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So, It’s the end of the road! End of a chapter!
I have decided that in order to further my career and learn new things, undertake new challenges I should switch jobs. I will be leaving the Web Design & SEO Agency life behind me for the foreseeable future, making the move “in house” becoming Head Of eCommerce for a company called Tower Health.
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Yes I know, a very strange blog title… yes I also know it wont hold much keyword weight… But as you will see, this blog post is slightly different than most SEO posts!!
A little while ago I wrote a blog post outlining a few “Twitter Tips” for building followers, outlining a few techniques which I have found to help increase the number of people following your Twitter account, my final point in the blog post was put in as a joke, basically I was suggesting that if you were to use a cleavage photo as your twitter avatar you would naturally build followers (mainly male followers).
What happened next was a surprise and quite frankly shocking!
So 2 weeks ago I got my Twitter account suspended for what I think was due to “over aggressive behaviour” or “automated tweeting”. You can read about my suspension here. Basically as an SEO Consultant I like to test new methods and new ideas, I was testing a few Twitter plugins and I think I may have got burnt.
I have been using Google chrome since 2010 and over the years it has been by far the fastest and most reliable browser by far… Until this morning when for whatever reason it had become corrupted! Arrrrgh! I had to reinstall it, however to my horror all of my chrome extensions had also been removed.
I have been pulling my hair out trying to remember the names of the extensions I use (they usually just appear as an icon) at the top of the browser. So as an effort to save time if this ever happens again I have decided to write this blog post about them, this way I will be able to find them again fairly quickly, it may even prove useful to you guys reading this!
This weeks web spam of the week comes from Jack Birchall. Jack is currently an A level student at Princethorpe college…. meh, read on if you are interested.
I have been using Twitter for over 2 years and last weekend my Twitter account got suspended without warning! I have a sneaky suspicion that my activity on Twitter was the root cause of the suspension. I have been testing a few Twitter plugins for wordpress which automatically Tweet your old blog posts to your twitter feed. I think this contributed to me getting banned. How Did I Get My Twitter Account Suspended?
Whether you are new to the industry or a seasoned professional I think the following blog post will help you further your career should you wish to find a new job in the Web Design industry.
I have been recruiting Web Designers, SEO consultants and PPC specialists for my agency for the last 6 years, having interviewed over 60 people.
Here are some helpful tips I have picked up along the way.