WordPress powers about 25% of the internet. In the past couple of years, entrepreneurs and bloggers have become more creative in the ways that they earn money through their sites, and developers have worked on providing plugins and services to support those ways.
When affiliate marketing, a type of performance- based marketing, came up and started working for so many, developers began looking into how they can make it easier for entrepreneurs. They not only did that, but they also built it specifically for WordPress; a platform that most entrepreneurs in the business use.
Affiliate marketing rewards both parties. Your business gets more sales, and your affiliate earns from the commission. These affiliates are given an URL to track how many sales they’ve made and the commissions they’ve earned. It’s great for store owners as affiliates a walking talking ad for your site. They drive traffic your way and encourage people to make a purchase. If a purchase is made, you pay the affiliate, if not, you don’t. There are so many ways for affiliate marketing to be done.WordPress needed a versatile affiliate solution, and so AffiliateWP aimed to be that solution.
AffliateWP has all the basics that you would ever need to start and manage your affiliate program. You can also do it all from the comforting and familiar WordPress dashboard. This eliminates any need for you to make use of any additional outside services that require a monthly fee. It aims to help boost your traffic, help you rank higher, earn more money, and inevitably grow your business.
How?
First, of, it’s extremely easy to setup. If you’ve been running a WordPress site for a while now, installing the plugin wouldn’t even need any concentration. From installing to managing it, it works just like every other plugin you’ve installed for your site. And you’ll be managing it from your WordPress dashboard, so there’s no adjustment period needed neither. You can move straight on to thinking about how to make money.
AffiliateWP allows you to have an unlimited number of affiliates actively promoting your business, and unlimited resources for your affiliates to use to do so. This gives you tons of visibility and more opportunities. It also has accurate and reliable tracking, even on servers with aggressive caching so that you won’t lose track of your referrals.
Speaking of tracking referrals, AffiliateWP offers real-time reporting of that as well as the affiliate-referred visits, earnings, and affiliate registrations. With such easy registration, creation, and management, being able to keep track of everything without any delay is a huge advantage for busy business owners.
If you’re worried about getting affiliate into your program, take a look at your affiliate dashboard. You will get a default registration form for users to register as affiliates instantly. You have the option to automatically accept accounts so that your affiliates can get started right away, and you can create affiliate URLs that both parties would like. There are many tools that not only benefit you but your affiliates as well.
Apart from the specific tools and features included, this developer-friendly plugin also includes extensive documentation, prepared translations, world-class support, and seamless integration with WordPress. You’d think that with all these, AffiliateWP could suffer speed-wise. But it doesn’t. AffiliateWP is performance-ready and has been tested and build with speed in mind.
The main problem, anyone could ultimately have, is if their site didn’t run on WordPress. But guess what, it also seamlessly and beautifully integrate with 22 popular eCommerce, membership, form, and invoice WordPress plugins. WooCommerce, WP eCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, Shopp, Gravity Forms, and so many others are good to go.
Their prices range from $99 per year for their Personal subscription, to a $499 one-time payment Ultimate subscription. Their most popular subscription, costing $249 per year, includes 14 pro add-ons, 15 official free add-ons, plugin updates, email support, unlimited sites, and includes all core features. Not a bad deal for a feature- packed plugin.
