Advanced Affiliate Marketing

1. Advanced Affiliate Marketing By Missy Ward @MissyWard

2. Missy’s Favorite Affiliate Marketing Plugins & Widgets for WordPress MissyWard.com @MissyWard

3. Independent Plugins • Pretty Link Lite - Takes long affiliate links and automatically shortens and masks them into links containing your domain which can be easily redirected. [http://www.missyward.com/prettylinklite] • Broken Link Checker – monitors your blog looking for broken links and lets you know if any are found so that you can redirect them and not lose any commissions. [http://www.missyward.com/BLC] • PopShops – allows you to create a customizable product storefront on your blog complete with current deals from their 4000+ merchants and over 50-million products. Can display in-post, sidebar, footer and static pages. [http://www.missyward.com/popshops] • SEO Smart Link – Automatically appends a specific URL any time you mention a specific word in your blog posts. [http://www.missyward.com/seo-smart-links] • Simple Ads Manager – Manage ad placements with very flexible logic and tracking system [http://www.missyward.com/simple-ads-mgr] MissyWard.com @MissyWard

4. Independent Plugins • Skimlinks: Dynamically converts links into affiliate links and words into product affiliate links without having to join any affiliate programs (75%/.25% split). [http://www.missyward.com/skimlinks] • VigLink: Similar to Skimlinks but payment net 60 vs. net 90 and more almost twice the amount of merchants. [http://www.missyward.com/viglink] • Bounce Links – Dynamically converts links to affiliate links by entering the Network’s ID. You keep the relationship with the merchant. • WP125 – Easy management of 125x125 ads on your blog with very simple tracking. [http://www.missyward.com/wp125] MissyWard.com @MissyWard

5. Company-Affiliated Plugins • [ShareASale] ShareASale Product Suggestions –as you’re writing a post, you can search for products without ever leaving WP to add into the post with your link already attached. [http://www.missyward.com/sassuggest] • [Amazon] Affiliate Link Localizer – automatically takes Amazon product links in your posts and turns them into your affiliate links. [http://www.missyward.com/amazon-all] • [AvantLink] Product Content Widget- allows you to take a product that several stores on the AvantLink network carry produce a widget displaying price comparison with your affiliate links embedded [http://www.missyward.com/avantlink-pcw] • [Linkshare] Dealfeed – integrates both Linkshare’s Coupon API and the RSS feeds from Linkshare advertisers to populate your blog with deals and other promotional content. [http://www.missyward.com/linkshare-df] MissyWard.com @MissyWard

6. Free (and Nearly Free)! MissyWard.com @MissyWard

7. Missy’s Favorite Free (and Nearly Free) Affiliate Marketing Tools & Resources • Forums: • aBestWeb.com • Wickedfire(if you can look past the crudeness of some members) • DigitalPoint • Warriorforum • Top 25 Affiliate Marketing Blogs of 2012: • Get the list here: http://www.missyward.com/top25blogs MissyWard.com @MissyWard

8. Missy’s Favorite Free (and Nearly Free) Affiliate Marketing Tools & Resources • Magazines • FeedFront Magazine [All affiliate marketing – all of the time, written by the folks that actually do it.] • Website Magazine [Caters exclusively to the business of running a website] • Internet Retailer [Online retailing strategies, marketing practices, technologies, etc.] • Target Marketing [Direct marketing magazine – covers online and offline] MissyWard.com @MissyWard

9. Missy’s Favorite Free (and Nearly Free) Affiliate Marketing Tools & Resources • Podcasts • Geekcast.fm Podcast Network [offers dozens of free internet marketing podcasts, many which are targeted to affiliate marketers] • Affiliate Buzz by James Martell [Podcasting since 2003 - http://jamesmartell.com/category/affiliate-buzz/ MissyWard.com @MissyWard

10. Missy’s Favorite Free (and Nearly Free) Affiliate Marketing Tools & Resources • Webinars & Videos • Affiliate Summit Youtube Channel – offers over 600 videos from Affiliate Summit sessions covering just about every affiliate marketing topic there is. [http://www.youtube.com/affiliatesummit/] • Linkshare Publisher Webinars - A dozen or so pre-recorded webinars targeted to help new and seasoned affiliates [http://www.missyward.com/linkshaeweb] • ShareASale Webinars: Live webinars with content targeted at ShareASale affiliates [http://www.missyward.com/sasweb] • Commission Junction Webinars: A mix of affiliate and merchant pre-recorded webinars [http://www.missyward.com/cjweb] MissyWard.com @MissyWard

11. Missy’s Favorite Free (and Nearly Free) Affiliate Marketing Tools & Resources • Marketing Tools: • WatchCount.com – Let’s you see the most watched items and what’s hot on eBay • Google Trends – displays “hot searches” of the day and lets you explore the search volume for keywords. • Ripplefire.com and OneLoad.com – allows you to publish your videos across video and social hubs uploading it only once. Also provides tracking. • Viewbix – Customizable skin that allows you to embed your affiliate link in the video, newsletter signup, QR codes and more along with provides detailed analytics. [Tutorial at http://www.missyward.com/viewbix] MissyWard.com @MissyWard

12. Missy’s Favorite Free (and Nearly Free) Affiliate Marketing Tools & Resources • Marketing Tools (Continued): • Luminate: Enables your images to be interactive [annotations, sharing, products in picture]. They share commissions based on product purchases (derived by image tags) attributed to the picture [Think Adsense for pictures] • ShareASale’s Make a Page- Enables you to find products related to your audience and quickly create shopping pages with your ShareASale affiliate links already embedded. • Google Analytics Content Experiments - Tool that can be used to create A/B tests to boost your website conversions. MissyWard.com @MissyWard

13. Missy’s Favorite Free (and Nearly Free) Affiliate Marketing Tools & Resources • Books • Extra Money Answer: by Shawn Collins – step by step instruction on how to build a blog, get traffic and monetize it. $2.99 [http://www.missyward.com/extra-money-answer] • Meetups • Monthly Free Affiliate Summit Local Meetups in cities across the U.S. and Canada: [http://www.affiliatesummit.com/meetups] • Free Affiliate Marketing Advice: • AskMissyWard.com • AskShawnCollins.com MissyWard.com @MissyWard

14. Missy’s 6 Bonus Nuggets MissyWard.com @MissyWard

15. Missy’s 6 Bonus Nuggets: The Stuff No One Tells You • Beware of URL Shorteners [Blacklisting, transfer of assets, interstitial, adding their affiliate link] • Beware of No Sales on your High Traffic Blog Posts with Lots of Clicks. • You CAN ask for higher commissions and custom creatives • You CAN ask to for first right of refusal on new products • You CAN deep link to any page instead of sending traffic to a home page [most merchants] • You MAY be able to run an affiliate link in a post that a PR company has paid you for. Ask! MissyWard.com @MissyWard

16. Are You Up For A Challenge? @MissyWard

17. Take the Missy Ward 30 Day Challenge! • Go home and check out your blog stats. • Look for posts that still garner a lot of traffic or one that you rank highly for a key word • Integrate an affiliate link into it using any method we talked about today. • I will match the commission you earn (up to $200) on that affiliate link. • [Email a link to the post and a copy of your commission stats from the item/program and date range to missyward@gmail.com] MissyWard.com @MissyWard