September 7, 2007

Make Money On Your Blog With The aLinks Plugin

Here's an easy way to make money on your blog without much active effort. It's the aLinks WordPress plugin and it's definitely worth a look.

The aLinks plugin takes the words and phrases you commonly use on your blog and turns them into links and affiliate links - automatically.


The aLinks plugin can create links for many popular affiliate programs and can be expanded to handle all of them. It allows you to use links in your posts instead of banner ads - that no one pays attention to anyway. Just post like you normally do and aLinks will find the keywords and keyphrases and turn them into links. No more having to copy and paste your affiliate codes and URLs.

The latest version of aLinks (Version 1.0rc1) offers these new features:

  • All new keyphrase module system allows for infinitely expandable support for all types of keyphrases.
  • Improved outbound click tracking, with more data and prettier graphs!
  • Import/Export your keyphrases and settings.
  • Built in help.
  • XML-RPC services.
Deeper Blog Keyphrases

If your traffic is anything like mine, then a good amount of it comes from Google and other search engine searches. And many times those people will read a post and just move on. They're not interested in blogs or in reading blogs regularly. They just want an answer to their queries.

But as a blogger, your goal should always be to bring people "deeper" into your blog. To show them that there's more valuable content for them. How do you do that? With the aLinks Deeper Blog module.

The Deeper Blog module will automatically create links in your post to other posts on your blog that have related content. For example, if you define the keyphrase "make money blogging" and use that phrase in a post, aLinks will automatically turn it into a link to your other blog posts that use the term "making money blogging".

As you can see, the aLilnks Deeper Blog module can really help you get more readers, more traffic, more page views and more clicks. And that means one thing...more money for you!

14 comments:

  1. Looks like a great plugin. I love anything that automates the tedious things we have to do manually day in and day out on our sites.

    Tom

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  2. Good call Tom. aLinks is a definitely a good plugin. Problogger wrote even blogged it.

    "...Auto links which will automatically link to URLs when you mention certain keywords. This is especially handy if you find yourself mentioning site’s regularly. It also has the ability to turn keywords into Amazon searches (with your associate/affiliate ID) which some will find handy."

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  3. Good call Tom. aLinks is a definitely a good plugin. Problogger even blogged it a while back.

    "...Auto links which will automatically link to URLs when you mention certain keywords. This is especially handy if you find yourself mentioning site’s regularly. It also has the ability to turn keywords into Amazon searches (with your associate/affiliate ID) which some will find handy."

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  4. Well said Tom and Anonymous. And that's just it...automation! I've used the plugin on other blogs and I definitely have to say that it's well worth it.

    But the automation is the key. Sometimes you just forget to link to your older posts. Or, you simply forget that some of them have related content. But aLinks remedies that. :)

    Shine on,
    Aaron

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  5. What an innovation. Internet marketing continues to amaze me. This is a brilliant concept. Thanks a lot for this introduction.
    Cheers.

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  6. You're quite welcome Malathy! It's things like this that allow us to spend less time worrying about links and more time working on great content. :)

    I'd like to see more plugins and innovations like this. The more automation we have, the better.

    Thanks for your visit! :)

    Shine on,
    Aaron

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  7. I'll have to check it out. I am a member of Kontera but I can't use it. Whenever I use the Kontera plugin, my site gets so slow it never stops opening the page. It decreases my sites overall speed by at least 75% and I've yet to figure out why.

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  8. Bobby, I'm assuming that you were using the WordPress plugin for Kontera, is that correct? If so, have you tried using the snippet of code Kontera gives you in your account in the ContentLink Toolbox instead? You just put the code at the bottom of your template right before the closing BODY tag.

    I've read where the plugin can slow down loading time while Kontera searches for keywords, but I don't know whether or not the code does. I know I haven't seen a difference. So it might be worth a try.

    Shine on,
    Aaron

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  9. Thanks Aaron! Yes, it's the Kontera plug in from wordpress. My template is built using sandbox and is a bit different than most other wp templates. I should have thought about actually reading all the Kontera instructions for an alternative! Hopefully, it may work better just inserting the code. Thanks for pointing that out!!! :)

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  10. Bobby: You're most certainly welcome! Try using the actual Kontera code, as opposed to the Kontera WordPress plugin, and see how it goes.

    If you need help installing it, just let me know! I've helped other WordPressers install it, and I'm certainly more than happy to help you as well. :)

    Shine on,
    Aaron

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  11. Interesting looking plugin, Aaron. One thing I'd be curious about is the amount of text links it will create and how much control you have over them. I used Kontera briefly and even after applying some filters and asking them TWICE to decrease the number of links, it was really overwhelming. Each of my posts looked like mini link farms...lol. That just wasn't cool ;P

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  12. Hi Mike,

    Yeah, too many links can definitely be a bad thing. Luckily, I haven't had that kind of trouble with Kontera.

    As for aLinks, you essentially define the keywords/keyphrases that show up as links. Basically, which ever ones you assign URLs to would be the ones that are turned into links.

    Shine on,
    Aaron

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  13. Hey Aaron, the code works great! It loads much faster than the plugin and that makes me a happy camper:)

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  14. That's good to hear Bobby! Glad I was able to help. :)

    Shine on,
    Aaron

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