Affiliate Marketing Plugins I Use

I don't use a whole lot of affiliate tool plugins, but the ones I do use, I'd hate to ever be without. This will be my first installment on tools that I recommend any affiliate marketer use, not matter how experienced you are.

These tools are not magic and will not just produce sales for you. However, they will help automate a lot of the manual labor involved with keyword and niche research.

Affiliate Espionage - I just picked this beauty up a few days ago and it's making my heart sing. Please check out an honest review of the Affiliate Espionage plugin. Basic uses are it helps research which keywords are converting best for Adwords advertisers. Sure has saved me money already that would have been wasted on poor keyword choices.

(Affiliate Espionage is the only paid tool I've ever used.)

Rank Checker - This is a tool from SEOBook.com and allows you to build keyword lists. It then automatically runs scans on the top 3 search engines to find your rankings based on which domain you want the keywords linked to. This plugin is free!

Good Keywords - This is another free tool that allows you to generate misspellings of keywords and help flesh out some other keyword ideas you may not have thought of. The tool itself is software that you run and store it's database locally, you can get it at SEO Labs.

So these are a few tools that I'm currently using and no doubt mileage varies from user to user. While I wouldn't say you NEED these tools to be a successful affiliate marketer, they certianly help with time management, automating much of the research process.

If you have a tool to recommend let me know, I'm always on the look out of the next helpful plugin or script.

Free Keyword Analysis and Ranking Tool

I am constantly finding tools that are freely available to replace even the best paid versions. Freeware programs may take a few more steps to get the same outcome as paid programs, but hey, I'm cheap. Also, if you do any work online for yourself you know that your time is probably worth nothing. ;) My latest search has found a tool that has been around for quite some time, it's called Good Keywords, and it is great.

Good Keywords is a program that runs locally on your PC and offers a ton of functions. Provides countless misspellings, keyword suggestions, keyword traffic analysis, on page rankings, and even more. Furthermore the program is light weight, ad free, completely freeware, and WORKS.

Below is a quick list of what Good Keywords provides:

Keyword Phrase Builder

Version 2.0 now includes a keyword phrase builder to create hundreds of new keyword phrases from your own word sets.

Misspelled Word Generator

Type in a keyword and generate all possible misspellings for that keyword with a single click. You can also configure the misspelling generator to generate keywords based on different criteria (like keyword proximity error, missed character, double character entry, etc.)

Web Page Explorer

Use web page explorer to study web pages including keyword density. Use direct http access or a built-in internal browser to obtain the web page contents.

I use and love it and just can't believe I've went this long without finding it. It's also helped with my PPC campaigns, when finding long tail keywords, or even better yet bidding on misspelled keywords. This is a non-paid post, so this is coming straight from the heart that you owe it to yourself to start using this free program. If you find a better one, please let me know.

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