Manage Affiliate Links With WordPress Affiliate Pro

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There are, ultimately, two ways to make money with your blog:

1. By writing your little heart out; and/or

2. Through advertising.

The key to making #2 work is, ironically enough, doing #1 since writing your little heart out will bring traffic, and traffic’s essential to making money through advertising.

I’ve been writing my little heart out for a while on 5 separate blogs and, let me just tell you, it’s a lot of work. I’m tired. I’ll feel less tired in the morning, no doubt, but tomorrow night I’ll be tired again. Lather, rinse, repeat as necessary to continue making #2 happen.

The fact that I can’t, despite my best efforts, find an additional 8 hours in the day between homeschooling my son, writing my blogs and keeping a reasonably decent house and marriage is exactly why I’ve been exploring affiliate opportunities of late. By the end of my first day, however, I found it impossible to keep mental track of the various affiliate programs and links I’m involved with. (Hence my sudden desire to purge my wall of sticky notes, I suppose.)

Today I ran across a WordPress plugin that made many of those sticky notes unnecessary. I no longer have to mentally keep track of which affiliate links I’m running on which blog, much less how they’re performing and whether it’s time to change them out.

I found WP Affiliate Pro, an easily-installed plugin that automatically replaces my chosen keywords with the affiliate links I’ve selected. BOOM! Instant stress-relief. Better yet: WP Affiliate Pro also keeps track of clicks for me, which means that I can compare my own records with various’ companies reports. I love that — I’m one of those types who feels the need to be “in the loop” when it comes to managing the money I make blogging.

WP Affiliate Pro isn’t free. It runs around $97, as a matter of fact. But it’s worth every penny.

How do I know?

Well, because I spent all of 1 hour today adding affiliate links on my various blogs and I’ve already made back the money I spent on it. Meanwhile, I know that next year I’ll be able to write it off as one of my blog-related tax deductions.

Sweet.

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