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MobilityNigeria Promo: Get A Top-End SmartPhone FREE*

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:00:00 +0000

THIS IS NOT A SPONSORED POST AND OFFER IS ONLY VALID IN NIGERIA

MobilityNigeria, one of Nigeria’s biggest sites when it comes to mobile technology is giving away a total of three (3) mobile phones – one top-end Smartphone and two other phones for runners-up.

To enter this promo, simply get a blog/website for just N3,000 with the features below and you’re in !

100mb disk space

1gb monthly bandwidth

Unlimited Email

Unlimited FTP Accounts

MS FrontPage Support

MySQL/PHPMyAdmin

Unlimited Databases

This promo is sponsored by Domain Standard Networks owned by Yomi Adegboye. DSN’s services unlike Alireta’s are offered to niche clients only – people looking for special solutions.

NOTE: Yomi Adegboye owns both Alireta and Domain Standard Networks.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS REGARDING THIS PROMO

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How To Setup A WordPress Blog For Free

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:00:00 +0000

At the beginning of this month (Sunday 1st August to be precise), EzBlogSetup was launched. So far so good, I’ve been getting a few emails from folks who are curious to know more about the service and of course how legit I was .

SearchNigerianJobs which was the first wordpress blog I setup for a client probably wasn’t enough to convince them thoroughly thus I went back to the drawing board and started brainstorming ideas that could help boost sales.

After much thought, it occurred to me that my sales page was lacking testimonials needed to drive/boost sales and so I came up with this win-win idea.

EzBlogSetup is now offering 5 FREE blog setup services to the FIRST 5 clients who contact me right from this very moment. If you’re interested, here are the details.

To qualify for one of these FREE blog setup service slots, you ought to have ALL YOUR REQUIREMENTS ready when you contact me otherwise you don’t get the slot.

In return you MUST write a short testimonial regarding EzBlogSetup’s service. This testimonial should be @ least two sentences long, with your Full Name and Phone number.

Details of the requirements can be found @ EzBlogSetup

Please retweet and email this post to your friends who might just be in need of this service. Thanks. This offer is open to anybody living anywhere in the world even the North pole

Do have a great week

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EzBlogSetup Service Is Now LIVE & OPEN For Orders!

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0000

It’s with so much joy mixed with exhaustion and Malaria , that I finally announce that my blog setup service by name, EzBlogSetup is now open for orders.

In a nutshell, the service is targeted at folks who want to start blogging with a self-hosted wordpress blog but find the whole wordpress setup thingy a daunting task. Those dying to move over to wordpress from blogspot ain’t left out either.

NOTE: This ain’t a blogspot to wordpress service BUT I’m working at polishing my skills in that arena . More info on that service as time flies by.

Despite pressure from other blog setup services that charge as much as $80 to $200 for their blog setup service, I’ve decided to set mine at N4,000 ($27) Only. This is cause I SUCK BIG TIME @ charging folks to get things done for them. Besides @ $27, I can sleep well @ night knowing that I haven’t taken too much advantage of the non-tech savvy .

For now, EzBlogSetup’s service will be targetted @ the local market only. As time goes on (or rather as business starts to pick up ) I’ll be offering the service to the international community.

To all those who contributed in making this possible, I say a massive thank you. Les Quiero Mucho.

Cheers .

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FULL DETAILS OF EZBLOGSETUP’S SERVICE

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Help! What Makes An Excellent Blog Setup Service?

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:48:00 +0000

I need the help you of you my readers.

I’ve noticed that there is a surge of people interested in blogging but who don’t want anything to do with the setup process. They’d rather worry about publishing posts than configuring WordPress thus I’ve decided to start a blog setup service.

Being a sucker for quality service, I’m @ loss with regards to what constitutes a great blog setup service. I need you to help me with things you feel I should include in my blog setup service when it finally goes live.

At the moment I’ve got the following locked down:

Web Hosting and Domain Name Setup
WordPress Installation
Essential WordPress Plug-ins and their respective configurations

I need more ideas. Your contributions are great appreciated. Thanks a million

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My Lousy Commenting Policy Undergoes Changes Again!

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Tuesday May 25, 2010 at 9:16 PM, one of the new commentators here contacted me because I had delinked her comment for failing to stick to my commenting policy.

My commenting policy clearly states that commentators will generally be giving a free hand @ using keywords of their choices ONLY after leaving 10 comments.

Below are the emails we exchanged:

Hello.

I recently commented on your blog but had the link removed for not following your commenting policy. I apologize for wasting your time with that. I would like some clarification before commenting again. Am I allowed to use ‘Louisa@Designer Handbags’, or would I have to use Louisa@Galliano’ for the first 10 comments? If it’s the latter I probably won’t bother.

Thanks.

To this I replied

Thanks for contacting me but sorry. It has to be the latter.
If my policy changes, I’ll let you know. have a great day/night

And she replied again

Yeah no offense, but that’s a pretty lousy blog commenting policy. Basically you are forcing your commenters to give you 10 ‘free’ comments before you give them anything in return. Most blogs are more appreciative of their commenters as they know it is what keeps all of their posts fresh in the eyes of the search engines.

Anyways, it’s your call. I have plenty of other blogs that would happily accept my comments.

Thanks.

-Louisa

To everyone who have wanted to leave a comment here but decided not to after reading my “lousy” commenting policy, this is what I have to say.

When I first started this blog, I was craving for comments thus I installed Dofollow, Keywordluv and Commentluv. The comments flooded in especially on posts that had to do with these two two plug-ins. I was ecstatic!

It was while checking out someone else’s blog that I noticed a comment similar to one which had been left on my blog. Further investigations revealed that most of my commenters where simply regurgitating comments they had left on other blogs so they could get free backlinks.

Before I could say jack, my Google PageRank dropped and even though I wasn’t too keen on PR, I knew I had to take action less my search engine traffic suffered too.

Thus I introduced the new commenting policy and also cleared about 95% of all trackbacks on this blog. (Trackbacks are still activated but are seriously moderated)

I’m really sorry that you guys feel the way you do but I’m just trying to maintain some sanity on my blog as I dislike most blogs with varieties of keywords littered everywhere and having ABSOLUTELY no relation to the niche in question.

I detest nasty backlink chasers especially those that come around, coyly ask a question and never reply back when their questions/comments have been answered or replied to. What even pisses me off the most, though it shouldn’t, is that their blogs are strictly NOFOLLOW.

It’s like “You leech my PR with your comments and don’t even bother to check back after I’ve attended to your comment. Sheeeeesh!”

After some serious thinking, I’ve decided to make my commenting policy less lousier. Thus the new rules are as follows.

You MUST use your name or online name. Keywords only will get your comment delinked. Be warned.
Both Author URL and Commentluv URL will be dofollow only after 3 “solid” comments.
Restrict yourself to 3 Keywords Only. Anything more than 3 keywords and your comment risks getting deleted!
Links to incomplete sites, suspicious sites, gambling/sex/casino sites and all Google unfriendly sites will be removed.
STUPID SPAMMY COMMENTS such “Bookmarked for future reading“, “Great site. Good article” and the rest of them are not allowed. Don’t waste your precious time and mine. Also comment regurgitation is not allowed on my blog.
To all those you can’t speak English, I’m sorry but if I can’t understand a word of what you’re saying, your comment risks ending up in the Trash especially if I initiate a conversation with you to explain what you meant in your comment and you don’t reply.
BTW if you can’t write English fluently and you speak Spanish, feel free to leave your comment in Spanish.
By submitting a comment here you grant this site a perpetual license to reproduce your words and name/web site in attribution. If you’re not cool with this, please DO NOT submit your comment.
All transactions with commenters on this blog are @ your own risk. StrictlyOnlineBiz will not be held responsible for any transaction gone wrong.
Finally for me to believe that your comment ain’t spam, you MUST make reference to something written within the post.

Apologies to all those who have left just one comment and never returned again as this new commenting policy means that your link is now useless. If you are chasing dofollow backlinks, it’s always advisable to leave @ least 3 comments if you can should in case, the blog owner changes his policy on commenting.

Have you noticed that most dofollow blogs are silently going nofollow? I don’t want to do that and this commenting policy helps me stay true to the dofollow movement.

Do have a great week ahead. Cheers!

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Spamming et Scamming Via Comment & Contact Forms

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Fri, 28 May 2010 08:00:00 +0000

It’s been over a year and 2 months since the launch of this blog and I guess it has somewhat of grown in popularity cos I now receive scam emails through my contact form and comment section as well.

Here are two of such scam emails. One from a so called Mr Wellity Osakwue and the other from the Boston Merchant Financial Services

[Website Contact] Proposal for Partnership with Boston Merchant

Dear Mr. Chukwudi Emmanuel

This is Nader Moheb
Form Boston Merchant Financial Services
I am sending you this email based on our conversation via phone today, to introduce our company to you
We would like to do business with your company

Boston Merchant Financial offers instant access to financial instruments around the world including prices on stocks, sectors, indices, currencies, Commodities and interest rates. Whatever and wherever a customer wants to trade, our platforms provide all the tools he/she needs.

I will send you another email for our company profile.

We opened our office her in Cairo to handle Middle East & Africa office business, we have seven branches worldwide

And would like to find introducing brokers (IB’s) and Money Managers to work with Boston Merchant Financial
We also offer Clearing Services, White Label Partnership

For money managers we offer MAM (Multi Account Manager)
What i want to offer you is to have the platforms in your name of your Company’s name or to provide you with clearing services through API system.

So I would like to offer you our excellent platforms, we have excellent servers
Fast execution and we also provide Multi-terminal Platforms for money managers

Boston Merchant is regulated by more than one regulatory agency (FINRA, CFTC , NFA , FFMS and RolyReg)

Boston Merchant diversity and we also have hedging allowed and conditional orders.

Boston Merchant has three platforms (BMF PRO, MT4 , CURRENEX and Mobile Trading) , to satisfy individual and institutional clients.

Boston Merchant offers CFD products through BMF trading platforms including (Equities, Stock Indices, Currencies, Precious Metals and Commodities)
Our leverage vary according to the instruments up to 1:200 please see this link for Instruments, Exchanges & Fees

For more information please visit our website www.bmfn.com
If you are interested please reply this e-mail and send me your contact information, so that we could get along together on phone
Thank you for your time and consideration

Kind regards,

Nader Moheb
Marketing Specialist
Middle East & Africa Business

Boston Merchant Financial, Egypt
Liaison Office
WWW.BMFN.COM
Maadi Stars Towers, Building 1A
Cornish El Nil
Floor 27, Suite #2
Cairo, Egypt
Tel: +202-252-50885 Ext 529
Fax: +202-252-63577
Mob: +201-955-50112

Name: Nader Moheb
Email: nmoheb@bmfn.com
Phone: 0020195550112
Company: Boston Merchant Financial www.bmfn.com
Website: www.bmfn.com

Website Comment From Mr Wellity Osakwue

This is a Financial Service Announcement, we offer loan to all in need,
ranging from $5000 to $800,000.00 USD. Our interest rate is 3% and our
service and terms are dependable. any interested person should apply via
email: loaninvstmnt@aol.com
Name____________________
Country___________________
Address___________________
State____________________
City_____________________
Zip Code_____________________
Amount___________________
Duration ___________________
Phone Number___________________
Occupation_____________________
Thanks
For more contact me at
loaninvstmnt@aol.com

I await your prompt response as soon as possible
Regards,
Manager: Mr Wellity Osakwue,

By any chance, has any of you received these exact messages via email or your make money online blogs?

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Domain Name Extensions .com & .net Get Price Hike

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:14:02 +0000

ATTENTION ALL .COM AND .NET DOMAIN OWNERS!

VeriSign, the registry in charge of .com and .net domain names will be issuing a price increase for domain registrations and renewals. .com domain prices will increase by 7% and .net domain prices by 10%. This literally means that .com domain names will now go for a minimum of $10.70 while .net domains will be pegged @ $11.

This price hike will take effect as from July 1, 2010

Netfirms is offering it’s existing customers savings of $1/year on renewals before May 31, 2010 using coupon code RENEWNOW.

Note: Coupon applicable to .com and .net domain names only

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PatchworkOfTips Moves To Blogger Platform

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Mon, 17 May 2010 08:00:00 +0000

Sometime last year I made the decision to create another blog with the intention of increasing my chances @ earning online via affiliate marketing and Google adsense. After almost 8 months of PatchworkOfTips been launched, I’ve finally come to accept the fact that it wasn’t such a good idea because

Updating and Promoting two blogs at the same time is really tedious and StrictlyOnlineBiz being my favorite of both, takes most of my time and dedication thus leaving PatchworkOfTips to suffer in such a way that for over 4 months, it hasn’t been updated.
Probably due to the poor updating schedule and poor promotion, search engine traffic to the blog has been minimal (60 weekly visitors MAX) and thus adsense earning till date from it has been ZERO!
Some Indian folks or guys with Indian IPs have turned the blog into their playground, with their spammy comments.
Updating the wordpress software and plug-ins and some other server side stuff have been tedious due to the heavy security measures placed on the server by the host, Web4Africa. I kinda got tired of meeting roadblocks each time I wanted to do stuff like modify my htaccess, upload files, chmod folders etc. I’m 100% sure that contacting the host would have solved the problems but I guess I was just used to been able to do all that without contacting anybody.

Thus I’ve made my choice to keep my domain name with Web4Africa but quit the server hosting and move over to the Blogger platform. That way, I can save myself some money with regards to the yearly hosting fee of N7,000 ($46).

As the blog is now hosted on the blogger platform, I really don’t have to worry about my investment not yielding results as I’m only paying $10 a year (Domain name only) to keep the blog alive.

Hopefully I’ll be back to creating content for the blog and making teeny weeny or huge returns on my $10 investment.

Finally, I just want to share some link luv with the following blogs for facilitating the many modifications, that the blog’s theme had to undergo

Swapping Blogger blog title and post title -Blogger SEO tweak

Fix for WLW + Blogger error: 400 Bad Request

Adsense Code Converter For Blogger Blogs

Blogger blog title tweak for better SEO

Blogger Custom Domain Create a Sitemap

Customize the Read more option in Blogger

How to embed Comment Form in Blogger Blog?

How to Fix Newer Older Post Navigation?

How to use Adsense Section Targeting on New Blogger

Nigerian Bloggers Award Launched

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:00:00 +0000

Attention all Nigerian bloggers and Nigerian blog lovers, I just found out that the second annual Nigerian Blog Awards launched about 4 days ago.

As always there will be two categories, Groups A and B where the former would focus on serious aspects of the blogs and the latter, where the personalities of the bloggers themselves comes into play.

Nominations for Group A are open until May 23, 2010 at 11:59pm EST.

Go vote for your blogs and blogs you think deserved to be awarded . I’VE VOTED ALREADY!

Please spread the word!

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Free Blog Hosting and Nigerian URL Shortener Launched

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:11:43 +0000

Just wanted to fulfill a little promise I had made to my fellow bloggers

Rose Desrochers recently launched a blog competition that seeks to reward the winner with six months of free web hosting with a free domain name all from Vision This Hosting.

For more details on how to participate in this contest, do check out Win a free web hosting package from Vision This Hosting. Remember the contest runs from now until Feb 28th, 2010.

Ahmad Mukoshy, the young Nigerian entrepreneur has launched the first public Nigerian URL shortner, Yrn.me!

Pronounced Yarn Me and launched on the 4th of February, 2010, it forms part of a bigger project which is still in the works. It’s quite easy to use.

Simply go to Yrn.me, fill in the URL you want to shorten and your shortened URL is thrown back @ ya in no time .

Hopefully as time goes on, it’s use will spread amongst Nigerians and it will probably become the preferred URL shortner by Nigerians

Have a lovely evening fellas!

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