Do you have an affiliate website on WordPress?
Then you need to make sure you use the below plugins on your site, to maximize the conversions you make out of your affiliate promotions.
Being an affiliate marketer since 2014, I’ve tried and tested dozens of affiliate marketing plugins for boosting conversions.
For this blog post, I’ve distilled down and presented you the 7 WordPress affiliate plugins you need to use on your website.
These are the 7 best WordPress affiliate plugins
#1. Affiliate Link Cloaking Plugins
Affiliate links are messy. They contain tracking parameters, and also strings in the URL.
Most of the visitors, verify the links before clicking them.
Affiliates links if they are inserted as they are, appear quite fishy. So, link cloaking greatly improves user experience and affiliate link CTR.
Pretty Links is one of the best plugins I’ve encountered for link cloaking. This plugin gives you the flexibility to cloak, track, organize, shrink, share and test your links. You can do all these things on your own domain.
It is a great plugin that tracks your links and gives a detailed report of link clicks.
It offers great features like:
- Tracks the number of clicks per link
- Tracks visitor activity with links using its cookie-based system
- Turn on/off tracking for each link
- Create nofollow/noindex links
- Excluding IP Addresses from Stats
- You can select temporary (302 or 307) or permanent (301) redirections for your pretty links
One thing I really liked about this plugin is that you can get rid of the /go/ or /recommended/ in the affiliate links, and make them example.com/product/. With this, it increases your affiliate click CTR.
You can also enable Pretty Links to automatically add affiliate links to the keywords you mention in the settings. This feature is called auto-link keywords.
An upgraded version, Pretty Links Pro is available with significant improvements over the lite version. I’m making use of their pro version, and it’s absolutely worth it. It helps you easily track where affiliate clicks happened and also helps you track conversions.
The free version is available in the WordPress repo.
If you are looking for an alternative to PrettyLinks, you can look into ThirstyAffiliates. It also comes with similar features, but you can’t get rid of affiliate slug’s prefix (/go/ or /recommended/)
#2. Table Builder Plugins
To increase the affiliate sales you can make use of free or paid table builder plugins.
WordPress Gutenberg comes with an inbuilt table block to create the tables. But the downside of this is that you cannot insert the image.
So you may have to look at some other plugins.
You can use a free TablePress plugin. But to make your tables responsive you need to go with its premium version “Responsive Tables”.
There is another drag and drop plugin called WP Table Builder.
With this, you can easily create responsive tables like comparison tables, pricing tables, list tables and many more.
Right now it comes with five elements. For all these elements customization options are available.
- Text
- Image
- List
- Button
- Star Rating
It comes with flexible options like merging cells and split cells. So far, I have found this plugin to be the best free plugin developed keeping ease of use in mind.
Ninjatables
You can create different types of tables with this plugin. It comes with import-export features.
Even if you create thousands of responsive tables it will not make your site slow.
If you are currently using TablePress Plugin or Ultimate Table Plugin, you can easily import them to Ninja Tables with just a single click. Also, you can export the tables to JSON or CSV format.
With Ninja Tables Pro, you can create tables for your woo-commerce products with built-in cart info and checkout buttons, thus boosting your conversions.
To make your tables attractive there are 100+ table styles available for you to choose. Added to that there is a library of 3 most popular CSSs with unlimited color schema!
Below are some of the most used table styles:
- Single Line Cells
- Fixed Layout
- Hover rows
- Bordered table
- Table Inverse
- Striped rows
- Compact Table
- RTL Support
- Data Tables
- Foo Tables
- Stackable Table
- Bootstrap 3 Table Styles
#3. Notification Bar Plugins
I use Elementor on my site. It comes with a free pop up functionality that itself acts as a notification bar. Notification bars are really useful for boosting your website conversions.
I make use of notification bars for all my money posts.
You can see that for the above comparison post, I have a notification bar displayed at the bottom of the screen with affiliate buttons to the respective products. I also have this kind of notification bars for individual product reviews.
For implementing the above, I’m making use of the Elementor popups feature, ACF plugin, and also a dynamic content feature of Elementor.
Many popular popup plugins like Optinmonster come with notification bars too. Or else, you can make use of any free WordPress plugins like WP Notification Bars.
#4. Popup plugin
Popups are a great way to boost affiliate sales. But before using popups on your website, you need to make sure that the product’s affiliate terms and services allow it. For example, Amazon affiliate’s TOS doesn’t allow you to promote their products in any kind of popup.
For popups, I’m again making use of Elementor’s popup feature. You can also use some pop-up plugins like OptinMonster, Thrive Leads, and Poptin (free WP plugin).
When choosing popups plugin for boosting affiliate sales, you need to look into the following features:
- Exit-intent functionality
- Slide-ins
- Scroll triggered popups
- Click-trigger popups
You can consider offering your visitors a special offer or discount prior to them leaving your blog post.
#5. Content-Aware Sidebars
With this plugin, you can boost conversions by displaying different widgets based on conditions. You can insert the shortcodes and also make them appear or even schedule them to display at specific times.
You are free to create post sidebars, page sidebars, category sidebars, or any custom sidebars.
If you have an Amazon affiliate site, you can consider displaying the post-specific bestseller list in the sidebar. It will increase your conversions by a great extent.
You can also consider making these sidebars sticky, making use of Q2W3 widget and make sure that the sidebar remains on top no matter how many visitors scroll down your page.
You can display or hide the widgets on any of your posts based on these conditions:
- Posts, Pages & Custom Post Types
- Content with Tags, Categories, or Custom Taxonomies
- Content written by selected Authors
- Page Templates
- Blog Page & Post Type Archives
- Author Archives
- Taxonomy Archives
- Date Archives
- Front Page, Search Results, 404 Not Found Page
- Any Combination of Above
#6. Coupons and Deals plugin
If you are presenting coupons and deals in your WordPress site, displaying it in the form of deals and coupons box skyrockets your conversions.
For this, you can make use of a plugin – WP Coupons and Deals.
This plugin allows you to display the coupon boxes and also deal boxes.
It comes with many features like:
- Text
- Click to copy
- Coupon templates
- Image coupons
- Expiration countdown
- Social share buttons
- Customize everything
It is a freemium plugin. The pro version comes with additional features. You can try out their free version, and I’m sure you get the pro version of the plugin that pays itself off in leaps and bounds.
#7. AAWP
If you’re running Amazon Affiliates websites, you need to make use of this plugin.
For many years, EasyAzon was one of the popular Amazon affiliates plugin. But AAWP changed everything by offering tons of features.
It comes with the main features like:
- Text
- Text links
- Single (or multiple) product boxes
- Bestseller (lists)
- New Releases (lists)
- Data fields
- Widgets
Some other features include:
- Dynamic text links
- Product boxes in different variations
- Automated lists (Bestseller and New Releases)
- Displaying single product information (e.g. price)
- Filtering and ordering of lists
- Usage of AAWP functions inside your theme
- Geo-targeting in order to handle foreign visitors
- Pre-built templates & styles
- SSL/HTTPS support
- Google AMP support
It also comes with advanced features like shortcodes, widgets & PHP functions.
I really liked their support for PHP templating for custom presentations. You can get a WordPress developer and create custom layouts for your product comparison tables.
AAWP easily integrates with Amazon product advertising API and pulls in up-to-date information like product title, price, and image to your site.
It helps you completely stay compliant with Amazon Affiliates’ terms and services.
AAWP is being actively developed and they release plenty of new features regularly. They also have extensive documentation and FAQs for implementing every feature it has got to offer.
Akshay recommends:
1. 17+ Killer WordPress Gutenberg Plugins (Death of Page Builders?)
2. 32 WordPress Plugins that Boost your Productivity
Wrapping up
These are some of the best affiliate plugins for WordPress. They personally have helped me a lot in boosting affiliate conversions.
There are many more affiliate plugins that I may have missed including in this blog post.
What about you?
What are all the affiliate plugins you recommend?
Let me know in the comments section.
70 thoughts on “7 WordPress Affiliate Plugins To Skyrocket Your Affiliate Conversions”
All seem like winning plug ins to me Akshay.
Not too doing much on the affiliate side these days but I do vibe with a good plug in. Being a WordPress junkie 🙂
Thanks!
Ryan
Ryan, being a Blogger who solely, focus on building relationships, there’s no wonder you neglect affiliate marketing.
I love having someone having the same mindset as mine. Have a good day ahead, plugin junkie!
Hello Akshay,
That was nicely written. I really enjoyed your post. It is very useful and helpful article at 5 must have wordpress affiliate plugins and look forward to reading many more.
I wish you the best of luck on your blogging journey. Have a nice day
Regards,
Mohd Arif.
Thanks for the shout out to our Forget About Shortcode Buttons plugin 🙂
SumoMe is way cool! Hadn’t seen it until now and decided to look it up in Google. Voila, your review came up.
I’m a big fan of the other tools they have too especially the heat maps and social media highlighter features.
thanks dude this is plugin i a looking past few months, i cant find drp plugi in the offical wordpress but u have it..
. thanks now i am happy
regards,
suresh
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Hey Ankit,
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Affiliate marketing is on trend these days, every bloggers must have tried once or forever. It’s like a game, a business game.
The more you play smarter the more you earn.
Thanks,
Jeangam Kahmei
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Among all the plugin you mentioned I use the Elementor Popup and table builder plugin and it is helping me a lot. Thanks again
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Once I saw a table on a site but I did not know how to make this type of table. After reading your article I make easily, thanks.
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Hi, Akshay
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Thanks
Kundan
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Came here from the Digital marketing group, Facebook.
You’re killing it with your informational posts.
I’m working on an affiliate blog right now, like working on content. Is it necessary to use AAWP and should I purchase it? Right now, I don’t have enough budget to spend it on a plugin.
Hi Akshay,
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Hey Akshay,
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Hi Akshay,
I am using Pretty Links, AAWP and Thrive Leads in my site. I found something new in this post. I would love to try table builder and coupon and deals plugins. Thanks for this awesome post.
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currently, I’m using AAWP Plugin on my website it’s helped me to increase my conversion rate
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This is an amazing list. Every Affiliate marketer must use at least a Coupon Plugins, A Table Plugin and Link Cloaking plugin. If possible always better to invest in premium plugins as one can exploit awesome features.
I’m using some of the plugins already, am also install remaining you suggested to install.
Akshay,
You solved my big problem.
I landed on your blog while searching a table builder plugin which allows adding images.
I will give it a try.
Thanks for sharing this informative post.
Keep helping beginners like me.
—-
Ram Thakur
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Good detailed guide Akshay. Personally I am using the WP table plugin and WP Coupons and deals . Both plugins are really good in increasing conversion rate.
As usual, your posts always very detailed and organised. Thanks
Amazon post Akshay,
AAWP is the best plugin for amazon affiliate. I watched your video on aawp plugin, you have explained very well. this plugin is worth to buy.
I sell products on my word press website via woo commerce … I need to install an affiliate plugin as I have selected people that will be selling/promoting products for me. Do you have a “most often used” list of plugins .. or do you have a favorite plugin that is the most robust across different IT platforms .. ???
Hey Akshay
Thanx for this wonderful information. As your posts are always very detailed and organised.
Again thanx for this.
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Thanks for sharing the amazing information about the affiliate plugin. I am also a beginner in affiliate marketing.
Hi Akshay
I really enjoyed this article. I run a blog in the Netherlands, and it is picking up after 4 months of hard work.
I did not know there whre things like content aware sidebars, but since I inplemented this on one of my sites, it is converting better than ever.
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Personally, I used TablePress and it really helps to convert more sales on my blog.
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