Business special: Kenyan web businesses
There is no denying the fact that Kenyans are fairly up to date as far as the web is concerned.
Daily we read of new online businesses being launched by creative Kenyans. The latest is a new website for monitoring trading at the Nairobi Stock Exchange www.eight.co.ke
In fact many Kenyans blogs and web sites have taken full advantage of innovative online revenue generating tools. Top on the list of online revenue generators has to be the amazing Google Adsense pay per click (ppc) programme. The Adsense program pays participating sites to display advertisements on their sites, which when clicked earn revenue for the site owners.
But not many Kenyans are familiar with what has to be the top earning Adsense site in Kenya. I am of course referring to www.Mashada.com.
This is a site that is pure genius in terms of generating revenue with minimal investment and overheads. Let me explain. Web sites make money based on the amount of traffic that they can attract. The higher the traffic the higher the revenue. As you read this, there are web sites on the net that are raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue every month. Now, there is one critical but little known factor that impacts traffic in a big way. Namely the number of pages on your site. The more the pages you have the more pages that will end up being indexed by search engines, which means the higher the chances that any one of them will come up during a search which will mean tons of traffic for you. The major obstacle to the creation of pages is naturally the cost. It will usually cost money to hire staff to fill your pages with relevant content to attract visitors and regular readers.
The pure genius with Kenyan web site Mashada.com is the fact that the content is mostly generated by visitors to the site. The skeleton staff at Mashada.com simply post a controversial article from another site and readers then post their comments, pages and pages of them. Many comments often end up being controversial and they therefore attract huge traffic. The pages naturally display Adsense ads, which means that the site cash register is constantly ringing. And yet there are no huge overheads because most of content is generated by persons only too eager to have their voices heard and are not paid members of staff. And because of their sheer numbers, the growth in volume of pages at this site is colossal.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
What Justice Aaron Ringera Has To Do With The Rising Crime Wave In Kenya
KACC's Boss Under siege
"When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the
people are filled with schemes to do wrong.
Eccl 8:11"
Shortly before former ethics boss John Githongo announced to he world that he had fled from Kenya for fear of his life over what came to be known as the Anglo- Leecing scndal (some prefer to call it Anglo- fleecing), he landed at Heathrow and announced to his companion that he was getting off for a brief private visit.
The pair had been flying around Western capitals on official duty at the expense of the Kenyan tax-payer, and that was probably one of the things that had really gotten into Githongo. The fact that he and his companion were involved in an exercise in futility. Appointed to fight corruption by a government that was not interested in fighting the vice. Nay, one that wanted to use the vice to establish itself in power and hopefully remain there for as long as possible.
The name of Githongo's companion on that last flight of his as an employee of the Kenyan government, was Justice Aaron Ringera. Then as now he was heading the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission, a selective anti corruption watch dog that always s carefully selects who to prosecute, usually ending up with minnows while the real fat cats go stock free. It is instructive that one of the people appearing before the commission this morning on suspicion of corruption is the Kenya National Human Rights chairman Maina Kiai.
One thing is very clear about the current administration and that is the fact that it is not in the least interested in fighting corruption. President Kibaki is on record for assuring and reassuring all and sundry that his government was serious about fighting corruption. But what he has said and what his government has continued to do are two very distinct opposites.
For instance what has the KACC done in its' two years of existence? That is apart from being a huge drain on resources and tax payer's money.
This morning ODM Kenya have for once organized a demonstration that is in the interests of the Kenyan people. Their mission is to force Aaron Ringera out of office. Narc-K has dared ODM to carry through their objective of mobilizing crowds to eject Justice Ringera from office, so now its' show time.
But even as we wait to see what happens next, it is important to consider the fact that the government, both this one and especially the previous one, have completely failed to link the prolonged delay in prosecuting corruption cases and the rising crime wave.
Look carefully into the eyes of criminals and accused persons in Kenya these days and you will see something that should alarm every peace-loving Kenyan. The only regret I see in their eyes is regret at getting caught. It is said openly on the streets of Nairobi that the only people in jail are fools and those who did not have enough money to "argue their case." That is to bribe their way out. Mostly the prisons are full of innocent people, it is said. The real criminals are all out there and you read about them in the media all the time.
It is all explained very well in a book I call the manufacturer's handbook, because I believe it was inspired by the manufacturer of the human race Himself. There is a passage in the book of Ecclesiastes that says;
"When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the
people are filled with schemes to do wrong.
Eccl 8:11"
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The two tribes in Kenya most responsible for tribalism.
Adsense Money-making truths that you will never hear anywhere else.
The 4 Most Important Provinces For Anybody Who Wants To Win The Presidency Of Kenya
"When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the
people are filled with schemes to do wrong.
Eccl 8:11"
Shortly before former ethics boss John Githongo announced to he world that he had fled from Kenya for fear of his life over what came to be known as the Anglo- Leecing scndal (some prefer to call it Anglo- fleecing), he landed at Heathrow and announced to his companion that he was getting off for a brief private visit.
The pair had been flying around Western capitals on official duty at the expense of the Kenyan tax-payer, and that was probably one of the things that had really gotten into Githongo. The fact that he and his companion were involved in an exercise in futility. Appointed to fight corruption by a government that was not interested in fighting the vice. Nay, one that wanted to use the vice to establish itself in power and hopefully remain there for as long as possible.
The name of Githongo's companion on that last flight of his as an employee of the Kenyan government, was Justice Aaron Ringera. Then as now he was heading the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission, a selective anti corruption watch dog that always s carefully selects who to prosecute, usually ending up with minnows while the real fat cats go stock free. It is instructive that one of the people appearing before the commission this morning on suspicion of corruption is the Kenya National Human Rights chairman Maina Kiai.
One thing is very clear about the current administration and that is the fact that it is not in the least interested in fighting corruption. President Kibaki is on record for assuring and reassuring all and sundry that his government was serious about fighting corruption. But what he has said and what his government has continued to do are two very distinct opposites.
For instance what has the KACC done in its' two years of existence? That is apart from being a huge drain on resources and tax payer's money.
This morning ODM Kenya have for once organized a demonstration that is in the interests of the Kenyan people. Their mission is to force Aaron Ringera out of office. Narc-K has dared ODM to carry through their objective of mobilizing crowds to eject Justice Ringera from office, so now its' show time.
But even as we wait to see what happens next, it is important to consider the fact that the government, both this one and especially the previous one, have completely failed to link the prolonged delay in prosecuting corruption cases and the rising crime wave.
Look carefully into the eyes of criminals and accused persons in Kenya these days and you will see something that should alarm every peace-loving Kenyan. The only regret I see in their eyes is regret at getting caught. It is said openly on the streets of Nairobi that the only people in jail are fools and those who did not have enough money to "argue their case." That is to bribe their way out. Mostly the prisons are full of innocent people, it is said. The real criminals are all out there and you read about them in the media all the time.
It is all explained very well in a book I call the manufacturer's handbook, because I believe it was inspired by the manufacturer of the human race Himself. There is a passage in the book of Ecclesiastes that says;
"When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the
people are filled with schemes to do wrong.
Eccl 8:11"
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The two tribes in Kenya most responsible for tribalism.
Adsense Money-making truths that you will never hear anywhere else.
The 4 Most Important Provinces For Anybody Who Wants To Win The Presidency Of Kenya
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