Let me give a quick look at what Affiliate marketing is and how it works before listing out the best WordPress Affiliate Plugins. In simple words, you advertise and promote a product or service on your blog or website, with every visitor that you bring to them, and who actively buys the product or service will fetch you a share of the revenue generated or a standard fixed price will be offered. These affiliate campaigns depend on the success of the following network: the merchant, the publisher and the customer. If you are thinking of linking up one or the other affiliate marketing programs on your blog or website, then you will find the following five free plug-ins working efficiently on your WordPress blogging platform.
If you are new to Aff. marketing, here are some posts that will help you to get started:
- How to Join Dreamhost Affiliate program
- How to join Hostgator Affiliate Program
- How to create Affiliate links for Amazon
These are some basic affiliate plugins for WordPress, and we will cover advanced Clickbank WordPress plugins and Amazon affiliate plugin in another post.
Free & useful WordPress Affiliate Plugins
1. Thirsty Affiliates
This is the first plugin that I would recommend as this is well-maintained and offers more features than any other affiliate link Cloaker plugin for WordPress. The plugin is free to download & use, one just need to pay for add-ons or bundles. There are many great add-ons that any affiliate marketers would like including me & you. Especially Geolocation & Google link tracking is great for every user.
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2. Pretty Link Lite
This plug-in is a shrink, track and shares any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website like creating shortened domains for Twitter.
The advantage of using this plug-in in WordPress is that you will be able to experiment with using your domain names, unlike the traditional domain names that the internet URL shortening widgets do so. Some of the features that are worth mentioning will include clean and simple URLs, track the number of hits and unique hits per link, intuitive JAVA/AJAX admin user interface and much more.
Overall, this is a clean, friendly and simple to use the plug-in for a creating a creative URL shortening app.
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3: EasyAzon – Perfect Affiliate plugin for Amazon Affiliate marketers
If you are one of those affiliate marketers who is using Amazon affiliate program to monetize your blog, EasyAzon plugin is the perfect affiliate plugin for your WordPress blog.
This plugin is a powerful all in one solution for your WordPress blog that offers following features:
- You can add links to Amazon Affiliate program right from your WordPress dashboard.
- Link localization: If a user is coming from U.K, he will be automatically redirected to Amazon U.K. store. This way you won’t miss out on your commission.
- EasyAzon let you add ‘Add to cart” feature, which will let your reader directly add the product into their cart. This feature also increases the chances of getting paid for sale by 30 more days.
I’m a huge fan of this plugin Link localization feature that let me increase my affiliate sales by 286%.
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4. WP Auto Affiliate Links
This plug-in when incorporated into your WordPress blogging platform, you will find them provide you with a back-end interface to add affiliate links and also associate keywords to them for being detected by the web crawlers, this will also help in getting listed in a search engine during a keyword search. This works by displaying the affiliate link, whenever you add or mention the desired keyword in your post.
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5. SkimLinks
SkimLinks is one of that ad network, which quickly let you add affiliate links in your blog post. It usually automatically links the keywords that can be monetized with affiliate links, and if any customer buys the product it will make money for you via Skimlinks.
Especially, if you are a tech blogger and linking to app store links or Amazon store link, this plugin will help you to make money out of them.’The Plug-In aids in monetizing the contents that you post on your blog, it converts the texts into affiliate links by working behind the scene. You need to sign up for Skimlinks here.
Some of the features that are very useful will include the easiness in installation, earn from your RSS feed, increase the click through rates and thereby drive more traffic and visitors to your blog. SkimLinks Affiliate Marketing tool is a hard worker behind scenes of affiliate marketing.
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Updated: July 2016
Here are few more affiliate plugins for WordPress
Recommended for anyone who is using Amazon affiliate program or iTunes affiliate program. You should mix this with Geni.us to increase your earning.
Same as above but only for iTunes affiliate program.
8. Floating banner ad rotator with tracking:
This is a free WordPress plugin which let you rotate ads at the footer of your website. Also, let you track the clicks, which is useful to find which one of your affiliate ad is performing well. You can use image + link or HTML tag to add banners.
9. SEO Smart link:
I have written about SEO Smart link in detail earlier. Using this plugin, you can auto-link any word with a link. Also works with links in your RSS feeds & comment section. Very useful to get more affiliate sales. A good free alternative us auto affiliate links plugin. On paper, it looks great, but I haven’t tested it yet. If you try this plugin, come back & share your views.
Auto link generator iTunes: Useful for bloggers who are part of iTunes affiliate program. Makes it easy to search & add links from WordPress dashboard.
- Amazon auto links:
- Onebox: Seems useful to increase your affiliate clicks. You can try it on your medium performing page to see the effect.
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That’s a wonderful list of useful plugins for affiliate marketers like us
Thank you
thank you for sharing valuable information as usual. I’m trying pretty link in my blog.
Hi, I have a wordpress blog website and no product. I am looking for some plugin which can let members love to share my post and they can earn money from me, could you please introduce some plugin like these I need to me ? Maybe I will sell some product in the future but not now, thank you so much.
@Niall
I have this perfect solution for your need: https://www.shoutmeloud.com/affiliatewp-plugin.html
I was using EasyAzon but come across Amazon Affiliates for WordPress and honestly its miles better.
Everything is in one plugin rather than being split out into separate plugins that you have to pay more for.. definitely give it a shot
I have wordpress.com free blog and i want to run affiliate program to upgrade my free plan to personal plan.Can i run it?
Hey Viraj,
You can run affiliate marketing even on your free blog but you will not get the same desired results as you will get when you migrate to self hosted WordPress. My suggestion is to migrate to WordPress.org and then start affiliate marketing.
Can i use adsense with wp rotater plugin or it voilates the adsense t&c???
It’s really a good collection of wp affiliate plugins which are so much popular and functional. I loved that review which you’ve shared on this blog. Thank You!
sir how to import Flipkart csv file in wordpress. can u suggest best plugin?
Hey viki,
You can use WP All import plugin.
Nice tips Harsh as you always share the best tools and tricks and I am a fan of your writing. Do we have any such awesome plugin which are only for Indian e-com sites like flipkart, amazon, snapdeal, shopclues etc. It should pull in all the data at one place and then connect that those sites using our affiliate ID so that it will save time to use each of their affiliate account separately?
Anyways, thanks for sharing.
@Rahul
You should try Linkmydeals.
Hi, Harsh Agrawal
I read your articles, and i find them useful and interesting, i installed thirsty affiliate links, but it dosen’t work for the links which were already created manually, like open in new window, and add nofollow.
What i do in this case?
Thanks
I just signed up for the Amazon Affiliate program, got a domain name and WordPress.org site, and now need to design my online store where I will post Amazon products (not my own). NOTE – I’m not just doing a blog with links to products; I’m creating a store with pictures of products where purchases will be completed through Amazon. Before reading your post here, I did a lot of research and thought WooCommerce plus the WooCommerce Amazon Affiliate plug-in was the way to go. Now I have added the WooCommerce plug-in, but I cannot find the WooCommerce Amazon Affiliate plug-in. Has it been discontinued? Or is it the same thing as WooZone? WooZone Light has gotten some terrible reviews from other users. Here are my questions: 1) Is there an alternative to the WooZone Light plugin that will work with WooCommerce? 2) Could I use EasyAzon along with WooCommerce? 3) Or should I get rid of the WooCommerce plug in and just use EasyAzon?
Hey robin,
WooCommerce Affiliate plugin is still available. You can buy it from here:https://codecanyon.net/item/woocommerce-amazon-affiliates-wordpress-plugin/3057503?ref=AA-Team. Also, WooZone is nothing but the lighter version of Woocommerce affiliate plugin.
Great Article Harsh! I use PrettyLink Lite and I’m surprised at its simplicity. I made the switch from Thirsty Affiliates not too long ago. The other plugins are also something I might consider as well. Very powerful stuff.
harsh now I want to do affiliate marketing please help me.I don’t know more about affiliate marketing
@Manish
This is your best resource to get started with Affiliate marketing: https://www.shoutmeloud.com/downloads/affiliate-marketing-ebook
Thanks harsh for your great support, this article is very helpful as I am struggling to get good plugin that makes my amazon affiliate program to run on the territory bases. You made it to reduce my struggle a lot. Once again thank you.
EasyAzon and Better Links Pro are two of my favorite affiliate plugins. Both by Chris Guthrie. I love the localization and ability to see CTR on a page level.
Hi bro
I’ve used thirsty plugin it’s very good and is first in your list also. Other plugins I’ve to see.
Thank you for sharing
A very good list! Another plugin/affiliate platform to consider is VigLink. The plugin is not that great, but I’ve made money with VigLink – quite unexpectedly too!
That’s a wonderful list of useful plugins for affiliate marketers like us. Thanks a ton..!!!
@Minal
Happy to help. Looking forward to hearing much more from you.
I was using EazyAzon, but then found a great alternative – Geni.us. I think it’s smoother .
WP Affiliate website says it hasn’t been updated since 2008 – – I doubt it works with current versions of WP.
I would suggest Convergence (Commission Junction) or JVZoo.
However CJ / Convergence never did get back to me about questions before signing up (over one month now and several emails) and JV Zoo I think I am up to like 5 emails to them – and the two back have been non-answers. Questions related to setting up the chain payments through PayPal – which should be a pretty basic question. Still waiting for support – – and it’s been half-way through the third week.
Right now i am looking for affiliate management plugin for my own site to run affiliate program of my own site. Do you know any such plugin. Waiting for your response harsh.
@Rakesh
I’m using AffiliateWP. Probably the best solution as of May 2016.
wp auto affiliate link,in my opinion is very useful
Awesome list of plugins. SkimLinks seems to be interesting, I will check it out.