Let me give a quick look at what Affiliate marketing is and how it works before listing out the free WordPress Affiliate plugins. In simple words, you advertise and promote a product or service on your blog or website, with every visitor that you bring to them, and who actively buys the product or service will fetch you a share of the revenue generated or a standard fixed price will be offered. These affiliate campaigns depends on the success of the following network: the merchant, the publisher and the customer. If you are thinking of linking up one or the other affiliate marketing programs in your blog or website, than you will find the following 5 free plug-ins working efficiently on your WordPress blogging platform.
If you are new to Aff. marketing, here are some posts which will help you to get started:
- How to join Thesis Affiliate Program
- How to Join Dreamhost Affiliate program
- How to join Hostgator Affiliate Program
- How to create Affiliate links for Amazon
In this list, I’m not adding Gocodes WordPress plugin because we have already covered it. These are some basic affiliate plugins for WordPress and we will cover advanced Clickbank WordPress plugins and Amazon affiliate plugin in other post.
Free & useful WordPress Affiliate plugins
1. Pretty Link Lite:
This plug-in is a shrink, track and shares any URL on the internet from your WordPress website like creating shortened domains for Twitter.
The advantage of using this plug-in in WordPress is that you will be able to experiment on using your own domain names unlike the traditional domain names that the internet URL shortening widgets does so. Some of the features that are worth mentioning will include clean and simple URLs, track the number of hits and unique hits per link, intuitive JAVA/AJAX admin user interface and much more.
Overall, this is a clean, friendly and simple to use plug-in for a creating a creative URL shortening app.
2. WP Auto Affiliate Links:
This plug-in when incorporated into your WordPress blogging platform, you will find them provide you with an back end interface to add affiliate links and also associate keywords to them for being detected by the web crawlers, this will also help in getting listed in a search engine during a keyword search. This works by displaying the affiliate link, whenever you add or mention the desired keyword in your post.
3. SkimLinks:
SkimLinks is one of those ad network, which quickly let you add affiliate links in your blog post. It usually automatically link the keywords which can be monetized with affiliate links, and if any customer buys the product it will make money for you via Skimlinks.
Specially, if you are a tech blogger and linking to app store links or amazon store link, this plugin will help you to make money out of them.’The plug-in aids in monetizing the contents that you post on your blog, it converts the texts into affiliate links by working behind the scene. You need to sign up for Skimlinks here.
Some of the features that are very useful will include the easiness in installation, earn from your RSS feed, increase the click through rates and thereby driving more traffic and visitors to your blog. SkimLinks Affiliate Marketing tool is a hard worker behind scenes of affiliate marketing.
4. WP 125:
This plug-in has been designed for displaying 125 × 125 ads in your website or blog. This allows you to specify the number of days for the ads to be displayed and for tracking down the number of clicks by generating a report periodically and automatically. This plug-in will let you to manage your ads efficiently and has some of the mentionable features like – show as many ads as you want in the dedicated space, create a new ad at the end date of the old ad, reminders to get your ad reactivated after the prescribed time limit and much more.
5. WP Affiliate:
If you are looking for a simple Wp affiliate tool to commence with affiliate marketing for monetizing the contents of your blog, then WP Affiliate is the simple Plug-in on Word Press that aids in link masking, the most simple deed to be done. Some of the major features that WP affiliate can do for you will include link masking based on the contents, click tracking and commission junction search capabilities, giving this tool an edge of making your blogging career successful.
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Great Post Praveen. These are some awesome plugins.
Another great plugin is Ninja Affiliate by maxblogpress but it’s not free.
Anyways, Thanks for sharing this great Post.
Thanks for the great post Praveen & Harsh. People are always looking for free, useful solutions before investing their money in a plugin. This post will help eliminate the research part for many. But Walm is a plugin that is worth including on the list (http://winkpress.com/walm/). This new, free plugin helps you manage affiliate links and track them with Google Analytics. It helps you manage coupon codes too.
Hey Praveen Great Collection of Affiliate Plugins. Soon i will start Affiliate marketing on my blog so have to choose a Affiliate Plugin.
Which one you will suggest?
Thanks for the list…. But my fav is Adrotate wordpress plugin…
You also might want to check out iTunes Affiliate Pro http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/itunes-affiliate-pro/
Awesome list of plugins. SkimLinks seems to be interesting, I will check it out. Thanks Praveen
wp auto affiliate link,in my opinion is very useful