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You can check out the updates being tweeted to these profiles yourself by visiting @SteveWestfall, @GetPaidBeSocial, @Where2Look and @TrendyJewelry. Please feel free to follow any of the profiles you like.

In addition to this blog post and the numerous tweets, I have also published a post to another one of my WordPress blogs earlier today. It was published to my comparison shopping blog and titled: Great Mothers Day Gifts For Less. In fact, it was posted while I was on the airplane somewhere over the eastern United States (got a great deal on the flight here). Check it out, you owe it to Mom.

If you’d like to learn more about how to pre-schedule posts with WordPress, you can read Blog, Tweet and Make Money on Vacation Post 2 here. If you’re interested in learning more about how to pre-schedule tweets to multiple Twitter profiles using HootSuite, check out the HootSuite FAQs here.

I hope you’re enjoying my vacation as much as I am. Stay tuned for more.

With Twitter, I can accomplish all of this in simple posts of 140 characters at a time. In fact, most of you reading this post probably followed a link from Twitter or another social network (where I post Twitter updates) to get here. Now, you might be thinking to yourself that keeping up 4 twitter profiles seems like an awful lot of work for one person. If so, you’re right! It was. When I first joined, I was logging in and out of each profile in order to post tweets or re-tweets more than I was actually tweeting! Then, I was logging in and out of different social networks to re-post those Tweets.

It was crazy! That’s when I found a bright shining beacon on the horizon. It appeared out of nowhere when I was searching for another Twitter tool. I decided to check it out, and I am so glad that I did!

It’s called HootSuite. HootSuite is the ultimate Twitter toolbox. With HootSuite, you can manage multiple Twitter profiles, pre-schedule tweets, and measure your success. HootSuite lets you manage your entire Twitter experience from one easy-to-use interface. Creating an account is easy. Enter your Twitter username and password, and add a profile for each Twitter account you wish to manage. Got more than one tweeter per profile? Add multiple editors.

Then get going! Post live or pre-schedule tweets. Check stats and analytics right from the dashboard. Search Twitter for keyword information. Reply @ and Direct Message the folks in your conversation. Do all this and more from one fantastic interface. They even offer an RSS feed updater that posted a tweet about this blog post for me as soon as I published it! Their services are also integrated with Google Adsense and with Ping.fm, so you can monetize your tweets, then post them to multiple social network profiles.

HootSuite also offers a fantastic BookMarklet that makes it super easy to create a tweet about any page on the web, while you’re viewing it and post it to the Twitter profile of your choosing.

Since joining Twitter and using HootSuite to maximize my efforts, traffic to my websites, blogs and affiliate promotion pages has gone through the roof. This is mainly due to combining the power of Twitter with ease of HootSuite. It allows me to consistently post quality information that my followers and friends on other social networks want to hear or read about. You see, passing along good quality information, is always better than just slapping up post after post of non-relevant links that no one will ever visit. Engage your readers/followers and they will become loyal readers/followers. Bombard them with useless link-spam and they will leave you for dead before you have a chance to post your next update.

Once you’ve become an affiliate link publisher and are comfortable posting links and sharing them around the web, this next step to further monetize your links, should be a breeze, but first, let’s take a look at where we’re at up to this point. By now, if you’ve read my previous post and put my advice into action, you’ve joined an affiliate network (like LinkShare or ShareASale), created some affiliate links to products or services provided by the advertisers there and posted them around the web on either a few Social Networks (like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace), in Internet forums, discussion boards, in emails or all of the above.

You may also have been eagerly checking your traffic and click through statistics in your affiliate network members area in hopes of seeing a generated sale resulting in a commission. If you’ve made a commission, good for you! If you haven’t yet seen the fruits of your labor, don’t despair. It often takes some time and practice to generate enough quality traffic through your links to generate sales. However, it does happen, so be consistent and continue to post your links. You may have also noticed that the links generated by affiliate networks are usually very long and they’re just not good for posting to places that have limited character spaces for posting like Twitter.

This finally brings me around to the actual topic of this post. There is a way to make money from your links, without generating a sale. There is a new service that I have been using called LinkBee. You may have already noticed that I have used some LinkBee links above in this post as well as in my previous post. They provide a link shortening service that helps make those long affiliate links much shorter and very Twitter friendly. You may have already come across other sites that provide a similar service (like TinyUrl.com) however, LinkBee goes one step further and provides a way to monetize their shortened links.

LinkBee provides three ways to create links. The first is just a simple URL(link) shortening service where you can convert your very long URL into a nice short URL. This is identical to the service provided by other sites. It’s useful when you need a short URL, but it won’t make you any money.

The other two ways to create links provided by LinkBee will monetize your shortened URLs and provide you with a way to earn money from your links even if they don’t result in a sale. You can earn the most from using their Interstitial Ads. This method will show visitors a brief ad before being taken to the URL you specified. Here is an example using an Interstitial LinkBee ad in a link that points to one of my other websites. The second way LinkBee can monetize your links is through Top Frame Banner Ads. The top frame banner is less intrusive and will display a banner at the top of the destination page you specify, however, it will earn you less then the interstitial ad. Here is an example using a Top Frame Banner Ad in a link that points to my StumbleUpon profile.

LinkBee payout rates are per CPM(cost per 1000 impressions). Therefore, when you use LinkBee links to post your affiliate links, you can make money for posting your links and sending them traffic whether you make a sale or not. This will not bring big bucks overnight, but for those just starting out, it can provide a little extra start-up income as an incentive to stay consistent.

LinkBee is one of the latest hot media properties from Jolt Media Group. Originally found in the year 2000, the company collectively receives well over 25 million unique visitors in a single month and contains a database of over 5 million email subscribers. Originally founded on the basis of email marketing, JMG has expanded to become one of the largest media companies online. I have found that LinkBee is especially great for sharing Links on Twitter and I think you will too.