Nigeria's social media growth industry runs on infrastructure most users never see. Behind every follower, like, or view delivered through an SMM panel sits a technical system deciding how that engagement actually gets sourced, processed, and delivered. For developers and resellers building on top of these platforms, understanding that infrastructure matters as much as the storefront itself.
Chickletboost, a Nigerian social media growth platform now also serving Ghana and Kenya, has built its infrastructure around a specific technical and philosophical choice, routing engagement through real, active users rather than automated bot networks, while still exposing that system through a fully-featured REST API developers can build on directly.
The Real Problem With Bot-Driven Infrastructure
Most SMM panels source engagement through automated bot networks,...
Search behavior is changing as users increasingly expect direct and useful answers instead of browsing through multiple search results. Voice assistants, AI-powered search tools, and conversational platforms are influencing how people discover information, products, and services.
This shift has increased interest in answer engine optimization services, which help businesses create and organize information so it can better address conversational queries and answer-focused search experiences.
What Is Answer Engine Optimization?
Answer Engine Optimization, often referred to as AEO, focuses on improving content so that search engines and answer platforms can understand and provide relevant responses to user questions.
Traditional SEO often focuses on rankings and organic traffic. AEO places greater emphasis on answering specific questions clearly, accurately, and efficiently.
A strong AEO strategy can include...
The internet has revolutionized the way people do business today. Every day, business people buy and sell online. Buyers are also researching online before deciding what to buy. Numerous sites offer buying guides.
For instance, if you are thinking of buying a home, you will most likely need home appliances, particularly kitchen products and dining wares such as a Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Blender, and other appliances. But do you know how to buy these products effortlessly?
You will get an opportunity to get step-by-step guides that are brief, easy to follow, and useful to help you make an effective decision.
Equally,...
The internet has changed the way we do things. This single entity has transformed how we consume data, replaced the way we obtain information, and, for businesses, given a new face to marketing.
Word of mouth referrals have now been replaced by affiliate marketing, and traditional marketing takes a second place to online marketing. Speaking of online marketing, among the many ways to go about it, social media marketing seems to be the new craze.
Like many others, you must have heard about social media marketing at one time or another. Like many people, too, I know you have a lot...
A CDN or Content Delivery Network also, known as a Content Distribution Network, is an interconnection of proxy servers and data centers that are shared across numerous geographical positions.
The distribution of proxy servers and data centers across multiple geographical locations is aimed at ensuring that the end-user can benefit from this layer of the internet network. It also enables end-users to access great reliable and faster web page performance that is not restricted.
Moreover, CDNs also help protect the site from huge flows in traffic.That being said about CDNs, it is recommended to ensure you choose a suitable CDN.
When it...
Are you a content marketer? Want to be efficient and productive at your job? Here are the Best Free SEO tools for success in your content marketing.
As a content marketer, you need tools that will help in writing your article. If you have a team of writers you will also need a tool to enable you to check the originality of the content to avoid being accused of plagiarism.
You will also need tools to enable you to inspect your content for on-page SEO as well as track ranking, backlinks, etc. Here are some of the best free SEO tools.
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One of the most important things in any business is when payments are done promptly. As a business owner, when sending bills, you would want them to make their payments without delays. This is the reason why efficiency is crucial in the billing process is crucial. You may also read more about usage billing.
When the invoices are sent to customers and clients on time, the more likely the clients and customers will pay faster hence cash flow is enhanced. When the customers fail to pay on time, the cash flow is affected and consequently, the business suffers.
Even in this...
Technology has advanced rapidly and more people spend most of their time online either doing business or researching. In fact, today, more businesses has gone a notch higher to perform their day to day activities online. On the other hand, cybercriminals and hackers are also targeting people who spend their time online.
They are looking to spy business operations with the aim of stealing relevant information that can benefit them. Just recently a malware known as WannaCry infected about 250,000 computers worldwide where many businesses suffered as a result.
This is the reason why having proxies in place is a plus...
It is an undeniable fact that there is strong competition in the world when it comes to marketing. There are new brands and new companies opening up every day, and all of them struggle hard to create brand awareness. People use all the possible tactics and techniques in order to market their brand to a wider extent. The most common and effective technique they use is the outreach service, like the iNet Ventures. These services really help in marketing a brand, and they are trending at the moment.
The reason that you are reading this article is probably that you...
Most Children access the internet at a very young age. This comes with a lot of dangers making it necessary that you find ways to keep your children safe online.
All the time children are on the internet they are faced with dangers which can be visible or invisible. They become exposed to adult material that can pop up unexpected or out of curiosity they search for content and what is displayed is far worse than they expected.
There is also the threat of predators who seek to take advantage of a child’s naivety to befriend them for their own purposes...
Keeping up with the latest and greatest information technology trends seems like a never-ending task nowadays. Many businesses dedicate at least one staff member, if not an entire team, to identifying the newest IT topics and how to integrate them into their daily business practices.
Sometimes they even hire an outside specialist who can walk them through the different types of new technologies and then help with the integration process.
If you are a smaller business and do not have the resources to hire a specialist, do not think all hope is lost. You can find tons of technology articles online...
No matter how good you are at what you do, looking for a job is always a nightmare. Standing out is hard, especially if you still haven’t had a lot of practical experience in your field, and you need to find a way to stand out.
Having a killer CV is a fantastic start, but it will only take you so far. In order for your potential employer to fall head over heels for you, you need a personal website.
Don’t worry, you won’t have to pay anyone to make it for you. Creating a website on your own is a...
As a blogger or web developer in Nigeria, finding a reliable and at the same time pocket friendly web hosting service and domain Registrar is usually a challenge. Recent data released by Nigeria Interbank Settlement System states that about 5.5 million transactions worth about N46.7 billion was carried out through online sales in the first quarter of 2017 only.
This probably explains the influx of tech companies into the Nigeria technology sector in recent times. We keep seeing new and fairly reliable webhosting services springing up with different promises and price tags. Though it leads to competition and drop in...
Ransomware isn’t a new term to the online community or to users around the world anymore. It has spread vehemently in recent times, affecting users around the world. Though ransomware threat have existed for decades, threats have increased in recent times. It has changed its names but the effects are still rigorous and harmful. With advanced versions of ransomware attacks there comes a comparatively advanced version of security fixes which help you deal with these malicious threats.
In fact, you can safeguard your system from any malicious threat even by small behavior change on your system like avoiding suspicious links...
Most small business owners are under the mistaken impression that data breaches and cyber attacks are directed only at large corporate giants such as Google, Target, Citibank, and Anthem to name a few.
However, Small Business Trendz reports that 43% of cybercrime targets small businesses. Further, 60% of businesses are likely to close down within 6 months of becoming victims of hacking incidents.
Given these statistics, a wise option is to take all the necessary steps to protect your company from the possibility of such information leaks. If, despite your best efforts, you find that a data breach has occurred, you...
$50 is the cash price up for grabs in the social media creative design contest, organized by SocialMediaCreatives, a new free 'do it yourself' social media creative design website.
www.socialmediacreatives.com is assisting small businesses to get the most benefit possible from the upcoming Black Friday with a contest to promote early creative campaign and good creative designs for Black Friday sale.
Black Friday is a day when most big online businesses make the highest sale on a single day while few small businesses take the advantage.
The main reason why most small businesses don’t make much sales taking advantage of the Black...
In the quest to optimize subscribers’ internet experience and remain the network of choice, MTN has commenced the roll-out of their 4G LTE Broadband service.
The launch of a fully active 4G LTE service by MTN provides subscribers with an optimized wireless broadband and high-speed browsing experience which is the fastest and most futuristic mobile internet access available in Nigeria today. According to the telecommunications giant, not only will 4G LTE enhance MTN subscribers’ browsing experience, it will also key in to the national objective of attaining 30 percent Broadband penetration by 2018.
This is part of the telecommunication giant’s drive...
Every 5 seconds there is a case of cyber crime, and this poses a threat to individuals and most especially organizations. Let’s build immunity, join the biggest holistic cyber security event in West Africa.
The CyberXchange Conference 2016 which will hold at the Landmark Event Centre, Lekki Peninsula, Lagos on the 2nd and 3rd November seeks to identify the key trends and technologies in Cyber Security; emerging from diverse industries such as Finance, Payments, ecommerce, Banking, Telecommunications, Law enforcements, Oil and Gas, Insurance, Digital Media, Energy, and emerging start-up companies.
So, are you an Academia, Professional, Researcher, IT guru, Developers of...
Express WiFi is a Facebook inspired service aimed at empowering local entrepreneurs to deliver fast and affordable internet access using Wi-Fi connectivity within their locality. Here we show the price of Express WiFi Data plan in Nigeria.
Cost of Express WiFi Data Plan
Below is the current prices of Express WiFi Data plans in Nigeria.
Data Plan
Data Limit
Duration
Price
100MB Daily Plan
100MB
1 Days
40 Naira
300MB Data Plan
300MB
1 Days
110 Naira
750MB Weekly Plan
750MB
7 Days
270 Naira
2GB Weekly Plan
2GB
7 Days
700 NGN
3GB Monthly Data Plan
3GB
30 Day
1,000 Naira
5GB Monthly Data Plan
5GB
30 Days
1,600 NGN
From the table, Express WiFi data plan comes in three categories. You can either choose a one day plan,...
Express WiFi is a Wi-Fi service promoted by Facebook that is aimed at providing affordable internet access to under-served communities around the world. So, far Express WiFi has launched in Nigeria and India.
How Express WiFi Works
Express WiFi delivers internet access using Wi-Fi connectivity, which has now become a standard feature in mobile devices. In partnership with internet service providers and local entrepreneurs, Facebook will provide Wi-Fi hotspots that will deliver fast and affordable internet access to communities.
The ingenuity of the Express WiFi scheme is the fact that Facebook is not coming to do it all by itself, rather the...
The number one topic for CEOs this year is cyber security as well as keeping company and client ecosystems safe. Security issues are even more pronounced with the slump in oil prices causing economic downturns in resource rich countries and in turn spurring an accelerated uptick in cyber criminal activity and corporate espionage.
CyberXchange Conference 2016 is a direct response to this clear and present challenge in West Africa;a global convergence of Information Security professionals which is set to hold on 2nd and 3rd of November at the Landmark Event Centre, Lekki Peninsula, Lagos Nigeria.
During the two-dayconference, carefully selected topics...
HostNowNow, Nigeria's fastest-growing web-hosting company is set to excite existing and new clients with Limitless Web Hosting promo!
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This innovation is driven by...
Night browsing is very popular in Nigeria because it offers cheap browsing and provides internet surfers with ample time to search for information on...
Big Brother Naija (a.k.a. BBNaija) is a popular Reality TV show in Nigeria, South Africa, and across Africa, offered by MultiChoice on platforms such...
DStv Stream (formerly DStv Now, and often just called the DStv app) is MultiChoice's internet streaming service that lets you watch live TV, movies,...
Thanks to the constant advancement in technology, several near impossible or stressful tasks are now made easy and flexible. Directly from the comfort of...
