Needed Related Affiliate Offers Plugin
March 3rd, 2008 by Michael Gray in Affiliate MarketingIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
So you’ve seen the Aizatto’s Related Posts plugin that I use here and other people use as well. Which got me thinking we need one for affiliate offers too. In addition to scanning the text it would be great if it could look at tags and categories. So let’s say you run a fashion blog and you’re blogging about a pair of peep toe Mary janes you came across.
How cool would it be if at the end of the post a plugin read your tag and threw in links to several different affiliate program links based on the tags, category, and content. Imagine you are writing a post about traveling to Chicago and at the end of the post it drops in affiliate links to Expedia, Travelocity for Chicago.
Yes my conversion minded friends will tell me you should be doing this now directly in the post, and I agree for single products and offerings. The problem is links and offers change and expire and maintenance is a PIA. So if perhaps there was something a little fuzzier that made it less painful it would be easier. If it had some formatting and date activated options that would be nice too.
Please don’t suggest triggit, the interface/implementation is awful, clunky, and it locks you into the CJ/Triggit system, I want something program agnostic.
Yes you could use things which directly link words in the post, but like it or not disclosure in the aff/word of mouth world is looming on the horizon and isolating it in a discloseable way is smart planning for tomorrow.
So if you’d like to develop this project open source and want me to give you an ever so gentle nudge in the right direction, and pimp you out if you release it, get in touch.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Doesn’t http://www.linkxl.com already do something like this?
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Michael, upon clicking the link to Aizatto’s, I received this message:
“This user has elected to delete their account and the content is no longer available.”
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:34 pm
I am SO all about anything that can help me with my laziness.
And by “help” I mean “let me be”. Hahha. Sounds awesome though, I hope you share the wealth after the plugin’s built.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Are you talking about something like The Rubicon Project? >http://rubiconproject.com/
March 6th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Actually LinkXL does have a plugin for WordPress. Once installed it indexes the content of all your pages (except home) and inventories them for advertisers to buy at any time. And now they offer both DoFollow and NoFollow. Publishers sets the pricing and the links are rented monthly.