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Advanced Affiliate Marketing By Missy Ward
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Missy’s Favorite Affiliate Marketing Plugins
& Widgets
for
WordPress
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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]
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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]
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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]
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Free (and Nearly Free)!
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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
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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]
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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/
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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]
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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
]
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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.
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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:
AskMissyWard.com
AskShawnCollins.com
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Missy’s 6 Bonus
Nuggets
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Missy’s 6 Bonus Nuggets: The Stuff No One Tells You
Beware of URL
Shorteners
[Blacklisting, transfer of assets, interstitial, adding their affiliate link]
Beware of No Sales on your High Traffic Blog Posts with Lots of Clicks.
You CAN ask for higher commissions and custom creatives
You CAN ask to for first right of refusal on new products
You CAN deep link to any page instead of sending traffic to a home page [most merchants]
You MAY be able to run an affiliate link in a post that a PR company has paid you for. Ask!
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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]