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So last night before heading out to the Minnesota Wild playoff game versus the always tough Colorado Avalanche I found out that my Stumble Upon account had been frozen and “under review”. Surely enough, I logged in to my account this morning and found a nice little email in my inbox.

The email read as follows:

Regrettably, your account privileges have been suspended due to a breach of our TOS. I respectfully draw your attention to our Terms, particularly with respect to the clauses which forbid the use of personal accounts for the promotion of a business, product or service, and also with regard to the sending of ’spam’ messages to other members.

Our terms can be found here: http://www.stumbleupon.com/terms.html

Under the circumstances, the restriction is unlikely to be lifted.

Regards

Barry Conway (SU Community Support Manager)

Here is my public reply to StumbleUpon:

Dear SU,
You fucking suck. You’re going to ban me over one QUALITY business link from nearly four months ago when competitors pull the same exact shit on a daily basis? Never mind the hundreds of interesting links that I have discovered for you, or the thousands of thumbs up (and down) that I have given – and certainly never mind my community participation with seventy friends and a PR4 profile page. Sounds like a GREAT idea.

I think it’s fair to say that at least half of your stumble volume consists of proxy sites, myspace layout sites, worthless blogs, and scrapers. Come to think of it, that sounds like a neighborhood that I don’t want to be a part of anyway.

P.S. Stumble my nuts, bitch.

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Hey Everyone

I apologize about my recent lack of blog posting. I’ve been really busy with a couple of clients after making the switch from SEM/SEO/Web Design to straight SEM/SEO Consulting. I’m now officially a “Search Engine Strategist” of sorts you could say.

What’s New?

- A brand new logo for my Consulting Business.
- I’ve joined SEMPO.

Also, congrats to my client, Island Supplements for hitting #1 in Google for the holy grail of Bodybuilding search phrases:

I will find time to write soon guys, I promise :).

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