Many content publishers use the marketing affiliate to earn money online. The problem is that sometimes you can forget to add affiliate links in your article, thus leaving money on the table. Luckily, there is an easy solution to recouping that income. In this tutorial, we will show you how to automatically link keywords with affiliate links in WordPress.
How do automatic affiliate links work in WordPress?
Automatic plugins for affiliate links allow you to convert keywords specific or brand mentions in affiliate links. This helps you unlock as much revenue as possible on your existing blog posts.
From time to time, you will sometimes forget to add affiliate links on your articles. This problem becomes even more significant when you have a multi-author blog.
Auto affiliate link plugins fix this problem and help you maximize your earnings.
Another benefit of auto affiliate linking is that it will also add links to your old articles where a specific keyword is mentioned. This not only allows you to monetize your new content, but also profit from your old articles.
Let's take a look at how to easily set up the automatic affiliate link solution on your WordPress site.
Create automatic links with ThirstAffiliates
ThirstAffiliates is the best affiliate link manager plugin on the market. A lot of bloggers use it these days.
The first thing you need to do is install and activate the plugin ThirstyAffiliates. For more details, see our step-by-step guide to way to install a WordPress plugin.
When activating, you must visit the page Adders by ThirstyAffiliates and scroll down to the Autolinker addon section. Then click on the "Go to add page" button to continue.
This will take you to the ThirstyAffiliates website. Autolinker is a paid extension, and it costs $ 49. You will probably have to recoup this investment in the first month if you set it up correctly.
After making the purchase, you will be able to download the extension. Then you have to install the Autolinker extension as if you are installing any other WordPress Plugin.
After activation, go to the " Affiliate Links » and scroll down to the “Autolinker” section.
First, you need to provide the license key for the “Autolinker. »You can get this information on your account ThirstyAffiliates.
Next, you need to enter the email address used to purchase the extension. Below you will see options to enable or disable autholinking on certain pages like homepage, archives and labels. You can also enable auto linking for custom post types and bbPress forum topics.
We strongly recommend that you enable the Random Autolink Placement option as it makes its affiliate links more natural. If this option is disabled, Autolinker will simply link the first keyword it finds. Although it's not bad if you only complete each mention or keyword once, but it looks extremely bad when you have the replacement frequency greater than 1 (multiple times on the same post).
We also recommend that you allow autolinking in your RSS feeds. This will help you maximize your earnings from readers who only read your site through RSS readers. Another advantage is that it allows you to make money from people who steal content from your site.
Once you have configured your settings, don't forget to click on the “Save settings” button to save your changes.
You are now ready to add affiliate links. Access to affiliate links »Add new page to add your first affiliate link.
You will need to provide a link name and destination URL. Next, scroll down to the autolinking section and add keywords that you want to be automatically linked.
You can add multiple keywords separated by a comma. You can also set a limit on how many times a keyword can be linked to in an article.
In most cases, we recommend the limit of 1 link per keyword. In the past we had 3 links per keyword, but it gets really crowded as your site grows and you have hundreds of affiliate links.
Do not forget to click on the button « Save Link To add your affiliate link.
Now whenever these keywords appear in an article, they will automatically be linked to the affiliate link you added above.
That's it for this tutorial, I hope it will allow you to add affiliate links automatically on WordPress.
