The secret to a successful online business

The success of every website depends on the amount of traffic or how many visitors it is able to attract. The more the traffic to a site, the more the business it is likely to generate and the more money it is likely to make.

However, high hits to a site don’t just happen overnight. It is a gradual process and the end result of hard work, focus, determination, perseverance, imagination, creativity and being able to proffer solutions to specific or various kinds of problems with your website.

Whenever people go online, they are either looking for information, solutions or pleasures. So therefore, channeling your website in line with these three online necessities can transform the traffic to your site beyond imagination.

However, it is important to note that you are not alone. Whatever you intend to achieve with your site, bear it in mind that others are there to compete favorably with you. The distinguishing factor would be the amount of hard work and effort you put in to stand out.

Therefore, it is paramount to know the various online traffic sources available in order to ascertain that which suites your site traffic needs. They are:   

1.Organic traffic: Organic traffic are traffic from search engines like Google, yahoo, Bing, Baidu etc. Understanding Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and keywords research can drive high organic traffic to your site.

2. Targeted traffic: Targeted traffic are traffic derived from sharing the contents of your website mainly on social media platforms like facebook, twitter, instagram, linkedin, Google plus, pinterest etc.

3. Paid traffic: You can as well buy traffic to your site. There are lots of sites offering this service. Sites such as traffic dynamite, traffup, traffic swirl, traffic ape, traffic boost etc all offer traffic purchase service to would be buyers.

4. Free traffic: You can generate free traffic to your site through the use of applications such as traffic spirit, fake traffic hit, traffic ape, fake traffic generator etc. All you need do is download the app, install on your Pc then upload your site Uniform Resource Locator (URL) into the app. Click on START to begin to generate free traffic to your site.
N.B: Attracting organic and targeted traffics are the only sure means of determining the natural and overall progress of your website.

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Some activities that must be checkmated for a blackout-free Nigeria

Yes, raising megawatts does improve electricity supply but it does not guarantee uninterrupted power supply to the common man. There are other activities that hamper the free flow of electricity supply that must be checkmated if the common man would ever enjoy uninterrupted power supply in this country.

Government needs to beam its search light on these activities and address them on time because as little as they are or may sound, they contribute a great deal in frustrating government effort in providing uninterrupted power supply to her citizenry.

Take for instance the activities of generator merchants in the country whose activities always tend towards hindering the actualization of darkness-free Nigeria. As far as they are concerned, if electricity works then they would be out of business. Therefore, not until these merchants find an alternative business that is as lucrative as generator business, they will ever remain stumbling blocks to whatever effort government making to save the country from blackout.

Other businesses that go hand-in-hand with generator business like diesel and pms dealers, generator repairers, engine oil, torchlight, candle, lantern sellers are all repulsive to darkness-free Nigeria.

Furthermore, talking about the nefarious activities of the very PHCN officials or whatever they call themselves now. They go about tampering with electricity installations such as removing cut-out fuses from transformers in order to be bribed by local consumers before they can enjoy electricity supply.

What about the activities of vandals. Unemployment has turned many of our youths into vandals. They move from places to places vandalizing electricity installations like transformers, high tension cables, electrical poles etc. Not until government addresses the issue of unemployment which would in turn solve the problem vandalism, vandals would continue sabotage government effort in ensuring uninterrupted power supply to her citizenry.

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Never allow Google rub you of your focus

Displaying Google ads on a site or blog is not a sure deal to riches. So, why is Google so strict with approving sites or blogs into the Adsense program? As if an approval would make them instant millionaire. Not at all! Enough work still has to be done to make sense out of Adsense. For sure you must be on top of your game to make anything meaniful out of Adsense.  Even those sites or blogs already accommodated into the Google ad network are being guided by stringent policies that could sometimes be violated unknowingly. To get Adsense approval is tough but to make money with Adsense is even tougher. Even after approving your site or blog, they continue to display blank ads for close to two months. All in the bead to frustrate you. Therefore, what is the essence of being so severe with alleged violators of Adsense policies to the extent of disabling their account without warning, not even a suspension is given for start. Just outright blocking! To add salt to injury, when blocked, no concrete reason is given of your offense. That's is not fair and infact an abuse of fundamental human right! Punishing somebody without telling him his offense. Sometimes, site or blog owners are completely innocent of the offense.
The greatest frustration of all is that Adsense is once in a life time participation. Thus, when you lose it, you cannot get it anymore i.e when ban, it is for life. Not even an appeal can remedy the situation.
Being ban from the Adsense program is not the end of the world. Never let Google's frustration deprive you of what you intend to achieve with your site or blog. Stay focused and continue to thrive your site or blog. Many have grown their site or blog to success without Adsense. You too can.So, remain focused!  

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17 tested and confirmed ways of increasing traffic to your site/blog

A million page views to your site/blog is assured if you apply these 17 tested and confirmed methods of multiplying hits to your website/blog religiously. Here they are in quick succession:

1. Writing great and powerful contents: Content is king, they say! Writing good, educative and informative articles automatically attracts people to your site/blog. One of the major reasons people go online is for information. So if your site/blog is informative, definitely they will find you through search engines

2. Using Search Engine optimization (SEO) strategy: Understanding how SEO works can drive heavy traffic to your site. Every niche has keywords or phrases. So, take out time to discover keywords or phrases that rank higher in your niche. Making use of these keywords or phrases frequently gives your site Google's or bing's first page position

3. Using the various social media platforms like facebook, twitter, pinterest, linkedin, tag, instagram e.t.c to attract as many eyes as possible to your site/blog

4. Using Backlink/linkback system

5. Posting contents with different headlines: Your headlines are what people see first when they visit your site/blog. So, endeavor to create catchy headlines

6. Killer website/blog design: Yeah, the appearance of your site goes a long way to determine whether visitors would like to come back again and again.

7. Traffic purchase: Though not advisable but it works! A couple sites you could visit to purchase traffic include traffic dynamite, traffup, traffic swirl, traffic boost, traffic ape e.t.c 

8. Content listing also referred to as e-listing: Just listing points with no long explanations or illustrations can really drive traffic to your site/blog. Not everybody has the time to read long and time consuming articles.

9. Using Really Simple Syndication feed (RSS feed): Using RSS feed to add other people's post to your site/blog can drive traffic like mad to your site/blog

10.Writing contents that teach how to do something (The How Tutorials): In every endeavor of life, there are newbies. There will always be people who are willing to learn how to do one thing or the other. No matter how small or simple it is.

11 Using traffic generator software: Not advisable, but it works! Most especially if you seek adsense approval or in order not to get ban if you already have account, then to toil with this. 

12 Writing/posting ever green contents/posts i.e contents that stand the test of time and are relevant anytime.

13 Using Mailing list: Having a mailing list and sending your subscribers news letter regularly can really increase your traffic base. 

14.Relating with other writers in your niche through joining forums, groups and communities alike.

15 Do interviews: Conduct interviews with people whose daily activities are related to your site/blog. 

16 Be consistent and don't give up

17. Write evergreen contents: When you write articles that continue to be relevant to the world even as time goes by, it hits back on your traffic.

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Say NO to fake ICT products

The standard of living of Nigerians has fallen so low that we cannot even recognize substandard products when we see one. Even marketers now proclaim the counterfeit products as the genuine ones, confusing would be buyers the more.
The body responsible for inspection and regulation of all products manufactured or imported into the country i.e Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) is in deep comatose. Since there is no watch dog for standards as far as importation is concerned, the country has become a dumping ground for fake, counterfeit and substandard products.
The ICT industry in the country is evolving very fast and some miscreants are taking advantage of it to deprive populace of quality and genuine ICT products at affordable prices because of their own selfish gains.
Substandard ICT products have a damaging effect on the economy, posing grave dangers to the health, safety of the buyer and constitute environmental hazard.
The impact of counterfeiting on the economy cannot be overemphasized. Manufacturers of authentic products wriggle in pains as they lose their market to counterfeit dealers. This hit back at the economy, causing massive unemployment rate, loss of revenue and tax by the government, copyright and trademark infringement, unfair competition e.t.c.
Statistics has shown that over 300 million substandard mobile phones are sold yearly in the country. These phones, because of substandard materials used in their manufacturing can be very injurious to the user. Cases of malware, virus, spyware, trojans are on the increase because of the use of fake phones.
The way forward however is continual sensitization of consumers on the dangers of acquiring substandard ICT devices. Then, right and reliable contacts where authentic ICT products could be bought should be made known to the populace.

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The Weaker segments of telecommunications industry in Nigeria

The telecommunications industry which ought to be a level playing ground for all operators in the various segments namely, Global System Mobile (G.S.M), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and the strictly Internet Service Providers (ISPs) has left some smiling to the bank having all the subscribers while others struggle for survival and are on the verge of dissolution.
Out of  24 registered telecommunications companies in the country, only 16 are currently operational. And there is the likelihood that is figure would reduce with time.
The Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators and the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are at the receiving end of this challenge. Though the Global System Mobile (G.S.M) operators have their own peculiar challenges, they have succeeded in harnessing their resources, investing in infrastructural development to meet up with changing technological trends of the world. This has brought about improved quality of service which is what attracts would be subscribers to any service provider. Subscribers would always build trust and patronize any provider with superior service delivery. This is the main edge the Global System Mobile (G.S.M) operators have over their Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) counterpart. They strive with vigor to improve the quality of service (QoS) delivered to their teaming subscribers and this has continued to earn them more subscribers.
Unless the Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) rise up to this challenge, upgrading their infrastructure to world standard, many more would still fizzle out in no time.

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Evolving Nigeria's telecommunications industry

The telecommunications industry in Nigeria has come a long way in a short while and is not relenting on its effort in bringing forth to the table quality and improved voice and data services to the subscribers' delight. The telecommunications industry in Nigeria has evolved tremendously. If we look back at the days of NITEL where analog communications was predominant with only a few hundred thousandth people having access to telecommunications facilities, but today we are very proud to have a vibrant digital communications system in place that offers millions of Nigerians access telecommunications services. Gone are the days when telephoning was meant strictly for the rich. Today, everyone has a right to communicate and to be communicated to on phone.
Presently broadband penetration in Nigeria is put at 40% and bookmakers say come 2018 Nigeria would witness up to 60% broadband penetration.
Telecommunications experts say the future communications lies in data telecommunications. As such, researches are continually on going in this regards to improve the face of data communications. From the initial simple 2G networks, data communications has evolved to a faster 3G technology and now to ever sophisticated 4G networks. Experts say the best is yet to come as researches are already on going into the 5G technology which researchers say would become a reality come 2020.
With a long list of expectations when this technology finally kicks off, there is no doubt that 5G networks would bring about a revolution in telecommunications industry of the world. It would be the major driving force of the much talk about about internet of things (IoTs) i.e objects possessing network connectivity as well has humans. On the surface we have seen a little of what internet of things (IoTs) can do with the invention and demonstration of self driven cars powered solely by internet of things (IoTs). Experts proclaim that even greater innovations and inventions would rock this epoch when the 5G technology is finally actualized. Bookmakers see internet of things (IoTs) as the next big thing that would change the face of the earth.

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