review

Affiliate link plugin

October 31, 2011 By julia Leave a Comment

I started three years ago with blogging in the hope I would gather some Adsense income. Then I discovered Affiliate Marketing. Now I’m three years in Affiliate marketing and made hundreds of Affiliate links. But how can I manage that?

You know that links are important and that you shouldn’t have dead links. You probably also discovered that affiliate programms change so you need to prune and update affiliate links. The problem is that if you have many affiliate links, let alone many websites this can be a big task to cope with. But it is really necessary as search engines don’t like websites with too many deadlinks.

A good affiliate link plugin automatically makes links on your blog of the keywords you specify. There are a couple of free affiliate link plugins but thecommercial affiliate link plugins also have the cloaking functionality. With link cloaking you can prevent other people from getting your affiliate commision by ‘editing’ your affiliate links.

In my opinion the two best affiliate link plugins are MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate and SEO Smart Links.

MBP Ninja Affiliate is a good affordable affiliate link plugin. It can do almost everything. You have to give every Ninja Link a name, but this isn’t matched as a keyword so you have to enter this information twice and you should watch out with headings as the plugin doesn’t avoid headings in the linking of keywords. If you have a lot of links on your blog maintenance is burdersome. There is no import/export mechanism of the added links.

SEO Smart Links Business has some advantages compared to other affiliate link plugins. The plugin has a CSV Import/Export function so you can export the links to a spreadsheet. This makes it a lot easier for you if you have a lot of links to manage. If you plan to use Simplepress as your WordPress Forum plugin than you should use SEO Smartlinks. Contrary to other affiliate links plugins, SEO Smart Links also adds your affiliate links to the forum posts! Also their Pro version has some performance enhancements. As you can imagine linking the keywords can be heavy on your website especially if your website has a lot of posts. And if you have a lot of blogs the Network Feature will interest you. It allows you to have a central location for all your custom keywords. The plugin will automatically synchronize with the list once a day at a schedule timed!

If you haven’t have many links on your websites, than MBP Ninja Affiliate is a good affordable choice. The most expensive affiliate link plugin is SEO Smart Links but it is the best. Excellent performance, easy management by spreadsheet of affiliate links and supports linking to Simplepress generated forums. Imagine your most profitable links moving to another affiliate network. With SEO Smart Links this is a lot easier to do. Compare importing to a spreadsheet and editing it with clicking through all the pages as with the other affiliate link plugins and you know why it is worth the money.

My recommendation for best affiliate link plugin is: SEO Smart Links.

Filed Under: review Tagged With: Affiliate, affiliate link, link cloaking, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugin

Sitemap generator

February 3, 2011 By julia Leave a Comment

Allright there are a lot of free online sitemap generators. But as you know, you get what you pay for. In SEO (Search Engine Optimization) it is very import to have an XML sitemap. By creating and submitting XML sitemaps you are more likely to get better coverage in search engines.

Some CMS (Content Management System) don’t have a sitemap generator functionality. Or the website is too large for the sitemap generator plugin. In that case you need a standalone sitemap generator.

XML Sitemaps is able to make a sitemap for very large websites. It divides the sitemap in parts per 50,000 URLs each and creates a Sitemap Index file according to the Google sitemap protocol. Also Google and other search engines are automatically informed (pinged) when sitemap generation is complete. An extra functionality is that it detects and reports on broken links! It provides you with the URL’s of pages that have bad links so you can fix the bad links.

The sitemap software can be setup automatically with a cron job so it can be done at any time you want. It’s affordable, you can use it unlimited and you get free updates with it. The support is great. Look at the forum, most posts get a response within a day. So get some more information on this sitemap generator.

Filed Under: review Tagged With: SEO, XML

WordPress Coupon code website

December 2, 2010 By julia Leave a Comment

Building a coupon code website in WordPress is a good idea. WordPress is infamous for it’s SEO capabilities and wealth of addon functionality from plugins. So you can easily make your coupon code website.

For a coupon code website you need added functionality. For example. How do you manage expired coupon codes? But also how do you show the coupon codes? You want to earn the affiliate cookie so the must click on your link. But if they can copy the code without clicking you don’t get any money for your work. So you needs ome kind of functionality to let them click before the ‘get the voucher code’.

Also it’s nice to have some kind of feedback functionality where users can vote if the coupon code worked. And don’t forget the search functionality. If they stay and click on your coupon code website it’s good for you on the long term. And it is also a great indicator if your coupon codes are working and allows you to quickly see which ones are not working so you can remove them.

So it’s time to look for coupon code plugins. There are a few, but only one stands out. CouponPress is build on the SEO friendly WordPress software. It adds to WordPress a management interface where you can import and update/add coupon codes. Also it has two coupon code viewing options, ‘click to reveal’ and ‘click to copy’. The ‘click to reveal’ option will only show the visitor the coupon code once they have clicked the link which takes them to your affiliate website. The ‘click to copy’ tool copy’s the coupon code to the users clipboard and takes them directly to the affiliate website using your affiliate links.

For added Search experience CouponPress lets you add custom tags and keywords to all of your coupon lists and the search tool will search your coupons to show the user the most relevant coupons based on their search keywords. You can even use the store pages to list all of your stores alphabetically.

With the ‘Did it Work?’ functionality you allow your coupon code website visitors to interact with your website and provide their feedback if coupon codes did or didn’t work.

CouponPress adds coupon codes to WordPress:
- Multi Language Support
- Management console
- Import coupon codes
- No programming required
- Click to Reveal or Copy Tools
- Did it Work? functionality
- Coupon Search Tools
- SEO friendly
- Advertising space support
- Price $79 (approx 60 euro’s) includes 20+ coupon website designs, unlimited installations, lifetime free support and upgrades!

So try it out and be amazed: CouponPress.

Filed Under: review Tagged With: Affiliate, Plugin, Wordpress theme

Automatic blog

November 29, 2010 By julia Leave a Comment

Automate the content on your WordPress website. Imagine your niche website daily filled with new content. Think about it. What would it do for your Google ranking?

Wordpress is renowned for its ability to rank high in Google. An important part of getting a good search engine ranking is fresh new content. The problem is that you have to write it. And that costs time. But what if you had a tool that automatically delivers you new content on your website. So you don’t have to write everything yourself.

There are a lot of automatic blog tools even free ones. But this automatic blog tool has advanced scheduling and additional functionality. Maybe you noticed that WordPress needs some time to post. It is resource intensive. And with big blogs it gets hard on your server. An automatic blog posts automatically. So you can imagine that if it posts several posts at one time, it can be a burden to your server. Read the reports on the internet about people getting their websites removed by their hoster. So it is nice to have some advanced scheduling options with your automatic blog tool.

Second the functionality can add some interesting ways to add some uniqueness to your automatic content. As you know Google and other search engines value unique content. So it is good to have some added functionality like:
1. Amazon Module creates blog posts for any product sold on Amazon. It can also add all reviews found on the product page to the post as comments! Think about automatically creating Amazon product posts for any keyword you desire and earning money for any sale you refer through your posts through Amazon’s affiliate program.
2. Article Module adds related articles from articlesbase.com to your weblog with ease. So post targeted articles for any keyword you specify.
3. eBay Module adds recent and popular auctions from eBay to your weblog
4. Yahoo Answers Module enriches your blog by automatically adding questions and answers related to any topic automatically.
5. Youtube and Flickr Modules adds videos and photo’s for any topic to your weblog on total autopilot.
6. Translation Module is also very nice if you want to have some unique content. It does not add new content to your blog, but instead can translate any content created by other modules into many languages. By using its powerful multi-translation feature it can also be used to rewrite posts and create unique content instantly!
7. Yahoo News Module so you can post targeted content from Yahoo News related to any topic and niche.
8. RSS Module allows you to add any RSS feed you can find to WP Robot and let the plugin regularly post all its content to your weblogs.
9. Oodle Module so you can add the millions of classifieds in several different countries and various categories. The WP Robot Oodle Module can access all of this content by using their official API program and post it to your weblog automatically!
10. Press Release Module posts all press releases available on PRWeb.com to your weblog on autopilot. PRWeb.com is one of the leading press release websites on the internet and features hundreds of thousands of different press releases on any topic you could think of.
11. Twitter Module allows you to access all content available on twitter.com and easily include any “tweets” related to your blogs niche into your weblog.
12. Add content from Yelp.com to add reviews by real people and customers for restaurants, cafes and many other businesses in cities all around the world.

And much more. So get this automatic blog tool and add it to WordPress and your own unique niche domain name and you get yourself one high ranking website.

What it this automatic blog tool called? Go check it out: WP Robot!

Filed Under: review Tagged With: blog, tool

WordPress webshop

October 28, 2010 By julia Leave a Comment

WordPress is praised for it’s SEO. And it is free. So when looking for a low cost webshop it is worth your time to look for WordPress webshops. In the past there were various WordPress plugins that promised a lot, but didn’t deliver.

But now there is ShopperPress. ShopperPress is a WordPress plugin (with various theme options) that lets you setup your own webshop with shopping cart quickly and easily in 10 minutes. It adds a shopping cart to a standard WordPress blog plus more.

So what do you get in a WordPress webshop powered by ShopperPress:
Wordpress delivers:
- SEO friendly url, with flexible permalink
- Secure CMS features
- Widget support
- Big eco system of plugins for all kind of functionality
- It’s free, but so many people use it that ‘support’ is allways there on the forums.

ShopperPress adds eCommerce to WordPress
ShopperPress brings shopping to WordPress websites with:
- Multi Language Support (now French, Norwegian, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Bulgarian, Thai, English, Russian, German, Turkish and Persian)
- Also for selling digital downloads
- Affiliate Store Support (Amazon, Ebay, CJ and more affiliate stores)
- Google Adsense Support
- Shipping and Tax Calculation
- 20 Integrated Payment Gateways & Methods like PayPal
- Coupon Codes Management
- 20+ store designs
- Price $79 with unlimited installations, lifetime free support and upgrades! ‘

Low cost WordPress webshop is there!
The WordPress webshop powered by ShopperPress is suitable for selling all types of products, services, and digital downloads online. Installing it is as easy as installing WordPress. So you can get a WordPress webshop for the price of a good meal. So think about it, it’s almost time for the most important shopping season. So open your webshop now with ShopperPress.

Filed Under: review Tagged With: eCommerce, Webshop, Wordpress, Wordpress theme

Genesis WordPress theme review

October 27, 2010 By julia Leave a Comment

WordPress theme selection

Selecting a WordPress theme is important. WordPress known to be a good platform for getting high Google rankings. A good WordPress theme enhances your chances of getting a search engine ranking. So selecting a WordPress theme should not be taking lightly. There are a lot of free WordPress themes, but it pays to pay for a WordPress theme. You get support, it is ad free (think also about the backlink) and it’s safe. Security is often underestimated. But a WordPress theme is code that you put on your website. So consider this. Would you use a safe that you found on the street? So why are you using free WordPress themes you found on the internet?

What makes a WordPress theme better ?

What are the criteria to consider when selecting a WordPress theme? In other words what makes a WordPress theme better than other WordPress themes? The best is always relative. It depends on the user and usage which WordPress theme is the best. Aesthetics and functionality are important but choose the most beautifull WordPress theme from a set of WordPress themes known to be good on SEO.

WordPress themes have embedded functionality to support their usage. Will it be a blog? More like a magazine? Maybe a webshop? Or will it be a more corporate website? Knowing that will help you choosing the best WordPress theme for you.

Criteria for the best WordPress theme

Our criteria for selecting the best WordPress theme are:

1. SEO friendly

2. Easy to configure

3. Support localization

4. Good looking

5. Cost

Genesis scores as best WordPress theme

Genesis scores well on these criteria. It is a theme from Brian Gardner who developed one of the most used premium WordPress themes (Revolution). The theme is fast (important for your visitors but for Google too), has many settings for SEO, easy to configure, supports localization (allready translated in several languages), has almost thirty different skins (child themes) and for $84,95 you have yourself a solid theme.

Conclusion

Genesis brings a lot out of the box. With so many skins I would be surprised if you couldn’t find a nice theme for your personal blog, online magazine and corporate website.

So go ahead and check out the best WordPress theme.

Filed Under: review Tagged With: Wordpress, Wordpress theme