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pedialicious:
Sorry for making noises around here...
It seems that Shorte.st team is just a little bit late...
They actually paid me via Webmoney...
I'll keep this post for anyone who might have the same problem as mine...
Thanks for your kind attention, folks...

COVID-19 is responsible for the delay. Giant corporations around the world are not as responsive as they used to be and most are downsizing to keep floating.

The money was only $5 and you could have just waited. Even if they wanted to scam you, it won't be over $5.

CanadaOrBust:
The first? U obviously don’t know what community transmission is. That is precisely what is happening in Kano, Lagos, Abuja, Ogun,...

The governors of those states you mentioned alongside their people are in denial. They believe it is not the virus that is ravaging their communities right now and have not admitted a thing. So I quite understand why I said 'the first to be reported' because we will see a lot of people linked to the toyboy and the late American.

4djustnation:
Pls give 2 web addresses as your references

Hello, 4djustnation, although the quote isn't directed at me, but I have designed consulting websites for consulting agencies and an intervention consulting agency here in Lagos.

Please, see the below sites:

1. https://www.qeeva.com, and
2. http://executiveinterventionconsult.com (presently in development stage).

Beyond these, I have some other professional sites designed for top agencies in Lagos.

I'll be more than willing on taking up your project. In total, both two sites will be completed within a month (two weeks apiece).

I have more than enough portfolios even though the rest do no match your area of interest.

I can be reached via sanchez01s@gmail.com.

Regards.

The symptoms scream COVID-19. The toyboy should first be isolated and then get tested. He is most likely positive right now. The policemen who arrested him, their family, the police station where he is kept, the cellmates, the hotel, the hotel staff, toyboy's friends and possibly family members should all be quarantined or isolated right now.

Contact tracing should begin in earnest. We are about to witness the COVID-19's first community transmission to be reported in Nigeria.

Zooposki:
As predicted by me last year. The white and Fulani elite decimation.

So, your prayer also affected Americans and the rest of the world?

hakeem4:
What you did was really wrong cause you hurt the animal unjustly. But you do not have to fear the woman. every rational human knows charms does not work. she is only trying to put fear in you But it would be good if you tell the woman you hurt her animal

I have seen someone hit with a tiny piece of lengthy material before and the person hit fell and started twitching like a zombie until the other dude was begged and he asked people around to get a pregnant woman to pee on the person he hit with the snake-like piece of cloth. He didn't stop twitching until over an hour when they finally saw a pregnant lady who agreed to pee on him. Science has no explanation for that and I am sure science does not say a thing about a pregnant woman's pee as a remedy for treating 'epilepsy'.

This happened in Lagere, Ile-Ife, in 2012.

When I see comments as yours, I just can't help but conclude that Atheists are either young, bereft of what goes on around them and haven't really seen life or just ignorant of the world they live in.

Godmother:
My website of 9 months is ranking for just one keyword and gets 20-50 daily visits.

At 9 months, you should be getting nothing less than 5,000 daily visitors.

I make use of Google keyword planner to search out low competition, high volume keywords, but thus doesn't seem to be working.

Low competition means low traffic. It is why you haven't been able to get proper traffic in the past 9 months. While you won't automatically rank, Google's latest algo should have hinted you that unrecognised health blogs and sites would get kicked to the curb as the niche is super sensitive.

I also make use of Rank Math seo plugin and try to ensure the posts are seo-optimized. I have tried building backlinks by guest posting and forum commenting.

NEVER, EVER use Rank Math. The so-called Swiss army knife of SEO is not as good as its developers claim.

I make use of alt tag and ensure the keyword I am trying to rank for is used as the alt tag.

Alt tags are not a guarantee that you'll rank for your desired keywords.

I try to use at least three high resolution pictures all named with my focus keyword.

Whether HD or 4K pictures, it doesn't matter. As a matter of fact, they might negatively impact your site. High quality pictures that are not properly trimmed are often heavy and their sizes often count when loading a page. However, that isn't the point in your case.

Nothing seems to be working and I'm at a point where I just want to call it a day.

I have given it my all and maybe I should accept at this juncture that blogging is not for me.

You have made the one mistake most newbie bloggers make. Before setting out to blog at all, do a research of niches that rank easily, those that are difficult, those that are constantly queried on SEs and those that are sensitive.

If you create a blog with the purpose of monetizing, then don't just start with a niche you think you love. Don't get me wrong, you have to love what you do but if your chosen niche is not often searched or queried, you'll bow out in frustration.

Google won't rank your health blog becausr it is a sensitive niche. Quit this one, get a new domain name, and come back better. But before you do, make sure you have properly researched and have asked LOTS OF QUESTIONS.

27Pushing30:
Damn! Lol

I don't rate any of them. Church business, as it is, is bigger than any drug cartel and this period has acutally helped in revealing these guys. On social media, they have started behaving like typical social media influencers who periodically give to keep or grow their followers.

https://twitter.com/APOSTLESULEMAN/status/1253243632548810757

The pandemic has revealed a whole lot of pastors as big time conmen. I listened to Oyedepo's choleric outburst with disgust and so much disdain that I questioned the double standard often exhibited by this same folks.

One minute, the building is not the church but the people in it, the next, the church is a place refuge, etc, but none of them could heal any COVID-19 patient like the Apostle days.

We all know why Oyedepo was fighting and screaming at the top of his lungs in that video. His income source, like all other pastor has been affected and he is not interested in seeing his stash dwindle.

Meanwhile, Apostle Suleiman who called for the government to allow those with healing gifts heal the sick is doing giveaways on Twitter almost every day, asking people to qualify by following his wife.

The church is first of all, a building and not the residence of the Holy Spirit. If any pastor is preaching otherwise right now, such is doing nothing but hustling for his daily bread.

sulaimon22:
Like I stated in the topic, how can I increase my domain authority to get more traffic

1. Contents!
2. Do proper keyword research and use SEO tools to find out what visitors in your niche are looking for.
3. Spy on your competitors who are likely better placed on SERP and likely have more SA, PR, DA, and DR than your site and see their contents. Write your contents similarly and add more depth to yours. Doing so will give Google the impression that there is a better update of that content somewhere and will find your site with time and possibly replace yours with the other.
4. The place of backlinks cannot be overemphasised.
5. Do proper internal links using appropriate anchor texts. This helps a whole lot.
6. Give it time. SEO isn't magical and won't happen overnight. While it is possible you might have done all aforementioned, time is the last needed ingredient for ranking.

hopefulLandlord:
I googled the name "Tipe watches" and couldn't get any hit rather Google assumed I meant "Type watches". why is that?

That's because it isn't a popular brand like the Police and Invicta of this world.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Tipe-Watches-Tipe-Watch-Prague-Brand-New-in-Box-/113768459186

NybenSBF101:
Why don't you practice your atheism or scientology and leave people that believe in God to practice it in peace. Everyone mustn't be like you.

Religion is one thing, God is another. An average believer by now should be questioning why pastors are not visiting the sick to heal COVID-19 patients instead of fighting that the lockdown is a demonic attempt at restricting the church and her people from worshipping.

And I'm sure this is clearly captured in John 4:48.

Emekuss:
Please guys I just created this site recently. I want you to go through it and tell me what you think about it.
I want to know how I can make it visible in search engines.
As the site grows I will need moderators.
This is the site:

www.sceneer.com

The forum is beautiful. I was expecting to see some overused cliche or some common script but then I was surprised. In this format, you can get AdSense approval if you could write some unique but Indepth contents.

My fear for you is your SEO strategy. It had better be good enough to keep the forum running, lest you get frustrated in no time.

nnamdibig:
You said you are setting up your business and upgrading yourself.
In that case, if you are truly looking for love, don't put your child in of the conditions for someone to love you(to avoid stories of he hates his step child or the real father has been disturbing my marriage).
Take care of your child through your business and if he loves the child along the line fine if not fine too. Look for love for yourself alone and let the lover know you have a child and not with condition to love your child also.

The emboldened ruined your submission. There's no way any sane woman will put a man over her child. OP deserves happiness like any woman out there and it is not too much to ask that a man worthy of just doing that will love her child.

Of what benefit is looking for love when the said love is not extended to yours?

Luther Vandross
Michael Jackson
Sam Loco Efe
Lucky Dube

espn:
sue them to court if you have the means or someone who can help. They take us for granted in this country...

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TonyeBarcanista, AngelFrost, you guys want to get in here and explain the sudden spike in Kano?

dukeprince50:
Its a tortoise, Turtle do not hibernate to into their shells.

I disagree. Most turtles can hide/withdraw into their shells. However, there are some species that can't do this. Tortoises live exclusively on land. That, right there, is a turtle.

That's a turtle. Tortoises have rough shells while turtles have smooth shells.

Emmbanny:
NCC number. 622 it's toll free number.
Call and report your case
.

Not sure they're working. I have been calling them for over 10 minutes now. I get a prerecorded message on DND for a while and the call drops.

Thanks though.

Kingscee:
Hahahahaha sorry bros, count me out when you talk about anything about online transactions with anything that concerns Nigeria, I prefer face me and I face you business, everything about Nigeria is a scam, even the man in Aso rock na scam.

This is hilarious

EzzyCarter:
Well, I had a similar issue with MTN a while ago and it worked for me. No need to yell. Be as calm as possible with the customer care agent. Sure they might be powerless in this case but trust me when I tell you the feedback they'd give their superiors would be massive. No one toys with a potential lawsuit...

I might explore this. Thanks.

nifemi25:
to be sincere with you the only way you can get your money back is to contact NCC. Send them an email in details the way you just did here on Nairaland. Its either you contact NCC or drag airtel on twitter....i can assured you that your money will be refunded before 24 hours if you can follow this process.

The NCC site seems to be down. I have been trying for days to access it. I couldn't even find the NCC on Twitter.

EzzyCarter:
If you truly can't forgo the money bro , call Airtel's customer care. Talk to whoever picks with a calm but strong voice. Tell them you've get NCC involved and they'd hear from NCC soon. Tell them you're a lawyer and you're willing to sue their asses . Watch how quickly they'd rectify the ish...
You're welcome ...

Those CCRs are contracted, outsourced staff with limited knowledge. They can only respond or assist if it falls within their jurisdiction. Other than access to their work tools, they still all answer to the Customer Service Head who has done a poor job in my case. At best, they'll log your request, even ask for your LG to complete their log and tell you to exercise some patience while they push your request to a higher desk or the department that will better handle your case. Those poor guys take the hit for nothing. You might yell at them and feel this temporal satisfaction over your money but it won't solve a thing.

The NCC website is inaccessible.

DanseMacabre:
Bros I don't know about you ooo, but if na me I fit spend 10k sef just to get that 5k back.


If you've not yet 'forgiven' them like the average Nigerian would do, I suggest you try escalating the issue to the NCC.

If not your money don follow water ooo.

I have been trying to use the consumer complaint form on the NCC website but the link seems dead at my end.

dandydrey:
I hope u didn't involve in that Airtel App cheat?

15GB of data monthly for 5k is a cheat? I am lost here.

Lalasticlala
Dominique

A little help, please.

This is going to be long and detailed but all for a purpose...

I normally have a way of buying data on my Airtel line; transfer the airtime equivalence from my bank account to my phone and dial the *141# to choose my package. Why I do this is because the new Airtel data pricing is not updated on the GTBank app.

On the 10th of April, I downloaded 'My Airtel' app to purchase data from it. Of course, that meant I no longer have to transfer the equivalence of the Airtime from my account but just pay with my ATM card and that's it. I mean, what could possibly go wrong, right? Big mistake!

Data Purchase and Airtel Customer Care Representative

So I bought the Airtel Mega bundle of N5,000, and immediately received receipts from both Flutterwave and Airtel, with Airtel sending an extra email that contained the status of my data purchase (pictures attached). All was good save there was no message notification after a new purchase is made. After waiting for about 30 minutes and nothing happened, I called Airtel's customer care number and explained the situation of things to the agent I spoke to. He claimed all he could see on his system based on the investigation he did on my account is that I bought an Airtime of N50! . However, he promised to investigate before COB and get in touch but he never did.

On the second day, I called again and luckily, the same agent attended to me and he apologized for not getting back as promised. He asked for several hours to fix things, which was okay by me. At past 11 AM the same day, he called true to his words and said the recovery team investigated my line and found out the transaction failed. How could the transaction fail when I Flutterwave and Airtel sent receipts testifying the transaction went through. Before dropping, the agent advised I talk to my bank that they will know where my money went. *Big sigh*.

Contacting GTBank...

I chatted with GTBank on WhatsApp and they ran a check and the representative I chatted with said she saw multiple transactions took place the same day and all were card transactions. However, she asked that I wait for a while for the transactions to be cleared as they were sitting in my book balance and that would enable them to know the status of the money. Before the conversation ended, she hinted that I will get a refund in three days time IF Airtel does not claim the money but otherwise if Airtel does. Immediately, I proceeded and bought the same data plan with MTN because I suspected the back and forth would take days.

Contacting Flutterwave

Day 3, I contacted Flutterwave support on Twitter and had a long chat. However, Flutterwave claimed the transaction was successful after checking the transaction ID I forwarded. FLWsupport then asked that I exercise some patience and that they would get in touch. Three days after, I messaged again and they said Airtel was yet to respond to them and that they'll contact me. I didn't bug them again until after a week. Turned out the support handle forgot to give me a feedback as promised.

Anyways, the handle confirmed Airtel received money, and even confirmed they'll make a refund but never did. I was asked to send a mail while they copy Airtel's customer service head or whoever. I sent the mail after some minutes and they indeed looped Airtel Customer Service Head in the mail.

Verdict

Today makes it 21 days since the 'failed' data purchase, roughly 7 days Airtel promised Flutterwave to refund for the failed transaction; 24 hours since Airtel was looped in the mail I sent to Flutterwave and my second data bundle subscription with MTN. Yet, Airtel has never responded nor did as they promised. I am not saying people shouldn't subscribe but my best guess right now is that Airtel is yet to perfect the functionalities of their app and it seems like a dead end. It is best to stay away from the app when it involves transactions.

haywire07:
This is an example of "just give us something, anything"

This is what our unpreparedness as a nation has led us to.

Just negodu the original picture of the masks. It will never pass any medical standard!

It obviously wasn't tried or tested but the truth is, we must manage a lizard in the absence of a crocodile.

My only concern is why the Kerosene governor's face is on the cartons when they are not being distributed for free.

Modified

On a closer look, that's not him.

bedfordng:
those using moz and href dont have 2 heads. it makes it easier. that is why automation is being bought by even banks else lots of stuffs manually done would slow the job. using those tools is recommended to make the job easier.
Erhm... By 'automation' you mean MOZ or AHREFS disavow the links

why should I waste my time trying to check all link manually when there is a tool to get the job done within minutes.

your logic of using google search console to find those links and visit one after the other is optional for those who want to use the manual process and its also cool. moreover, its not all short domain names and those unconventional domains that are spamming. some are still okay to leave.

but as for me, I see no reason for using it when I can make use of moz provided I have access to it. I can only sort to use google search console for this process if I don't have access to moz.

if not for automations, lots of stuffs would be very slow to get done. so moz still beats this manual process you've just mentioned. also, moreover, google search console is still an seo tool which I thought you said one doesn't need a tool for finding back links.

So the question has moved from 'how to recognize bad/spammy links to manual or auto process now? Can we just maintain a topic and see it through?

So many flawed arguments in your pos that I honestly don't know whether to quote them one after the other and address them or just believe that your main aim is selling, which I clearly understand.

That said, I download my backlink profiles, create my disavow file and conduct my audit and then submit the disavow file within 10/15minutes. I guess 15 minutes is forever? Lol.

I'm done here.