You may have seen the latest Twitter trick for spreading your message. Those who use it might call it “viral marketing”. I call it a Twhort (and that’s not a good thing). Here’s how it works.
A marketer offers a free download to anyone who “tweets” a particular message (ie. posts it on their Twitter account [...]

…and so must all other tools that do the same thing. I don’t know which is responsible for the sudden flood of new Twitter followers I started receiving the other day, so I’ll name the one I found most prominently mentioned in a recent blog search.
Hummingbird is a Twitter Spam Tool
I’m sure I’ll get some [...]

I use three main tools to track my websites’ traffic. Each has a different focus and provides different benefits. One tracks potential traffic sources. One gives real-time feedback on actual incoming traffic. And one shows me the long term big picture of my websites’ traffic.
The first tool is blog search — I subscribe to blog [...]

If you haven’t yet watched the video I posted about how I’m using Google Trends data to drive massive traffic to one of my websites, I recommend watching it as soon as you’ve finished reading (and posting a comment?) here. As of yesterday, the website discussed in the video has gotten 173,657 pageviews in the [...]

I’ve just posted a new case study video to YouTube showing how I’m using data from Google Trends to drive thousands of hits per day to one of my websites. Watch it below:

The day after I took the Google Analytics screenshots, the traffic spiked even higher to 6,470 page views, and as of yesterday, the [...]

I’ll be brief, because I want to get upstairs to see whether the Jazz can pull off a road win against the Lakers (I’m living in Nebraska now, but I’m a Utah boy at heart).
Video is a great way to capture and hold attention on the web, and YouTube is a great source of video [...]

In his “The Attention Age Doctrine, Part 2″, which was released today (you can get it for free), Rich Schefren states that: “The Web is emerging as the world’s biggest lie detector and truth-finder”, meaning businesses can’t fool customers anymore because customers can post their reviews, experiences and opinions online for all to see.
Not to [...]