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Affiliate Links: WordPress Plugin for Link Cloaking and Link Management

Affiliate Links: WordPress Plugin for Link Cloaking and Link Management

Description

Create any redirect links to any website from your WordPress Admin. Perfect for the affiliate links masking.

Affiliate Links ๐Ÿš€

Affiliate Links is a powerful WordPress plugin acquired by wecantrack (Q4 2024), designed to help you create, cloak, and manage both internal and external links effortlessly. Perfect for affiliate
marketers, this plugin allows you to generate clean, user-friendly links like โ€˜mysite.com/go/linkโ€™, while also boosting SEO, protecting your earnings, and increasing revenue. With Affiliate Links, seamless link management and optimization are just a few clicks away.
By utilising the Affiliate Links plugin, your clickouts will automatically be tracked on server-side by our standard wecantrack WP plugin. This will ensure the highest attribution coverage possible, since server-side events cannot get blocked by your website visitors.

Why You Need Affiliate Links Plugin:

  • ๐Ÿ” Boost SEO: Cloak affiliate URLs to appear more trustworthy.
  • ๐Ÿ’ผ Protect Earnings: Conceal sensitive information from competitors.
  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Increase Revenue: Achieve higher click-through rates.
  • โฐ Save Time: Manage links effortlessly with an intuitive interface.
  • โœ… Ad Network Friendly: Accepted by ad networks when the root domain is used.

Key Features โœ”

  • ๐Ÿ“Š Link Click Stats: Track each click with detailed insights, including browser type, language,
    and more.
  • ๐Ÿ”„ Conditional Redirects: Personalise redirects based on visitor behavior, such as language
    or platform.
  • ๐Ÿ”€ 301/302/307 HTTP Redirects: Choose from multiple redirect options to fit your needs.
  • ๐Ÿ‘€ Nofollow & Noindex: Control link visibility with nofollow and noindex options.
  • ๐Ÿ—‚ Link Categories & Slugs: Organise links into categories and include category slugs in
    URLs if desired.
  • โš™๏ธ HTML & Shortcode Generator: Easily embed links using the built-in generator.
  • ๐Ÿ›  Widgets: Display recent and popular affiliate links with customisable categories and
    counts.

Pro Features ๐Ÿ’ช

Elevate your affiliate marketing with advanced analytics and ad network integrations:

Analytics Platform Integrations:

  • ๐ŸŒ Google Analytics Integration: Track affiliate conversions as purchase conversions within
    Google Analytics, gaining transparency on the performance of any available dimension.
  • ๐Ÿ“Š Google Looker Studio Integration: Set up custom dashboards and reports with all your
    traffic and affiliate conversion data in one dataset, keeping you updated at all times.
  • ๐Ÿ’พ Zapier Integration: Integrate Affiliate Conversions Across 6000 Platforms With Zapier

Ad Network Integrations:

  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Google Ads Integration: Optimise your Google Ads campaigns by leveraging your
    conversion data, automating bid adjustments, and setting up relevant audiences to boost
    ROAS.
  • ๐Ÿ” Microsoft Ads Integration: Integrate your affiliate conversion data with Microsoft Ads to
    optimise campaigns and audiences, enhancing your return on ad spend.
  • ๐ŸŽฏ Facebook Ads Integration: Feed conversion data to the Facebook Pixel to make your
    campaigns profitable, building relevant audiences and utilizing Facebookโ€™s AI to target the right
    users.
  • ๐ŸŽต TikTok Ads Integration: Optimise your TikTok campaigns based on ROAS or CPAs by
    integrating all your affiliate sale and lead conversion data.
  • ๐Ÿ“Œ Pinterest Ads Integration: Use your affiliate conversion data to optimise Pinterest Ads
    campaigns, fully utilizing their machine learning capabilities.
  • ๐Ÿ›ก Reddit Ads Integration: Analyse and optimise your Reddit Ads campaigns by integrating
    your affiliate conversion data to boost ad revenue.
  • ๐Ÿ‘ป Snapchat Ads Integration: Track and integrate your affiliate conversion data in Snapchat
    Ads to automatically optimise your campaigns based on purchase events.
  • ๐Ÿฆ X Ads Integration: Optimise your native ad campaigns with X Ads by integrating your
    affiliate sale and lead conversion data.
  • ๐ŸŒ Outbrain Integration: Properly analyse and optimise your Outbrain native ad campaigns
    with integrated affiliate conversion data.

Performance Reports:

  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Advertiser Performance: Break down conversion performance per advertiser, comparing
    current results with previous time ranges.
  • ๐ŸŒ Network Performance: Get a quick overview of your affiliate network accounts’ total
    performance through our network report.
  • ๐Ÿ“ Content Performance: Discover which landing and click pages generate the most clicks,
    conversions, and commissions, allowing you to optimise content based on real data.
  • ๐Ÿšฆ Traffic Source Performance: Analyse the performance of your traffic sources, helping you
    employ an omnichannel approach to avoid over-reliance on one source.
  • ๐Ÿ“Š Campaign Performance: Accurately analyse your ad campaigns, ensuring your budget
    allocation maximises profitsโ€”no more guesswork!
  • ๐Ÿ“ Transaction Report: Access detailed transaction information, including subid parameters,
    status, and product details for certain partners.

Get Started Today! ๐ŸŒŸ

With Affiliate Links, managing and optimising your affiliate links has never been easier. Whether
you want to clean up messy URLs, protect your earnings, or boost your SEO, this plugin offers a
comprehensive solution for all your link management needs.

Installation

From your WordPress dashboard

  1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’.
  2. Search for ‘Affiliate Links’.
  3. Activate Affiliate Links from your Plugins page.

From WordPress.org

  1. Download Affiliate Links plugin.
  2. Upload the ‘affiliate-links’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, using your favorite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc…)
  3. Activate Affiliate Links from your Plugins page.

Once Activated

  1. Visit ‘Affiliate Links > Settings’ and adjust the preferences.
  2. Visit ‘Affiliate Links > Add New’ and create your first link.
  3. Check your link works fine and enjoy plugin usage.

FAQ-e

Can I use plugin without pretty permalinks enabled?

Yes, but your affiliate links would have GET parameter like other post types.

Can I change the ‘go’ word in my links URL?

Yes, just visit plugin setting page and adjust the subdirectory according to your preference.

What is Shortcode/HTML generator?

Itโ€™s a simple WYSIWYG tool for embedding your link into the site content. Just select options you need and copy&paste to the post content.

Reviews

11 October 2024
Simple and lightweight plugin, works perfectly. Great job.
14 September 2024
Very convenient and powerful tool to manage links! It definitely deserves a lot of installations! Great report view, replace links and import/export tools. All statistics on clicking and replacing the target link URL in one click with no need to correct all the links placed over the website. Place affiliate links in any place: posts, pages, e-books, YouTube video descriptions and see if they are clicked. I didn’t find any disadvantages: all works perfectly! Excellent job, developers!
22 March 2017 1 reply
Awesome plugin, easy to use. Seems to work everywhere on my website. One issue I have is that none of options under “Link Embedding” will save after updating. Is the link embedding area meant to serve the affiliate link or just the Embed HTML link and shortcode?
03 February 2017 1 reply
I liked this plugin just due to X-Robots Noindex feature. Thanks to the developer for creating this fantastic piece. I appreciate your work.
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Contributors & Developers

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Changelog

3.0.1

Rebranded plugin. Updated description.

3.0

Added advanced functionality: reports for links, the ability to export and import links, the ability to replace links in the database, display the link in the iframe, setting the custom target url according to conditions such as checking the browser, OS, platform or language of user. Added widgets to show the most popular and recent links.

2.9

Improved internationalization. Sanitised and escaped data. Improved file protection. Made SQL calls safety.

2.8

Tested up to WP version 6.6.1

2.7

Fixed Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

2.6

Fix scripts tinymce. Compatible with WP 6.4.2

2.5

Minor bugfix and updates. Compatible with WP 6.2

2.2

Minor bugfix and updates

2.1

Minor bugfix

2.0

Improved shortcode generator, added ability to insert links in post content via dialog popup, fixed some issues

1.9

Bugfix and refactoring

1.8

Fixed some issues, added internationalization support, tested with WordPress 4.5 and up

1.7

Added ability to use category slug in link URL, added enable/disable/delete hooks, fixed some issues

1.6

Fixed some issues, added ‘af_link_before_redirect’ action for third-party customization, added faq and docs sections to the settings screen

1.5

Fixed some issues, added some hooks for third-party customization

1.4

Added ability to reset count for hit stats, small ui improvements

1.3

Added ability to setup 301/302/307 redirect HTTP codes for each link individually

1.2

Added ‘af_link’ shortcode and wysiwyg for link embedding

1.1

Added link categories, updated labels

1.0

Initial release