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Bought My First DealDotCom Product – WordPress Affiliate Pro

written by John Chow on September 19, 2007

How one lazy bum made $176,697.50

Well it didn’t take me long to spend some money with the new DealDotCom startup. Today they offered a WordPress plugin that I just had to have. WP Affiliate Pro is a WordPress plugin that can turn any keyword into an affiliate link. WP Affiliate Pro can instantly add 1,000′s of affiliate links to your blogs without touching a single line of HTML code and without editing your posts. Other features include:

  • Easily promote new products with a single click of a mouse.
  • Increase your income and click rate with hidden, customized affiliate links.
  • $0 stolen commissions with virtually untraceable affiliate links. Stop affiliate thieves dead in their tracks.
  • Built in click tracking allows you to easily see at a glance which links are getting the most clicks.

You can see the plugin in action on this post. I used it to turn the keywords DealDotCom and BlogRush into affiliate links. Depending on which browser you are using, If you hover over the links, you’ll see the URL is http://www.dealdotcom.com and http://www.blogrush.com. The reader won’t know it’s an affiliate link. Watch this video and this video for a complete explanation on how the plugin works.

The plugin offers a bunch of customization options. You can define what words gets link, how many times they get linked and what weighting to use in case there are multiple links on a page. The program sells for $97.00 but DealDotCom has it $49.88. I expect this product to sell out just like yesterday’s product, so if you want it, better order it.

*update – The item has sold out. I hope you got one if you wanted one.

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Ok I have seen some plugin's owners here taking advantage for this article to promote their plugins. I have bought the wp plugin till now it is really a good one but if I knew it that their using DL guard which really s-u-x I could easily find the download link. :)

nim amman na kayya john....suLe maga neenu

Hiding the affiliate links is one of the best features of this product. I currently use your go method of affiliate linking.

IF you want an easier way to do the go/ method you could look into my plugin. It's free

The item has sold out. I hope you got one if you wanted one.

Now a day a hosting account cost from $4 to $8 per month only, I will recommend to use your own hosting account instead of free. It is free and is great the word free but in your online business the word free can be dangerous ;)

john i am confused, please forgive me in advance for being so nieve. In your how to make money ebook you say to not use free services for blogs. So if you use this product wp affilite pro are you saying that your blog is powered by wordpress?

This blog is powered by Wordpress. Wordpress is a free program. I do not use their free hosting service.

Nice product.. too bad I don't use wordpress

I am actually using KB Linker thought I might give ALink a try. The former is free anyways :P

it sounds great but i wanna know does it work for blogger ?

have a look at my blog
http://www.egy-tourism.blogspot.com/

which part of WP or Wordpress didn't you get ? :)

8711 RSS readers. You are going to hit 9000 by the end of month at this rate! You'll have to bump up your goal.

Squeezing the last penny out. How many links do you think you'll have? I mean if you have a post that mentions say PayPerPost 20x, would you get 20 links? That might become annoying to readers.

I could not agree with you any more. And the price they ask for it is a little bit too much I think.

I am sure and confident that the following products will all be slashed 50% off after the first 2 products. Lets wait and see.. :roll:

I don't think this product is robust enough to be selling. I recall when we (reluctantly) placed those annoying kontera links on our forums and had over 30 complaints during our trial either because they added unnecessary load time to the page, or were just plain annoying. Needless to say we did remove them, but I think if you travel down the path of overkill on your advertising initiatives on your site you will lose trust with your audience.

If you're going to put an affiliate link, just do it and don't cloak it.

If you believe in the product and state that, then no one will have a problem with it. If you're trying to seem unbiased and skim money off the top by hiding the fact that you're an affiliate, then a link cloaking solution will do.

Except google who will knock your landing page "quality" if their spider sees too many affiliates even if they are entirely relevant and unbiased.

I'm on the side of designing web pages for users, not robotic spiders ;) It's up to Google to properly index relevant content, not us to change the way we make pages to adapt to them.
Search algorithms change far too frequently to waste time trying to keep up.

hmmm nice , but I don't think I will be running off to buy it quote yet. I guess I need more readers/products/money before I splash out.

I'm using Firefox and I can see the link as:

http://www.johnchow.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-affi...

Maybe you should work some 'mod rewrite' magic in order to make the URL prettier. Probably will work better than javascript. Seems like a decent script though.

but this is similar to Alinks - which is free and it has stats
alinks creates repeated words into links - but I use it to capture keywords and turn it into affilaite links, I think its the same exact thing

I was just about to say the same thing. Alinks has been out for a while, and is great for deeplinking, and affiliate links. Can't argue with the $0 price tag either!

As far as I know alings doen't hide the affiliate links ... am I right ?

Even I want it :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: Can I get a nulled version? :wink: :wink: :wink: Joking.. No offence

I just purchased too. looks like a great product...
Just hope some of my affiliates but it too! :wink:

When I see a website monkeying with links, it makes me suspicious of the whole site. While there's a good argument to make affiliate links look like "innocent" non-affiliate links -- since some folks won't click on them, but if the site owner is hiding them, what else are they hiding? What other tom foolery is going on? However, automatically turning keywords into affiliate links is pretty handy.

John has been disguising his aff links for a long time. Nobody complained before.

So "complaining" now is off-limits? :grin: My point is more general, that when I surf to a site where the links are twiddled, it raises my suspicions. It makes me less likely to click at all. If a valid link isn't readily apparent, I'd rather go to the trouble to open a tab and search for the link text (or other relevant string) than click something suspicious.

My point is not to complain about John's affiliate links specifically, but rather to point out the downside of investing time (and money, in this case) to obscure aff. links. Obscuring links is a valid technique used for valid reasons, but if it has a side effect of reducing trust, that too is a consideration.

Great product. I don't have any use for it quite yet, but sometime...

Oh also to answer some of the queries here and to answer John.

No worries will check into the Firefox and Internet Explorer not showing in status window.

Also as far as SEO is concerned, I run an SEO company here in Australia and have some wicked cool updates in the works to give a lot of extra options for your linking habits.

Like I said, got an idea for an update, let us know we'll add it.

Regards
Marc Lindsay

Hey John,
Wow great to see you like it so far John, if you think it is good now, you should see the upgrades we have in store for it.

John I am pretty sure I met you at a seminar this year, did you go to any Seminar's in Australia?

It is going to be great, in fact you have my email from this comment, i would love to get in touch with you to see if you have suggestions for it.

Basically like everything else we do we are going to continue to improve this way beyond anything you would have seen in the WP plugins list, it already beats pretty much all of them hands down.

Being an avid wordpress user myself I have searched through a lot of plugins.

Anyhow, cheers for the blog post, get in touch with me, and we'll chat soon.

Regards
Marc Lindsay

I used this product in the past , it's very good. :twisted:

This is huge. One of the main hassles of affiliate sales in blogging is managing the link, and when and where you put them.

I can't buy it now, but I will look for it in the future. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

If you can't buy it why not look into my free plugin?

Someone mentioned this already somewhere in this list of comments, but download aLink, it does exactly the same as this plugin and at the custom html setting just add onmouseover="window.status=' your message here';return true" onMouseOut="window.status='';return true" to cloak your links.

Not sure how wp-affliate-pro isn't just a version of aLink. Now if someone could write one that could be deployed on wordpress.com

Adding that javascript doesn't really cloak the link. It may cloak it for people but John Chow wants to cloak them from google too. and for that you need to redirect to a html page that has noindex in it's meta and then redirect from that.
This is how John was doing the redirects until now .
My free plugin does that and I guess wp-affiliate-pro does it too.

Here's the free option: aLinks plugin

Keep wordpress plugins free, i say! :twisted:

Aye, I agree but if your stupid enough to spend 45-97 on a product available for free, I say survival of the smartest.

Wow, this seems like a great plugin. Can't wait to implement it when I get home from work. DealDotCom has started off with 2 great products so far.

Did you say it would sell out? I love the scarcity angle on digital products, they are running out of bits and bytes so can only sell xxx amount of product.

The publisher tells DealDotCom how many units he'll let them sell at the discount price. Once that is reach, no more units are offered for sale.

That sounds like kind of Auction.

How is this different from an simple regular expression script that you could implement in a few hours ?

Not everyone can write php code, or have the ability or the time to built a wordpress plugin
This allows you to manage your links in a nice web interface ( using AJAX ) inside your wordpress admin.
I'm talking about my plugin here, not the plugin John bought, I don't know how that one looks ...

Ive tried out your plugin and I dont really see how the one on deal is such a good deal at 45 when yours is free, Also thanks for the awesome plugin

In Google Reader you can see that the link is handled by some PHP code.

It's a good thing to be able to turn all those keywords in previous posts into links with just a few clicks, though.

You don't have to make the links end in .php

The videos says it all. i will go cop my own so i start using it right away.

Michael Boateng
www.mboateng.com