You’ve asked a very good question. I’m not sure how my online income breaks down, to tell you the truth. It would take more time and energy than it’s worth for me to find out. I don’t think it really matters too much, though.

I think that actively maintaining your blog and posting good content is necessary to maintain PageRank and traffic levels and hence passive income, if that makes sense. So, the passive income is also somewhat dependent on what you are ostensibly doing for active income. Doesn’t that make it active income, too? I don’t know, but all the things that you would normally do to generate traffic on your blog also tend to help passive income from advertising on archived (and SE indexed) pages.

Once your traffic builds to a certain level, I think you can afford to possibly post a little less frequently, but it’s hard to say. You must continue to post consistently and, I think, at least a few times a week and if you want to increase traffic levels beyond what you’re already seeing (and thereby increasing income, both passive and active), you’ll have to post even more frequently, maybe once a day or even more often.

I hope this has helped to answer your question. Thanks for visiting and commenting!

with regards
akshay