Sweet!  Pat Flynn demystifies the timeline for Facebook pages.  Landing pages are no more for Facebook pages, but true to his tradition of teaching through awesome tutorial videos, Pat walks us through the new features on timeline to help our businesses succeed.

Highlights

Cover Image

851 pixels wide x 315 pixels tall

Cover image rules:

• No price or purchase info to be included in your cover art
• No contact info. - No web address - No email address - No phone numbers – etc.
• No references to other Facebook features such as Like or Share.
• No calls to action

Thumbnail / Profile Image

125 pixels x 125 pixels square

App Thumbnails

Photos

The Photos app image always displayed first.

The last photo uploaded will display.

Other Apps

Likes, Twitter, YouTube, and other app thumbnails can be moved to your preferred order

You can edit the App Name (Custom Tab Name) and the App Thumbnail (Custom Tab Image).

The app image is 111 pixels wide by 74 pixels tall.

Continuous Flow Images

Visit http://www.SmartPassiveIncome.com/timeline for Pat’s free template for slicing an image for a continuous flow across the cover art, profile image, and app images.

Pinning a Post

Pat shows us how to “pin” a post so it remains static…remains at the top of the timeline even if you add status updates.

Highlighting a Post

Highlighting a post will make it span across the timeline – double wide.

NOTE:  At this time, you cannot highlight and pin the same post.

Milestones

Specifically useful for the timeline, you can add milestones.  Milestones are similar to other posts, but you can “back date” them to the correct spot on the timeline.  You also add a description to a milestone.

You can share the milestone in your Facebook feed or hide the addition so your fans aren’t updated on all the milestones you’re adding as you fill out your timeline.

Check out Smart Passive Income’s January 2012 earning’s report. Pat Flynn is one of the few online entrepreneurs to give detailed reports of how much money he earns each month online. He also lists his costs and some great suggestions about earning passive income.

The latest guest post on Kikolani.com, 5 Essential Qualities of Growing Your Blog Quickly in a Crowded Niche by Marcus Sheridan cites effective tactics, including a couple of very successful niche gurus, Derek Halpern of Social Triggers and Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income.

Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income has done it again by creating an awesome free online tool. Check out Pat’s how to create a US Clickable Map for Free.

It’s a pretty safe bet that bloggers and niche site gurus don’t really like to hold back, but in protest to SOPA/PIPA, many participated in the January 18th Blackout.  As a result, January 19th saw some REALLY full inboxes!

Here are just a few of the niche related posts that started coming in as early as 12:34 am CST.  (…and you can BELIEVE there was a lot more chaff posted than wheat today.

• How to Succeed (The Secret That You’re Probably Ignoring) by James Clear
• How Much Content Should You Be Using on Your Niche Sites? by Spencer Haws
• Using Google+ Hangouts to Get More Exposure for Your Google+ Business Page by Kevin Lau on Kikolani.com
• 7 Insights Every Blogger Should Know by Mitch Wilson on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com
• A Paid Traffic Strategy That Works by Rick Mulready on Smart Passive Income
• Why Every Marketer Now Needs a Google+ Strategy by Rand Fishkin on SEOmoz’s blog.  This was actually posted before the Blackout, but links to it were prolific today.

Most bloggers shudder at the idea of paying for traffic. They’ve just had bad experiences with paid traffic. Pat Flynn, however, hosted guest blogger Rick Mulready of I Rock Paid Traffic who makes a compelling argument for using a paid advertising campaign.

To get the latest information that may make you change your mind about paying for traffic, check out the Smart Passive Income blog article Beyond Free Traffic — A Paid Advertising Strategy That Works.

Whoo-hoo! Pat Flynn just posted SPI Podcast number 31 (length 31:24).  Not only are Pat’s podcasts generally fun, informative, and useful, but also… Pat’s been hinting around for a while now about this Hollywood story.  The pre-release teasing worked.  We are SO ready to hear this tale. 

Check out the latest podcast over on the SmartPassiveIncome blog under the post, SPI 031 : Seeds of Opportunity & Pat Goes Hollywood or subscribe through iTunes.

Actually, seeing all 35 of these folks in a bar at one time would be amazing.  Caleb Wojcik posted his 35 Cubicle Renegades to Watch in 2012 on Pocket Changed.  …an eclectic list of fascinating faces online, the renegades include multiple authors, artists, athletes, and entrepreneurs.  …several NicheSiteNews gurus on that list, too. 

Titles, text, and filenames, Oh my!  Pat Flynn’s latest YouTube video offers 5 Mini SEO Tips.  We won’t spoil the content for you, but it’s very much worth watching (17:16).

A blog post on Smart Passive Income will surely follow, but for now, you can access the video directly on YouTube…which you can, in turn, use to link back to the blog.

The tips range from the very quickly implemented tips (the kind that make you want to slap your forehead for not doing them all along) to some more-involved tips (involving a little extra content creation).

They’re all tried and true methods to give you just a little extra SEO juice over your competition.