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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.
5. Their support is also great if you ask me. I played around with options. I didn't like them and they refunded my wallet to get what I liked.
6. Remember, it is an unmanaged server so you would need to set up the hosting platform yourself. No cpanel, no apache, no php out of the box. Just a naked box. If you need help on that, I would be glad to help you out.
7. If you choose to get them via my affiliation as sent in the link above, i would gladly help set up your server. And if you want to get up to speed on setting up your linux boxes in future, I would be happy to guide you around (this one is for a fee oh) but na open source price I go give you.
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.
9. Abeg if any of you choose to use Time4VPS, make una use my affiliate link oh. I have saved you guys a lot. For a higher price on Digital Ocean and many others you get 512MB RAM and 20GB SSD. Best case, 1GB RAM.
9. You can reach me on 08171000232 if you need some clarification or help.

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.

It actually still works. But before Google rewards your efforts with that, you need to have proven beyond doubt that you deserve it. That is, you must have worked your tail off to grow your site into a valuable resource on that topic.

Once Google sees that your site truly has a bunch of top-quality articles on that niche that been frequently and consistently published, and that readers seem to love, they'll give you the edge in rankings over similar websites without the focus keyword in their URL.

Mission2prosper:
oga you dudnt watch the match. Iheanacho is the man of the match.

To each, his opinion!

So, because my opinion isn't the same as yours, you foolishly concluded that I didn't watch the match, right? Continue!

Iwobi, definitely.

To all those who think Messi would have stopped Nigeria's 4 goals if he had played, I say: head is paining you.

As if Argentina hasn't lost many matches that Messi played in!

rapheeky:
Dude ...b4 Russia ..u know how many match messi dn play already ?...messi would HV made arg score at least 4 gols in d first half ....cos we no good DAT half .

I hear you.

quickly:
Make una remember say Messi no play

Please just shut up! So, Messi would have stopped 4 goals?

And what did Messi do in their friendly against Russia.

Mind you, I'm a Messi fan, but I hate it when people think he can single-handedly do everything.

LuvU2:
I have no faith in Nigerian players. God help me for my unpatriotic position rty now. This is nt even a goal keeper problem. Was there any time Nigeria defeated Argentina or passed WC first stage #crying.

I was going to say you probably were not born before 1998. But when I recalled that we still qualified for the second round in 2014, I just didn't know how to describe your silliness.

But let me school you: Nigeria actually passed first stage in 1994, 1998 and 2014.

Sapiosexuality:
But not everyone needs a thousand posts to improve traffic. I believe their is a trick or method he knows, they know, but are not telling us. You can find all these things he said online. I'm not hating or not grateful. I just believe their is more and telling anyone wouldn't subtract from their progress. For example, have you heard of Triberr? Things like that. Their should be something. A targeted marketing. A certain writing pattern and SEO formation. Their is something.

Yes, not everyone needs a thousand posts to get traffic. But chances are high that a blog with 1000 good-quality posts will generate more traffic than one with 200 posts.

That said, let me now warn you: Don't go about looking for any trick or method that you think some people know and are not telling you. As far as traffic is concerned, there are no secrets as such. Here's how it works:

Do your keyword research to figure out the exact kind of information people are searching the web for (that is related to your niche). Pull out as many such keywords as you can find. Then write posts optimized for each keyword. Keep doing that. It takes between 6-8 months for a well-written post to start fetching traffic automatically from search engines.

Let's say you have one post ranking for its target keyword and starts attracting 50 visits per day. Having 50 of such articles will fetch you 2500 visits per day. That's simple maths. You can imagine what will happen when you have 300 such articles. That's how traffic grows over time.

The strategy I explained above is called SEO (search engine optimization). You don't need to buy any premium tool to implement it. On my blog, all I use is the free version of the All-in-one SEO pack.

Now, you can't expect me to float a full-blown tutorial on SEO here. If you're really keen about this blogging thing, you'll search the web for information on that topic and read as much as possible resources on it. And in no time, you'd have mastered it -- at least, the on-page part. As a blogger, you'll start failing the day you stop learning. I spend no less than 2-3 hours daily reading stuffs that help me keep abreast of latest trends in the blogosphere and the internet marketing world.

And note that the world of blogging today has changed from what it used to be.

First, if you really want to make money from blogging, you have to forget about passion -- unless you're ready to wait for 4 years or more. You have to choose a niche that people are actively reading about online. More importantly, you have to write articles on topics that people really want to know more about. And that's where keyword research and SEO comes in.

Secondly, gone are the days when 500-word articles would do much to help you. These days, if you really want to rank well and pull search engine traffic, you have to target 1500-2000 words per article. And you have to post frequently. Everyday, if possible. Or at least 4 times a week.

If you think all these are too difficult, then blogging might not be for you.

I've not even mentioned that fact that you must be a good writer. If it takes you a whole day or longer to write a 500-word article, you won't go far as a blogger who wants to generate SEO traffic.

Well, the good news is that SEO isn't the only way to boost traffic. But it's the best because your site generates traffic even if you abandon it for days. Even Linda Ikeji can't try that! There are times I won't publish a single article in 2 weeks (after I've paid my dues, of course), and my traffic won't drop a bit.

Social media is another way to generate traffic. You need to build a massive followership on Facebook or Twitter, and then channel that traffic to your blog. But again, it's not as effective as SEO unless you've mastered the art of crafting catchy titles and posts that go viral always.

Purchasing the premium plan would only give you a .com domain name. It won't remove the restrictions that come with that platform by default.

So, your better bet is the self-hosted version of WordPress (Wordpress.org), which gives you absolute freedom and access to unlimited possibilities.