List of the best Affiliate products of 2012

List of the best Affiliate products of 2012

Affiliate marketing is the best method to earn good money online through your blog by referring top products in your niche.
How affiliate marketing works? firstly identify the top selling, high quality products in your niche. Secondly, purchase or review the products and if you are personally impressed by comparing and testing related products, promote it by signing up as an affiliate with the product development company. Finally, continue to promote the product using your unique affiliate link and you will start earning upto 50% commission of each sale generated from your website.
Below are the list of the best affiliate products in the web and blogging / SEO niche that earns me the best income:
1. Market samurai keyword research tool
2. TweetAdder Twitter automation application
3. WooThemes WordPress themes
4. ThemeForest WordPress themes
5. AppThemes WordPress application themes
6. ElegantThemes WordPress themes
7. Gravity forms WordPress plugins
8. SEOpressor WordPress plugin
9. Affiliate Ninja WordPress plugin
10. Subscribers Magnet WordPress plugin
11. OptimizePress splash pages
These are the top earners in my list when it comes to affiliate programs or affiliate products for the year of 2012. If you have any more top earning affiliate products to recommend, please let us know as it could help other readers to earn as well.

How to Organize and Manage your Affiliate links

Affiliate marketing in my opinion is the best method to make money online! If you are already into promoting products through your blogs and earning commissions, you might find it difficult to manage and track all your affiliate campaigns.
Many webmasters either maintain a tracker or a spreadsheet to organize and manage their 
affiliate links and campaigns. This is not a bad idea but it could result in confusion when:


1. There are huge number of affiliate campaigns live on the blog
2. Affiliate programs are discontinued or links are updated


In either of the above situations, there has to be urgent rearrangement to be done to ensure commissions are not lost due to either bad links or discontinued affiliate programs. It is important that you keep a close tab on the affiliate campaigns that are live or at least have a centralized Management system. I personally use a plugin called Affiliate Ninja go manage my entire affiliate campaigns and links. This program has worked like a magic for me you more than a year and I personally recommend this plugin to all my readers. Few of the highlight features of this plugin are
:
1. Centrally manage all your affiliate links

2. Automatically convert keywords to affiliate links
3. Backup and restore all the links and campaigns
4. Track and analyze affiliate activities through the dashboard
5. Cloak and modify affiliate links to custom format


These are list of some awesome features of this plugin that can come really handy in managing your campaigns across all your blogs. In addition, I use this plugin to interlink older posts within my blogs by automatically converting certain keywords to other blog post hyperlinks. This not only brings users to older posts, but also increases the user interaction and time on website.

How to use Affiliate links on your blog

Firstly, lets quickly discuss – What are affiliate links? Well affiliate links are basically referral links to suggest or refer a product to your readers. In case the visitor to your website likes the product and purchases the same from your referal link, you are paid a share of the sale amount as affiliate commission.

Now a days, affiliate earnings are growing very fast for all the popular blogs. It’s a great method to earn money because you have the freedom to suggest the best of the available options to your visitors as well as earn a share of the profit or sale amount as well.

How to use affiliate links

I strongly suggest you to use Affiliate links ethically. Ethical use of affiliate links has always worked for me the best. Do not suggest the best paying affiliate product, Instead – suggest the best product and provide more value to your customers. This practice your improve your user loyalty as well as the better the prodcut, the more would be your sales.

Basically there are 3 steps to install or deploy an affilaite links.

Sign directly with the product or with any of the best affiliate networks websites

Generate the affiliate link code

Deploy the affiliate link code at the end of product reviews or articles

Each time you make a sale, usually you are notefied via email alerts. Do remember that providing more value and quality suggestions would bring you success with affiliate marketing.

How to deploy affiliate links in WordPress

Step1: Login to the affiliate network website or product website and generate the affiliate link.

Here the link is the affiliate link that was generated from the affiliate product website.

Step2: Cloak and insert the link in your wordpress article as shown in the image below.

I Hope you have got the concept of using affiliate links on your website. Just remember its basically cloaking the affiliate link below the product link that you want to suggest to your buyer.

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