Do you post to your blog or update your website on certain days or at certain times of the day? – or do you haphazardly post to your blog (kind of like I do)? What are the best times of the day or best times of the week to post content in order to maximize the number of shares? And what tools are people using the most to share your posts, tweets, and other social messages? These are burning questions that everyone in internet marketing seems to want to know, and answers may vary depending on who you ask. AddThis is a site that is celebrating its 5th year anniversary on the web. I’ve actually added their share module to many of my websites over the years. In fact, I added it...

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. Another month in the books for 2011!  I’ve been doing a lot of web work on the side for other people, so I haven’t had much time to work on my own sites… but that is the joy of passive income websites.  Although I did not get to put in as much work as I would have liked, I continued to make money.  Here are my...

The end of summer means that Christmas is right around the corner.  This is a guest post about getting your affiliate sites ready for the Christmas season. As most people are wringing the last dregs of sun out of the summer those of us who make a living out of online marketing are throwing ourselves into the Christmas optimization season. In fact from a realistic point of view if you’ve left your Christmas optimization to the end of September you may well have left it too late but here are some top tips if you’re just getting started. Plan Ahead Like the Christmas lights a lot of sites put their Christmas pages up for a short while before taking them down again but ideally you want...

One thing that I’ve struggled with since starting this blog and purchasing Aweber is building a sizable list and selling to that list.  For example, with this site I probably have about 25 subscribers to my list.  With my top niche website, I have about 55 members on my list.  In the internet marketing world, those numbers are small and probably not worth much of anything. With that being said, I’m not sure I even know what I would send to my lists and how I would even use those lists to make money, assuming I had a large number of subscribers.  (Don’t worry, I don’t plan on trying to monetize the list for this website – I’m speaking only about my...

Conferences are a great way for internet marketers to meet, interact with each other, and learn new things.  Today we have a guest post that discusses how to successfully network while at a conference. Conferences are usually organized to enable people in the same business or industry meet and exchange ideas. Thus it is great opportunity to establish colleague linkages, or initiate and work out partnership, supply or other kind of deals that both parties can profit from. At the very least, conferences are venues where you meet potential friends. To meet people and probably begin friendships out of which business deals may develop later, here are a few tips. Get a brochure, flyer or any...