Some make money bloggers taught that one best way to get money from the internet is affiliate blogging. But have you felt curious when the affiliate marketers make money, how about the merchant who create and sell their own products? How much money do they get?
This post will not teach you how to become online marketers who make your own products. But if you want to create a simple affiliate system using Wordpress I found a plugin that can help you to turn WordPress into affiliate machines. The most interesting thing of this plugin is FREE!
Affiliate Plus Wordpress Plugin by Nico
Did you ever see the permalink structure like this?
http://themeforest.net?ref=sayasatria
yes, ?ref=sayasatria are affiliate links that will be a tracking tools for your affiliate. With this plugin the username of your affiliate member is a link that can be used to become an affiliate URL’s.
I am myself have never used it, I’m only interested if a time you come up with ideas to make your own product and sell it, of course make your own affiliate to manage would be more fun and save money. When I saw ThemeForest affiliate link and find this plugin I immediately thought that this plugin may be used as a basis for building a sophisticated affiliate website.
What You can get with Affiliate Plus?
If you already have an idea to create a product and plans to recruit affiliates to help market your products then you can try Affiliate Plus WordPress plugin. This plugin easily change your blog or website link into an affiliate link by adding the parameter and the username. Automatically after login your affiliate will get their affiliate url link.
Affiliate Plus Settings
As a merchant here you can make some settings:
- Override cookie: select if the cookie should be overridden if one already exists
- Cookie expire: number of days untill the cookie expires, 0 to let it expire after session end (ie.closing the browser window)
- Redirect URL: URL to send users to after they log in (does not affect users with admin privileges)
- landingpage URL: URL to send visitors to after arriving at your site through an affiliate link
- affiliate tracking parameter: name of the parameter to use for affiliate tracking (ie affid, sendby, hearedfrom) default value is affid, which means user phil should send visitors to http://blogicthink.com?affid=phil
- Show referral ID on signup page: select to show referral ID on the signup form.
- Show affiliate details on user page: select to show ‘referred by’ ‘number of referrals’ and ‘affiliate URL’ on the users profile page.
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