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If you're online, especially in the last couple of weeks, on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, you would have probably witnessed the entire Linda Ikeji website shutdown brouhaha.

Being such a famous web log, when a site like Linda's goes down, folks go into accusation mode, rumor mode, panic mode, and all manner of thoughts and words will fill the blogosphere simply to make sense of it all.
Over a very short 24 - 72 hour interval, even those who had never heard of her site's success or Linda Ikeji were compelled to pay attention to Google's shutdown of a well-known blog's drama.

You see, the outcome of a brouhaha like that's typically just one important thing: instant fame locally and throughout the planet via social media and the general web, constant site visits to the affected domain to the tens of thousands (and quite maybe millions), and also the eventual short and long term branding of a name some may have either forgotten, never heard of before, or weren't entirely focused on for months or years.

Using a scandal like this, that was suddenly "cleared up" within only hours by an unexpected confession from the very person who promises to have began the attacks that led to this media circus, you gain at no cost, the sort of advertisements some firms have to invest tens of thousands of DOLLARS on throughout a full year to get even close to the kind of instant fame that was created here within mere hours.

And for me and prompted an immediate investigation into whether or not this might have become the publicity stunt of 2014 played out fairly successfully before our very eyes.

Now before I continue, allow me to make it clear that I respect anyone, especially in this case a person like Linda Ikeji, who places their name out there in front of countless individuals as web entrepreneurs that are valid.

Why? Well being one of Nigeria's first ever globally accepted Internet entrepreneurs myself, having gotten involved in successfully creating and selling my own ebooks about online marketing since as far back as 1999, I know what it means to have your claims doubted along with your story scrutinized by millions of those who don't know you personally.

So, I have to make it crystal clear that this is in no way a personal assault targeted at her friends or Linda Ikeji.

I used to be in truth among those hundreds or thousands who freely sent Linda tweets showing support during Lindaikejisblog a difficult time. Which is why I greatly curious was alarmed, concerned, and quite frankly disappointed from the saga the Ikeji-Aye Dee incident created.

To have my trust and interest toyed with like that IS NOT something Linda should take. Actually, Which believe strongly that an open letter of apology still needs to be written to all devotees and well-wishers who were deceived into buying this scandal in any way.

I feel as though we were played and all this noise was made to drive countless visitors to pay attention to the Linda Ikeji website.

So, What Happened Here? Were Nigerians scammed into considering a fabricated falling out simply to get site visits & Linda's ratings up? I realize that is a bold accusation and I don't make it lightly.
I therefore humbly invite Linda and Aye Dee to answer if they so desire because I have some rather startling, though speculative, advice to share that requires their advice for things to be clarified.
Inconclusive Evidence #1:

After some research, I discovered that the Linda Ikeji website were losing site visits loosely estimated into the hundreds of thousands monthly over the past 13 months to the tune of. The screen shot on the hyperlink below is from a little known Internet-based investigative site which estimates (from the external) the variety of non-unique visits. See the screenshot here.

Linda's site visits seem to have been on a steady decline for more than a year as you can view from the image shown above.

If that approximation is accurate to any degree, then it stands to reason that if her website's popularity was on a steady decline, it could just be wise to take action urgently to ensure those valuable site visits are instantly restored or even dramatically grown, to block off any loss or potential loss of income as a consequence of less and less traffic seeing Linda's blog.

Now as I said, it is a tax write-off that is speculative as I'm not an inside source and haven't performed inside forensic evaluation on her website traffic or income from her site.

So, did Linda and/or her friend Aye Dee then plan a fictitious motive to recover the attention that is lost to Linda's blog and see this continuous declining trend and even catapult it to greater acclaim than it had in the past? You will need to concur this is a chance especially in light of the "confession" by Aye Dee as well as a clarification of whether the trust of faithful readers has in any way been tampered with in an attempt to save a slowly expiring site.
The domain name change in the free URL lindaikeji.blogspot.com as all of us concur (Linda included) is a thing that should have taken place much sooner than it eventually did. However according to Linda's own statements, she never troubled to make the change since most of her obvious picks had recently been taken up by cybersquatters. Well, it seems that among the cybersquatters was buddy Aye Dee and her mentor. So afterward I am forced to inquire the following somewhat obvious question...

Why on earth would a mentor and buddy purchase a related domain name years before their alleged rift and not pass his buddy and mentee that for her needs that are required?

Now, three years or so later, that same domain name is what her mentor offers within a peace offering to "help Linda get her friends' blog back on top".

Something is definitely out of whack here.

My theory: Either Linda or Aye Dee or both determined it'd be best to effect the domain name change simply following a scandal like what we just experienced would push the entire world to pay attention to Linda's site during the time of the change.

Wait for the latter?

Well, recall that Linda's blog was monthly haemorrhaging tremendous amounts of traffic and/or visits. It could thus be foolhardy and thoroughly dangerous to effect a domain name change which could simply and quite likely result in greater loss of traffic.
Lots of people simply won't bother.

So, rather than risk further heavy losses in traffic, it might seem sensible to for example to generate a situation in which all eyes would be about the old site's domain being shut down, and then Linda would of course have to get a brand new name and relocate so that you can take along all her old and new readers.

The incidents of weeks and the past couple of days seem too much like a set up to invoke interest in a dying blog without risking any loss and make a long needed change to its brand and therefore income.

Which therefore encourage Linda and buddies to clear up any misconceptions their actions over these past days could have created.

Was this scandal real or falsified?
If it had been faked then that's a breach of trust and really should never happen again as if that kind of treachery is permitted to go on unchecked many more will soon follow maybe by the issue of the article and thousands more bloggers and website proprietors who easily do anything illegal or unethical merely to get focus and create a fast buck or two.

If none of the activities taken were as a result of a conspiracy to defraud people into believing a bogus rocus , then please take some time to prove what occurred was not pre-planned.

How? Demonstrate screen shots of the traffic of a blooming site, show proof of messages that Aye Dee asserts to have sent a year or so past establishing this wasn't a recent development that has been intended to garner undeserved attention. Share every other evidence that may be showcased for the public's own scrutiny.

All this is important to ensure others' activities at getting justice from websites like Google, attracting deserved attention and gaining popularity through ethical means are not lumped into an adverse carton alongside falsified plagiarism claims as may be the case here, and potentially faked scandals.
For the belief in the ethics of Internet entrepreneurs especially's guarantee, this dilemma should never be swept under the carpet.