You often wondered that how the big blogs make money. The answer for that is because of huge Affiliate links they place on their sites. If you are running one such blog and getting a decent amount of traffic, then why not add extra hands to earn money. Although it’s still pointed that people avoid it at par even these days but it’s good to have some affiliate links as it’s hardly require any extra work for you. All you have to do is to place a link on board in between the content, while you can also place the affiliates’ banners in your blog ads area. With this article, I will talk about how you can monetize your WordPress blog and make money just like others.
Which Affiliate Network To Join?
The first question which does create confusion for you as the list is huge from which you can choose upon totally depends as per your requirements. There are hundreds of affiliate products which have been offering hundreds of thousands of products which are running their own affiliate program, giving you huge options to choose from. Placing such products on your blog, you will earn a commission from that. The more the sale you did via the link you have on your blog, the more money you make. Start by selecting and then signing up to some of these affiliate networks and start browsing the products which you think will make a perfect fit for your blog.
What Next?
Now, you done with selecting the affiliate network which you like to have for your blog. The next step is choosing on the plugin which let you manage affiliate links with ease. There are number of plugins available – both free and premium – which helps you with the task. Both free and premium plugins come with their own pros and cons, giving you different level of freedom to manage your affiliate links. Say, for example, using one plugin will allow you to update your affiliate links which you used in different posts in your blog in the one go, instead of going and doing the same manually for all those posts.
Free Affiliate Plugins
Affiliates
The plugin will offer you the right tools to maintain an Affiliate Marketing Program with offering a solid framework for developers, who are interested in building their own customized solutions based on a sound data model.
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Easy Affiliate
The plugin is an Auto-Affiliate Plug-In. It turns any link into an affiliate link from over 3000 affiliate partners, that when clicked, earns you money.
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WP Auto Affiliate Links
The plugin provides you an interface to add your affiliate links and associate them with keywords. The affiliate links will be added to all the terms specified found in your content.
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Premium Affiliate Plugins
Affiliate Machine
The plugin allows you to add affiliate hyperlinks to any keywords or phrases throughout whole website or particular posts or pages. You only have to create list of relevant keywords and set your affiliate link for them. Once set, the plugin will highlight and hyperlink these keywords with your affiliate link throughout whole website or particular posts or pages automatically.
More Info | Demo | Price: $12
eBay eStore Affiliates Plugin
The Plugin allows you to create a store featuring eBay products in no time. Once you setup, you can import your products directly from eBay in just a flash.
More Info | Demo | Price: $25
Amazon eStore Affiliates Plugin
The plugin allows you to create a store featuring Amazon products. Once you done with setup, you can import products directly from Amazon.
More Info | Demo | Price: $25
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