At the start of each new month I try to break down my monthly income results for the previous month – including all affiliate results and Adsense income, as well as any other news from the previous month or highlights of upcoming events and opportunities. Each month these continue to be my most popular posts. You can view all of my past income reports here. Well I made it through another year of earning online passive affiliate income AND my blog is just over one year old (my first post was on Jan 13th of 2011)! Although the year started out slow, it really picked up over the summer, but things kind of fizzled out around the middle of October. Since then, it has been a downward spiral...

Just a small update on the PA Affiliate Tax issues… Thankfully I have not yet been hit too hard by this issue. If you are not familiar with what is going on in Pennsylvania, and many other states around the country, read my previous post: Pennsylvania Affiliate Marketers Just Got Screwed To clarify a bit from my previous post, this is not a new law, rather a new interpretation on an existing law. The state sent a bulletin telling all merchants that they have until the start of Feb 2012 to register to collect sales tax on all sales made by PA affiliates – which in turn has caused many merchants to terminate their association with PA affiliates. This has devastated many small...

This is part 4 of my “Niche Site Duel” series (View Part 3).  Since I am not dueling with someone else, you can think of this as my own personal niche site case study.  I’m basically attempting to follow Pat Flynn’s niche site formula to see if I can reach #1 on Google for my chosen keywords. While the majority of my niche sites are made up of 3-5 pages of content, this site is turning into an authority niche site, as I probably have close to 75 pages of content. In this part I’m going to update the status of the site and talk about how I’ve gone about finding and creating content. I’ll start off by stating that I have achieved my original first...

I haven’t written one of these in awhile, partly because I hadn’t really had much time to read other blogs for most of the summer. But this is always good filler when I don’t have anything to write about and it’s always nice to share some good blogs with other readers. Lately I’ve come across a few new blogs which have helped motivate me to start working harder once again. Plus these are all well written and interesting in one way or another. So with that said, here some of the blogs that I’ve been following of late. Adsense Flippers These are the guys you want to follow if you really want to focus on Adsense and learn how to grow an Adsense empire. ...

“Tweet to download” or “Like to reveal” are both common marketing techniques used on blogs and websites these days. The basic idea is that the user is asked to share a message with their twitter followers or facebook fans, and they are then rewarded when some sort of download link or other hidden content is revealed to them. The concept isn’t new, but the process of making it work can be somewhat complicated if you aren’t a coder. There are several tutorials out there that explain how to do it, but to my knowledge I’ve never seen a WordPress plugin that makes it so simple. I’ve been given the opportunity to check out a review copy of the new...