I rarely donate any time to my personal websites. I am not one who has been too zealous on self promotion. I don't promote many of the projects I have worked on or am actively working on and don't Tweet too many of my own blog posts. I'm trying to break the mold but still haven't gone full bore on the endeavor. This could change. One sign is that after the late evening's work, which consisted of strategizing a marketing effort and weighing its web presence against available search engine trends, I scrolled over the various Google Analytics accounts and landed onto the DIRT FORGE.com search engine analytics report.

Several days ago, I had an relatively heafty influx traffic. I was digging for what inspired this spike of just over 300 unique visitors for the day. Therein I found evidence of what hopes to become the next best Twitter tool of all Twitter applications.

Upon the search engine query for "DIRTFORGE SCREEN" was part of the answer. There were a lot of people looking for a recently released free desktop wallpaper fashioned from the newly designed DIRT FORGE website theme (SELF PROMOTION) and a photograph I shot of Andy McMillin and the McMillin Trophy Truck at the 2010 SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge. You can download the Trophy Truck wallpaper photo here or by scrolling down the page a bit to the attachment near the bottom of the page, which reminds me to change the JoomlaWorks K2 templates to place attachments at the top of the page, where people can actually see it. So much for user experience.

Anyhow, within the DIRT FORGE SCREEN search engine results page was a link to a Twitter post captured on an AppSpot.com project (http://7920074.appspot.com/), as in Google App Engine, an development and deployment platform for web applications. Decoding the resulting 404 error page, which was once the DIRT FORGE Twitter page on the new Twitter app (http://www.followfeeder.com/pg/blog/openid_20094?offset=115), I landed upon Follow Feeder (www.FollowFeeder.com). The slogan of Follow Feeders is "Put Your Twitter Account On Auto Pilot." Below are some details of the project slated to be released in March 2010.

FOLLOWFEEDER.COM FEATURES

• Auto Follow / Unfollow
• Shorten URLs
• Add RSS Feeds
• Schedule Tweets
• Add Followers

And in the event you're interested in how to promote your Twitter account and increase Twitter followers with relatively no web presence and no tangible product, check to see how @FollowFeeder has managed to make it happen, primarily by posting valuable Tweets to their target market.