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Integrate ClickBank Products On Your Blog With WordPress Affiliate

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club

It’s always worth looking at additional ways to monetize a blog. Many blogs rely on income from banner sales, Google Adsense and paid reviews though integrating affiliate links in or around your content can prove worthwhile too, particularly if they are closely related to your product.

Today I will be looking at WordPress Affiliate, a WordPress plugin launched today which easily integrates ClickBank products above or below your blog posts.

Like all WordPress plugins, installing WordPress Affiliate is just a matter of uploading it to your blogs plugins folder and activating it. Once activated, you can setup the plugin in the settings area.

You need to enter your ClickBank ID and your affiliate TID, which is a unique code which will appear in your ClickBank stats so you know what referral link generated a sale. Next you need enter some keywords. These keywords will determine what products are listed on your blog.

You can determine if your ads are displayed on the home page of your blog or just in your blog posts and can decide whether to post the links above posts, below posts or both. You can set how many ads appear too. Once you have entered all of these details, you simply save your settings and your blog posts will be updated with ClickBank products related to your chosen keywords.

The good thing about WordPress Affiliate is that the related products link changes for every article (assuming that there are many products related to your keywords).

You can also control the way the links are displaying via the admin area. You can change the type and size of font and the colour of the links. Alternatively, you can use your own custom css code.

WordPress Affiliate really is very easy to use. It only takes a minute or so to setup and be active. I wish there was more control over where the links were placed though. With basic designs it’s perhaps not a big issue as the links are automatically placed underneath the post however on BloggingTips this didn’t blend in well.

Hopefully they add a feature in the next version which allows you to insert the code manually into your template.

Overview

If you are looking for an easy way to integrate random ClickBank products into your blog then you should definitely look at WordPress Affiliate. I do think however that it could be improved in a few ways.

For example, it would be great if it showed you impression stats of what products have been displayed, the click throughs they generated and which ones converted to sales. And perhaps an option to integrate products which are converting well into the random list too. WP comes with free upgrades for life so perhaps customers will see this in the future.

WordPress Affiliate retails for $94. The plugin can be used on an unlimited number of domains and all customers get free technical support too.

Link: WordPress Affiliate.

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Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on November 25th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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7 Responses to “Integrate ClickBank Products On Your Blog With WordPress Affiliate”

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Patti Stafford says:

November 25, 2009 at 11:26 am

Hey Kevin,

Great post!

In your opinion–and–in the long run, do you think it’s worth the price tag? That’s pretty steep for a plugin. Would the ROI be worth it for a blog that doesn’t have a ton of traffic?

I know it’d be a great add-on for the “Big Guys,” but would it be feasible for a blog that’s not as popular as BloggingTips, CopyBlogger, or ProBlogger?

Do you think $47 would be a better price range for something of this nature? Just curious.

Have a great week!
Patti
- Kevin Muldoon says:
  
  November 25, 2009 at 11:50 am
  
  That’s something I probably should have commented on. I think you’re right, the more traffic you have, the more benefit you are going to get from a plugin like this.
  
  For low traffic blogs, I don’t think it would be worthwhile unless the products being listed converted well (i.e. good products with good commissions).
  
  It’s difficult for me to say whether $94 is too expensive though. Perhaps it is. However, I’ve not actively marketed any ClickBank products so I’m not sure how well their products convert on average.
chris says:

November 25, 2009 at 11:27 am

This looks like a great solution for all bloggers. It’s like adsense targeted ads, only with clickbank!
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