Naij.com ranks #2,147 in the world and generates 992,082 Page views for daily. FreeWebsiteReport estimates Naij.com for a v...
Naij.com ranks #2,147 in the world and generates 992,082 Page views for daily. FreeWebsiteReport estimates Naij.com for a valuation of $2.2 Million USD
for it's visitor traffic that has the potential for CPC and
Display-based advertising. This traffic data suggests the Advertisers
with a Traffic Acquisition Cost (TAC) of $2,976 for daily and $89,287 for monthly to spend on advertisements with Naij.com. Naij.com is popular in the Nigeria and 76.3% of users comes from this Geolocation. Naij.com's recent traffic trend shows a 1.85% Negative growth. Naij.com's page load time for 90th percentile measures at 3 sec. Naij.com receives most of it's organic referrals traffic from 3,144 websites around the world. Naij.com servers are located in the United States.
Who
really is the owner of Naij.com and what exactly are they up to? From
the information I gleaned online, the owner of Naij.com is a Belarus
man called Vital Laptenok who lives in Minsk, Belarus and has worked
with TUT.BY, a Belarus base news and content website.
When I visited his Facebook page
, I was hoping to meet it painted with all green and white, judging
from the way he decorates Naij.com with green white green. But I was
wrong! Nothing on his page that depicts anything Nigeria in any way,
then I realize he is just like a prostitute who sleeps with men she
hates because of money.
Why is the
ownership of a website as big as Naij.com shrouded in secrecy from day
one? Because the owners knew exactly what they were up to from the
beginning. That site was built on stolen content and has continued to
thrive on stolen content, tiptoeing into people’s website to steal
content at will without shame or remorse. They steal from big and small
websites in Nigeria.
How did a
site that specializes in content piracy made it to the very top in
Nigeria news market? Well, that’s what happens in a society where the
majority of its citizen don’t know how to distinguish right from wrong,
a society where mediocrity is celebrated, a society where everything
goes and no one dare to ask questions.
Naij.com And It’s Many Crimes
According to DailyPost,
the only additional work noticed in the copied version of several of
its original stories uncovered on Naij.com was the removal of DailyPost
from the text. A search on naij.com showed that more than 80 news items were copied over the last few weeks.
In 2013, Naij.com was accused of engaging in the DNS poisoning of some ISPs such as Etisalat which ultimately redirect traffic from popular sites (Nairaland.com and Google.com.ng) to my.naij.com.
How this was sorted out and who really was behind it remain a mystery
but the truth is that Naij,com’s name was found in there. Early this
year, we spent weeks working on a single article, the richest musicians
in Nigeria.
Just a moment after the article was published, Naij
shamelessly joined the bandwagon of copycats and tiptoed in here while
we were asleep at night and lifted the content in the most debasing
manner – word for word and published on their website. Twice we
contacted them through their official email (info@naij.com)
requesting for the article to be removed or at least give us due
credit, and twice we got zero response. Finally, we had to resort to
Google DMCA to get the article removed from Google search. For a big
website to act in this manner is rather unforgivable.
Earning Millions From Other People’s Work
He wrote.
This website is probably one of the highest earning websites in Nigeria right now, shoulder to shoulder with Linda Ikeji or even more. Yet, they could not spend to create content. Imagine Constative.com spending a fortune from our meager earnings to create value, responsible content only for irresponsible content piracy website like Naij to lift it overnight and be earning millions with it.
As if
that was not enough, they go ahead and be spamming our comment sections
with the purpose of link back building. Who builds link back from
comment, except spammers? For a site that earns over N20million per
month to be spamming an upcoming news website is just unbecoming,
debasing, and classless.
Last time,
they contacted me to publish a sponsored post on WealthResult.com for
the purpose of getting a link back to Jiji which is one of their
websites. I demanded for N50, 000, after beating about the bush, I
asked them to pay just N25, 000 since the article will be adding value
to us too, they disappeared for months without any reply only to
surface again and made the same request, but this time, without asking
how much I am willing to take, they offered to pay me N4, 000 and told
me “that is ok for me”.
So, Naij
not only steal from us, they also think they have the right to
determine how much we can charge for promotion and advertisement. Only
God knows how they are treating their Nigerian staffs who work day and
night to lift other people’s content for them. But one thing I want to
tell Naij and other companies operating in Nigeria who thinks this
nation is a free for all, who thinks they can do all things and get
away with it. I want to tell you that you lied, your battle is about to
begin!
