Displaying other people’s RSS feeds on your website (a.k.a. “syndicating”) is an easy way to get an automated stream of fresh content for your site. But is it ethical? There are actually two ethical questions involved:
1) Are you “injuring” the publisher of the content?
2) Are you “injuring” third parties?
(Required disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer, so [...]

Mark Worthen made a post on his blog titled “My Best Marketing Strategies“. Since his and mine aren’t quite the same, I thought I’d post my own list.
* Make a free version of your product and giving it away to drive people to your commercial version.
* Use an autoresponder like AWeber– for my first few [...]

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 [...]

I’ve just released CaRP/WP, a free WordPress plugin that makes it easy to add auto-updating content to your WordPress posts, including keyword-based Amazon.com best sellers affiliate links. Update: It can display YouTube video feeds too. See examples of both below.
The plugin uses CaRP, my RSS to HTML converter script (free and commercial versions available), to [...]

If you’ve tried subscribing to RSS feeds in a web browser and wondered why people think they’re such a big deal, keep reading, because they are a big deal, and I’m going to show you exactly, step-by-step how to find that out for yourself.
How can I put this kindly: the feed readers built into today’s [...]

You know that list of “update services” you configured your blog software to ping whenever you create a new post? If you copied it from the WordPress website (or any of a number of other sites on the web that have the same list) recently, you’ve got the wrong list.
When I say you’ve got the [...]

There’s been a lot of screaming about John Reese’s new “Blog Rush” service over the last few days. I finally got around to signing up (”finally”? The service just launched this morning!) and have some initial impressions for you.
On the plus side, it’s falling-off-a-log easy to set up. You just enter your blog name, URL, [...]