria Info this morning. He mentioned a site which I didn't get; I found this one via Google.

The information may help to develop a "strategy."

pwetie:
Bot don ban me!


Z dot com is now 4.98 USD and their registration seems to be faster now unlike previously you wait several minutes.

Really? That would be great!

I actually found out about the price this morning when I noticed that one domain name that I bookmarked yesterday (out of curiosity) was registered there.

iykepromotions:
From dynadot. That should be less than #11K for a dotcom

Yeah, I just saw it when I logged in today. But suddenly, it felt like the price dey high.

$5 offers for other places, especially Unstoppable, don too sweet me. Na those ones dey ginger me to register new domains sef.

chicfarmer:
I am not an accountant and I have not read the new tax bills. However, I feel that many of the fears expressed above about the new tax system is UNFOUNDED.

I feel slightly the same way, too. I'm just not overly bothered at this time.

The article that was quoted on this issue seems a bit iffy to me - probably some clickbait. 🤨 It indicated that annual earnings less than 800k - up from 300k - will be tax-exempted. That means only those earning less than 70k monthly will not pay tax. How many people can survive on such a salary, especially in a city or town?

It also included the following paragraph:

"In 2023, Intelpoint, a research and analytics company, found that only 10% of Nigerians earned above N100,000 monthly. As a result, more Nigerians would be automatically exempt from paying personal income tax."

Really?

Omo, make we just dey look. Will the government now assume all money that comes into my account is an income from a job or side hustle?

Learner47:
But how have you guys been of help to my hussle.

This right here is the problem I have with taxes in Nigeria.

Paying taxes is not really the problem but the accountability (or lack of it) of those in charge. In a so-called democracy, the ordinary man is suppressed and doesn't have a voice. A country where the masses vote and a few people in court determines the winner.

I tell you, if I were in the UK, I'll probably feel less reluctant to pay taxes - even with the high rate. Those people in charge at least are more accountable. Political office holders there don't steal or embezzle so brazenly.

But, here those in political offices (and those close to them) use and mismanage resources without any real consequences. Anyone that protests gets treated very badly. So where's the incentive to pay taxes if one can avoid them? What can we convincingly say the government is doing for the common man?

haggai247:
For Google trend you've five keyword to imput and compare how popular these keywords are.

See the picture below

For Semrush it has to be one after the other.

2 I only have social media profile for my site because of eeat by Google I've three websites one a course selling website and two niche site.

The essence of getting Semrush login means you already have a niche in mind.

All keyword will be used for the sites.

One KEYWORD per page or post that's why I thought you were talking about categories.

Hope I've explained it well.

Thank you very much! This is more like what I wanted to know.

U1:
@haggai247 A clarification needed, please.

On Google Trends and SEMRush, one has to enter the seed keyword or forum name (in the case of the second method) one at a time, right?

Also, do you have social media profiles for all your blogs?

Finally, what does one do with the keywords obtained from SEMRush? Do you base an entire website (blog) on each one or use for just a blog post? For example, "does xanax cause weight loss" - seems too narrow to have an entire site on.

Thanks

@haggai247, the questions are the bold sections above. These are in reference to the information you have shared on this thread/forum, including the screenshots.

haggai247:
If you decide to create a website the secret is in plain sight like Kyle roof will alway say.

If you want a weight loss site Google the term weight loss.

Check all the sites Google is rewarding: all the top page.

Check all the categories one after another you'll see exactly what categories your site should have (because all the sites have these categories in common)

also Google the term and add Wikipedia see how Wikipedia arranged the topic check the headings.

Example let's use dog for example if I'd create a website about dogs.

I'll have the following categories.

Dog breed
Dog food
Dog health
Dog behavior.

Check all these on trends you'll get to understand.

If someone does not show you one on one with examples it's a little bit hard to grasp.

But I'd hope I've made it simple enough. U1

Thanks for your response!

But my questions really didn't have categories in focus. They were more in reference to the information you shared previously. So, I don't really feel they were addressed.

Learner47:
Once them reason expireddomains/net matter which is the blood of many domainers..may just b d end of many veterans...grab d little sales u can while it last.

So no be only me don think go this side? I will so much miss that tool (God forbid) if a paywall is put in place.

God has really used Marco to bless us with that website!

@haggai247 A clarification needed, please.

On Google Trends and SEMRush, one has to enter the seed keyword or forum name (in the case of the second method) one at a time, right?

Also, do you have social media profiles for all your blogs?

Finally, what does one do with the keywords obtained from SEMRush? Do you base an entire website (blog) on each one or use for just a blog post? For example, "does xanax cause weight loss" - seems too narrow to have an entire site on.

Thanks

haggai247:
Keyword research loading


Blogging keyword research as easy as ABC.

If you're thinking of starting a blog please pay attention.

Failure to learn this will keep you from success. and guess what?

You'll follow people shouting blogging is hard blogging and seo is dead.

The basics of blogging is keyword research. The AGADAGURURU of blogging or SEO is keyword research.

it's so important let me repeat again.

Lack of Keyword research is why people blog and do SEO for years without tangible results.

Keyword research is dividend into two.

please pay attention because nobody on YouTube or nairaland will teach you what I'm about to reveal.

I paid tf to outside Nigeria for one on one lesson to learn this.

Even expensive courses don't teach this.

How do I know? it's because I'm a course seller I've all the courses from the guru's you know.

Anyone name them I've it all.

Back to the topic Keyword research is divided into two.

niche research
audience research.

Niche research simply means topic you want to Blog about.

Here's question you need to ask yourself.

Is the niche very competitive?
Do you have experience on the niche? EEAT is more important now that AI can write anything about anything.
Does the niche has many products you can sell?

Competition
If you're a new blogger you want to say away from very competitive niches like:

health
insurance
travel
law
internet marketing and many more.

Here's why.

You can't write quality content like guys who have been doing it for years.

Google and reader can smell ai content because you'll have no experience using AI.

But here's what is interesting.


It'll take years to rank because you don't have experience and would struggle to write on a niche you know nothing about.

Some people (a very few) can grind for years, while other have money to buy press release.(Link)

If you can then go for it.

Just know to see real results will take at least 2-5 years as a novice who knows what he's doing.

Let me tell you the truth

And you go don write at least 500+ content.

Some people do break this law if they're good at keyword and audience research.

My mentor who taught me who I meet on nairaland started a new site on a competitive keyword diabetes.

He told me his success was as a result of:

great keyword research he was writing on low competition keyword he knows he can easily rank on page one.

content velocity: he was publishing everyday for 90 days following the income school model.

great understanding of his audience: he already knows diabetic because he has written books about the topic and organization started contacting him for deals.

Now back to the matter.

Keyword research

Many people make mistake when they start blogging and it's their fault.

Most video on YouTube compound the problem furthermore.

Here's a simple way to do keyword research and succeed with blogging.

Let me do it with diabetes niche

Research a niche like diabetes start with getting seed keywords and problems in the niche.

Seed keyword

Problems in the niche/what people struggle with/pain point.

Don't gloss over this seed keywords and problem in the niches let that sink in.

For diabetics

Blood sugar
Diabetics
AIC
Neuropathy
Blood sugar spikes

You need to take your time and find as many as seed keywords for your niches.

Here's how to find seed keywords almost instantly.

Go to Wikipedia type your keyword in this case diabetes.

See all the blue links on Wikipedia? those are seed keywords.

the more the better you should get at least 50-100 plus or more.

Also go to trend./Google/com select united states as your location.

Type those seed keyword into the search bar.

Choose topics instead of search terms.

Change the time to five years.

Do this for all the seed keywords you have found.

You'll see the trend and the one that's highest on the trend line is what you should start doing KEYWORD RESEARCH about.

Here's why.

It's because it has more search volumes and people are more likely to be searching for these.
Will you write on a topic that's dying out than one that's trending?


Also Change the country to UK CANADA AND AUSTRALIA and try again

HERE'S WHY.

These countries have money and are willing to pay advertisers to show on blogs.

Monitization should be baked into your keyword research strategy.

Majority don't do all these, Most just write about anything that comes to their mind(throwing mud against the wall)

And they wonder why they don't succeed.

Ok now you know the seed keywords that people are searching and trending.

Let move forward

What you want to do is find Low competitive keyword.

Go get sem$rush subscription. If you've chippass cash dollars account you can get a trial for 7days to use it for free.

Please make sure you've done all I've said before you get the 7 day trial ooo.

To find low competitive keyword on sem@rush.

Go to keyword magic tools

Type your seed keywords leave country to United States

Click on search it'll give you many results.

Go to keyword difficulty (KD)
Type between 1-5 click ok

You'll see keywords that are easy to rank some may have low volume.

Repeat for 6-10 11-15 and so on.

Many people will protest aah senior man I no fit write blog post wey get only 50 search ooo.

See that keyword get 1k 2k search volume make I write that one abeg na.

It's the beginning of failure.

First the keyword tools don't have correct search volumes no tools has.

All give estimate if you rely on it you'll be doing a disservice to yourself.

Also if you rank for that 1k or 4k keyword as a small blog.

What will happen if a blog that's bigger than you:

(have more link and authority on the topic discover the keyword and write about it) your traffic is gone.

But these low competition keyword most big blogs don't want to write about it…it's your secret ingredients to get traffic quick and easily.


Let me Repeat as a new blogger.


You main focus should be on low competition keyword because you're a new blog Google does not even know you.

I didn't invent this strategy.

It's a strategy by Chris Carter he called it the avalanche theory.

Chris Carter of builders society.

If you can write on these low competition keyword and rank number one guess what?

If you rank number one for these keywords you'll get links naturally.

Here's why.

Most people link to the first page often.

Second part loading

Thanks so much for the time and effort you put into sharing this! I have to schedule time to properly "digest" this.

I'll be looking forward to the second part. Best.

palinco:
I just sold naplescooling.com through @Afternic for $915.00!
Sold June 5th, after one year of no sales. my last sales were in April 2024. Thank God for His mercies.
HT:1 year
Someone in NP gave me for free, but, it turned out it already passed grace period. I had to backorder on Sav. Again when notifications of its sale came from Afternic, I found out it expired and grace period over. Thank God it was in auction, I had to bid for it to complete the sales.

Congrats on your sale, bro.

This is massive for geo, even though I know some other geo domains have sold higher. I don't have any priced this high.

And, anything wey go make me price a geo domain for 495+, I am most likely (>95%) going to renew it at least for one year.

haggai247:
Please where can I buy the cheapest domain.com domain.

I want to show people who think SEO is dead how to make money blogging despite AI and the so-called "Google updated"

Although I buy my domain on name cheap I need something I can just show people without revealing any of my real websites.

I just want to show it here on nairaland.

Already have hosting just domain name.

I believe you have gotten the answer you needed by now. I think the Spaceship offer may be best for your experiment if you are able to get it.

I'd also be interested in how you go about this and the results!

Meanwhile, for flippers, today na Friday. That means today is for $5 .com at UnstoppableD - that's less than 8k a pop. If you get money, go try your luck.

SanThiago:
By safe, I meant that my bank will not come and block my account tomorrow that I did fraudulent transaction.

Nigerian banks can be really crazy. One of them summoned me recently and kept asking if I was sure I was not into sports betting and the other kini.

When has sports betting become a crime in Nigeria?


Anyhow sha, did you convert your dollars to Naira before sending to bank?

I am not into anything fraudulent, so I have no fear of that kind. I get proofs of sources.

You will simply be shown their exchange rate and the amount you will get in Naira for the amount of dollars entered.

therealMcCain:
Our lead center on Afternic, is filled with so many Stalled

A major reason I decided to experiment with turning off Make Offer for most domains priced lower than 2500 this year -- like >90% of $1k+ and almost 100% of those lower than $1k.

I had read several articles over the years on how domain purchases of 2-3k and lower were impulse purchases. So I wan test am this year. If I get an offer from contacting a lead directly, I could consider it.

The other day, Afternic Sales team contacted to let me know an offer had been made for a listing priced 1k. Told the broker to get the best deal and that my minimum was 750. He came back with a best offer of 700 days later and I told him to accept. The lead ghosted. Domain way I don plan to hike the price at renewal long before the offer came.

I had to enquire about how the offer was made because I think I didn't enable Make Offer for the listing. They told me it was by phone.

SanThiago:
Hello guys. A bit OT here.

So I have some funds on my wise account and want to confirm if it's safe to withdraw directly to my bank account from wise.

Pls experienced people in the house, help

I think it's safe, but I don't know your definition of "safe."

I made my first withdrawal to a NGN account last week. It was super fast (took only seconds) and saved me a little more money, compared to using Grey.

I just discovered last month that such a transaction was possible after I contacted them to find out why they're displaying NGN rate. They had told me they don't send money to Nigeria, even this year (around February). They claimed they only just resumed recently.

shapman:
I can reg a domain on Unsto.pp.able for 7,500 on Fridays.

Na the point be this - one of the things I discovered during the free transfer. Laidis na Fridays I dey wait for.

But this Dynadot offer shared by Learner47 fit trigger me, being my favourite registrar for now.

moneymind:
I registered 6 names so far, suddenly the stopped registering my names, when I contacted them, they said my payment method (grey card) isn't secure.

Try linking the Grey card to PayPal and use that method instead. Personally, I no longer feel comfortable adding my card details to sites if I have the PayPal option - Dynadot is the exception.

I have actually gone ahead to register a few names there. The only problem is that they haven't credited the money I first deposited for account credit, yet they're accepting payments for direct purchases from the same PayPal account that I used.

bizbro:
Nothing is wrong with name.com sir.

Okay. Thanks, boss!

Has anyone had a good experience with Name .com?

Just found out they currently have a promo, plus they seem to be supported for Afternic Fast Transfer. But the experience by AY and what I later read online make me somewhat hesitant.

I even discovered I registered an account with them back in 2016. Never registered a single domain there but feeling like giving them a shot. Is it advisable, please?

Geofavor:
Sorry I didn't see the ED in your post. Thanks. And wow I didn't know you could get .ai for as low as that. The cost was always high when I tried to get one. Does it still cost the same at Dynadot? I just checked and still got $74.9.

It's not a .ai domain; don't own even one.

When you see "in king," it means .com - the "king" of domain extensions. The slashes separate the keywords.

Geofavor:
Congratulations. Was this HR, DR or Auction? How much was the acquisition price?

Thanks.

It's a drop reg; that's what I implied with ED (ExpiredDomains). Got it for $8.99 at Dynadot.

A report

Name: oversite//ai (in king)
Source: ED
Price: $1500 (BIN)
Venue: Afternic
Type: Inbound
HT: 4+ months

My biggest single-payment sale so far this year.

Payout was also fast, by Afternic's standard. The payout was already in the bag in less than 48 hours from being notified of the sale. The platform seems to have improved generally, especially for Fast Transfer payouts.

All glory to God!

Gpexchange:
Report

Omo, you dey kill this thing big time! Congrats!

I won't lie; you dey motivate me. I dey currently run some experiment wey I fit no do normally if not for your sale reports. And I am bullish that it would work out...at least I no go lose in the worst case scenario.

Omo, people wey dey use Z dey try o.

Imagine having a domain that PayPal confirmed as paid for at Z still getting registered at another registrar three minutes later.

I have never had to go through as much stress to register a domain name. Well, na attempt to save some dollars cause am sha.

Rankett:
I dey fear Mr Usain bolt ban. You'll see my hand sha

I just saw your "hand", boss. I go reach out now.

Rankett, abeg how do I tap into this free transfer offer? I don't think I am transferring up to 50, though.

Also, I read somewhere that you cannot transfer a domain with WHOIS privacy protection to the registrar with this offer. Is that true?

MostImportant:
Thank you for your response. Please can Google search show steps on how to do this or you can be of help on the steps required?

Of course, yes! I could have actually just directed you there by replying with "Google is your friend." But some people would take that as an insult instead of just learning. You can get answer to like at least 90% of questions simply using Google!

In this case, just search for a term like "domain ownership verification Sedo." You should see articles and videos from different sources, including Sedo itself.