Kris Tarr

This post is to help Tweeps (twitter users) with hints on how not to get banned in Twitter by providing information how I got my several accounts banned in Twitter. Just like with SEO, figuring out what works and what doesn’t it’s a trial and error process.

There are a few ways you can get penalized in Twitter. I think the lowest level one (which could hurt you a lot) is getting removed from the twitter search results. To see if you are still showing up, go to your account, remember what you wrote last and do a search in twitter search (not in the people search) using from:username, where user name is your twitter user name. Then compare your last tweet showing up there to your latest tweet under your account. If they don’t match, there is a pretty good chance of you getting penalized. If you cannot see any tweets from you, then double check your user name in the query. If it’s correct, you got banned from search a while ago. I don’t know if there is a way of getting back in there, but I have a feeling that it’s not even worth trying to spend the time complaining about it to Twitter about it. It could be waste of time. So you are probably better of setting up another email address and creating a new Twitter account from scratch. I think the next penalty is when you are not showing up in the people search anymore. Well, how bad this is depends on what you are using Twitter for. If you just want free traffic from Twitter this won’t matter much, but you already setup a new account, right? If you use it for genuine reasons, like real honest social media stuff: keeping touch with your buddies and connecting to people, then this could suck for you, so either way, you’re better off setting up a new account, or just complain to Twitter and wait to see if they would ever do anything about it. I’m not saying you don’t have a chance at getting things fixed for your account, but it may not be worth the wait. I mean, there are thousands of new users coming to Twitter every day. How could they possibly listen to all of our prayers, right? Then of course there is a getting suspended way of getting penalized. Suspended accounts are dead for good, until Twitter will have the staff to reconsider bringing them back to life which they do even now (according to their help pages) if you have a trademark issue with the name of the suspended account. More »

New to Twitter or just setting up a new account on twitter that needs to get kickstarted? Or if you already have an account on twitter but you are looking to boost the number of followers very fast, here is a list that I used today to create a new account for a client. In just 10 minutes after setting up the account and following tweeps (people on Twitter) on this list, the client’s new account got over a 100 followers!

Some of these people will follow you back right away, others use automated tools to follow back so don’t unfollow them too soon. Allow them at least 2-3 days before you do an unfollow everyone that is not following you back, then if you need more traffic, wait a few days and follow these users again from this list.

So here is the list. Enjoy! More »

A coworker sent this video to me today. I think it’s a pretty cool way of teaching SEO.

Here is some info on the video from the YouTube page it was embedded from:

Chuck from Pop Labs raps about how making the right choices in your online marketing campaigns can increase not only the traffic and the conversions you get, but how you close those conversions. More »