Many WordPress users utilize Amazon’s affiliate program, Amazon Associates, to generate passive income through their websites. The program enables you to place in-text and display ads to your pages, and earn a commission when a visitor purchases an Amazon product through your unique affiliate link.
There are many reasons why Amazon Associates is the most popular affiliate marketing program around: Amazon is trusted and ubiquitous in the ecommerce space, checkout is almost instant for current account holders, and Amazon’s product quantity and variety are unmatched. However, the program isn’t entirely frictionless by itself, especially as you add more affiliate links to your site. As an experienced Amazon associate, you might find that you need:
- a more convenient way to insert links into your pages within the WordPress admin interface.
- a means to organize and review all the affiliate links on your site.
- customizable product displays.
- shorter, cleaner affiliate URLs without the lengthy string of tracking code.
- a reporting tool to check in on click counts and money earned from each link.
If you’re running into any of these challenges, do yourself a favor and install an Amazon affiliate WordPress plugin for your website — it will make your life a whole lot easier. In this post, we’ve compiled nine of the best Amazon affiliate plugins for WordPress websites. With one or more of these tools installed and activated, you’ll save time and energy while boosting your passive income.
Best Amazon Affiliate WordPress Plugins
- AAWP
- ThirstyAffiliates
- WZone
- Easy Affiliate Links
1. AAWP
If you’re running into any of these challenges, do yourself a favor and install an Amazon affiliate WordPress plugin for your website — it will make your life a whole lot easier. In this post, we’ve compiled nine of the best Amazon affiliate plugins for WordPress websites. With one or more of these tools installed and activated, you’ll save time and energy while boosting your passive income.
With AAWP, you can place affiliate links in a few different ways, such as hypertext links within your content, boxes which you can customize in terms of product description and price display, and comparison tables for two or more products.
All display elements are customizable in appearance, mobile-responsive (including compatibility with Google Accelerated Mobile Pages), and updated automatically when the product listing on Amazon.com changes. With shortcodes, you can quickly insert your affiliate link modules in any location.
2. ThirstyAffiliates
ThirstyAffiliates is a freemium WordPress plugin packed with tools for affiliate link management — even the free version provides a lot of value. For free, you can cloak your Amazon affiliate URLs with your domain name and custom slug, shaving off the clunky query string from the end of your links and appearing more trustworthy to visitors. ThirstyAffiliates automatically un-cloaks some links to comply with Amazon Associate’s terms.
The free edition also enables quick and convenient manual linking. When you want to insert a link, ThirstyAffiliates lets you search the Amazon catalog from within your WordPress dashboard, find your product of choice, and link to it. You can then track the effectiveness of these affiliate links in the reporting dashboard, which summarizes some basic performance metrics.
For $99 annually, you can get the ThirstyAffiliates Pro Add-On. A premium subscription adds more comprehensive stats reporting, Google Analytics integration, and, perhaps best of all, auto-linking: ThirstyAffiliates will scan your content for keywords and place relevant links automatically. A 14-day refund is offered if you’re hesitant about the steeper price point.
3. WZONE
WordPress ecommerce store owners should consider the WZone plugin for their sites. This plugin (which is also referred to as WooCommerce Amazon Affiliates) is a dedicated solution for incorporating Amazon affiliate links into WooCommerce-powered websites.
Basically, WZone lets you select products from Amazon.com and display them like WooCommerce products. Visitors on your site can view these products like they would on a typical WooCommerce site, but are sent to Amazon when ready to purchase (through your affiliate link, of course).
WZone incorporates Amazon’s API to keep WooCommerce listings up to date for you, and can place products in your store automatically by keywords you pick.
A regular WZone license retails for a one-time payment of $49. There’s also a free version, though this is much more limited in features and doesn’t include updates to the plugin.
4.Easy Affiliate Links
While Easy Affiliate Links may be less popular than other options we’ve mentioned thus far, it’s a viable option for handling affiliate links, including those through Amazon Associates.
With this plugin, you can cloak your affiliate links, edit your links with a visual editor, categorize your links for easy indexing and searching, and import affiliate links from an XML file. It also lets you check all the clicks on your site on a monthly or lifetime basis, so you’ll be able to measure the effectiveness of your affiliate link strategy. Easy Affiliate Links tracks monthly clicks for each link.
This plugin is free, but has a premium extension for €29 (~$34) that adds a built-out reporting dashboard and more stats related to link clicks, as well as link targeting capabilities and an auto-checker for broken links.
