Blogging is popular
business in Nigeria, especially now that a lot of people have come to
realize the great potential it holds for them. Bloggers now take the
business of blogging as a fulltime business, and they are making a lot
of money just like their counterparts in the rest parts of the world.
With an estimated population size of 160 Million people and over 60
million internet users, you can rest assured that bloggers in Nigeria
enjoy good traffic to their sites
UPDATE: The listing below was removed to avoid misinformation.
Chiamaka Okoye is the brain behind the success of jobberman,
the number 1 job website in Nigeria. Okoye is a proficient blogger with
great blogging knowledge, accuracy of facts and integrity. She has been
able to move this blog to an enviable height. Currently, jobberman
enjoys Google PR – 5, Alexa rank – 7,650; Domain authority of 48,
Traffic - Over 3.6M page views and over 500,000 Unique visits monthly,
Subscriber base - Over 750,000 Subscribers.
The
blog has content that covers career advice and tips for Job-seekers,
recruiting tips for Employers, trends across industries and news on
scholarships for Nigerians. Her Blog was ranked 1st in the Nigerian
Bloggers' award in 2012 as best Business/Career Blog both by Judges'
choice and popular vote. It is waxing stronger even in 2013. This is a
great feat by a female blogger, no doubt.
In
this post, we shall be looking at the top 10 popular bloggers in
Nigeria – 2013, and see what makes them thick. With bloggers in
virtually every field you can imagine – blogging, marketing, small
business, health, sports, celebrity, photography, relations, SEO, etc. Nigeria, for sure, is a competitive market and only the best get recognized both locally and internationally.
So
who are those bloggers doing exceptionally great in Nigeria in 2013? We
shall take a little time to look at their profiles and see why they
made this list. So here is the list of the top 10 popular bloggers in
Nigeria – 2013:
Don Caprio
Don Caprio is one of the top 10 popular bloggers in Nigeria – 2013. He is the owner of DonCaprio
which has become a trade name in the Nigerian blogging industry. Don
Caprio is a leading blogger as well a web designer who has helped to
reposition so many poorly designed blogs in Nigeria. Don Caprio’s blog
currently has a Google PR3, Alexa 18,183; Domain authority of 47,
Subscriber base of over 10,000 and several thousands of daily pageviews.
This blog is so loved by the youths in Nigeria because of the useful
information it provides in blogging, coding, tech and blogging tips. Don
is worth his onions and surely deserves his rating.
UPDATE: The listing below was removed to avoid misinformation.
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2. Loy Okezie
Loy Okezie has written his name on the marbles of blogging in Nigeria, with his blog Techloy,
which is arguably the best tech related niche blog in Nigeria and on
the African continent. Techloy is the right place to get authentic
breaking tech news, mobile and social media trends within emerging
African markets.
Loy Okezie’s blog was
founded in April 2008 as “Startups Nigeria”, but has since metamorphosed
into the pace setter in the Nigerian local and African tech news arena.
Okezie has been a contributor on BBC’s focus on Africa magazine as well
as providing analysis on CNN.
Loy’s
experience as a Business Administration graduate has contributed in no
small measure at giving him an unprecedented edge over other bloggers in
the tech arena. Techloy currently has PR4, Alexa 24,500, domain
authority of 43, over 400,000 page views monthly and more than 40,000
unique visitors monthly.
3. Oladunni Liadi
Oladunni Liadi is another lady that should be respected as far as blogging is concerned in Nigeria. She is the owner of Ladunliadi.blogspot.com.
One thing about her blog is that it is hosted on the Blogger platform
as a .blogspot blog. She has been able to prove a point with her blog
that blogging success is not only dependent on the platform you use, as a
lot of bloggers believe that for your blog to succeed, it must be
hosted on the Wordpress platform.
Fashion
lovers and fans of nollywood artists are particularly in love with this
blog because of the accuracy of news, style of writing and the visual
display quality. If you are interested to get the latest gist in the
movie industry in Nigeria, Ladunliadi would be your best choice.
The
fact that the blog currently has PR3, Alexa rak of 12,000; over 120,000
page views daily and millions in a month attests to the fact that it is
a blog loved by several Nigerians.
4. Nmachi Jidenma
Nmachi Jidenma, no doubt, has firmly established herself in the blogging business, with her blog CP-Africa,
which has become a domain for getting latest happenings in Nigeria and
the African continent. “Celebrating Progress Africa”, which the acronym
stands for, is the owner’s dream place of projecting the good side of
Africa to the world.
As more and more get
to know about the concept of this site, its popularity is sure to triple
in 2013 and beyond. As a respected female blogger who started sharing
her ideas on her facebook wall in 2009, she later moved to Blogger
platform and then to her current domain which now has PR5, Alexa 96,000;
Domain authority of 49, facebook likes about 41,600, high subscriber
base, etc.
The most interesting thing about
Nmachi Jidenma is that she has gathered a lot of experiences working for
world class firms like Google, Next Web, JP Morgan’s Technology,
technoserve, etc before starting her own special blog. Her experience,
no doubt, is playing a vital role in the success of CP-Africa. She is
worthy of mention among the top 10 popular bloggers in Nigeria - 2013.
5. Jide Ogunsanya
Jide Ogunsanya is the young Microbiologist-turned-blogger, and the man in the pilot’s seat at Ogbongeblog,
a multi niche blog with interest in writing blogging tutorials, media
and money-making ideas. His knowledge of Java Programming has helped to
position Ogbongeblog as a place to acquire some basic SEO skills.
Ogbongeblog
is really pulling crowds especially amongst the youths in Nigeria,
because of the special tutorials on blogging and internet related
solutions it provides to readers. This guy deserves a mention here. He
is also the initiator of “Bloggers Lab”, a Facebook group for bloggers.
Ogbongeblog currently has PR 3, Alexa 37,000, Domain authority of 41,
Subscriber base over 11,228, average Pageviews of 220,000 per month.
6. Myne Whitman
Myne Whitman is one of the few successful female bloggers in Nigeria in 2013. She has successfully groomed her blog Naijastories
to the delight of literary work lovers. Naijastories is the haven for
original writing, poetry, fiction, news, and literature and events. It
is a website set up and committed to promoting Nigerian Fiction. It is a
social network site for Nigerian writers.
Currently,
naijastories has Google PR – 4, Alexa rank - 200,867, Domain authority
of 34, Traffic - 100
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