11 Wordpress Plugins For Affiliate Marketers

Anyone that’s ever tried their hand at affiliate marketing knows it’s not an easy set it up and you’re done with it way to make money online.

There is constant changing and testing of methods to see what works the best and what doesn’t.

Most of the time, the hassle of actually having to grabe the affiliate code and place it into your blog gets in the way of the other things you need to be doing to manage your affiliate sales.

So here is a list of 13 WordPress plugins that will help take some of the “hassle” out of placing your affiliate links.

1. AdRotator – Displays an advertisement (which is randomly selected from a group of advertisements specified in a text file) at your chosen location.

2. aLinks – Takes a set of phrases you commonly use and turns them into links whenever you include them in a post. Create links for your favorite affiliate products and programs. Just write your post like you normally do, and aLinks will find the keyphrases and turn them into links automagically.

3. WP-Banner – Banner administration tool to manage banners from different affiliate programs.

4. AdSense-Deluxe - Quickly inserts Google or Yahoo! ads into your blog posts, and allows for managing when and where those ads are displayed.

5. WP-Amazon – With WP-Amazon, the Amazon.com product catalog is available right from WordPress. This plugin adds an “Insert from Amazon” link below the post text area on your entry and page editor pages. This link launches a page that will allow you to search Amazon.com by product line.

6. Bidvertiser WP Widget – Helps you utilize the BidVertiser ads on your site or blog with ease.

7. CafePress WordPress Plugin – This plugin brings together the CafePress API, WordPress and the PrestoGifto API to allow you to layout your products, adjust thumbnail sizes, pick colors, fonts and more. With this plugin, you can choose any of the 60 million products that CafePress sells and put them in your sidebar, after your posts, in your footer, or on a full page.

8. Chitika eMiniMall Plugin – Integrates eMiniMall right into your blog post. Once you activate the plugin, you will see a new eMiniMall button on your quicktags toolbar. Simply click it to insert the eMiniMall tag.

9. DataFeedFile.com Plugin – Integrate affiliate marketing advertisements using DataFeedFile.com tools.

10. Spreadshop WordPress Plugin – Spreadshirt is an online gadget service. You can easily sell, online, your personal t-shirts and gadgets with a cool and fast Macromedia Flash interface.

11. WpAffiliate Pro – This is the mother of all affiliate plugins. This plugin tracks your affiliate links, and is used by most of the top affiliate marketers in their blogs. If you have $97, this plugin is worth buying. (Note: Buy this if you want to track your stats).

Do you have any suggestions or plugins that you use for affiliate marketing?