If you are building up your blogging career, look through these stages, if you can identify with any particular stage, what was your experience like or tell us which stage you are now.

Forget about the textbook approach, this is a typical step-by-step experience of an average Nigerian blogger. And for the newbie, it is what to expect as you venture into blogging

1. Getting the set up with your Google profile.

2. Start posting: Here the serious ones already have their original articles ready and start publishing immediately, for others, the copy and paste feature just got an elevated priority.

3. Exploring and changing templates: After the initial hype, it seems their blog is not as neat as he saw others so it’s time to get better template design.

4. More posting: Here, even the serious ones are considering the copy and paste option but since they were warned that copy and paste is not good for Adsense, they hold themselves.

5. Start spamming Facebook and nairaland: 20 good articles and 15 pageviews? Something is not right. Time to do what he has been seeing others do. They start the endless running battle with antispambot, Mynd44 and Lalasticlala and the Facebook group admins. [img]https://4.bp..com/-5HEtVb02h2s/VwfCT7u37eI/AAAAAAAABN0/e9nSZdRytUM1u6zSwN4KZ3LtHEMEqrUZA/s320/banned3_2.jpg[/img]

6. Learning about SEO: When they start to realize the challenges in dropping links in forums and on facebook; bans, already saturated blogosphere etc, they start to look for ways to be ahead, one of the first step is to register on search engines and Google about keywords, backlinks, meta tags, domain name registration etc. Click Here to see how to start a high ranking blog!

7. Aha! The sign-up button for Adsense is now showing: They click on it with full expectation of making money the following week.

8. Adsense application Disapproved: . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

9. Still in shock, they go back to Ogbonge, nairaland etc and ask why they have been disapproved and they get lots of opinions and options.

10. The Hanging Mode: They will be considering all options provided including getting some features on the blog or buying an Adsense account while watching their traffic “waste away”.

11. The Action Mode: Works restarts on the blog template in order to go for another adsense attempt. Meanwhile, they start saving money to buy an account.

12. Second Attempt: After some days, they apply again and DISAPPROVED AGAIN!!! Poor navigation, no content bla bla

13. They have had enough, now is time to contact the Adsense Seller.
(Let’s cut the part of you falling into the wrong hands).

14. They buy the Adsense and implement it on the blog expecting $20 the next day.

15. Check the dashboard and see $0.06 current earnings with CPC of 0.01 and CTR of 0.02. [img]https://1.bp..com/-eAgvZZlt5p8/VwfCUHVbqFI/AAAAAAAABN4/udxjvLdpaIQ4sdm42MrdyDicgEQh57-Xw/s320/low-adsense-earnings.png[/img]

16. They go back to Google and the gurus to learn about “How to Optimize Adsense earnings”. Click Here to learn how to place ads below the post title automatically and earn more!.

17. Decision Time: Now is where they say, “Two things are involved”, Blessed are those who understand this stage for they shall earn well.
For others, you start seeing the signpost, “Adsense for Sale with $15 inside”, that means another blog about to be buried.

If you had experienced any of this, tell us how you overcame it and lessons learnt.

Source: ityunit.com/blogging

for sale!!







Nothing is free even in Freetown not to mention Nairaland

^^ SMH

Just when they start earning a little more on Adsense, another round of privacy concerns fill the news and more users install ad-blockers. Perfect!

Lol...Funny writeup. But very very true

LOL! So true!

Very true.... I never imaging I could make $100 per day with AdSense

seen

Ok

Okay

beautiful thread, almost no interesting comment.

my adsense was block and I was devastated till date and I lost the vibe to blog

Started Blogging in 2008, got approved by adsense on August 2, 2008(yeah I remember the date). I was posting geopolitical articles (how many people read that world-news-review..com) I always think if I had blogged about entertainment as we have it now. I should be on par with Linda at least in terms of revenue.

Got a custom domain in my own name(mistake if you care about branding) moved to wordpress. Opened several blogs for different niches(scholarships,jobs,tech news) I didn't ensure that one website was standing on it's feet before I started others. My efforts were split into different websites.

I had reasonable income from google(Google Money is sweet abeg in the days of cheques). I diverted my efforts into Job niche(people are always looking for jobs na) I was slaying it till december expecting some Adsense cash and the bomb came.I was hitting it back to back on the the job board(I think some malicious fellow reported me to google I have two suspects) I wanted to do them baad but my church mind took over. I let it slide (google told me I was copying posts I said ehn, posts that I edit and who even claims Job vacancies as their own) With dwindling revenue, it has taught me to harmonise my efforts I have dropped extraneous websites. I put everything in one place and registered a company with the CAC, And made the Jobs a category under the main site.


So find time to visit me @ www.tipsdome.com
My Bulk SMS portal is @ www.domesms.com
If you need a WordPress Blog/Website or Bulk SMS portal for yourself or your company I can help you set up one.

Hope I didn't bore you?
Happy Sunday.

Lol
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yomalex:
Started Blogging in 2008,

With dwindling revenue, it has taught me to harmonise my efforts I have dropped extraneous websites. I put everything in one place and registered a company with the CAC, And made the Jobs a category under the main site.


So find time to visit me @ www.tipsdome.com
My Bulk SMS portal is @ www.domesms.com
If you need a bulk SMS portal for yourself or you company I can help you set up one.


Hope I didn't bore you?
Happy Sunday.

Most insightful comment so far!

Lol I Don die


This guy na winch oh, got it correctly


I guess I fall in the low adsense earnings category but waiting for improvement


http://www.oscarleeblog.com

jboy73:
Very true.... I never imaging I could make $100 per day with AdSense

How you do am? Abeg give your Sister a hint.

This is so true

What's this?

just started blogging

with high internet price



No interest for making money


just for the fun of it

Don't start blogging for the sake of money in mind, you will be frustrated and will end up dumping the idea. Blog for passion and the love of sharing your ideas and informations and be patient enough cus it is not a quick way to make money rather your excellence in your work will lead to more money and fame.

This will not pass me by,I must become a successful blogger. Learning already.

nigerian like copy copy nw...bt most of them dnt knw what it takes to get to the top

Nicennii

I would love to own a blog at some point.

Evry1 na blogger
Wish una luck sha
All hustlr is allowed

jboy73:
Very true.... I never imaging I could make $100 per day with AdSense

lie

LMFAO, this cracked me UP to bits. Especially the 'since adsense doesn't encourage copy and paste, they hold themselves.

To Get approved for Google Adsense,
To Increase your Adsense earnings quickly,
To rank higher on Google search results page,
To succeed in blogging in 2016,

I have just 2 advice to give :

1. Find a unique niche with a reasonable audience

2. Write longer posts e.g posts should be as long as 1500 words

If you don't succeed, quote me and I'll pay you whatever you lost.

STOP BEING A MEDIOCRE!!
STAND OUT WITH YOUR WORK!!

I'm a living testimony !!

Great post