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Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by moderatorr1: 12:28pm On Jan 16, 2015
Konga overtakes Nairaland in Alexa's listing of nigeria's most visited websites,
does it mean people search for what to buy more than they search for what to read?

I personally dont think this is likely. Or is there some dark art black magic someone is performing somewhere?

What do you guys think?


EDIT: As a web developer, i know Alexa is easy to beat. Just create a spam bot that keeps refreshing your pages forever. Thats it. Only google analytics can really spot this. Alexa is blind to it.

But if Konga's overtake of is for real then thats a shocker. It means alibaba, amazon, ebay should have more visitors than facebook.
And people shop more than they browse online. This might be an indicator to the direction a blogger should follow.
Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by Nobody: 1:01pm On Jan 16, 2015
Konga and Jumia have taken to the Streets. On the web, they're well represented in various mediums: Social media, Search Engines, Blogs, Forums etc This is what NL hasn't done. Infact, for someone to find NL, it's mostly on Google (NL has little domain on Social Media). Visitors which visits NL through Google mostly never come back. Even some who do, only register and probably never comment.

Nairaland isn't looking too social. What about Twitter? It's far more visited and more popular than NL here in Nigeria.

To wrap it up, We Nigerians like to buy things. Whether we buy them or not, we just want to check it out.

Finally, Alexa rankings is in no way a measure to know how websites are popular. Alexa.com only detects sites that passes through their server i.e Browsers that has Alexa Toolbar installed. How much percentage of NL users visit through desktop not to talk of installing Alexa Toolbar?

These are things you should take into account.

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Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by moderatorr1: 1:22pm On Jan 16, 2015
sMayor:
Konga and Jumia have taken to the Streets. On the web, they're well represented in various mediums: Social media, Search Engines, Blogs, Forums etc This is what NL hasn't done. Infact, for someone to find NL, it's mostly on Google (NL has little domain on Social Media). Visitors which visits NL through Google mostly never come back. Even some who do, only register and probably never comment.

Nairaland isn't looking too social. What about Twitter? It's visited far more visited and more popular than NL here in Nigeria.

To wrap it up, We Nigerians like to buy things. Whether we buy them or not, we just want to check it out.

Finally, Alexa rankings is in no way a measure to know how websites are popular. Alexa.com only detects sites that passes through their service i.e Browsers that has Alexa Toolbar installed. How much percentage of NL users visit through desktop not to talk of installing Alexa Toolbar?

These are things you should take into account.

This sort of explains everything.

Many Bloggers signup for konga's affiliate program and nearly all bloggers have alexa toolbar installed.
Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by Grime: 4:48pm On Jan 16, 2015
My gateman has heard of Konga and Jumia, but not of NL.

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Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by moderatorr1: 8:58pm On Jan 16, 2015
Grime:
My gateman has heard of Konga and Jumia, but not of NL.
seun is dulling?
Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by ProsperUSA: 7:51am On Jan 17, 2015
[size=18pt]Jumia too don tople Nairaland for Alexa.
Now Nairaland is the third most visited site in Nigeria.
So sad.[/size]
Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by javijabor1(m): 12:02pm On Jan 17, 2015
Konga, jumia even the almighty facebook advertise even if they are well known.
But our oga seun does not see the need to advertise.
Its a pity.
Nairaland has the revenue to do this.
Privateproperties dot com dot ng even dey dstv.

Seun should come out from his small shell except he doesn't dream bigger.
He might have achieved his dream. Hence making nairaland stagnant.

Watin concern me.
Just my 2 cents
Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by Nobody: 2:03pm On Jan 17, 2015
Interesting
Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by moderatorr1: 3:54pm On Jan 17, 2015
javijabor1:
Konga, jumia even the almighty facebook advertise even if they are well known.
But our oga seun does not see the need to advertise.
Its a pity.
Nairaland has the revenue to do this.
Privateproperties dot com dot ng even dey dstv.

Seun should come out from his small shell except he doesn't dream bigger.
He might have achieved his dream. Hence making nairaland stagnant.

Watin concern me.
Just my 2 cents
hmmm
Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by emmyvet(m): 11:16pm On Jan 17, 2015
the power of adverts, these guys are spending heavily on adverts both online and offline, why wont they get the traffic and publicity more than nairaland?
Reap what you sow
Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by javijabor1(m): 9:54am On Jan 18, 2015
moderatorr1:
hmmm

My oga y u hmmm now?
Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by moderatorr1: 5:00pm On Jan 18, 2015
javijabor1:


My oga y u hmmm now?
I've seen nairaland ads on cnn.com
Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by ebene4nija: 9:10pm On Jan 18, 2015
SEO is not just about the content. But who knows you how they got to know you how you are able to impress them. Nigerians know 2go more than basis land.but they don't use 2go because they find some thing better than it. Nigerians now value online shipping more than gossip from bloggers
Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by javijabor1(m): 9:37pm On Jan 18, 2015
moderatorr1:

I've seen nairaland ads on cnn.com

cheesy You sure say no be once a year them dey show that advert? grin
I have never seen it and i do watch CNN only when i get home from work.
Well CNN is good for targeting advertisers but not traffic.
How many Nigerians have DSTV?
How many DSTV owners watch CNN?

Local medium would be better. You can use Olx as a case study. wink
Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by moderatorr1: 8:37am On Jan 19, 2015
javijabor1:


cheesy You sure say no be once a year them dey show that advert? grin
I have never seen it and i do watch CNN only when i get home from work.
Well CNN is good for targeting advertisers but not traffic.
How many Nigerians have DSTV?
How many DSTV owners watch CNN?

Local medium would be better. You can use Olx as a case study. wink
Exactly, thats proly the problem. Poor publicity after a hard work like PDP.
Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by directonpc(m): 10:06am On Jan 19, 2015
Everybody sabi Jumia and Konga. Few people sabi NL. I think Naij is even more popular than nl
Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by moderatorr1: 3:08pm On Jan 20, 2015
directonpc:
Everybody sabi Jumia and Konga. Few people sabi NL. I think Naij is even more popular than nl
Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by Orikinla(m): 4:49pm On Jan 20, 2015
I can make any Nigerian site top Alexa rankings.
And I can give any Nigerian website 2 million visits monthly.
And a blogger in Nigeria can make US$60, 000 annually for publishing short advertorial articles at the rate of US$60 per article.
Affiliate marketing produces the highest paid bloggers in the world.
Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by ebene4nija: 9:03pm On Jan 20, 2015
Orikinla:
I can make any Nigerian site top Alexa rankings.
And I can give any Nigerian website 2 million visits monthly.
And a blogger in Nigeria can make US$60, 000 annually for publishing short advertorial articles at the rate of US$60 per article.
Affiliate marketing produces the highest paid bloggers in the world.


Scarm alert
Re: Konga Beats Nairaland In Alexa, Whats The Significance? by moderatorr1: 7:11am On Jan 21, 2015
ebene4nija:



Scarm alert
lol

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