M7 Technologies

Introduction

Originally described in Eli’s bluehatseo.com post Link Saturation w/ Log Link Matching this plugin allows you to use this technique on your blog. I recommend reading the original article, but this technique gets links made to you indexed faster. The result is more efficient link building, and it’s all automated.

When a user visits your site, the plugin checks to see if they are coming from a SERP - if not, either an iframe or a piece of JavaScript (which creates the iframe dynamically) hits pingomatic.com with the referral URL, hopefully getting it indexed faster.

Here’s the link for the Link Log Matcher Plugin.

Installation

Installation is the same as most plugins, and if you’ve used widgets before you’ll know what to do. Please contact me if you’re having difficulty or you think something is broken. Here’s a step-by-step:

1. Download the Link Log Matcher Plugin and extract link_log_matcher.php
2. Copy the file into your wp-content/plugins/ folder
3. Go to the Plugins menu in WordPress and activate the Link Log Matcher plugin
4. By default the plugin inserts an iframe. If you’d rather use JavaScript go to Settings > Link Log Matcher and choose JavaScript.

Using the Plugin

It’s all automated once installed. If a user visits your site through a non-local link that is not a search engine results page, ping-o-matic will be used to ping that referring page and hopefully get it indexed faster.

Wordpress Search Engine Optimization, WordPress plugins

Introduction

This plugin will cloak an affiliate link in a similar fashion to a product called GC Affiliate Cloaker. It essentially spits out some JavaScript that opens the cloaked link in an iframe. Cloaking in this case is not for SEO purposes - it is to shorten URLs so they look prettier and also to prevent other affiliates from stealing your commissions. You can use a redirect plugin to accomplish the same thing, but this is easier as you make the “redirect” just like writing a post.

Installation

Installation is the same as most plugins, and if you’ve used widgets before you’ll know what to do. Please contact me if you’re having difficulty or you think something is broken. Here’s a step-by-step:

1. Download the Affiliate Cloaker Plugin and extract link_cloaker.php
2. Copy the file into your wp-content/plugins/ folder
3. Go to the Plugins menu in WordPress and activate the Affiliate Cloaker plugin

Using the Affiliate Cloaker plugin

When you’re writing a post you’ll see additional options below the posting window. Click the “Cloaked?” checkbox and fill in the URL field with the destination URL (your affiliate link.) If you want to stop cloaking, just uncheck the box.

Screenshots

Wordpress affiliate marketing, WordPress plugins

Introduction

Clickbank does not have an RSS feed, but they do have an XML version of their products called the Clickbank Marketplace. I wrote a simple backend for importing this XML file and producing RSS feeds, and then wrote a WordPress plugin that will show these feeds on your blog as a widget. Affiliate ID, number of items, campaign tracking tag and keywords are all available. You’re also able to put multiple ad feeds on your blog in different places, provided your WordPress theme has more than one sidebar.

Installation

Installation is the same as most plugins, and if you’ve used widgets before you’ll know what to do. Please contact me if you’re having difficulty or you think something is broken. Here’s a step-by-step:

1. Download the Clickbank Ad Feed plugin and extract clickbank_adfeed.php
2. Copy the file into your wp-content/plugins/ folder
3. Go to the Plugins menu in WordPress and activate the Clickbank Ad Feed plugin
4. Go to Design > Widgets
5. Add the Clickbank Ad Feed widget by clicking “Add”
6. Click “Edit” and fill out the fields, or leave them as the defaults (you will want to fill in your affiliate ID!)
7. Click “Change” then “Save Changes” and view your site

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Additional Information

• Keywords are specified one per line and can include spaces. The software will use these keywords to search the title and description fields of the Clickbank product database. If not enough ads are found, it will fill the remaining slots with the most popular ads based on Clickbank’s popularity score.
• Ordering is done by Clickbank’s popularity score. There are plans to add the ability to sort based on commission amount, whether a product is recurring, or gravity.
• Affiliate ID is set in the widget itself. You can have multiple instances of the widget, so you can use different IDs on different sidebars. Note that my ID is rotated through roughly 20% of the time.
• Campaign tracking tags are part of the Clickbank hoplink and can be specified in the widget options. I highly recommend using different values on different sidebars so you can track which ones are more profitable.
• Data updates are done once a day. Clickbank updates their marketplace XML file once a day, so there’s no point in doing it more frequently.
• Clickbank RSS feed access is coming shortly - this will allow you to use any RSS feed reader to include a Clickbank Ad Feed on your site.

Wordpress Clickbank, RSS Feeds, WordPress plugins