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Affiliate Marketing with WordPress

03.27.2010, Affiliation, Plugins, by .

If you want to build a bulky affiliate site using WordPress, these plugins can make your life easier. These plugins can be used with affiliate feeds or for any data/bulk content you may have knocking around, which you don’t have time to create a post for each individually.

CSV Importer

If you want to bulk upload data from an excel sheet (save as csv), to create posts, then this plugin is great. The uploaded csv results in draft or published posts. You can find an example csv via the plugin website. This tool is ideal for uploading affiliate feeds!

It imports post title, body, excerpt, tags, date, categories and anything else via custom fields. Ensure to include a column/custom field with affiliate link for each product, an image (hosted by the affiliate network or downloaded to your server), some description or unique content, and any other content/data you can get your hands on.

Custom Field Shortcode

One you have uploaded your CSV, you can use this great plugin to display custom field content in the body copy. Here is the plugin page, or search for in the Add Plugins area of your dashboard. Simply add [cf] shortcode in your post content to show the custom field that had its own column in the csv file. Build a formula in the csv that can include html as well.

Affiliate Link Cloak

This plugin can be used to cloak your affiliate links. You can mark specifically some links to cloak using the tag, or you can set all to cloak. Make sure you run a test if you use this plugin with your affiliate platform – check after a few clicks that the clicks are showing up in your admin area on the affiliate network. If no clicks come through, deactivate the plugin and proudly let all see your affiliate links :) .

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