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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 50million 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
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!
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Are You Up For A Challenge?
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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 [email protected]]
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