Best Wordpress Plugin for Higher Affiliate sales
Posted April 23, 2009 Written by:
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Finding affiliate programs to use for making money from your blog is quite simple. I am signed up with two of the biggest marketplaces for affiliate programs – Commission Junction, who call themselves CJ, and ClickBank. It is completely FREE to join, they pay your commission by cheque (check) . CJ pay in sterling over here, but Clickbank pay in US$ checks unless you are generating a lot of sales. If you are outside the US this is not so convenient as getting your payments through Paypal and I suggest you opt to receive payments once they are above $100 otherwise bank charges will swallow up your earnings.
How to post your Affiliate Links
As soon as you are a registered affiliate, log in to your dashboard and you can search the marketplace for products in your niche that you can sell. Most merchants supply a variety of banners and text links with your affiliate ID coded in to them. It is easy to insert the code into your website, blog, email or forum signature and start promoting the products.
But you might not want to show your affiliate name, and there are people out there who could hijack your link ad get the commission for themselves. You also want to manage the placement of your links and update them fast if they change.
There is a great Wordpress plugin that you can use for this to protect your earnings, and it will help you sell more as an affiliate. It is called Wordpress Affiliate Link Cloak Plugin. The way it works is to link words and phrases in your blog content to one of your affiliate links, taking your readers straight to the product without the need to add an affiliate link every time. When you write a blog post about handbags, there will be a link to a company that sells accessories.
For me this plugin made all the difference in successful affiliate marketing: until I started using Affiliate Link Cloak, I spent hours messing about with affiliate codes without getting a decent payback for the time involved. Once the account details were programmed in, the links appeared like magic and my earnings soared.
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i am now trying Affiliate Marketing as well as blog monetizing through advertising. So far, i have signed up with Amazon and Clickbank.