Making a success of an affiliate business or a website that promotes affiliate products can prove a challenge but, fortunately, there are numerous tools and applications that have been designed to help make the process simpler. Check with the affiliate network or affiliate programs that you are signed up with to determine whether they have any beneficial plugins that you can add to your website. If your website is built on the WordPress platform then there are many different plugins that you can use to help boost your affiliate performance.

1 – All In One SEO Pack

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

The All In One SEO Pack is a very well known WordPress plugin and it has achieved fame because of its rich collection of features. WordPress is already well set up for search optimisation campaigns but if you want to further extend its functionality and accessibility in this respect then the All In One SEO Pack is essential.

You can fine tune navigational links, add title and descriptions, update canonical links, and automatically avoid duplicate content issues. Beginners can benefit from this powerful plugin because it will work straight out of the box by automatically creating meta tags and performing a number of other essential tasks without any user intervention necessary.

2 – Pretty Link

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pretty-link/

One of the problems with affiliate marketing is that the links can start to look messy with massive session IDs placed in the URL path. While this may not be a problem in a lot of cases, some users may be put off when they hover over the link. With the Pretty Link plugin you no longer have to worry about ugly looking links because it will not only shorten the URL but it will use your own domain name too.

3 – Sociable

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/

The intelligent affiliate marketer knows that website visitors and readers can become brand ambassadors. By not only enabling website visitors to share your content via social media websites but providing them with the necessary tools to do exactly that, you are also benefiting yourself and your own website performance.

Sociable is the leading social media sharing plugin for WordPress. It enables your website visitors to share your content on dozens of bookmarking, social media, and social networking websites all with a single click of the mouse. This can help your posts go viral and it can help you to reach a wider audience of potential affiliate buyers.

4 – Amazon Link

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/amazon-link/

Amazon is the world’s largest etailer and has a burgeoning online marketplace. This means that it also has millions of products which you can profit from by linking to them on your website. The Amazon Link plugin enables you to quickly and easily add products to WordPress posts and pages. You can add simple text links or more comprehensive links that include image photos. You can even use the plugin to add Amazon Flash widgets and the plugin can even determine the country of origin for visitors from your website.

5 –ClickBank Press

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cbpress/

ClickBank has long been an affiliate’s favourite. It provides non-tangible products such as software, digital download ebooks, and more in a huge variety of categories. Selling these products is not only quick and simple but the commission on some of these products can be extremely high. At the very least, ebooks can provide an additional product stream for your affiliate marketing site.

ClickBank Press is a WordPress plugin that enables you to add a full marketplace to your website using the XML site feeds from ClickBank. You can customise products to display according to your chosen niche and you can even add custom products from other affiliate networks too. You can even create your own titles and descriptions for the ClickBank products that you display.

6 –Easy Affiliate

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-affiliate/

Easy Affiliate is described as being an auto-affiliate plugin. You simply install the plugin and it then converts your links automatically to affiliate links through the 3,000 or more companies on offer. The plugin will update old posts as well as work with new ones and it offers you the opportunity to monitor your progress and performance via an intuitive dashboard. If you are looking for a quick and easy way to make money from your links then this could prove to be the perfect plugin.

Making money as an affiliate marketer doesn’t happen overnight and not everybody will make a success of their efforts. However, choosing a good quality affiliate network, using some of the many plugins and applications that are designed to help, and sticking with it will help you turn your business into a profitable venture.

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