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Femiwilli:
Bros but its not recorded anywhere that allah healed.
Should he not go to Jesus that is alive & heals.

If allah cannot take mohammed to heaven, so much so that mohammed said he does not know what will happen to him.
What hope does a follower have, if the founder is lost?

Sura 46:9
"I am not something original among the messengers, NOR DO I KNOW WHAT WILL BE DONE WITH ME OR WITH YOU"

Jesus on the other hand promises salvation to all who believe in Him.

John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

18 HE THAT BELIEVETH ON HIM IS NOT CONDEMNED: BUT HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT IS CONDEMNED ALREADY, BECAUSE HE HATH NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD.

WE ALL KNOW THAT JESUS IS ALIVE, SO CAN HELP

we also know that mohammed is dead & buried

Only the living can help, so let him go to Jesus.



Jesus is man not God, and the dates used to recorded the death of mohammed is based on the life of Jesus Christ.

2016 AD means 2016 yrs After Death of Jesus.

The historical dates 1000 BC means 1000 yrs before the Birth of Christ.

So 2016 AD confirms Jesus died, but we all know that Jesus lives now.
Proving His resurrection.

meanwhile we all know that mohammed is dead buried

Yes, Jesus lives.... because he never died after all. And please, spare me all your shitty misinterpretations of the statements of Allah and His Prophet. You have no footing whatsoever to teach me my religion!

May peace be upon those who follow guidance.

MakeWeTalk:
he had better try Jesus that heals.


Matthew 15:
29] And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.

30] And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and HE HEALED THEM.

Why go where there is no healing, when not one single healing is recorded.


IN ISLAM THE BLIND, DEAF & DUMB ARE HATED

SURA 8:22
Lo! the worst of beasts in Allah's sight are the deaf, the dumb,

SURA 2:17-18
Allah taketh away their light and leaveth them in darkness, where they cannot see, Deaf, dumb and blind.


JESUS HEALS DESCENDANT OF FIRST KHALIFAH ABU BAKR as-SIDDIQ. DR NASIR SIDDIK IS NOW CHRISTIAN!
Dr Nasir Siddik is a descendant of Islams prophet's mohammed's best friend Abu Bakr as-Siddiq.
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq was the 1st Capliph in the moslem world and after his living descendant

Dr Siddiq had a near death experince and was healed by Jesus Christ, Dr Siddik became a
Christian after Jesus Christ healed him and allah couldn't.

https://i.imgur.com/jWzzxOD.jpg

LISTEN TO HIS STORY HIMSELF


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7t4p5tWZHE

Well, I'm a final year medical student. And over the years, I've seen countless Christian cancer patients who weren't healed despite daily prayers unto Jesus to heal them. Jesus is a man, not a god!

And this was written with Nigerians in mind? The author is a clown.

prince3009:
I agree with you but there are PHP Programs and CMS systems that can do all these which you mentioned apart from Wordpress.

A very huge advantage Blogger has over Wordpress is SEO! When your site is on the blogger platform, it is crawled faster and more accurately than Wordpress even with all their so-called SEO plugins.

Another thumbs down for Wordpress websites is their security which is so vulnerable and the tendency for database corruption which leads to malfunction if not update regularly. Blogger does all these automated.

I never said only WordPress can do those things. I only stated that WordPress can also be used for those things aside its primary purpose (blogging).

Blogger has no SEO advantage over WordPress! Yes, a Blogger blog can get crawled or indexed faster than a NEW WordPress site that hasn't garnered much authority. But older WordPress sites are indexed faster.

More importantly, there's more to SEO than just getting crawled by search engines. The main purpose of SEO is to rank high in search results. Any blog can get crawled. But only well optimized sites get the top rankings after getting crawled. Because there are WordPress plugins that allow maximal optimization of permalinks and other SEO factors that matter, WordPress blogs rank higher. If you want to prove me wrong, think of any 100 queries and Google them. Then tell me how many of them have results in which Blogger blogs rank higher than WordPress blogs. It's not coincidence!

You already added a clause to the security problem in WordPress ("if not updated regularly". Of course, if you update your blog regularly (and stay away from mediocre hosts), you'll be fine.

What about the lack of control in Blogger? Haven't you read of Blogger shutting down people's sites?

KINGwax007:
Blogger all the way.

And to say SEO optimization is not as good as WordPress is a fallacy. From the templates and many u cld download for free online, seo optimization is perfect. Without any wahala, one of my blogs always stay ontop of Google search, even though it still a blogger.com site

SEO isn't about template, bro. It's about sustainable results. Think about any 100 queries and Google them. I can bet that more than 80 of them will will ranked for (top 3, I mean) by WordPress sites. Now, there's more to that than mere coincidence. The rigid permalink structure in Blogger is an ugly downside.

frankobaba:
As for me, I prefer Blogger due to its flexibility. Take a look at my beautiful blog I created with Blogger.

[size=16pt]www.itsfranklin.com[/size]

If you describe Blogger with flexibility, then I bet you've never tried WordPress. Can you turn a Blogger blog into a business directory, price comparison site, e-commerce site, forum, classified ads site, social networking portal, online gallery, dedicated job board, review site, premium membership site, and so on?

Just so you know, a WordPress site can be converted to all those, with the power of plugins. And that's the true meaning of flexibility and versatility.

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@ OP, it's so very obvious that you're a Blogger fan. And it's understandable since your blog runs on Blogger.

Well, let me clear some possible misconceptions you created about WordPress.

First, Wordpress is secure! The only thing is that you handle the security aspect yourself. Yes, some sites get hacked, but by registering your site with a reputable, security-alert host, by installing necessary hacker-proof plugins, by updating your themes and plugins promptly, and by using a secure password, you'd be absolutely fine.

Secondly, get it clearly that one doesn't need need have a PC to to WordPress. With the WordPress official app, you can update your blog on the go.The app is available on iOS and Android app stores.

neocortex:
Point of correction, religion never came from anywhere, it was created by men to
control others.
When muslim and christians who always claim moral superiority commits crimes that
can be linked to their holy books, it is apt to blame religion for such crimes.

Well, your opinion. And you're entitled to it just as I'm entitled to mine.

Interesting15:
For clarity sake (especially to our Muslim friends)

Before you say 'See how these Christians behaves",

You need to know that this woman is not a Christian. Anyone can claim to be a Christian and wed in a church, but not have a relationship with Jesus Christ our Lord.

A good proof that she isn't yet a child of God is the tattoo on her arm.

God is love.
Jesus is Lord forever.

Now you know how it feels when Christians attack Islam and blame all Muslims for the actions of some overzealously foo.lish perverts who call themselves Muslims.

We all need to understand that religion didn't come to corrupt man. It's man who is seeking to corrupt religion.

I decided to check for Nigeria on urbandictionary.com. And here are some crazy (but probably true) definitions I found.

Nigeria
African country where my friend Malbota Nwadeyi lives. He has promised to give me 25% of the $3.6 million dollars that he is trying to move to America. However, he needs my help to transfer the money overseas.

Nigeria
A country in West Africa that is the lagest oil producing country in Africa. It is also the largest black nation in the world. The country is humid and tropical, but full of coruppt leaders that sell the countries oil to the U.S. and keeps the profits for themselves. They don't even bother to put it into the country. Just into their own pockets!

Nigeria
1) n. A nation in northwester section of the African continent. Very hot, humid, and home of oil, rebellions, and internet scammers.

2) n. The scam capital of the world. See 419.

3) n. A member of OPEC, one of the few in Africa.

Nigeria
Where your bike, mobile phone and most of the money in your bank account would most likely end up if you lived in Birmingham, Nottingham or North London.

Nigeria
to cheat or defraud with a scam.

Nigeria
Any enclosure or exclosure including buildings, towns and cities that is overly populated by people of nigerian origin.
A "nigeria" can often be discerned by its populants unconvincing american accents, american brand clothing and (in younger circles)over use of the term "eh blud".*
*(english translation:excuse me brother)

One can often discourage the formation of a "nigeria " in an area by regularly shouting "IMMIGRATION" at random intervals

Source: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Nigeria

To those saying it's upside down, can't you see that the speaker slit would have been on the spot where Nokia was written if that were to be the top? Or is there a rule that says the name must be at the top? Some Nigerians are just resistant to innovation.

Ogun state is really maximising the advantage of its proximity to Lagos. Nice one!

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xheyi:
Fellow bloggers, it has been a major threat as to coping post from a website like news on ones blog. What will b d take of this website on ones blog or website?, is there any legal action the website can take on one?

Contrary to what most people think, Google ordinarily won't do anything to your blog for copying and pasting from other websites. However, if any of the websites you copied from should report you to them, they would remove all your pages from their rankings. But they still won't pull down your blog or do anything to it. So, if you're not expecting any traffic from Google, you can fire on.

Note, even if the website you copied from doesn't report you, you'll never get traffic from Google for copied post because the original owner of the content gets indexed first. That way, Google knows you're not the owner of the content, and there's no point duplicating results by ranking yours too.

However, if the website you copied from reports you to your hosting company, the company can pull down your blog because it's domiciled with them. That's if the hosting company is in the the US or other developed countries where copyright is taken seriously. In any case, they won't do that until after warning you to delete all copied posts.

So, if you're not looking at Google for traffic, you're free to copy and paste, but you'd do well to include a link to the source. In reality however, copy-and-paste blogging makes zero sense. Look at this: If you copy a news item from Punch's website, would you still expect me to read it on your own blog after already reading it on the source website?

It's either you find a way to craft unique content or go home. Not blogging at all is better than copy-and-paste blogging that fetches zero results, except for those who can invest heavily in other traffic strategies, most of which are poorly understood by beginners.

fidorocks:
I just installed google analytics on my site but then am so confused with all the stats and reports on traffic coming to my site.
Who can explain this in a language I understand.

Thought analytics helps rank higher in the google index and for searches?

My blog is www.legalfido.com

Google Analytics does NOT help to rank higher or index better. It only helps you to monitor your blog's progress. It reveals which countries you're getting visits from, how many visits you're getting, which devices they're using to assess your site, and which operating systems are used. It also reveals how many visitors are redirected to your site from search engines, which keywords your site is ranking for, and how many visitors access the site directly, among several other details.

So, again, it's basically a not a tool for boosting traffic. It's no more than a monitoring and intelligence tool. But you can use the data you get from it to boost your rankings. For example, if you notice that your blog is ranking for a certain keywords, you can pull more traffic from those keywords by publishing more posts around them.

bioemmy:
Lolzzz..

No real sins bro.. Mistakenly clicked on some of my ads ooo.
I just purchased the AdSense self and made like $150 in a month plus on a blog that generate up to 20,000 Page view per day. I have cried and learnt my lesson. just don't want to take chances with this my second trial.

Mistakenly? You'd better tell the truth.

Google understands that there might be error clicks, so they give the benefit of the doubt for few user-generated clicks. For them to ban your account, that means many/several clicks must have come from your end. And I doubt if that would still pass as "mistakenly".

I do mistakenly click on my ads once in while, and I've not been banned since almost 2 years back, when I started with Adsense.

fighal:
I'm asking this question because my site if mainly focused on Nigerians, it was built mainly for Nigerians. So is it advisable to use a local host to host my site? And do local host provide security?

Even if your site is focused on Nigerians, that doesn't stop you from going with a foreign host. As much as I advocate for Nigerian products and services, I take web hosting services as an exception for many reasons.

First, many web hosting companies in Nigeria are experimental businesses that only purchase reseller packages from foreign companies. Once these businesses aren't getting the profits they're projected, they fold up, leaving their clients to start from scratch.

Second, most of these companies are built so heavily around one or few individuals that if anything happens to the stakeholders, the whole business suffers. Remember Syskay?

Third, most web hosting services in Nigeria suck when it comes to customer service. When you contact them about your plan to purchase hosting with them, you'll be dealing with angels. But when you run into problems after becoming their customer, they'll turn into devils! They'll ignore your calls and emails and leave you biting your fingers.

Fourth, many of them offer crappy credentials in the name of trying to offer cheap plans. Why on earth would any company offer a plan of 1GB disk space and 2.5GB bandwidth. Most of the time, beginners who really don't know what these mean are conned into buying them, only for them to start running into bandwidth issues shortly after.

Fifth, many of their staff don't have enough technical knowledge to handle even simple support issues. And that's why they don't help most of the time -- not necessarily because they don't want to help. After all, you can't help with what you don't know jack about.

Sixth, the present state of the Nigerian economy won't just allow some businesses to run smoothly. Web hosting is one of them.

I know this won't go down well with Nigerian web hosting services and their apologists, but the truth needs to be told. All I've written is based on personal and referred experience as well as several stories of woe that I've read here on NL.

If you think most Nigerian hosting companies are reliable, ask yourself why Nairaland, the newspaper websites, websites owned by tertiary institutions and reputable organizations, and the most popular blogs in the country are not domiciled with Nigerian hosting companies.

PS. Read well between the lines, and you'd see that I never generalized. I understand that there might be few exceptions. My points apply to most, not all. But it's hard to tell who would falter in the next minute.

ubiquitousade:
how do you drive traffic to these sites

now if it's by Search engine, how long will it take to see around results

I drive traffic through SEO -- by crafting long and detailed review posts that are well optimized for the target keywords. It usually takes between 3-7 months to start seeing results for a post that you will get to rank for.

Chillinmasoul:
The question is how many Nigerians still but Amazon product?

Amazon niche sites are not targeted at Nigerians. They're targeted at buyers in countries like USA, UK, Canada, etc. So, if you're looking at this model of online business, you must be ready to offer information that is catered to a foreign audience.

kingpado:
how does one withdraw his/her money to a Nigerian account from this amazon affiliate?

Your first step is to get a Payoneer card (apply at Payoneer.com and follow these steps).

Once you receive the card, activate it. You'll be sent your US virtual bank account settings (if you're not sent, apply for it).

You'll then submit the US bank account details to Amazon. So, each time you're paid to that account, the funds automatically reflect on your card, and you can withdraw the Naira equivalent at the ATM.

boi21:
God bless whoever who wrote this article. You hardly find Bloggers who will explain shii to you. Evwrything he wrote is right. That's it. Beem there

God bless you, too.

Emmafe:
I no fit laugh i swear. You use 45,000 page views to make $11. I make $11 with just 1,000 - 1,500 page views (No Black Hat). If i can get 45,000 page view, i'm 100% sure i will make $600.

I wonder how people are quick to laugh at things they obviously don't understand. If you don't have comprehension issues, you should have seen "today so far" over the part where $11.25 dollars was written in the screenshot. I uploaded the screenshot around 9am that day, and that $11.25 was my earnings from 12.00am and 9.00am that day. Just so you know, I went on to earn over $40 that day.


Did you see the figures for "last 28 days" and "current balance" in the earnings? If I was earning just $11 per day as you thought, how would that amount to over $800 per month? How would the "last 7 days" earnings amount to $259.44 with just $11 per day?

And really, if $600 is all you can get with 45k page views as you said, then that's a real sorry case. With my own 45k page views per day, I earn between $800 to $1100 per month.

ibuzzngr:
Thanks for the info Webincome, can amazon niche site work with our blog? Although we are currently using AdSense to monetize our blog and we receive between 3000 to 5000 per day, we would love to know if amazon can work for us....we our blog focus mainly on Entertainment, News and Lifestyle.

Thanks

Amazon affiliate doesn't really work with entertainment blogs, especially those targeted at Nigerians. They work best for product review sites targeted at buyers in developed countries (USA, UK, Canada, Australia, etc).

Franciscototee:
Hello, i want to know if ones account has to be approved by google adsence before using the Amazon affiliate niche

Amazon affiliate has nothing to do with Adsense. But using both on the same blog can be counterproductive.

Now, what's the essence of this thread?

I never planned to sell anything here (unlike what some people might expect).

My aim of creating the thread was to motivate wannabe bloggers to be more creative. There's more to blogging topics than entertainment and celebrity gist (even my BLOG A isn't an entertainment blog, although it's targeted at Nigerians).

More importantly, there's more to making money blogging than Google Adsense.

You can create your own Amazon affiliate niche now, and you can start earning something cool within the next 6-9 months. So far you're able to choose a niche that isn't competitive, you'd be fine.

There are many articles on the web that would teach you this. Just Google "How to Create an Amazon Niche Site", and you'll see many step-by-step detailed guides that will explain all you need to know. Similarly, you can visit Blackhatworld.com, and enter "Amazon niche site" in the search box. You'll see threads by members who have achieved success at this strategy. That's one badass forum you should read if you want to learn practical strategies for making money online.

Aside affiliate marketing, other monetization options include creating your own digital product and information marketing.

So, know that there are unlimited opportunities online. Just look beyond the only ones you've been looking at, be willing to WORK HARD and PLAY BY THE RULES. And you'd be just fine.

I'm not going to go into details of how you can create your niche site because I already directed you to places where you can get the information online.

Please don't send me PMs (I don't get them anyway). And don't send me emails regarding this.

I hope I've inspired someone.

Enjoy!

Now, here's what makes BLOG B interesting:

The 1288 visits resulted in 297 clicks, which in turn resulted in 38 orders from Amazon.com. That means the site had a clickthrough rate (CTR) of 23 percent. And that's because the visitors are highly targeted ones who really want to buy the products I reviewed on the site. So, if this same site starts attracting 12,000 monthly visits in the future, one could expect about 3000 clicks, and about 10 times its present monthly earnings (about $1,500). Remember, 12,000 monthly visits is just 400 visits per day.

With Google Adsense, you can NEVER get a CTR of 23 percent. The best you can get is between 5-6 percent (although I've not met anyone whose CTR is even up to that). For most bloggers I know, the CTR is usually within 1-2 percent. So, with my own usually CTR of 1.4-1.7 percent, BLOG A needs to attract about 14,000 visits every day and generate about 45,000 pageviews daily just to earn between $25 and $50.

So, to earn a decent income from Adsense, you need huge traffic. That's the point I'm trying to drive home here.

Let's imagine, BLOG B was also monetized with Adsense. Even at a CTR of 3%, it would have generated only about 38 clicks in the last one month. And with a cost per click of $0.20, it would have earned a meager $7.72 over the last 30 days. That's a frustrating figure, you know?

On the other hand, imagine if BLOG B were generating as much traffic as BLOG A. It would be generating around $30,000 to $40,000 per month. And yes, some badass affiliate marketers I know (not Nigerians, though) earn as much monthly. That's the earning potential of affiliate marketing.

As you can see, BLOG B attracted just 1,288 visits in the last 30 days. That's not even near what BLOG A attracts in a day. But ironically, BLOG B earns at least $100 per month, and will most likely hit $200 this month.

I'm not done yet. I'll reveal some more insights shortly.

$100 (about N35,000 at the moment) might look too small, but it means a lot to beginners. Besides there's always room for growth over time. As you can see, the site has earned $115 so far this month, which means chances are high that it will gross $200 by the end of the month.

Guess what? BLOG B attracts less than 100 visits per day. See the following screenshot, which is it's traffic report for the past 30 days.

As you can see, BLOG A attracted 410,000+ visits and generated over 1.2 million page views over the last one month.

So, making a decent income from Adsense is not easy. And it's not for those who are generating just 200 to 500 visits per day.

Now, there's an easier alternative that won't require as much work and time (you'll still work very hard, though). And that's niche affiliate marketing. I particularly recommend Amazon Niche sites for a start because you can start getting results within as little as 6 months.

Look at the screenshots below, showing one of my Amazon niche sites (let me call this BLOG B), which presently earns at least $100 monthly.