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I was working on keyword research for an SEO project and look what I found.

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After going back and forth with Twitter support, they basically told me too bad your account is suspended and that’s it! I started using Twitter in 2008 and it’s been great. I used my Twitter account more for news because honestly I don’t want to read about someone having a cup of coffee – EVER. So my account was purposely designed for industry news.

I was told I lost my account because of too many links and links are all I want in my feed, so it took me by surprise that my account was suspended. This is my second offense and I thought I was safe because the support representative said feeds were OK the first time around.

It’s really sad I lost my 4.5K followers (3 years of hard work) and Twitter took my account away in minutes.
I still have hope my Twitter account will come back to me with a little Twitter dust sprinkled in the air. If you blog write about my need, if you tweet, well get those fingers moving. I need help and I need it now! However you decide to help, please add in your post “@Twitter bring @AnneHaynes back!” this will help get things moving. I’m hoping with the holidays will be on my side in appealing to the Twitter council.

You can tweet this blog post by clicking on the Twitter icon below this post.

Thank you for your time, help and any ideas on ways to get my account back.

Be careful with your Twitter RSS feeds. Yes, second time in 1 year my 2009 4.4K Twitter account is suspend! Isn’t there some sort of filter which places early adopters’ accounts in the safe zone?? More to come as the experience continues.

Check out this post from earlier this year:

Fix Your Twitter Suspended Account

Daren Froeschle from Warehouse 1 was kind enough to give me an awesome recommendation on Linkedin this month. I was an early adopter to Linkedin, so it took me a long time to acquire my connections and specifically my recommendations. When I first created my account on Linkedin, I rushed to connect with colleagues I’ve worked with within my career, but my goal was to have at least one person from each place I had worked, give me a recommendation. A good portion of my career was in the dot.com era, validation of a company’s existence was a big deal for me. As I built my legitimate recommendations I noticed along the way people joining Linkedin and receiving 500+ connections almost overnight with very little attention to recommendations. Let’s face it, it’s easy to use a rolodex, but how easy is it to receive a recommendation? In my experience I haven’t had a hard time with recommendations because I’m passionate about any position I hold; if I’m a food server, I will be the best food server, if I’m a custom framer I will be the best framer, if I’m an internet marketer I will best internet marketer.

As I continue my journey with Linkedin, I pay more attention to the connections to recommendations ratio. It’s not about having 500+ connections; it’s about making a difference and doing your very best!

Following is the recommendation from Daren Froeschle:
Principal Consultant
Integrated Web Technologies Group
“Anne knows her search engine marketing. Her years of experience in SEO and paid search marketing and her commitment to continuous learning in an ever-changing industry are evident throughout her work with my team. It’s refreshing that Anne’s primary focus is on improving our ROI; page rankings and site traffic are means to that end, not ends in themselves. If you want to improve your website and internet marketing ROI, hire Anne.” August 15, 2011
Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, Good Value
Daren Froeschle,
hired Anne as a Business Consultant in 2010

Learn more about Warehouse 1 and how this company saves you money, preserves the environment through refurbishing pallet racks (special) and materials handling equipment.

I’m missing Google+, I’ve been busy with life. I logged into Google+ tonight to see a post by The Tom Anderson from MySpace. Here is deal, while the technologist drive technology, the people drive the market share. I’ve logged into MySpace once in 2011 and yet when you Google my name, MySpace is in position #2 in the search results. Tom is making his place with regards to rankings and in my opinion he’s doing an outstanding job! Thanks Tom!!!

I’m a music lady and I love tunes, so it looks like I need to spend a little more time in MySpace! Now to fix my profile…sorry for the broken image.

I pushed my way into my first hangout using Google+ with Chris Voss, Benjamin Hale and Matt Meeker. It was cool at first, but then I kept receiving server timed out errors.

It will be interesting to investigate the hangout feature more, but for now it looks awesome only in this video:

Let’s hope the hangout feature will continue to allow for people to share and collaborate. Otherwise, this hangout feature could isolate people and keep Facebook as the preferred platform.
Read about Revision3 & CU-SeeMe other video sharing platforms.

Sponsored Tweets, do you do them? Are Sponsored Tweets OK? In my opinion, sponsored tweets are good if you take time to review the advertisers landing page before you submit your authorization to tweet.

IZEA announced the completion of their initial public offering today (IPO) and I say, get on it! I’m saying this because I’ve danced in affiliate marketing for years and finally I’m actually making some money. I’ve been using IZEA Sponsored Tweets for a couple of months and I’m slowly growing advertisers to pay for my tweets. Following is my account statement:

As a publisher on Sponsored Tweets you have discretion to say yes or no to advertisers and this makes the sponsored tweet more acceptable in my opinion.

But know there are advertisers with landing pages using Lorem ipsum (could be a test not sure yet)

I’m making money tweeting and it feels good because I decide which advertiser to share with my followers. If I keep my average up, I will have $750 by the holidays

I remember when Groups first came out with Facebook and this was “The Feature”. I’ve been on G+ for a week now and I like the Hangout concept; similar to a group, but better, it’s REAL TIME!! It reminds me of 1995 when I would hangout on a CU-SeeMe reflector (server IP Address) named “The Biker Bar”. All my friends would be there and we would broadcasting black and white video using a 14.4 modems. It’s crazy the technology has always been available, but the infrastructure has lacked. I think I see a light and history will repeat itself, but this time with speed.