Affiliate Link Management: Spreadsheet or Plugin?
A spreadsheet is a genuinely good starting point and a bad ending point. Here is what each approach does well, and the moment the trade flips.
Earn more from every affiliate link: correct tagging, geo-localized storefronts, and catching dead or out-of-stock products before they cost you.
Powered by DevDome Affiliate ManagerA spreadsheet is a genuinely good starting point and a bad ending point. Here is what each approach does well, and the moment the trade flips.
Pretty Links is a capable plugin with a real free tier. Here is an honest look at where it fits, where it does not, and what to move to if you outgrow it.
A footer line is not a disclosure. Here is what regulators and affiliate programs actually ask for, in plain terms, and the placements that keep failing.
If a fifth of your readers are abroad, a fifth of your buying intent currently earns nothing. Here is the three step fix, in the order that actually works.
Showing different content by country is powerful for affiliate links and dangerous for indexable pages. Here is which parts of a page are safe to vary.
A product box converts better than a bare link, and breaks in more ways. Here is what Amazon's rules allow, what goes stale, and how to keep both under control.
Black Friday, Prime Day, back to school: the offer changes but your posts should not. Here is the setup that turns a campaign swap into one edit instead of forty.
Bots click affiliate links. They pad your click totals, flatten your conversion rate, and hide which placements actually earn. Here is how to tell a forged click from a real one.
Typing a price into a post feels harmless, and it breaks Amazon's rules. Here is where price data must come from, how fresh it has to be, and what to do instead.
A suspension notice is not the end, but arguing is. Here is how to read the notice, fix the cause first, write the appeal, and keep your links earning while you wait.
Most broken affiliate links never return a 404, which is why link checkers miss them. Here is the full process: inventory, test, prioritize by clicks, rescue, and automate.
Cloaking is routine for most affiliate programs and risky for this one. Here is the clause that matters, what it actually forbids, and what to do with your Amazon links instead.
Two rel attributes do almost the same job, and Google now prefers one of them. Here is what each means, which belongs on an affiliate link, and the cost of using neither.
Amazon gives you a 24-hour window, and three ordinary visitor actions can close it sooner. Here is what the rules actually say and where your real leverage is.
OneLink runs as a script in your visitor's browser, which gives it several ways to fail silently. Here are the common causes, in the order worth checking.
Lasso does display and link management well. If most of your income is Amazon, the deciding features are different ones. Here is how to compare on what earns.
AAWP builds the best-looking Amazon boxes on WordPress, and it needs API keys to do it. Here is when that dependency becomes a problem, and what to use instead.
Two of these tools cloak and track links. The third keeps Amazon clicks earning. Here is what each one actually solves, and which gap is costing you money.
Most lost affiliate income comes from a few avoidable mistakes, not bad content. Here are seven that quietly drain commissions, and the fix for each.
Products sell out and listings disappear constantly. When yours do, your clicks hit a wall. Here is the real cost and how to send those clicks somewhere that still earns.
A single missing tag turns a commission into a free referral for Amazon. Here is how links lose their tags and how to keep every one of them earning.
A large part of your audience may be abroad, clicking links that pay you nothing. Here is how Amazon's regional programs work and how to capture those lost sales.
Both tools route international clicks to a visitor's local Amazon, but they work differently. Here is how OneLink and a geo plugin compare on earnings and control.