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The OP and mod who moved this to FP need some spanking and schooling. So, it's the same stolen car that was duped by estate agents? What an unlucky car!

I'm sure if the statistics were extended to include sales of "Tokunbo" vs. "Nigerian-used", all indicators would show that even the sales of tokunbo has dropped significantly. The market for locally used cars is now booming like never before.

When I went to Berger auto market in March to get my SUV (tokunbo), I spent about 8 hours looking around for a good choice before I eventually got one. One thing I observed was that throughout the 8 hours I spent walking around the whole market and pricing different options, I didn't come across a single person who was also pricing cars. If there were at all, that means they were too few going by the size of that market. That was when it dawned on me that the economy is really grimacing.

Some Nigerians need to be enlightened on what "brand new" means when talking about cars.

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StudyCrestLtd:
you have answered your question. A rally is different from a championship.

Forget nomenclature, what they did here isn't any different from what they do at rallies. Just a change of name, and it becomes hyped.

dominique:
Is this really the first racing championship in Nigeria? How about the rallies held in different states, doesn't those count as championships? Someone clarify pls

I had the same question running through my mind. I know of the annual rally in Sagamu.

The word "first ever" is thrown around in Nigeria with reckless abandon. Someone can just open a new private university today and still call it the "first ever" private university in Nigeria, just because there's freedom to do that.

whizbee:
While undiscovered, was it legal? Black Friday is on, please order sense...

Give that advice to your relatives! If your brain has been wired to hurl insults at people you don't agree with, that's a "talent" you should use on your close folks!

And please, stay off my mention.

Business for illegal miners!

pimppimp:
In this buhari regime?
Anyway it's all for the camera

Camera or not, the truth is 200 people enjoyed the benefit of being operated for free.

A stu.pid office that will start asking whistleblowers for its own commission before the whistle sound can be heard.

A stu.pid office that will quickly contact the looters of "whistleblown" cash and demand bribe so that the whistle blown against them won't make a sound no matter how hard it's blown.

For Nigeria, it is finished!

Howla3:
Do you have AdSense already on the blog? I'd have suggested you contact Blog Developers for ideas on how to convert better on AdSense. The guys helped me

It's like you're high on skunk! You go about on different threads, asking people to contact the guys at blogdevelopers.net, even when the topic has nothing to do with blog development and related services. If you think spamming and lying are the ways to promote a business online, just know that people are smarter.

UDOKABESTLUV:
inMotion Hosting is the worst hosting in the world, Ask Me the reason.

I beg to differ. I have hosted my highest-traffic site with them for three years now, and I've never had a single issue with them. I'm on their VPS plan, though, so I don't know if you're complaining about their shared hosting.

But the truth is inmotionhosting.com can be expensive. They charge me $299 every 6 months. Thats $50 per month!

tiwiex:
Hello OP. I see a lot of responses and most look helpful even for me. I have used a lot of shared hosting. Some with good experiences like siteground and very bad experience like 1and1 hosting. There is always a new provider with an interesting deal coming out one day. Let me itemize my points.

1. Alot of storage space means what? 10GB, 20GB or 1TB?
2. I have been using VPSs only for sometime. I enjoy total control. I have one on Digital Ocean and works fantastic. I have had it for 2 years or so. I used myhosting, ovh as lower priced offerings were discovered but retained my $5 Digital Ocean VPS. Had too many important sites I didn't want to disrupt.
3. I had a dedicated server with a firm called NOCIX. They have ridiculously low prices but I had my fingers burnt for some other reasons. I got a 1TB for $17 a month (you heard right) but realized that was just greed. It was not SSD and their support is shaky. What do you expect for $17 anyway?
4. Currently, I use Time4VPS and I must confess, they have been good. I am not selling them to you but this is the best deal I have seen out there and I felt compelled to let you and others know. The is double the capacity of what I have been seeing out there. I always expect a better deal after I get a good deal but so far, this has plateaued for a while on Time4VPS. They give you 2GB RAM and 40GB SSD for as low as $5 a month. If you pay annually, it comes down to as low as $4. I don't know if there is a better deal but this is what I call a baba nla good deal for now. They are based in Lithuania so you pay in Euros but na the cross exchange via your card. 1Euro is about $1.18. I noticed no one seems to know them (or talk about them) and I was just fortunate to discover them too. They also have an affiliate programme so no loss here.
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8. There are no strings attached. I use them and it sounds too good to be true but its true. So far, I am verrrrry impressed and totally surprised.
I have also attached a screenshot of my dashboard. Very typical of VPS dashboards.
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Good luck on your decision. It can be a lot of info sometimes. Just dive in.

You should have been honest enough to add that the link in your post is an affiliate link, and that you'd get a commission if anyone clicks on it and eventually buys a plan. That's the norm.

infogenius:
I have been using namecheap hosting for more than 7yrs, I buy domain names from them. Honestly, I won't stop using their service neither will host on any other provider.
Namecheap over delivers with a top notch service provision.

I am willingly choosing to host with them for a lifetime

I guess you didn't understand my post. What I meant was that you shouldn't pay for 3 years at once. Of course, I've been using Hostgator since 2012, but I pay monthly and that's fine by me.

Paying for more than one year at once isn't advisable, not because the hosting company might start offering crappy services, but because your needs might change. For example, your site might start pulling massive traffic and you'd need to get your own dedicated server, which Namecheap doesn't offer at the moment.

PerfectlyPerfect:
Alright, thanks. I was about paying a lotta money for hostgator's baby plan for 3 years. I guess I'll have to do a little more research

That's the plan I've been using with them since 2012. But I'm seriously considering moving all my sites to Namecheap.

But as a note of warning, don't make the mistake of paying for any hosting service for 3 years at once. Anything can happen along the line, and getting a refund can be hard.

PerfectlyPerfect:
You mean namecheap is better than hostgator in terms of uptime?
how come all the reviews and hosting articles I read online seem to disagree to that

Don't you know most reviews you see online were written by shills? It's expectable because Hostgator pays between $50 and $125 per sale in affiliate commissions. That's more than enough to tempt anyone to go about painting a good picture of them.

On the flip side, Namecheap pays crumbs in affiliate commissions, and that's why you won't find so many paid agents promoting them online.

I use both, so I can tell which is better from personal experience. I'm not saying Hostgator is bad. Just that as of now, Namecheap is better.

Namecheap is the best and cheapest I can recommend. I have 3 sites with them and about 6 with Hostgator.

In terms of uptime and customer support, Namecheap wins.

These bloggers like to overblow petty issues. When did mere lying down become a serious punishment as portrayed?

I'm not surprised, though. Some indomie kids regard even daily house chores as brutal punishment. So, this, to them, is na.ked fatality.

To those kids who see this as punishment, you'll enjoy yourself when you go for NYSC orientation drilling.

Transform into human being? Is it a transformer?

What shitty headline is this? How can a dead person "celebrate" his own posthumous birthday?

akinjuly77:
It does not increase CTR, users don't even know what a URL is?

Users don't know what a URL is? Do you even know what you're talking about? It seems both you and John Mu are confused. I googled his name now and the results can only prove that he has no footing to give advice regarding SEO. Just Google Matt Cutts to see the difference.

Well, you're free to choose whatever you like. But when you see keyword domain sites outranking yours later on, don't say you weren't told.

Best of luck.

Misplaced priorities.

I guess that will make the university the best in Nigeria.

Sapiosexuality:
Webincomeplus.

I actually checked your site, and I was marvelled by the length of your posts and the details they pack. But you can't make headway by blogging just your opinions.

If only you've channelled the enthusiasm and energy expended on your posts into writing reviews on cheap mobile phones in Nigeria or other tech related topics that people are actively searching for, you should be generating thousands of daily visits by now. Mind you, those topics are just examples.

Blogging for income is no longer about passion or about writing things that come to your mind. Like any other business, it's about supplying what there is demand for. That is, you need to start writing topics that people (Nigerians) are actively searching the web for. Topics like how to start various small businesses, how to travel abroad without stress, post-utme and admission updates, latest tech devices, and so on. Learning about keyword research and on-page optimization will help you understand how to figure out post topic ideas that will most likely pull traffic.

To your first question. There are many ways to earn from a blog. But with regards to Adsense, you earn per click or per 1000 views (mille). But most advertisers favor the per-click option.

akinjuly77:
Explain the advantages. I only used his words to support my claim. Based on my experience in the industry. If only you can explain the advantages you are taking about then I will agree with you that it truly as advantages.

1. Slight boost in rankings for primary target keywords and related long-tails.

2. Increased click-through rates in SERPs (such domain names immediately reveal what the site is all about, and this prompts search engine users to favor them. Over time, increased CTR leads to better rankings.)

3. Increased website value. Check many of the niche sites that sell on Flippa. They are keyword domains.

As I said earlier, these benefits don't come early, but they do. And if we even think of it, they are more memorable than brandable domains. It's easier to remember "cheaptecnophones.com" than "gbanjosmartphones.com".

SoNature:
If this is true, then it's good news! But I will surely miss Robert Mugabe's jokes.

Well, but most of those funny statements were falsely attributed to him.

akinjuly77:
There is no long term advantage. It was never been a Ranking factor, you can just choose to use or ignore it.

Makes no difference. That is my point...

If you feel there is a Long term Advantage, then tell me the advantage.

He really goofed by saying "They never were". If they never were, what prompted the EMD algorithm update of 2012. Google that to read more about it.

And I'm telling you my own based on personal and referred experience. Don't let anyone play mind games with you.

Matt Cutts is the only Google expert whose words are taken as far as SEO is concerned. Who knows John Mu.

Google "exact match domain update" or "EMD update", and you'll see that his statement (They never were) is crappy.

Know also, that search engines and their top engineers deliberately play mind games just to discourage people from taking shortcuts. For example, they claimed that nofollow links have no SEO advantage, but many SEO experts have conducted practical experiments to prove that they actually boost rankings.

SEO isn't about what someone somewhere says, bro. It's about what you've practically tested and found to work. If I were to have listened to everyone who claimed to be a guru, I wouldn't be where I am today as far as Internet marketing is concerned. I've gotten lots of great results by creatively breaking rules and going against norms.

That's why I encourage people to join forums like Blackhatwor.ld. There, you'll find experts who are ready to share practical tips and give relevant answers based purely on real-life experience. And they show convincing proofs of what they do.

deturla:
@webincomeplus, can you talk about targeting virgin keywords??

This is working for me a lot.

I don't get your question. What did you mean by "virgin keywords"?

axcer:
0.0.1

OK. That's really low. You're probably blogging in a niche that attracts low-CPC ads or you're not floating the right ad types.

So, in essence, if you can't get a keyword domain name, don't sweat over that. Just use something else. But if you can still find it available, use it. It doesn't hurt, and it comes with some long-term advantages.

axcer:
Hi guys,

My adsense PPC is very low which 0.1 per click, How much is your own PPC do you earn?

at least it suppose to to be 0.4

How do i increase it?

lalasticlala, myd44, fynestboi, missyb3, seun

Wait, do you mean 0.10 or 0.01. Please clarify.

akinjuly77:
It does not have anything do with your Ranking. I can send you a screenshot conversation between I and JohnMul of Google.

There are company websites that there index ranks on first page of Google and there are no keywords in the URL.

No real Google employee will give direct hints on what helps rankings or not. The only globally recognized Google expert in charge of SE rankings is Matt Cutts. Leave screenshots of private chats out of this. Practical experience is what matters.

Besides, when I talk, I do based on experience. I have 2 niche sites presently ranking among top 3 for their respective keywords. Both are ahead of other sites that are slightly older and have more content.

In addition, think randomly about any keyword that people build niche sites around and see the front page of Google results for that keyword. You'll see that for most keywords, you'll see at least one or two sites on the home page with the keyword in their URL. That's not coincidence. It speaks volumes!

Finally, why do you think domain traders charge high for domain names with keywords in them? And why do you think buyers readily pay heavily to buy such keywords. If they have lost that advantage, they won't command such huge prices.

I'm not saying you can't rank without having keywords in your domain name. And I'm not saying you will rank automatically if you have a keyword domain name. You can rank with any domain name if you offer quality content and attract quality backlinks. But when you have a keyword domain to add to that, you get a slight edge ahead. It might not be much of an impact, but it's a boost, anyway.