There are wide varieties of plugins to enhance performance and to get an altogether new functionality on your blog. WordPress users are immensely benefited by using plugins for various occasions. These plugins are intended to increase your productivity. You can better organize and manage your affiliate marketing job through a dedicated plug-in.
For professional bloggers, affiliate marketing is a great source of income. However, it will be a tough time to manage hundreds of affiliate links on your blog. Even though there are many affiliate links managing plugins available in the market, there is one premium plug-in that brings remarkable success and easiness in maintenance of your affiliate links.
Thirsty Affiliates is a handy and timely choice if you are in the pursuit of world class affiliate links management tool. John Kohlbach, the brain behind Thirsty Affiliates plug-in has ensured that all the affiliate link management requirements are fulfilled.
Thirsty Affiliates Plugin Features
As a blogger/affiliate marketer, you should figure out where your affiliate links are scattered across your blog posts. You should be able to insert, edit and track all the links posted on your blog posts.
Thirsty Affiliates is a plug-in that lets you use it straightaway after your first installation. With its simple licensing system you are free from all kinds of licensing related worries.
After installation, thirsty affiliates tab that appears in the dashboard will let you help achieve so many tasks from the plug-in.
Even though the default link prefix is ‘recommends’, you can replace it with your choice. If you set the default option to ‘no follow’, your links will not be followed automatically.
By encasing all your affiliate links in a most appropriate manner, you will be able to boost sales on your site. Link cloaking mechanism will ensure that your links will not be hijacked. This is a new feature which protects your commercial interests.
The plug-in will take care that your affiliate links are hidden by offering a link to the local or third-party domains. In-built cloaker will take care of this arrangement. This will ensure that all your commissions from affiliate marketing efforts are well protected.
Now, you can get greater control on the affiliate links by being able to categorize and sub-categorize them. You can club together certain links which cater to a particular topic.
The interface presented by Thirsty Affiliates will let you insert affiliates’ links in your blog posts in a very easy manner. Link Picker facility will simplify this task for you. The in-built search function will let you choose an insert option.
It is possible to apply CSS classes to the links by inserting WordPress short codes. You can also attach images to the affiliate links. And these images can be edited in the same way as you edit any other images in the blog post. As you are able to take back up of links, it is easy to transfer the list of affiliate links to other websites. Affiliate backup link facility can also be availed by including the link backup option in the regular weekly backup scheme.
You can take complete advantage of this plug-in as the features offered through the plug-in far exceed other comparable versions available in the market and the resource utilization (in terms of processing, memory and database) is very less.
In addition to the features presented with the current edition of Thirsty Affiliates, you will get much benefit in the coming days as the product will incorporate many more new features in a phased manner.
The plug-in is available in single site version and multiple site versions. Either of these is cost effective as these plug-in versions are offered at just half the price of comparable products available in the market.
Thirsty Affiliates Addons
The plugin comes with two nice addons. One is the stats addon, which helps you track the number of clicks on an affiliate link this week, last week, this month and last month. This is a very cool addition. If you manage to put different names or codes for the affiliate links of the same product in various locations you can exactly pinpoint the conversion.
For instance if I want to track how good my Market Samurai sidebar banner converts I’d add a new link and name it Market Samurai SB. Using the stats addon I will be able to exactly see how many clicks were made on the sidebar Market Samurai banner.
If you’re already using MaxBlogPress Ninja affiliate, you can export your affiliate links without any hassle using the export adddon.
The addon currently supports exporting from MBP Nija affiliate alone, although I hope that exporting from other affiliate management plugins will be incorporated soon.
Thirsty Affiliates Plugin Advantages
- Simplified licensing system
- You can select custom link prefix
- Prevents link hijacking through link cloaking
- Categorization of links is made simple
- Link insertion through short codes and images
- Ability to backup links
- Add on facility to track click through rate on your links
- Add on facility to import links from other link affiliates like Ninja
Thirsty Affiliates Plugin Disadvantages
- Lack of automatic linking function
- Arrangements can be made to set fields for alt tags and title tags
Thirsty Affiliates Plugin: Takeaway
Thirsty Affiliates plugin really fulfills the needs of thirsty affiliate marketers. This is the new plug-in that is raising eyebrows of end users. If you get an opportunity to use this multi-faceted plug-in, you will not want to leave it.
The plugin wonderfully organizes your affiliate management requirements. Undoubtedly, Thirsty Affiliates is one of the remarkable plug-ins offered to WordPress users. Even though there are number of free and premium plugins available in the market, Thirsty Affiliates stands out as a unique solution and the results are incomparable with other plugins. This plug-in features all attributes and has all the reasons to take over popular plugins including Ninja Affiliates.
Even though there are thousands of affiliate links to be managed on your blog, the entire operation can be carried out quite easily with the systematic arrangement made by Thirsty Affiliates.
Kenny Fabre says
Jane
this is such a great plugin, affiliate links are more clickable when we can customize them for our visitors, as a result high click through rate.
this plugin is very smooth for affiliate links. Im looking at it now.
Well said Kenny! Thanks for stopping by.
Hmm, looks like a good plugin, not something I’ve really used before. Does it have any functionality which can change the affiliate link which is presented depending on the location of the visitor?
I’ve got a bit of code running which does this which is great for affiliate systems such as Amazon which require country specific affiliate links. If I didn’t use it I would have to choose which Amazon store my visitors are most likely to use and would miss out on any sales which I generate which use a different one.
Hey Ben, I know what you mean. No, but Thirsty affiliates doesn’t do that, since it is not meant for any particular affiliate marketing system (at least as of now).
Thanks Jane for the introducing this great plugins, I think it is really helpful for those who want to start making money with affiliate program.
BTW, can you tell me the WP plugin you are using to display next and preview post on this blog?
Trung, the plugin is jj-WP Easy Navigation.
Hi Jane,
I’ve been using the Thirsty Affiliates plugin for a while, and I really like it. I used to use the Ninja Afilliate plugin, but I shifted to get a better overview with stats, and it’s a lot faster and more integrated into wordpress.
Yes Jens, speed is a plus with Thirsty affiliates
Quite nice and detailed review about the aff plugin. I guess what it does is more or less similar to GoCodes or is there something more which I may have missed out.
You can’t really compare this to Gocodes apart from the “go” coding of affiliate links. This plugin does a lot more as explained in this post
Becca says
This seems very useful and convenient to use for my affiliate site. thanks for the share and now i have a strong desire to find out more about this tool.
Be sure to try it out Becca!
ohhh ! almost have very useful options . great plugin jane , i will try to buy it when my ad sense check is arrived ..
Wishing you good luck with your cheque Sai
Hi Jane nice plugin …..thirsty affiliates plugin….It’s very useful and I must go for it…..
thanks for sharing it………
Yes Prakash it is a great handy plugin
Life saver to me now!
It seems like a great plugin but if they can update this plugin and do something about the drawbacks of automatic linking function then it’ll be great.
Ricardus, yes the auto linking feature is something that I too would need highly
Great tips! This plugin seems interesting and it has a lot of functionality. I can’t wait to test it out
Be sure to test it out Joseph!
I saw this affiliate on many blogs but don’t know what exactly this is. Your post explans all but i don’t know what are there payment methods. Can you tell me?
You can pay by Paypal or a credit card Ammar!
You mean i can receive payment via credit card? Right?
Ayesha says
Plugins are helpful as they increase productivity. No doubt affiliate marketing is a great source of income. The above post is quite informative.
That’s right Ayesha. Affiliate marketing is great and can be a good passive income source!
i will try to buy it when my ad sense check is arrived ..
Good luck with getting your adsense cheque Miki!
Thank you for the tips provided here! Anyway, plugins are really helpful in affiliate marketing and I hope this review, can be useful..
You’re very welcome Cheziannhe
Many thanks for publishing this review on Thirsty aff plugin. Though I never heard about this plugin earlier but now I am feeling tempted to give it a try.
I am also going to start affiliate marketing and hope that this post will help me…
Organizing affiliate links can be pretty tedious task to handle so using an affiliate plugin like thirsty can help. For sure this will be a great to affiliate marketers.
I have never heard of this plugin Jane sure it will be more useful for all bloggers thanks for sharing it
Jenni says
Nice review, Jane. I’ve not tried this product but it looks similar to other link-cloaking WordPress plugins, ex: Pretty Link plugin… so there’s no out-standing feature for end users?
Another question, what tool do you use to create your rating box inside post content? It’s very nice
Thank you
Jenni, link cloaking is just one of the features of Thirsty affiliates. As I’ve explained above, TA comes as an all in one affiliate management system - also with the facility to easily add links within posts or pages without having to leave the post editor.
For the review box with star rating I use Author hReview plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/author-hreview/
This is an amazing plugin! On the two websites in which I promote affiliate products I have so many affiliate links scattered on comments section that I’ve lost track of them all. The main content of my website is clean of course, very few affiliate links and banners, they are all strategically placed. However, within the comments section where I have hundreds of comments there is no way that I can keep track of all the links, especially the ones I made years back. This is a powerful tool. WOW! Thanks for introducing us to this great plugin.
Gautham says
I had not heard of this plugin before, will try to use it, looks pretty good and formal.
Varinder says
I Think by reading this review, need to use this plugin.Thanks for the review Jane.
Trishan says
Hi Jane,
Nice review. I currently have MBP Ninja Affiliate on my blog but I plan to switch to Thirsty Affiliates based on some revelations by Hesham of famousbloggers.net about ballooning the database size by Ninja Affiliate.
Yes indeed Trishan, MBP stuff is bulky.
Abhijit says
Hi Jane,
This is a nice review about Thirsty Affiliate plugin. Is it similar to Pretty Link Lite Plugiun ? I am using this and that is fine enough.
Regards,
Abhijit Saha..
Paul says
Jane,
Nice review.
Any idea of this plugin in compatible with a WordPress multi-site set up? I have emailed the owner directly from the contact form on the web site, but haven`t heard anything back.
All the best,
Paul
Keith Davis says
Hi Jane
I’ve just bought the Thirsty affiliates plugin and am playing around with it.
I can’t find anything about the Categories i.e. how to complete the name, slug, parent and description fields.
Any advice would be most welcome.