WordPress Plugins For Affiliate Marketing with Dustin Hartzler (part 2).  We welcome WordPress Guru Dustin Hartzler from YourWebsiteEngineer.com back to the house.  Dustin talks all about his favorite must-have WordPress plugins.

I also get some feedback about Forever Affiliate and share a new Internet Marketing Music Video!

This is part 2 of a 2-part interview interview with Dustin.

In this episode of the Late Night Internet Marketing Podcast I talk about plugins.

This is part 2, and here is the entire list of plugins that Dustin covered.

WordPress Plugins For Affiliate Marketing

• Techniques for picking the right plugin.
  • Google what you are looking for ( function + WordPress plugin )
  • Most links will open up in the WordPress repository
  • Then here's what I check
    • Does the plugin have a large banner graphic. This is a relatively new feature within the plugin directory. It helps me know whether the plugin developers took the time to design something creative
    • Next I look at the LAST UPDATED field. I has to have had a revision in the last 6 months for me to consider it
    • Then I look at the number of downloads. If it has a lot, 10,000 or more, it's probably legit
    • Lastly, I always look to see if it contains screenshots. Lots of plugins don't so it's hard to know which ones are good by seeing what the plugin looks like installed.
  • Then I will highlight the plugin name and go back into WordPress and search within WordPress. This makes it much easier to install (you don't have to download, etc.)
• Backup
  • Backup Buddy ( http://ithemes.com )
  • BackWP Up ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/ )
  • WordPress Backup to Dropbox ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/)
• Security
  • Better WP Security ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-wp-security/ )
  • WordFence ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordfence/ )
• Spam
  • Akismet ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/ )
  • Antispam Bee ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/antispam-bee/ )
• SEO
  • WordPress SEO by Yoast ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/ )
• Cache
  • W3 Total Cache ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/ )
  • WP Super Cache ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/ )
• Stats
  • Google Analyticator ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analyticator/ )
  • Jetpack ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/ )
  • Google Analytics by Yoast
• Related Posts
  • nrelate Related Content
  • nrelate Most Popular
• Redirection
  • Pretty Link Lite ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pretty-link/ )
  • Redirection ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/ )
• Comments
  • Livefyre ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/livefyre-comments/ )
  • Disqus ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disqus-comment-system/ )
  • I also like the standard commenting system built in by WordPress. It makes it easy to style this area like the rest of your website
• Forms
  • Gravity Forms ( http://www.gravityforms.com/ )
  • Contact Form 7 ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/ )
• Broken Links
  • Broken Link Checker ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/ )
• Auto Tagging
  • Strictly Auto Tags ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/strictly-autotags/ )
• What would Seth Godin Do
  • What would Seth Godin Do ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/what-would-seth-godin-do/ )

Cool Internet Marketing Music Video

Here is the cool video from  Mike L. Silverman (Managing Director at Silver Web Solutions). 

Thanks for sending in the cool video Mike!

httpvh://youtu.be/jJDtTZ0Q1lY

You can see the video directly in youtube here.

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Episode 048 Transcript

Weird, but Late Night Internet Marketing is happening early in the morning today, because I am on my way to sunny California for a little day job action.

Forever Affiliate Update and Feedback

I just wanted to get this episode kicked off real quick and tell you a couple things about what’s going on over in Forever Affiliate land.

One of the reasons that I do the show and one of the goals of the show and the website is to help people get on the right path with regard to internet business in general, affiliate marketing specifically. One of the things that I pride myself on is I only recommend things that I actually use. I turn down a lot of promotions because I don’t want to fall into that class of internet marketers that promotes every offer that comes along. Believe me, I get a lot of them.

I wanted to share with you what my motivations are and what makes me feel good when I do these promotions. I got some feedback on people who found Andrew through the interview on the show and signed up for the Forever Affiliate course over at LateNightIM.com/fa. I got their initial reactions and this is why I do it the way that I do it, I want you to hear these two pieces of feedback…

Tim: Hey, Mark. This is Tim from The Awesome Podcast here. You can check out my show at TheAwesomePodcast.com and also on iTunes. I wanted to give you my thoughts on Forever Affiliate. I first heard about it on your show and I wanted to say thanks for recommending it to me. Honestly, I’m blown away by the course so far.

The first thing that blew me away was the price point. This sounds like a sales pitch, but I’m just being honest here. I was expecting it to be so much higher than it was. It’s unbelievably reasonably priced, and I think a little underpriced for the value that it provides.

I’m going through the course right now, I signed up yesterday. So far it’s so easy to understand, even for somebody like me who has no affiliate experience whatsoever. I have no experience setting up the websites, I have no experience signing up for affiliate programs or anything like that. It’s so simple to understand.

It’s broken down into three phases and then there’s an introduction that talks about the overall strategy and why the Forever Affiliate program works the way that it does. That was really helpful in the beginning because it helped me to understand the basic concepts.

Then it breaks it down into the phases; one, two, and three. Each phase is perfect because it’s step-by-step. It’s not this sweeping generalization, it will actually tell you what to do and Andrew is awesome about explaining it. It’s not to the point where you feel like an idiot, but just so that it perfectly makes sense and you know exactly what to do to make it work.

I’m really excited to get my first couple of sites up there and get my first assets going. I’ll be glad to report back to you with my first results. I can’t recommend this highly enough to anybody. If you haven’t signed up for Forever Affiliate, make sure you go do that.

Thanks again, Mark, for recommending it to me.

That’s the first piece of feedback.

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