Advanced Affiliate Marketing By Missy Ward
Missy s Favorite Affiliate Marketing Plugins & Widgets for WordPress
Independent Plugins Pretty Link Lite - Takes long affiliate links and automatically shortens and masks them into links containing your domain which can be easily redirected. [http://www.missyward.com/prettylinklite] Broken Link Checker monitors your blog looking for broken links and lets you know if any are found so that you can redirect them and not lose any commissions. [http://www.missyward.com/blc] PopShops allows you to create a customizable product storefront on your blog complete with current deals from their 4000+ merchants and over 50-million products. Can display in-post, sidebar, footer and static pages. [http://www.missyward.com/popshops] SEO Smart Link Automatically appends a specific URL any time you mention a specific word in your blog posts. [http://www.missyward.com/seo-smart-links] Simple Ads Manager Manage ad placements with very flexible logic and tracking system [http://www.missyward.com/simple-ads-mgr]
Independent Plugins Skimlinks: Dynamically converts links into affiliate links and words into product affiliate links without having to join any affiliate programs (75%/.25% split). [http://www.missyward.com/skimlinks] VigLink: Similar to Skimlinks but payment net 60 vs. net 90 and more almost twice the amount of merchants. [http://www.missyward.com/viglink] Bounce Links Dynamically converts links to affiliate links by entering the Network s ID. You keep the relationship with the merchant. WP125 Easy management of 125x125 ads on your blog with very simple tracking. [http://www.missyward.com/wp125]
Company-Affiliated Plugins [ShareASale] ShareASale Product Suggestions as you re writing a post, you can search for products without ever leaving WP to add into the post with your link already attached. [http://www.missyward.com/sassuggest] [Amazon] Affiliate Link Localizer automatically takes Amazon product links in your posts and turns them into your affiliate links. [http://www.missyward.com/amazon-all] [AvantLink] Product Content Widget - allows you to take a product that several stores on the AvantLink network carry produce a widget displaying price comparison with your affiliate links embedded [http://www.missyward.com/avantlink-pcw] [Linkshare] Dealfeed integrates both Linkshare s Coupon API and the RSS feeds from Linkshare advertisers to populate your blog with deals and other promotional content. [http://www.missyward.com/linkshare-df]
Free (and Nearly Free)!
Missy s Favorite Free (and Nearly Free) Affiliate Marketing Tools & Resources Forums: abestweb.com Wickedfire (if you can look past the crudeness of some members) DigitalPoint Warriorforum Top 25 Affiliate Marketing Blogs of 2012: Get the list here: http://www.missyward.com/top25blogs
Missy s Favorite Free (and Nearly Free) Affiliate Marketing Tools & Resources Magazines FeedFront Magazine [All affiliate marketing all of the time, written by the folks that actually do it.] Website Magazine [Caters exclusively to the business of running a website] Internet Retailer [Online retailing strategies, marketing practices, technologies, etc.] Target Marketing [Direct marketing magazine covers online and offline]
Missy s Favorite Free (and Nearly Free) Affiliate Marketing Tools & Resources Podcasts Geekcast.fm Podcast Network [offers dozens of free internet marketing podcasts, many which are targeted to affiliate marketers] Affiliate Buzz by James Martell [Podcasting since 2003 - http://jamesmartell.com/category/affiliate-buzz/
Missy s Favorite Free (and Nearly Free) Affiliate Marketing Tools & Resources Webinars & Videos Affiliate Summit Youtube Channel offers over 600 videos from Affiliate Summit sessions covering just about every affiliate marketing topic there is. [http://www.youtube.com/affiliatesummit/] Linkshare Publisher Webinars - A dozen or so pre-recorded webinars targeted to help new and seasoned affiliates [http://www.missyward.com/linkshaeweb] ShareASale Webinars: Live webinars with content targeted at ShareASale affiliates [http://www.missyward.com/sasweb] Commission Junction Webinars: A mix of affiliate and merchant pre-recorded webinars [http://www.missyward.com/cjweb]
Missy s Favorite Free (and Nearly Free) Affiliate Marketing Tools & Resources Marketing Tools: WatchCount.com Let s you see the most watched items and what s hot on ebay Google Trends displays hot searches of the day and lets you explore the search volume for keywords. Ripplefire.com and OneLoad.com allows you to publish your videos across video and social hubs uploading it only once. Also provides tracking. Viewbix Customizable skin that allows you to embed your affiliate link in the video, newsletter signup, QR codes and more along with provides detailed analytics. [Tutorial at http://www.missyward.com/viewbix]
Missy s Favorite Free (and Nearly Free) Affiliate Marketing Tools & Resources Marketing Tools (Continued): Luminate: Enables your images to be interactive [annotations, sharing, products in picture]. They share commissions based on product purchases (derived by image tags) attributed to the picture [Think Adsense for pictures] ShareASale s Make a Page- Enables you to find products related to your audience and quickly create shopping pages with your ShareASale affiliate links already embedded. Google Analytics Content Experiments - Tool that can be used to create A/B tests to boost your website conversions.
Missy s Favorite Free (and Nearly Free) Affiliate Marketing Tools & Resources Books Extra Money Answer: by Shawn Collins step by step instruction on how to build a blog, get traffic and monetize it. $2.99 [http://www.missyward.com/extra-money-answer] Meetups Monthly Free Affiliate Summit Local Meetups in cities across the U.S. and Canada: [http://www.affiliatesummit.com/meetups] Free Affiliate Marketing Advice: Ask AskShawnCollins.com
Missy s 6 Bonus Nuggets
Missy s 6 Bonus Nuggets: The Stuff No One Tells You 1. Beware of URL Shorteners [Blacklisting, transfer of assets, interstitial, adding their affiliate link] 2. Beware of No Sales on your High Traffic Blog Posts with Lots of Clicks. 3. You CAN ask for higher commissions and custom creatives 4. You CAN ask to for first right of refusal on new products 5. You CAN deep link to any page instead of sending traffic to a home page [most merchants] 6. You MAY be able to run an affiliate link in a post that a PR company has paid you for. Ask!
Are You Up For A Challenge?
Take the Missy Ward 30 Day Challenge! Go home and check out your blog stats. Look for posts that still garner a lot of traffic or one that you rank highly for a key word Integrate an affiliate link into it using any method we talked about today. I will match the commission you earn (up to $200) on that affiliate link. [Email a link to the post and a copy of your commission stats from the item/program and date range to missyward@gmail.com]