OK, It’s freaking May already… WOW!

I’ve been putting extra hours into quite a few of my sites, and still building more, as well as working on marketing a new video date service (to be announced soon!), dealing with personal health issues (not any more of this later) and my own website design business too.

Not that DatingB2B.com is unimportant to me… it’s home for me. Completely of my own information, sweat and tears… not that there’s been many tears, unless a server goes down or some blackout that keeps me offline for a while.

But to catch you up, let’s say that I’ve been putting in extra time to have a more relaxed summer. Or at least be able to put in more time on other things, not web-related.

That being said, I have been moving many of my sites to the WordPress system, which requires not only the install and design of the templates, but also the import, often manually, of the information on the site as it existed.

It’s very time consuming. Overall it takes me about 3 to 5 days to convert an existing site to WordPress… and that’s just one site.

New things you want to know about:

1. The Amazon Kindle Store, ebooks for the Kindle Reader, now has an affiliate program that pays you CASH for people subscribing and paying to read your blog. Weird. I don’t know of too many blogs that I’d pay $3.00 a month to read, but there are a couple that have invaluable information for me that I would certainly wouldn’t think twice about kicking a couple of dollars to the writers.

I have used the paypal option on a few sites to send a couple of dollars to the owners/writers. Heck, if it’s worthwhile, I’d just as soon buy it online as read it in a magazine that I’d pay a copuple of dollars for anyways.

2. Quantcast has made it easier to integrate their traffic counter into your site’s pages and show the world your traffic numbers and some more detailed information about your site.

Good for attracting advertising dollars and setting up another counter to show the value of your website’s traffic. You should think about setting up an account. I think that, in the long run, you may appreciate the public comparison numbers more than the abstract Google Analytics stats. Take a few minutes and consider Quantcast.com for finding out more about your site’s traffic.

3. The “White Label” option for dating services has continued to gain in webmaster popularity BUT the key is still “Content is King”.  If you don’t have a unique theme, or a design and related artciles that will continually attract ne wvisitors and keep the old ones coming back, you WILL NOT make any money with online dating services.

That being said is that I still find Bone Fish to be the easiest white label to work with. If you haven’t set a site up with Bone Fish, it’s time you did. Take a look here and consider them for your next dating service project.

4. There was  awhile lot more that i wanted to share with you, but it’s going to have to wait for another day…. but the wait will be worth it, I hope!

One of your most important steps getting your website up and running is deciding where to split your time.

After all, you need so much time for design, emails, traffic link exchanges, SEO, and so much more.

But, you also need to join networking groups. This way you’ll make connections and possible trade important techniques that will help you add to your revenue stream.

Here are the main sites (as of April 2009) that you should be a member of:

Facebook - the social networking giant. A good idea is to set up a Facebook blog for your company/website.

Twitter - The occasional “tweet” about what you’re doing on your website is a great idea.

Flickr - If you have pictures and video to share about what you do, you should have a page here.

YouTube - The king of video, you should have an account in your company/website name and talk a little about what you do. Add favorite videos to your account you’d like others to see and post video to your site that seems appropriate. Remember to stay within your subject.

Technorati - Bolg, search, multimedia contact and networking site. Get your profile started now, link your blogs and watch your traffic increase as you add to this networking/blog site.

MySpace - A great venue for more multimedia promotion.

Plaxo - another great networking site that also offers syncronization between your outlook contacts on different computers and phones.

LinkedIn - Networking has never been easier. Meet new contacts from your contacts and find new ways to promote yourself and your company/website.

I know I’ve missed some great networking sites so if you know of any, just comment them in, Thanks!