The Dream
Of the many ways to make money off your blog or website, there are few that can match or surpass affiliate marketing. When done right, you can focus on creating quality content and directing your users to websites and products that you like and believe in.
The Nightmare
The Embed Code Generator for WordPress is a new plugin that easily and automatically adds embed codes to your site for any images or photos contained on your posts or pages. This is a great tool for advertisers, affiliate marketers, or anyone who wants to provide a logo or button to be used on the websites of other people.
What Can Geolocation Do For You?
With the introduction of this and other similar user-friendly geolocation plugins (great explanation of what it does here), the challenge of discovering where your visitors/users/customers are coming from and directing them to content that meets their needs has largely been met. A host of new plugins are now working on trying to extend the functions and uses of geolocation for your WordPress website.
Dynamic Backgrounds
No, I didn’t make $15,000 from one blog post. But Yasmine Mustafa did. Actually, she’s now made over $17,000 from that one post, and she talked about it at WordCamp Philly and the subsequent video titled, “How I Made $15,000+ From One Blog Post.”
Below is a video of her talk. Because it lasts about forty minutes, I’ve gone through and pulled out some of the major areas she discussed along with notes on each. You will find a time stamp beside the title for each section that marks the approximate place in the video where that section begins.
We’ve been following the development of Jigoshop since it launched last year and are excited to see dozens of cool extensions now available for users of the plugin.
If you’re a serious Jigoshop store owner and want to start incorporating an affiliate program to promote your brand, now you have the chance. Affiliates Jigoshop Integration Light is now available for integrating Jigoshop with the Affiliates plugin, allowing you to create your own Affiliate Marketing Program.
We recently published an article on some Smarter Ways to Earn Money With Your WordPress Blog, where premium content, directories, and blogging networks were suggested.
Today, I’m here to expand upon that list and give you some more ideas as to how you can monetize your WordPress blog. The fact is, if you write great content and get a lot of love from your audience, your blog may be able to do more for you than you think.
1. Create A Product
Groupon is one of the fastest growing businesses on the internet today and continues to raise millions of dollars for expansion. How would you like to get your WordPress site linked up with them for a piece of that pie?
Groupon’s Affiliate program is now available to WordPress users through the Groupon Plugin for WordPress. It enables bloggers to earn commission by allowing you to easily post Groupon deals on your WordPress site, including:
Groupon-authored text and images
Commission Junction integration
User-configurable default locations (known as ‘divisions’)
The WooThemes team has just released a child theme for their increasingly popular Listings theme, which provides a directory of listings for your niche using custom post types, taxonomies and custom fields.
Bookclub is the first child theme for Listings and more are planned.
About the Bookclub Theme:
A theme that allows for a directory of books, categorized by authors, publishers and genres all to be displayed, archived and searched through in a very clean and crisp layout.
Many users are successfully using the MarketPress plugin to sell physical and digital goods and even create their own networks of stores. Did you know that you can also use MarketPress to create your own store for affiliate products?
Perhaps you’re much better at promoting another company’s products. Or maybe you prefer not to have the hassle of keeping an inventory, maintaining a payment gateway and handling transactions. We’re going to walk you through transforming your site into a revenue-generating affiliate hub.
Affiliate marketing is already built into MarketPress – no hacking required!
Did you know that the Membership plugin has some helpful add-on plugins for integrating it with other plugins on your site?
If you’ve got a using the Membership plugin, make sure to check out the following add-ons for using other plugins in combination:
» Affiliate / Membership Plugin Integration
This affiliate plugin add-on allows you to set the credit payments an affiliate will receive when a user signs up to a subscription using the membership plugin. You’ll definitely want to use this if you’ve got your own affiliate marketing program operating on your website.
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