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Thursday, September 18, 2008

WP Affiliate Pro

I make no bones about the fact that I love Wordpress and you really have to go a long way to finding a better open source publishing platform for the web. Because of this I’m always looking for Wordpress plugins to manage different tasks on my websites and sometimes I come across a plugin that really blows me away. WP Affiliate Pro is just that!

Monetizing your website or blog is key to its long term success and just like many tasks it can take a lot of time to do effectively. In addition affiliate marketing from my personal experience is one of the best ways to make money online. This is where Wordpress Affiliate pro comes into play as it makes it incredibly easy to create and manage your affiliate links across your Wordpress site.

So how does it work? Well like any Wordpress plugin its a simple case of installing the plugin and activating it via your Wordpress dashboard. Once activated you will be able to add an affiliate link to any chosen keyword that appears in any blog entry on your site. Now this feature alone is a massive time saver but WP Affiliate Pro goes a long way beyond that by providing the several more advanced features. I’ve listed these below for easy reference;

It automatically hides your affiliate links from visitors so they don’t see anything in the status bar and can’t right clock on the affiliate link
It allows you to control how many times you want each affiliate link to show up in a post
It allows you to track how many times each link has been clicked by visitors
You get product support
100% compatible with AdSense and other forms of contextual advertising
It allows you to change the colour and style of your links
So this is all powerful stuff and as you would expect this comes at a cost. Now to be honest you can get free plugins that provide similar functions and if you google for “wordpress affiliate plugins” you’ll no doubt find something however these have nowhere near the power of WP Affiliate Pro and personally, I’d rather pay a small fee ( currently $97) to get the real deal.

WP Affiliate Pro comes as one one our recommended Wordpress Plugins and you can make up your own mind by visiting the official website.

Automated Cash Formula

Make Money Online; Do Nothing! The Automated Cash Formula:

Again I spent $37 on a IM product. This time it’s called “Automated Cash Formula” by Dave Gale. After reading the ebook I searched on the net for its review. I could only find lots of bogus affiliate reviews. So I decided to write this unbiased review ( as always)

The Claim:

Make money on the internet without a website, a product, investment, traffic or marketing. Just spend few hours for research; send few mails and see cash rolling to your bank account- hands free!

The Formula:

JV brokering: In simple words “two tier affiliate programs.”

The Concept;

Recruit an army of sub-affiliates in any niche market; leverage your sub-affiliates effort; make small commission from sales made by your sub-affiliates.

If you are an experienced marketer, by now you should have understood this concept. And I cannot reveal exact step-by-step details of this concept as it is a paid product.

My Opinion:

This NOT a new concept as the author claims. This concept has been discussed on most of IM discussion forums. And I know few people who make pretty decent money doing it. This formula “may” work for you. But personally it’s not worth my time. And if you are one of those very “fortunate people” you would probably make a small fortune.

As you probably know, 5% marketers make 95% of the money. To make this formula really work you have to recruit those 5% marketers; that’s a tough job because those top marketers always get tons of JV proposals and deal requests. And you’d be very lucky to recruit 1 out of 100 proposals. But if that one person can make you hands-free money why not?

The Pro’s:

Reasonably well written step-by-step document on how to find a niche market; how to find a good affiliate program which pays decent two tier commission in your niche; how to find potential sub-affiliate who got high traffic site/list…. in a wizard format. It also contains a sample proposal letter for affiliate recruitment.

The Con’s:

I have already mentioned it in “my opinion.”

Scam Alert…Fake Income Claim!

I know many people would visit this page searching for “Automated Cash Formula Scam” etc… that’s a recent trend!