How To Make Money Online In Nigeria

Do you have a product or website that you’re dying to promote BUT don’t have the money to pay for ad spots?

Not to worry, from today henceforth, StrictlyOnlineBiz will be offering two "above the fold" 125 x 125 ad spots to two lucky winners every month.

Here’s the deal: To qualify for these free ad spots all you have to do is make sure that you are among the top two commenters on this blog by the end of the month.

You can track your progress/position via the TOP MONTHLY COMMENTATORS widget @ the bottom of the site made possible by Lorna Timbah’s Top Commentators Widget plug-in .

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NOTE: This post might appear to run forever but I implore my regular readers and the new visitors with time on their hands, to please take some 5 – 10 minutes to read the entire post so as to get the real situation of things on this blog.

It’s just over 1,200 words long .

If you care to ask most bloggers who blog with the primary aim of making money online, you’ll find out that @ in the beginning we all were hounded by one of the most popular yet annoying catchphrases in internet marketing: FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT!

In good ol’ Wikipedia’s words, it means to imitate confidence so that as the confidence produces success, it will generate real confidence.

As we can all see, this catchphrase had a clean and mighty purpose behind it until companies and individuals started twisting it, the most annoying of the lot being some internet marketers who in reality are still living like "regular folks" BUT claim to have made MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ONLINE which has afforded them the opportunity to DRIVE LAMBORGHINIS, go on EXOTIC WEEKENDS, PARTY LIKE CRAZY, LAND THE SUPERMODEL PROTOTYPES and the list continues.

If there’s anything I’ve learnt in life way back in high school, it is faking to be somebody that you’re not can have severe repercussions.

Take for example the internet marketer who claims to have made $500 a day through surveys and is offering to show his clients/customers the EXACT WAY he made that $500 in 24 hours. Imagine the backlash that would follow after 10 clients purchase the product and realize that it’s all a f**king dream! They’ve been gamed. That could mark the end of that internet marketer’s business with no hope of redemption in the nearest futures.

Take the real life example of Nigeria’s self proclaimed internet guru, Austin Azubuike also probably known as Kenneth Ifeanyi. For the price of N6,000 ($44) he was offering a blog setup service that promised amongst other things; a unique blog in a high paying adsense niche that pays as much as $2 per click and 10 unique blog posts written by him. He has practically failed to deliver on his promise and now has angry customers after him. He has even gone underground coincidentally after I wrote the posts; The Plenty Fishiness Surrounding Austin Azubuike and Austin Azubuike Needs To Cut The Cr*p NOW!. He now sells to his email list ONLY and he’s yet to get his act straight !

NOTE: I’m still subscribed to his list under a pseudonym.

Some of my loyal readers have started to put me on a pedestal which I don’t really need @ the moment. A few even think I’m a guru when it comes to making money online. I’ve been getting emails from folks impressed by the layout, content and PR of my blog  to the extent that they all want to guest post, exchange links etc so as to benefit from the "success of my blog" thus today might probably be the day that I’ll shoot myself in the foot and as a result lose some respect and the few rss subscribers I’ve managed to amass.

Today I’m going to tell it as it is: THE TRUE STATUS OF STRICTLYONLINEBIZ.COM

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I’ve been taking time out to relax as I’ve been feeling under the weather pretty much every week. Them dizzy spells just won’t quit . At the same time I kinda finished work on 2 blogs using what was made available to me by the owners.

The blogs are JistMe and IntaNetMoney and with them, two free blog setups are gone with 3 more to go. For those interested, don’t hesitate to contact me ASAP!

There has been quite some misconceptions with regards to how successfully I’ve been with this blogging of a thing and come Monday 6th September 2010 @ 9.00am, I plan on dispelling those misconceptions. Do please stay tuned

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While writing Monday’s post on How To Add Nofollow To Wordpress Tags and Tag Cloud , I discovered a feature of YouTube videos that’s quite useful to folks like me who sometimes find themselves browsing on a slow internet connection or restricted monthly bandwidth.

This feature is called Interactive Script and can be seen in action @ Do Tag Clouds Help Or Hinder SEO?. Unfortunately it’s not available for every YouTube video.

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Wordpress tag links and tag clouds. To use or not to use. The debate continues. Most SEO guys are of the opinion that the probability of being penalized by Google increases when wordpress tag clouds are added to a blog/site.

Here’s what Google’s Matt Cutts has to say about the use of tags and tag clouds.

Personally I need my tags as I don’t have time to set keywords for each and every blog post so I rely on All In One SEO to turn my tags into keywords.

In other to keep the Big G happy, I decided to look for a way of adding the nofollow attribute to ALL my tag links including those within a cloud and I stumbled on Kaf Oseo’s Nofollow Tag Cloud.

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I ain’t looking forward to this weekend @ all as I’ve got to work but it will be a nice surprise if the Trauma Center stays quiet throughout my shift

Are you one of Kenneth Ifeanyi – Austin Azubuike’s victims? Smart B has launched a crusade to hunt him down. Seems like he knows the guy’s home address in Lagos.

When starting a new blog, some of us worry about coming across as experts in our niche so that we can garner loyal readers. Murray Lunn shows us just that in his post: How To Become An Expert: A Simple 3 Step Guide.

The Google team contacted Harsh Agrawal and let him know that he could make more money via Adsense by slapping on more adsense ads on his blog: Google Adsense Team started Sending Optimization Tips. This TOTALLY destroys the myth that adding more than 1 Adsense unit to a blog can be detrimental.

Following this news, I’ve added one ad unit below every post and one ad unit in my sidebar. I’ll continue showing adsense @ the top of my blog posts ONLY to search engine visitors. If you don’t know how to do that, check out: Show Adsense To Search Engine Visitors With JavaScript (W3 Total Cache Compatible).

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THIS IS NOT A SPONSORED POST AND OFFER IS ONLY VALID IN NIGERIA

MobilityNigeria, one of Nigeria’s biggest sites when it comes to mobile technology is giving away a total of three (3) mobile phones – one top-end Smartphone and two other phones for runners-up.

To enter this promo, simply get a blog/website for just N3,000 with the features below and you’re in !

100mb disk space

1gb monthly bandwidth

Unlimited Email

Unlimited FTP Accounts

MS FrontPage Support

MySQL/PHPMyAdmin

Unlimited Databases

This promo is sponsored by Domain Standard Networks owned by Yomi Adegboye. DSN’s services unlike Alireta’s are offered to niche clients only – people looking for special solutions.

NOTE: Yomi Adegboye owns both Alireta and Domain Standard Networks.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS REGARDING THIS PROMO

Whether we all agree or not, Akismet till dates remains the best anti-spam plug-in for Wordpress blogs. If you’re in doubt all you have to do is deactivate Akismet and try any other anti-spam plug-in on it’s own and you’d note a surge in spam like never before.

Most Captcha plug-ins fail when used in combination with WordPress cache plug-ins such as W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache and they can’t be trusted to work on their own either.

One of Akismet’s UGLIEST features is its white/blank page of horror which it throws up whenever it feels a comment is spammy is nature. This white/blank page of horror can be quite frustrating for commenters who have left lengthy comments as those comments are in most cases lost once the blank page surfaces.

Depending on how the blog author has configured Akismet, comments that trigger the blank page are either deleted entirely from the blog’s system or are stored in the spam folder for moderation. If the blog author is a busy person or just has an aversion for checking his spam folder, you can kiss any of your legit comments which lands in the spam folder, goodbye.

I implore all wordpress blog owners to PLEASE READ: Red Alert! Akismet Might Be Deleting Your Comments ASAP!

Conditional CAPTCHA for WordPress comes to the rescue of legit comments taking advantage of Akismet’s blank page of horror and making it useful to both the blogger and his commenters .

Here’s how it works and how it can help you save those legit comments and reduce those spammy comments to the barest minimum .

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SCAM ALERT!!: Emmanuel Samson’s ECashPro which was previously been promoted via email has finally been launched online but with a brand new name: Atomizer and with a brand new author: Professor Jerry David. Thanks to one of my readers, Ola, for pointing me @ the site.

Whatever you do, THOU MUST NOT FALL VICTIM OF THAT SITE!

Web Hosts especially Nigerian web hosts should be very carefully who they "rent" their servers to ’cause you all owe a responsibility to the public, to prevent them from falling victims of scams such as the Fraudulent Interswitch website @ BroadNigeria. I’m aware it can be a tasking effort to monitor all websites on your servers BUT at least do please TRY a little.

Did I forget to mention that these spammers/scammers could ruin search engine rankings for your customers who are also sharing the same server as they are?

The campaign against PayPal keeps growing each day especially when digital goods and services are involved. Alex blogs about his experience with HostICan where PayPal didn’t do jack to help matters @ all: Beware Of HostICan Hosting.

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If someone where to ask me right now, what exactly blogging was all about, I’m almost 100% sure that I would look clueless for a while before trying to explain what it’s really about.

Don’t get me wrong. I KNOW what blogging is all about but my problem is I don’t really know how to explain to a TOTAL newbie what it entails and how they can really stick to it and make a success of it.

According to BBC’s Ask Bruce, Blogging is a way of collecting links to web pages and sharing thoughts and ideas with people online.

For the guys are Tech-Faq, when one writes a web log and maintains it by adding or removing entries that is called blogging.

If you’re still somewhat of lost, not to worry, Karo Itoje of Blogging – The Beginner’s Complete Guide, has just written her very first e-book which rips into the whole blogging thing .

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