₦airaland Forum

pythonkid:
you never can tell, stop hating

You never can tell what? Dangote is worth BILLIONS of dollars! Not naira! So, you're saying it's possible this one is richer than Dangote? I see.

DaPuncline:
Ribery is a muslim.

Why did you dignify that guy with a reply? Nobody takes his shitty comments seriously.

Shitty sites with awkward domain extensions can't boom a street, let alone the whole world.

PrecisionFx:
Brow biko stop talking nonsense........... The obasanjo price increment took years, under bubu prices of ALL goods n services either Doubled, Tripled or quadrupled.




Stop defending bubu

How much did oil sell for at the international market during Obasanjo years? I'm not defending Buhari, but people should try to be a bit reasonable when criticising.

Prices doubled simply because the naira crashed against the dollar. The naira crashed because world oil prices crashed and oil is Nigeria's only financial backbone. It wasn't Buhari's fault that the country foolishly depended on oil for decades.

And just so you know, what we are experiencing in Nigeria has little to do with Buhari because during the oil price crash, other countries like Venezuela who depended solely on oil were also badly affected. They still haven't recovered, just like Nigeria.

Buhari might not be a saint, but the truth is, the present economic woes would still have happened no matter who is president. The problem is more than any president can handle in few years.

rottennaija:
Show proof of the suicide rate in this administration than others.

Don't mind them. They have forgotten that social media is the reason why we are aware of more suicide cases in this era. People have been committing suicide from time immemorial, even in countries where everything is abundant. Many suicide cases have nothing to do with the economy.

I use GTB, and my account gets credited about 24 hours after Adsense pays.

This is what I hate about this country. The late police officers were just fortunate to have the incident covered by security cameras, and to have the clips go viral on social media.

If the clips hadn't gone viral, I'm sure the police force wouldn't have succumbed to public recommendation to promote those officers and take up the welfare of their children.

The whole development is a good one for the officers involved. But what about those who were killed in circumstances hidden from the public, while showing the same degree of gallantry? Must the social media be involved before our government and its agencies do the right thing?

bigtt76:
Very sad! The man was an experienced officer having being in Yobe and other Boko Haram hot spots. I wonder why he panicked when tackling the robbers.

I saw the video and I was like he could have first demobilized the car by shooting the tires, take out the driver who was walking out of the car majestically.

After taking out the first robber, one was about coming out of the car to attack him, he could have waited to take that one out too, leaving just one who will be forced to flee and the policemen would have been a hero.

I guess poor training and welfare caused him to panic.

Don't jump to conclusions. He could have ran out of ammunition, thus having no choice but to run for cover.

Good-bad development!

You don't have to do anything. Just like Google, Alexa picks up sites automatically. So, don't bother.

Downloading the Alexa browser toolbar is of no use. At worst, it gives you fake results.

Mallamkay001:
Senator Ajayi Robert Borofice has been an outstanding disappointment and failure.
To whom much is given,much is expected. he doubles as d asiwaju of akoko land(4LG out of 6LG) and senator representing ondo north.
For the past one year, akoko has been in darkness except for recently that light is being restored gradually.
Our senator could only contribute #5m after being tretened with a violent protest.
He is only interested in becoming a governor.
ORUNMILA ALASHO FUNFUN!

So, you were able to get a whopping N5m from him and you said he's not performing? By Nigerian standards he's one of the best. How many senators have spent N500,000 on their constituencies?

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newman0705:
Honestly this is not funny anymore.I have been blogging quite a whileBut honestly, I still cant boast of making 1 dollar per day. I know that there is a nice person out there that will help me out of this. I am loyal to the core and would do whatever the person wants if the person can help me out if my mystery

To start with, what's your blog address?

Bear in mind that the only secret to boosting Adsense income is TRAFFIC: Relevant, targeted traffic!

So, if you're already getting traffic and not earning, that's a conversion problem. And you need to tell me your daily traffic figures.

In my experience, earning at least $100 monthly from Adsense would require having a traffic of at least 1000 daily visits (global audience) or about daily visits (Nigerian audience). So, what's your target audience? Nigeria or global?

If your traffic isn't up to the figures I stated, then you already know the basis of your issue. And you need to creatively implement strategies for boosting your traffic.

So, in a nutshell, furnish me with your URL and traffic figures, so I can know what further advice to give you.

If you're targeting a Nigerian audience with NO plans of going global, then set it to Nigeria. Otherwise, leave it as it is.

AFAIK, both NSCDC and peace corps are useless!

lajoshua:
Good Stuff!!

By the way guys, I need a good writer for my blog. I got the domain last year November and I've been quite busy not had enough time. So I need a ghostwriter and possibly a content manager. Thank you
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Quote me if you're interested and mention your niche. If it matches with mine and you meet the other requirements great.

Thank you


Also LadyF I learnt you by payoneer funds is that right?

I can get you top-notch articles in any niche. WordPress guru. SEO expert. Check webincomeplus.com and smyon.com.

The monkey is sweating profusely, but its fur just won't allow that to be appreciated.

Even if a million projects are in progress, some people won't be pleased.

While it's true that these niches are less saturated, it's not because Nigerians are not smart enough to find them. It's because only experts in those fields can excel at blogging on those topics (except for religion, which anyone can claim expertise at and not get busted).

My analysis of the niches

As for the health niche, it's hard to make headway in Nigeria because whenever most Nigerians search the web for information about most ailments, the results pages are dominated by monster health sites like WebMD, MayoClinic, WikiPedia, Medline, etc. And it's almost impossible for any new blog to topple those sites in search engines. Competing with them is like creating a new search engine to compete with Google or a new social media platform to compete with Facebook (something even Google couldn't achieve!)

The natural/alternative health niche is a bit less competitive, but that doesn't mean you have a smooth sail. Even here in Nigeria where you might attract people looking for local herbal/alternative solutions to embarrasing health problems like obesity, fibroids, infertility, etc, you'll have a hard time convincing them to buy whatever you try to sell. People have read and tried all sorts of things. So, what they want is live proofs that your so-called products would solve their problems. And you might not be able to provide such. More importantly, people are more comfortable taking health advice and tips from a qualified medical doctor, not a self-acclaimed "Professor of alternative therapy". And most Nigerian doctors have no time to blog.

As for traveling abroad, that's another area where people are very, very careful. No one wants to be scammed. So, they will only trust anyone whose blog posts really reek of expertise and years of expertise. And only seasoned travel agents can fit well into that. There's more to this niche than just going to embassy websites and scraping generic information from there. Peopl will bombard you with all sorts of questions like "How can I get my visa request approved?", "I want to apply for a Canadian student visa, how much do I need for the whole process?". These are questions that only real experts can answer. Such experts are very few in Nigeria, and that status isn't one that can easily be faked.

Someone talked about agriculture. Same applies. People are tired of reading the same old information like "To start a cassava farm, you need a piece of land, a hoe and a cutlass". It goes beyond going to other blogs and rewriting their content. It involves research. Serious research. You need to provide information like current prices of required materials, places in major Nigerians cities where quality breeds can be acquired, smart ways to get buyers after harvest, how sales projections are made, and so on. So, this is for people who are really into agriculture business for years.

Still on agriculture, the only realistic way to blog on it, even for real experts, is to focus on your one area that you've mastered really well. If you're a cassava farmer, blog only about cassava farming. If you try to set up a general agriculture blog that talks about all forms of agriculture, you'll end up providing shallow information that nobody would appreciate. However, it's not unrealistic, a smart way is to interview farmers who are experienced in different aspects of farming, and publish the interviews on your blog. Even at that, your information is unlikely to be of higher quality than that of a blog focused on only one area of agriculture and owned by an expert in that area. Unfortunately, such experts create one-page websites with e-book sales pages!

So, in all, it's not about finding a less competitive niche. It's about having what it really takes to compete and stand out in that niche. Are you surprised that almost every Nigerian blogger is a tech or entertainment blogger? That's because you don't need expertise to rewrite or copy/paste information that readers would still be satisfied with.

JeffreyJames:
I'm surprised you didn't add food.....that is one niche that is really lucrative but less saturated in Nigeria.

Who told you it's less saturated? Google something like "how to cook Nigerian fried rice" and see the number of Nigerian food blogs that would pop up in the results.

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@OP,

There are some things you need to realize about Adsense.

Forget about the high-paying keywords shit. Adsense doesn't float high-paying ads on new or struggling blogs. They reserve those ads for high traffic sites and highly targeted authority niche sites.

As for your earnings, 500 views won't fetch you anything tangible. That's even if the so-called 500 views are genuine human visits and not hits by bots and search engine spiders.

From my experience, to earn at least $100 monthly from Adsense, you'll need to attract at least 1,500 unique visitors per day (Google Analytics figures). And to get to that point, you still have a lot work to do. The biggest secret to earning big on Adsense is TRAFFIC! There's no getting around that!

As for ad selection, that might play a role too. The most lucrative Adsense banner is the 300 x 250 banner. I mean, it comes with the highest cost-per-click and is most commonly used by advertisers. But in terms of attracting links, text link ads are the best (though they generate very stupidly low cpc). So, your best bet is a combination of both banners and text links.

Ad placement matters as well. The best position to get clicks is the top of a blog post, just under the header. From my experience, this position gets better clicks than even header banners that most visitors have developed some blindness to. In short, banner and text links inserted at intervals within your content and below it perform best. Even sidebar banners are trashy because they get pushed to the bottom in mobile browsers (which most people use).

At the stage your blog is at right now, your focus shouldn't be on monetization. You should focus more on growing your blog with quality content and well-played out SEO implementation.

I have a blog that presently generates around $1500 monthly on Adsense, but trust me, I didn't place any ads on the site until it started generating about 2,500 visits per day. Right now, it generates around 25,000 unique visits per day and over 2 million page views monthly (GA stats). You too can get there with consistency and hardwork.

If at this stage you're already getting too worried over earnings, I doubt that blogging is the right thing for you.

Sorry about your loss.

As for your inability to carry on as a freelance writer, I don't think you have a tenable excuse. What happened to using a standing desk? And taking walks around after every 15 minutes using a set timer?

Being a writer doesn't mean you have to be sedentary. Write for hours. Take breaks in-between. And exercise for 30 minutes later in the day, and you'd be fine.

Despite his uncivil response to those who requested on phone for his assistance to sponsor Moji Olaiya's burial stuff, some people applauded him for not spending public funds on such. Yes, I agree.

But can Fayose's "mentees" and lapdogs tell me now that this Hummer wasn't bought from public funds? And if you want to prove that he bought it with his money, couldn't he have helped Olaiya's cause with his personal money too? Or those who asked him for help on Olaiya's cause specifically request that he use public funds?

I said it yesterday that his refusal to sponsor Olaiya's burial wasn't because he was that disciplined. It was all because he didn't know Moji Olaiya (as he clearly stated). Simple! If he knew her, he would have preferred to score some political points with her cause -- the philosophy of the typical Nigerian politician.

TonyeBarcanista:
Why should Fayose bear the cost with public funds?

He has sponsored lots of non-state projects with public funds in the past. Even though that's wrong, he shouldn't have replied like a fo.ol. From the way he replied, he didn't accept the request because he didn't know Moji Olaiya. If he did, he would have sponsored the burial - - at least for the show-off that Nigerian politicians are known for.

And to your other post stating that Fayose was right, did you mean he was right by giving such a rash reply?

It's not surprising (I mean Fayose's conduct). There's no "ponmo" to be cut and no "okada" to ride. That's some people's hero, and some people's mini-god.

Transistor radio? Well, he probably wants his people to hear more about him in the news.

Clown!

OP, why are you like this? As a blogger, you can add as many contributors as you want to your blog. And that doesn't mean they have the same access/control as you do.

When you give another person access to publish on your blog, you can decide whether the person can publish directly or have their posts first moderated by you, or whether they can edit posts written by others. But regardless of the level of control you give them, their name would still show up as authors or contributors to the blog.

Frankly speaking, Lagos state is the closest we have in Nigeria to what obtains in far better countries. That's the only state I know that has an active ambulance service that responds almost always.

To them, nothing impressive ever comes from Nigeria or Africa. If they think something is "too good" to have an African origin, they ascribe it to another origin.

Skunks!

ednut1:
bloggers when una go get sense, must u always care about traffic. this shouldn't be news. lets d family grieve in peace abeg

Don't mind them. Always preying on people's misfortunes to generate traffic. But I blame the mods for pushing topics like this to the home page, to indirectly instill some fear in pregnant Nairalanders. It's just unnecessary.

Jacksparr0w127:
Mine isnt a germ

LOL! But why are you like this? Can't you just ignore the typo?

JeffreyJamez:
Self Deciplined people indeed. Have you heard about the "Sucide Challenge"?. You should Google it. I repeat Nigerians are learning when it comes to social media addiction. So save me that sermon of our social media addiction is why the country is the way it is. The country has been like this since 1960 before the rise of Social Media.

I know someone would imply the bolded despite the caveat in my original post. Now, you can stay off my mention, please.