Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money online. There are several ways you can make money with affiliate programs. You can make money with your current traffic by talking about products you love. You can also create your own affiliate programs to have other people sell your products for you. It makes sense to integrate affiliate programs into your WordPress website.
Fortunately, it's not that hard to manage affiliate programs from your WordPress website. In this list, we're going to take a look at the 10 best affiliate plugins for WordPress. Many have both a free and a paid version. I provide the prices for the starting pro version. They are not in any particular order.
1. ThirstyAffiliates Affiliate Link Manager
ThirstyAffiliates adds some links to the WordPress editor so that you can add affiliate links. You create the links in a dashboard. Adding links works the same as adding any link.
Click the button and search for your link. Select it and click to add. Group your links into categories. Add images for affiliate links. It has safe redirects and smart unveiling. It also includes reports and statistics allowing you to track your clicks on affiliate links. It has a free version and a pro version.
Price: 49 $ | More information
2. AffiliationWP
AffiliateWP is an affiliate system with lots of extensions and features to choose from. It includes lots of tools like sponsorship tracking, coupons, affiliate management, real-time reporting, ecommerce integration, automation, referral rate types, etc.
It also includes messaging tools, cookie expiration, export, developer APIs and shortcodes for placing forms, links, and more. View logs and export your data in CSV format. It is easy to set up and use.
Price: 99 $ | More information
3. Affiliate Manager
Affiliates Manager allows you to create your own affiliate programs. It integrates with popular ecommerce plugins and makes it easy to recruit, sign up, sign in and manage affiliates. It will track referrals and provide real-time reports. You can set affiliate rates and payment for automatic or manual payments through PayPal. You can have an unlimited number of affiliates and ads.
Price: Free | More information
4. Easy Affiliate Links
Easy Affiliate Links allows you to manage all of your affiliate links. You can create hidden links or leave specific links unmasked for compatibility with Amazon.
You can assign categories to your links. Import or export and track monthly or lifetime clicks. You can get premium add-ons for statistics, geo-specific links, A/B testing to test your link text, and a broken link checker.
Price: Free | More information
5. Auto Affiliate Links
Auto Affiliate Links automatically adds affiliate links to your content. It connects your content to affiliate programs like Clickbank, Shareasale, Commission Junction, Amazon, eBay, Walmart, BestBuy, and the Envato Marketplace. It does not alter your content.
Instead, links are added when your content is displayed. It includes an administration panel where you can make all your settings. You can define the links to follow or unfollow, choose the keywords containing links, limit the number of links displayed, and set links to be hidden if desired.
Price: Free | More information
6. Ultimate Affiliate Pro
Ultimate Affiliate Pro allows you to set up and manage your own affiliate programs. Set up a multi-level marketing (MLM) strategy in which your affiliates create their own campaigns. You can set up different rewards and amounts based on ranks and specials. It includes ranks with achievements and performance bonuses.
It provides comprehensive metrics on 8 different cost types. Set lifetime commissions if you want and recurring referrals. Set up payments with PayPal and Stripe. It includes lots of integrations, coupons, notifications, QR codes, user-friendly affiliate links, reports and much more.
Price: 49 $ | More information
7. Affiliates
Affiliates offers both a free edition and a professional edition that helps you run an affiliate marketing program. Manage an unlimited number of affiliates and integrate them into any type of platform including e-commerce, member-area sites, lead generation, and more.
Commissions are built in so you don't have to manage them. Use the shortcodes to create pages that provide affiliate performance information. It also includes a partner referral program for multilevel marketing. It includes many integrations and extensions for e-commerce platforms and plugins from forms the most popular.
Price: 59 $ | More information
8. Adsanity
AdSanity makes it easy to place self-hosted, networked ads anywhere on your website. It provides plenty of display options including short codes, widgets, and template tags. Post options include date. You can set the dates for individual announcements.
The statistics Charts display your stats per ad so you can see how each ad is performing. You can set the date range for statistics. Many add-ons are available to detect ad blocking software, display them based on conditions, Google Analytics, custom ad size, widgets, etc.
Price: 49 $ | More information
9. Royal Affiliate
Affiliate Royale makes it easy to create affiliate programs and affiliate sites for your WordPress site. It provides a personalized dashboard that your affiliates can log into. You can track affiliate performance and check clicks and sales.
The affiliate program integrates with your shopping cart and does not require monthly payments or a percentage of the affiliate transaction. It is easy to set up and integrate into your website design.
Price: 85 $ | More information
10. Amazon Auto Links - Amazon Associates Affiliate Plugin
Amazon Auto Links makes it easy to manage your Amazon affiliate links. You choose your categories and it automatically links to your Affiliate ID for 10 different locales.
You can insert the ads as a widget, shortcode, or in your theme's PHP code. Create your own templates, search for specific products, filter out unwanted products, and use custom buttons.
You can customize the outputs or use custom templates. Set image sizes, sort order, and use URL masking if you want. You can export your ads to external feeds so that you can use them with RSS or with your apps.
Price: Free | More information
Finally
That's it for this list of plugins, I hope you find a plugin that will get you started. If you think a plugin should be on the list, feel free to let it know in the comments.
