I Never Knew

Recently, my new blog was suspended by adsense TOS for 30days for policy violation. I never knew adsense could be so fair just to give only a suspension for policy violation. Why? Two of my previous blogs got outright ban from further participation in the adsense program for policy violation. As far as adsense is concerned, as a publisher you need them, they don’t need you. Therefore, they can do with you whatever pleases them.
During the period of suspension, I could log into my adsense account but ad serving was disabled from my blog. Also, they collected all the money earned and refunded it back to affected advertisers as they claimed.
Ad serving was reinstated to my blog on the very day the suspension expired without delay. Kudos to them! They vowed to monitor my account closely and would not hesistate to disable ad serving permanently if they notice any further invalid activities on my adsense account.

Things to note when choosing a niche for your blog

A lot of bloggers or would be bloggers make that mistake of referencing the successes recorded by other bloggers in a particular niche when trying to choose a niche for their blog. Forgetting the fact that what works for one person does not necessarily mean it will work for you or all. Thus, they go into a niche they have little or no knowledge about, just because they want to be like that person. Many a newbie bloggers even go into a niche because they heard that the niche is profitable. Along the line, they get stocked, entangled and nobody heard of their blog.
To be a successful blogger, you must be yourself. Search yourself deeply and identify what you are passionate about, naturally good at and have deep knowledge about. This is what keeps you going when the going gets tough. Never follow the crowd. Everybody has one thing or the other he is knowledgeable about. Blog about those things!
Being passionate about your niche helps you worry less about traffic or whether people are viewing your posts or not. It brings out the originality in you, it builds your confidence, aids consistency and makes blogging a less stressful career to handle. And before you know it, people start seeing you as an authority in that niche. This would invariably open doors for you, shooting you into lime light.

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Why most bloggers do not win

Yes, it is that bad because people perceive blogging wrongly. They think blogging is a get rich quick scheme. Thus they concentrate their thoughts on the glamour that comes with blogging forgetting that a lot of hard work needed to be done to attain this status. They preoccupy their minds with earning six figures income, becoming famous and traveling around the world.  No matter how serious you may be, you become demoralized and demotivated when your thoughts finally proves you wrong and only option left is to exit blogging feeling very disappointed.

Don’t be deceived or brain washed by people who tell you when you start a blog, you automatically start earning six figures. It doesn’t work like that! Blogging requires persistent and consistent effort to win the hearts of people and convert them to permanent audience. This you can achieve only when your blog is regarded as a solution provider and pleasure point.

Therefore, concentrate your thoughts on how to help people solve their problems or feel better with your blog. A lot of hard work is involved, though. But in no time people start regarding you as an authority in what you do, build trust and confidence in you and then making money blogging becomes a seemingly possibility.  

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Various flaws of other ad serving networks

Google adsense will remain the best ad serving network for a very very long time. This is a statement of fact because there are no strong rivals yet. All other ad networks are still learning and are yet to perfect their website. No wonder adsense carries its shoulders so high like a peacock. But why won’t they? When they are so efficient. When they say it, they do it. And at the stipulated time. Without delays. No plus no minus. I am yet to experience such with other ad networks. I have tried many of them but yet to find a very good substitute for adsense. Is it infolinks, adpushup, clicksor, outbrain, ayboll or dochase, adgenta, propellerads, B4psads, nuffnang or media.net? They all have one flaw or the other.
Some of the shortcomings and incompetence I have experienced in my course of using some of these ad networks include:
1. Low quality ads: B4psads, clicksor please take note.
2. Limited advertisers: Clicksor, infolinks, dochase and in fact almost all others have this challenge. Imagine, infolinks had only facebook as their advertiser for an extended period of time. Clicksor had only two advertisers for a very long time. Likewise dochase.
3. Inactive codes: This is about the most annoying aspect. No ads are displayed after placing some these ad networks codes on your site. Dochase, propellerads should do something about this as a matter of urgency.
4. Malicious codes: Placing ad codes of some of these ad networks can cause malfunctioning of your website. My sites have been blocked by Google because of malicious codes. This can cause traffic on the site to take a down turn because it would always appear as a deceptive site to users. Clicksor please take note.
5. Inefficiency: Ad network like adpushup would schedule a call with at a particular time you and fail to call.
6. Failure of clicks to convert to earnings: Dochase, infolinks please take note.
7. Disapproval of subdomain sites: Media.net would never accept a subdomain site into its network. They be aware that not all would be site owners have the capital to purchase a domain. Some prefer to start with a subdomain and eventually by a domain as the site progresses.
8. Minimum traffic requirement: some inconsiderate ad networks demand for minimum traffic before accommodating your site into their program. Some even demand for a minimum of 50,000 visitors before approval. Kudos to those ad networks that do not require minimum traffic. Outbrain please be aware.

If not for China!

The difference between a Chinese man and a Nigerian is that a Chinese man is always ready to work. He doesn't give a damn what people think of him. He is not ashamed to carry out his work in the presence of an admired lady no matter how low profiled the work is. Tell me, how would such a people not progress in the long run? But in Nigeria, everybody is forming levels. Levels that is not taking us anywhere. Everybody living false life. In order to meet up with our false lifestyle, we delve into things we shouldn't. Tell me, for how long can we continue like this?
20 years ago, if they told us that the Chinese would be major players in projects handling in Nigeria, we would have argued. Chinese? No, no, that is impossible! It is happening before our very eyes. The Chinese are everywhere in the country now, running things. No thanks to the poor economic situation and fallen standards of the country.
Government can no longer afford to award projects/contracts to renowned first class companies of the world to handle anymore. Like government, like people. Even Nigerians have no choice too. We are all customers to Chinese products in one way or the other. No matter how we try to resist Chinese products, it just finds its way into our lives somehow because of its strong market presence. Be it in clothes, fashion accessories, shoes, electronics, phones etc, Chinese products are dominating the market. If not for China what would have become of Nigeria and Nigerians? China has really saved us from high cost of living and hardship. So, let us give them kudos. Some Chinese areas of interest in Nigeria are:
1. Oil and Gas

2. Telecommunications

3. Transportation

4. Power (Electricity)

5. Construction

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Front liners of information technology

The Information technology industry encompasses a broad spectrum of products and services that has made tremendous impact on the human race, thus, making the world a better place. Information technology has aided the development of a wide range of products and services that has revolutionize the world. Many of these products and services have become part and parcel of human existence that we wonder what would have become of the world today, were it not for information technology. The world is a global village today because of information technology. Just as the saying goes, "if you are not informed then you will be deformed". That means, the advent of information technology has averted an impending chronic deformity that the human race would have suffered if the likes of Abacus, Bill gates, Jon Ponstel, Steve Jobs e.t.c had not worked tirelessly to make information technology what it is today. Many human endeavors that would have taken years of rigorous work to achieve can be accomplished within a twinkle of an eye with the help of information technology.
The advent of information technology also presented opportunities for many companies to come into lime light. With these companies having the choice to tap into the various aspects of information technology such as software development, hardware production, telecommunications services, website development, management and coding e.t.c. The beautiful thing about these various aspects of information technology is that they are interwoven. The software needs the hardware to function and vice-versa. Also, the software and the hardware needs to communicate to give rise to products, services or functionality that benefits the end user. 
However, taking time out to identify with some these companies that have really really distinguished themselves in their self chosen aspects of information technology. For instance in the software development domain, companies like:
Microsoft
Apple
Oracle
Android from Google
Fire fox e.t.c  have really really distinguish themselves
In Hardware productions, companies like:
Dell
HP
Nokia
Samsung
LG
RIM
Toshiba
Lenovo
Itel
Huawei
Apple e.t.c have made good names for themselves.
Also, in Website development, management and coding, firms like:
Google
Facebook
Yahoo
Twitter
Bing e.t.c have built good reputation for themselves over the years
Likewise in telecomunications services, companies like:
Orange
MTN
Airtel
Etisalat
Areeba e.t.c have  carved out a niche for themselves.
In phone applications, companies like:
Whatapps
instagram etc are doing great

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What telecoms operators lose to vandals yearly

According to Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, "Vandalism is the crime of deliberately damaging things, especially public property. Though the dictionary defines Vandalism as a deliberate act, it can also be rightly said that Vandalism can be an in-deliberate act as we would realize in the course of this article.
Vandalism of telecoms installations has become a frequent occurrence in the nation today and this is very disheartening. Vandalism of telecoms infrastructure can be a deliberate or in-deliberate act as the case may be.
Deliberate Vandalism of telecoms equipment is most at times as a result of hoodlum's activities in the area. This is very rampant in the North eastern part of the country where the Boko Haram insurgency thrives. A lot of Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) had been vandalized or more rightly put, destroyed due to terrorist activities in these areas. This has led to unavoidable communications hitches such drop calls, no network coverage e.t.c. in these locations. Telecoms companies wallow in pains as they count their losses whenever their equipment are destroyed by terrorist.
Telecoms operators lose millions of naira to Vandal's activities which affects the quality of service delivery and a lot of money is spent to resuscitate damaged equipment.
About N24,750,000 is expended during the installation of a Base Transceiver Station (BTS) together with its towers, special antennas and two generators to power the station. So whenever a Base Transceiver Station  (BTS) is destroyed, it can be imagined what the telecoms company has lost.
In-deliberate Vandalism on the other hand occurs as a result of construction work around areas where  telecoms installations are present. A very good example is during the construction of roads in areas where fibre optic cables are laid. This can lead to cable cut resulting in telecommunications breakdown.
It is on record that an average of 70 fibre optic cables are cut on  a monthly bases due to construction work across Nigeria.
MTN in particular said due to fibre optic cable cut, it had lost of network signal in about 1000 base station across the country recently.
Therefore telecoms companies are appealing to the general public to be vigilante and report any suspicious activities around telecoms installations. 

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