When most people start out blogging, it is usually because they love to blog. Remember those days? Over time, you either quit or continue to grow as a blogger, and it is almost inevitable that at some point you will start to look into monetizing your blog.

Whether you are using Google AdSense (PPC), affiliate marketing, or direct advertising sales, there is nothing wrong with getting paid for doing what you love to do. In fact in many ways, getting paid can cause you to work harder and up both the quality and quantity of your work on your WordPress blog!

One of the many problems with selling direct advertising is that it can sometimes be a pain to manage, and it often takes you away from what you love to do, which is blogging. It is kind of like small business owners who love their job, but hate all the paperwork and accounting that is involved with running and managing their own business.

Fortunately as WordPress bloggers, there is a solution available to us in the form of a premium WordPress plugin called OIO Publisher. This is an incredible WordPress plugin that will completely automate the entire advertising process on your blog. In fact, chances are that you have seen people using it (including many high profile bloggers), but just not realized this plugin is what they were using to control the entire process from their WordPress dashboard.

When you purchase OIO Publisher, you’ll receive a WordPress plugin and be able to get an API key for each blog you want to use it on. The plugin will actually create an OIO Publisher tab in your dashboard where you can manage your blogs advertisements (designate how many links, paid reviews, inline ads, banners, or custom advertising your blog will have available), create and manage an affiliate program for products or services on your blog from your dashboard, and even see statistics regarding your advertisements! Possibly my favorite feature of this plugin is that you can even set the plugin to send weekly reports to your advertisers or place your statistical information into their marketplace.

The best part about this premium plugin is that it will just about manage everything for you for a one-time fee of $37.00. Once purchased, you then have access to use the plugin on as many blogs as you would like, as well as get access to their downloadable sales platform, marketplace, and all of the other features mentioned above! You also get free updates each time the plugin is updated.

In my opinion, the value of this plugin heavily outweighs the low price, but if you’d like to see for yourself the plugin in action, I recommend you check out a demo of OIOPublisher. The demonstation allows you to view how it will look on your blog and how you can manage everything from your WordPress dashboard.

When I first ran across the WP SEO Sniper premium WordPress plugin, I wasn’t really sure what exactly to expect. After all, there is a popular free SEO WordPress plugin called All-in-One SEO Pack that has really become popular within the WordPress community. 

Being the premium WordPress plugin fan that I am, I immediately picked up a copy of SEO Sniper and began to test it out to try to get an idea of how it compared to the previously mentioned All-in-One SEO Pack.   For the purpose of this review, I will be comparing the two plugins to each other throughout this post.

After getting SEO Sniper uploaded and activated, I jumped over to the plugin settings panel and began to dig through the available features. I have to admit, I was instantly impressed!

From what I can tell, All-in-One SEO Pack is designed specifically for anyone to upload and activate for instant improved SEO, meaning it is designed for someone that doesn’t have any SEO knowledge.

SEO Sniper was created for those serious about SEO so that they can easily practice advanced SEO techniques on their WordPress blogs directly from their blog’s WordPress dashboard. They even offer 3 user profiles, so you can set the plugin to Mild, Moderate, or Aggressive.

Although things are displayed a little differently, it appears that SEO Sniper includes everything that use get with All-in-One SEO Pack, but it takes your control over your blogs SEO to a whole new level.

The plugin was based upon Dan Thies’ SEO Fast Start manual, allowing you to easily implement Dan’s strategies on your WordPress blog. Based upon Dan’s suggestions, you should be:

• Preventing paged indexes and archives from being indexed by the search engines.
• Selectively nofollow links to the main index page from anywhere on your blog.
• Crafting a custom page title, meta keywords, and meta description for the blog home page.
• Nofollow category links on the category pages.
• Nofollow category links on the individual posts.
• Nofollow category links on the individual pages.
• Noindex all tag archives.
• Nofollow all internal tag links.
• Automatically build a footer page menu.
• Inserting Google Analytics code and Google site verification code.
• Specify if and where you want to nofollow links to the page.
• Specify if you want to prevent the page from being indexed by the spiders.
• Crafting a custom page title, meta keywords, and meta description.
• Prevent the page from being included in the WordPress list of pages.
• Specify a custom CSS file to be applied.
• Perform a 301 redirection on the page. (This is great for those wanting to cloak affiliate links)
• Linking the page or post to other pages and posts with custom anchor text.

Unlike All-in-One SEO Pack, with SEO Sniper, you can do it all!

• Give your important content more PageRank by cutting out redundant pages.
• Preserves more PageRank to be shared amongst your lower level content pages.
• Make your entry in the search engines stand out and entice more clicks.
• Push more PageRank down to your individual posts.
• Preserve more PageRank to be shared amongst your posts.
• Preserve more PageRank to be shared amongst your pages.
• Since tags are mostly for human benefit, the value of having tag archives in the search engine index is debatable.
• Preserve more PageRank to go to your valuable content.
• Give your blog a fully SEO’d footer menu with selective nofollows on the links.
• Include your Google code without having to edit your theme files.
• Precisely control how PageRank flows to a page.
• Keep unimportant content out of the search engine index completely.
• Make your entry in the search engines stand out and entice more clicks.
• Keep unimportant pages out of the list of pages. Many themes use the page list to build a main top menu. Control which pages appear in that important menu.
• Individually style a particular post or page if you wish to do so.
• Send request for, and the original PageRank, from a redundant post or page to a new post or page.
• Implement SEO Fast Start Tiered Pairing or Circular Navigation techniques on your posts and pages to give each post or page as much PageRank as possible.

Like All-in-One SEO Pack, you get an actual menu in your Write panel that gives you full control over that particular post, even going as far as to give you things like the ability to do a 301 redirect for that particular post (pictures above).

Overall I am very impressed with this plugin, though you should already be comfortable with basic SEO techniques before upgrading to this WordPress plugin.

If you decide to give SEO Sniper a try, remember that you have a 56-day money back guarantee, so it is essentially risk free. The author also promises regular plugin updates as WordPress changes, so you know it will be supported over time, unlike many free WordPress plugins.

You may also want to try it in conjunction with WP Affiliate Pro, as I have personally found that the two premium plugins work really well together.

For close to a year now, I’ve counted on one affiliate marketing WordPress plugin to meet my needs.   That is a premium WordPress plugin called WP Ninja Affiliate.   What can I say? I’m a sucker for plugins that have the potential to make my online life easier!

At first glance, WP Ninja Affiliate might seem a lot like the more commonly known WP Affiliate Pro plugin due to the many similarities, but after all these months of testing I’ve found that in many ways, it is a more advanced version of that plugin. It does the things you’ve come to expect from WP Affiliate Pro, such as managing your affiliate links, adding cloaked affiliate links to your existing blog posts, and even provide you with click statistics.

In addition to all that good stuff, you’ll also be able to:

1. Assign Multiple Keywords – If you want to use multiple anchor text for an individual affiliate link, you can do so with this plugin.
2. Group Affiliates – Group your affiliate links for easy management.
3. Enjoy Smart Caching – This plugin uses a smart caching feature to prevent your blog from slowing down.

I also found that many of the functions are easier to do than WP Affiliate Pro!  

Probably my favorite part of owning this premium WordPress plugin is that the author releases updates regularly, ensuring the plugin will continue to work in future versions of WordPress.

If you aren’t happy with your purchase for some reason, you have an eight week money back guarantee, making your satisfaction guaranteed!  If you find you are managing a lot of affiliate links on your blogs, I recommend you check out the WP Ninja Affiliate splash page.

Though there are a large number of free WordPress plugins available to meet most WordPress blogger’s needs, generally speaking, when you are looking for a quality affiliate marketing plugin, you’re going to need to browse through the premium WordPress plugins available.  Here at Premium Pluginz, as usual, we’ve got you covered!

In today’s post I want to introduce you to a fairly new premium WordPress plugin named Auction Thumbs.  For people that maintain a WordPress blog which discusses products that convert well on eBay, this plugin was built specifically for you!

How Does Auction Thumbs Work?

If you’ve ever used BANS or another software to build an eBay niche store that takes advantage of eBay’s affiliate program (eBay Partner Network), then you’ll have a general idea how this plugin works. Auction Thumbs allows any WordPress user to fully integrate eBay’s affiliate program into their WordPress blog in only a few minutes!

Simply activate the Auction Thumbs plugin, enter your eBay campaign code (you can generate one from your eBay Partner Network account), and select where you want to place your ads. With this plugin, you can easily display your eBay ads in any/all of the following places: display a gallery of thumbnails, display pictures below each post, or as a widget in your blog’s sidebar! By default, thumbnails will immediately show up in the footer of every current and archived post on your blog upon activation, but it comes with a fully configurable admin panel so you can control everything from the WordPress dashboard.

The plugin will then display relevant auctions (it matches the tags assigned to your post with eBay’s inventory) and when someone clicks on it, they are taken to that eBay auction. Of course that is only the beginning, as a 7-day cookie is placed in their web browser and you get a percentage of EVERYTHING that person buys on eBay during that time.

The author lists the following features which are included with the purchase of Auction Thumbs:

• No messing with script or programming – add Auction Thumbs through standard WordPress plugin administration
• Installation and configuration can be done in a few minutes
• Thumbnail size, border color, count are all configurable
• Track revenue granularity with up to four eBay campaign numbers

Where Can I Purchase Auction Thumbs?

If you decide you want to purchase auction thumbs, for a limited time only, it can be purchased for only $47.00!

To give you an idea of this plugins potential value, when I purchased BANS a few years ago (costs $97.00), I made that investment back in under a month and a half. Everything after that was pure profit and is still providing steady income today. I’ve been using Auction Thumbs for a few days now on my video game blog and my book review blog, where I expect this plugin to convert well, and expect more of the same success as I’ve enjoyed with Build a Niche Store.

Depending on how many blogs you run and how many much time you spend actively affiliate marketing, you have probably found that managing and tracking all of your affiliate links can often be very overwhelming. All sorts of different affiliate accounts means a large amount of affiliate codes to manage and a lot of manual work getting them all into their proper places on your blog(s).

There are a few different strategies you can use to manage your affiliate profile, but as users of WordPress, we are at a significant advantage over other types of websites because we have access to some great premium WordPress plugins.

There are a few plugins available that are designed to do something with your affiliate links, but I had yet to find one that really worked well and the way I wanted it to. One that I tried even caused me some significant problems, requiring me to use a database backup!

After all of my testing, one of two premium WordPress plugins that worked is the WP-Affiliate Pro premium plugin (the other was WP Ninja Affiliate).  WP Affiliate Pro has a fee associated with it, but in my opinion it is totally worth it because it allows you to manage everything within your WordPress dashboard. If you can up your affiliate income quickly, it will quickly pay for itself.

Here are a summy list of features I’ve thrown together based upon my experiences with this plugin:

• Control Your Affiliate Links From the Dashboard – With this plugin, you can instantly add affiliate links to specific keywords on your blog. The plugin will search through old posts and update them with your affiliate links. If you only want to do 1-2 per post, you can set it to only do that as well. It is fully customizable from the WordPress dashboard.
• Tracks Your Affiliate Traffic – Each time an affiliate link is clicked, it is counted and will be displayed in real time within your WordPress dashboard. This way you can figure out what products are working and which ones aren’t.
• Masks Affiliate Links – This software will mask your affiliate links and also make it so people can’t hover their mouse over a link to see the destination. The only way to find out is to click on the link.
• Customize Affiliate LInks – With this plugin, you can customize the look and style of your affiliate links to match your specifications. This way you can make them stand out, use different fonts, or whatever you want to try to see what works.
• Compatible with Other Advertising Methods – Whether you monetize your blog with Google AdSense or other advertising methods, this plugin is fully compatible.

So, as you can see, it is much more than your standard WordPress plugin. If you’d like to see a video demonstration of these features, the authors have provided these two quick videos:

• Video #1
• Video #2

You can also see the plugin in action on several top blogs that use WordPress.   If you’d like to read more, I recommend you check out the WP-Affiliate Pro WordPress plugin page.