In this post I have compiled a list of plugins that I think every affiliate should consider for implementation on their blogs. Hopefully you will go and install these plugins and see the benefits they have to offer. I personally use all these plugins on several of my blogs.
The All in One SEO Pack is a brilliant plugin. Downloaded by over 4 Million people, this plugin is probably the best SEO suite you can find, and it’s FREE. If you want to properly optimize your blog for the search engines, then you need to install this plugin asap.
2. Google XML Sitemaps
This is another fantastic plugin that will allow your blog and all it’s content to be fully crawled by bots.
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog.
3. Affiliate Link
If you are sick and tired of uploading redirect files to your server, or adding lines of code to your .htaccess file, then you will LOVE this plugin.
Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. You can now shorten links using your own domain name. The plugin also tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from.
4. Wordpress Link Cloak
Even though this is a commercial plugin, it’s a LIFE SAVER as well as a money generating machine.
This plugin allows you to link keywords to affiliate links in your content across your blog . This means that if you constantly link to a service or product from your posts, this plugin can save you the hassle by doing it all at a few clicks of a button.
5. Psychic Search
I just love this plugin. You know that little search box on all Wordpress blogs? Yup, you will be surprised how many times people search for stuff using your search feature!! Psychic Search saves that data and tells you what people are looking for on your site! That’s some powerful stuff.
6. RSS Auto Submit
This is a bloody good time saver. Even though the author’s site is “black hat”, this free plugin is pretty whitehat and safe. RSS Auto Submit submits your RSS feed to 16 RSS directories and if you know anything about getting indexed, traffic and getting backlinks, you’ll know that submitting to 16 RSS directories on autopilot is pretty darn awesome.
7. Mediacaster
In today’s world you HAVE to go where technology takes you. That means your blog has to include audio, video and any other media that appeals to today’s readers. Mediacaster is not a free plugin, but it’s a darn good investment and will be something you will use for pretty much the rest of your blogging/affiliate life.
Mediacaster takes over the normal Media manager in WordPress, and allows to seamlessly insert Audio, Video and non-image files on your site.
Supported media formats include: .mp3, .m4a, .aac, .flv, .f4v, .f4b, .mp4, .m4v, .mov, .3pg and .3p2. Other file types are treated as downloads. YouTube videos and play lists are also supported.
8. Star Rating for Reviews
How many times have you wished you can post those little stars at the bottom of a product review?
If you are an affiliate who does regular pre sells, my gut tells me you will love this.
Star Rating for Reviews is a simple WordPress plugin that inserts pretty rating stars based on the score you assign using intuitive, inline [rating:] tags. It can also calculate and output overall ratings for you based on all previous scores you have assigned, useful for reviews that have multiple categories or an album review where each track is assigned a score.
9. WP-Banner Plugin
WP Banner Admin allows you to manage various banner ads from different affiliate programs. With the banner plugin you can manage: different banners from one affiliate program, different banners from different affiliate programs and your own banner campaigns limited by date or page impressions.
This plugin also has the ability to rotate banners which is pretty good if your blog has lots of traffic.
10. Sociable
This plugin is a MUST-HAVE. We live in the age of information sharing and web 2.0.
People regularly bookmark and share information and sociable makes it very easy for them to do so.
With sociable you can automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites.
11. Exclude Pages
Every blog needs this because the default code in themes do not allow us to exclude certain pages from our navigation menu. I have blogs with dozens of PAGES. Without this plugin, my navigation bar at the top of my blog would have looked like a crippled pyramid.
This plugin adds a checkbox, “include this page in menus”, which is checked by default. If you uncheck it, the page will not appear in any listings of pages (which includes, and is usually limited to, your page navigation menus).
12. Advertising Manager
If you are not into displaying your own banners on your blog, you can try Advertising manager!
This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your Wordpress blog. It automatically recognises many ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks.
13. Amazon Reloaded
I just love Amazon. Their products convert into cash much easier than pretty much any other website.
This plugin makes it easy for post authors to quickly search Amazon’s index from their WordPress post interface and grab text links or images to place in their posts.
14. Popshops for Wordpress
Are you a Popshops user? Me too. I just love datafeed driven sites. The wordpress Popshops plugin makes this super easy to accomplish! This plugin is in beta, but seems to work pretty well.
15. Ultimate Google Analytics
If you are an experienced affiliate, you know that tracking your traffic is VITAL to online success.
Knowing where that traffic comes from is seriously important. Not knowing is like trying to build a puzzle in the dark. It doesn’t matter what your skill level, you need to incorporate Google Analytics into your marketing efforts.
It allows you to add Google Analytics JavaScript to each page on your weblog without making any changes to your template. The plugin can also add tracking to outbound links, downloads from your own site and mailto: links.
To your success,
Reinhardt
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