=== AffiLinker Affiliate === Contributors: Ven Tesh Donate link: http://www.affilinker.com/affiliate-wordpress-plugin/ Tags: affiliate, affiliate plugin, tag cloud, affilinker, links, link, keywords, google, money, widget Requires at least: 3.0 Tested up to: 3.6 Stable tag: 1.2.0 License: GPLv2 or later Automatically convert given keywords into Search Engine Friendly Affiliate Links (+colorful interactive links) throughout your blog. == Description == The idea of AffiLinker WordPress Plugin is to automatically convert the given keywords into interactive + profitable Affiliate Links that your visitors Love-To-Click. The Affiliate Links on Posts/Pages are Google (search engine) Friendly. Download Pro-Version You can also show collection of Affiliate Links as Link Cloud similar to Tag Cloud on the sidebar, footer of your WordPress blog. AffiLinker is developed to increase your blog income (+one step further, Google friendly)... With AffiLinker, you can add the list of keywords and corresponding Affiliate Links (not only Affiliate Links, you can add any URL). Now AffiLinker, automatically turns all those keywords into the given Affiliate Link. You can customize the look-n-feel of each and every Affiliate Link to make your visitors Love-To-Click. The Affiliate Links on posts, pages are not indexable directly by search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo because they are dynamically generated using javascript. You could not find the Affiliate Link in the source code of your web page. Keep in mind, this is not a black-hat plugin to hide affiliate links. Features of AffiLinker Affiliate WordPress Plugin: - Quickly monetize your WordPress blog without touching any code - Create search engine friendly Affiliate Links (non-indexable) - Customize every Affiliate Link with different Color, Background Color, Hover Color, Hover Background Color - Customize every Affiliate Link with different style Bold, Italics - Customize every Affiliate Link with different Underline styles (there are 10 different styles) - Track clicks on each Affiliate Links. Get to know, number of clicks (unique clicks, total clicks), best performing keywords, best performing blog posts/pages - Cloak junk and lengthy Affiliate Links into short, professional link - Restrict Specified blog posts/pages from not showing Affiliate Links - Allow only Specified blog posts/pages to show Affiliate Links - Show/Hide Affiliate Links on blog homepage - Add/Remove "NoFollow" tag to each and every Affiliate Link (on blog comments, affilinker widget) - Choose the target window (like new window or current window), where to open when the user clicks on an Affiliate Link - Maximize on-page SEO by automatically inter-linking the specified keywords and URLs (using Affilinker sidebar widget) - Option to quickly disable/enable all the functionalities of AffiLinker - Looking for even more features ? Download the premium version here. Pro-Version Features: - Manage unlimited number of Affiliate Links and keywords - Show Affiliate Links only on certian blog posts with minimum word count (for example, show Affiliate Link only on blog posts with more than 400 words) - Specify priority keywords, AffiLinker gives importance to Priority Keywords by first converting them into Affiliate Links (useful, if you are restricting the number of Affiliate Links per blog post/page) - Customize every Affiliate Link with different font size, font name Note: This free version works with most of the interesting features but restricted to manage 3 different Affiliate Links only. You can always upgrade to the Premium version of AffiLinker for more links and more features. Watch the premium versions Demo video (10-minutes video, please be patience to understand). [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZqj6sBN2qE] Good Luck ! == Installation == 1. Download and unpack .zip file 2. Upload `AffiLinker` directory to `wp-contents/plugins/` directory 3. Activate through the Plugins menu in WordPress == Frequently Asked Questions == = What is the purpose of AffiLinker Affiliate WordPress Plugin ? = Long story short, AffiLinker helps to quickly monetize your WordPress blog and helps to increase your blog income instantly + search engine friendly. It converts the specified keywords into given Affiliate Links automatically that are not indexable by search engines like Google and you can also show a collection of Affiliate Links as a Cloud on Sidebar/Footerbar. = Do inserting Affiliate Links using JavaScript runtime is a legitimate way ? = Yes, there is nothing wrong in using JavaScript to generated Links runtime. In fact, search engines like Google are evolving intelligently to fetch URLs from JavaScript. However, with AffiLinker the links are not visible in the source code and they are generated runtime. Links are simply kept like ascii encoded. Keep in mind, this is not a black-hat plugin to hide affiliate links. Affiliate Links placed only in blog posts, pages are created using JavaScript and Affiliate Links on comment section, link cloud are all normal HTML links. = Do you have a premium version of AffiLinker ? = Yes, the premium version has more interesting features. Please download it here. = Why do Affiliate Links are not appearing in my blog posts,pages ? = AffiLinker relies on wp_footer. If your WordPress theme doesn't uses wp_footer, you may not see Affiliate Links so make sure your theme uses wp_footer according to WordPress guidelines. = Is it possible to customize the link style uniquely for each and every Affiliate Link ? = Yes, with AffiLinker you can choose different styles like: Link Color, Link Background Color, Link Hover Color, Link Hover Background Color, Font Size, Font Name, bold, italics. = Is it possible to add NoFollow tags to the links ? = Yes, you can add or remove the NoFollow tags for each and every link. Applicable only for Affiliate Links on comment section, AffiLinker widget (but Affiliate Links on blog posts, pages are always invisible to search engines). Just uncheck/check the “Add NoFollow” option. = Is it possible to select the target window for each link ? = Yes, you can choose the target window (either to open in same window or new window) for each and every link. Just uncheck/check the “Same Window” option. = Is it possible to find number of clicks received by each links ? = Yes, there is a built-in hit counter which shows the total number of clicks, unique number of clicks received for each links and also, the blog post/pages that are performing better. = What are those 4 types of widget options ? = 1 – AffiLinker Cloud which shows the links as a tag cloud – to enable select “ Keywords as Cloud” in widget options. 2 – AffiLinker List which shows the links as a list – to enable select “ Keywords as List” in widget options. 3,4 - Interactive Links which shows the links as a tag/cloud with all the styles applied. == Screenshots == 1. Options to add your new link and keywords 2. AffiLinker cloud widget options 3. Options to edit, delete the selected links and keywords 4. General settings of AffiLinker 5. Track clicks on each and every Affiliate Link 6. Sample links created using AffiLinker == Changelog == = 1.0 = * Initial release version = 1.1.0 = * Code changes done to keep the affiliate links encoded so that they are not seen on the source code and not directly indexable by search engines. * Nofollow'd the js links as even evolving search engines (like Google,Bing) can execute and interpret dynamically generated links. = 1.2.0 = * Improved UI * Bug fix for WordPress 3.6 compatibility * Optimized the code for faster execution * Improvements to take correct default values == Other Notes == NA == Upgrade Notice == NA