The Best Affiliate Site Plugins for WordPress

Many affiliate sites are run using the WordPress platform which is a great idea due to it’s flexibility and ease of use, not to mention the huge community and range of plugins available. There are a few plugins that can make your life easier straight away when starting a new site, here’s a list of some of the best for an affiliate site:

SEO:

  1. FV All in One SEO Pack – This is the traditional SEO plugin used for WordPress with a twist, it cuts out many unnecessary options and helps you to get your site up and running and optimised quicker.
  2. WP Keyword Link – This lets you link keywords in your posts to specified pages, you can also import/export this to csv for ease of use.
  3. 404 Plugin – This will provide links to other pages on your site if someone ends up on a 404 page.
  4. SEO SearchTerms Tagging 2 – This creates links to your pages by using the incoming search terms that visitors arrived to your site with, hence strengthening these terms further.

Monitoring:

  1. Google Analytics for WordPress – This is a  simple plugin which lets you add the analytics code to your WordPress site so that you can monitor visitor statistics via Google Analytics.

Pinging:

  1. cbnet Ping Optimizer – This lets you define your own pinging list so you can ping additional sites about your updates, and also limits the number of pings it sends so as not to get your site blocked from any service.

Page Generation:

  1. Contact Form 7 – This lets you setup a contact page very quickly so that site users can get in touch.
  2. Easy Privacy Policy – You can quickly have a full privacy policy page created for you, something that is required if your site will use Google Adsense.
  3. PS Auto Sitemap – This creates a sitemap page which can be helpful for SEO and your users
  4. Google XML Sitemap Generator – This creates the XML version of the sitemap which can be useful for SEO.

Link Cloaking:

  1. Pretty Link – This plugin allows you to cloak your affiliate links and also includes click tracking giving you information about your visitors.

This list is a great base to work from, we may have missed out your favourite though so feel free to let us know by commenting if that is the case!

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