WP Smart Tools
This is a guest post by Joe, the maker of WP Smart Tools, a great product used for converting WordPress into a powerful and impressive landing page toolkit.
WordPress is a powerful platform for affiliate marketing: it provides an easy way of quickly creating web content with very little technological skill required. Out of the box, WordPress provides search engine optimization features that help garner free traffic, increase quality score, etc.
But you knew all that.
Out of the box WordPress is missing many of the conversion-rate boosting tricks that successful affiliate marketers use to create highly converting landing pages. Simple things like exit popups, dynamic dates, etc. – WordPress wasn’t designed for affiliate marketers.
WP Smart Tools adds the complete affiliate marketing toolkit to WordPress. With WP Smart Tools you can do things in WordPress like “fake dates,” where a link or other block of text shows some sort of “relative” date. This is one of the best tricks used by affiliate marketers to increase their conversion rate on any type of landing page: telling users that a given offer expires in “+1 days” puts pressure on them to act now. You can add “geotargeted content”, where content is only shown to people from a given area, or sentence says something like “Hi, I’m from [your city].” You can add exit popups to your site. You can mask your links. All of these things come together and create a simple, easy to use toolkit that streamlines your entire affiliate marketing business within the single platform: WordPress; and this is just a sampling of the features.
Artificial dates. This feature of WP Smart Tools allows you to use a shortcode like [smartdate pattern="+2 weeks"] anywhere within your content, and it will be replaced with the date of 2 weeks in the future. You can control the formatting of this date, the pattern (2 weeks in the future, the first Monday in September of this year, literally anything you want!). This is often used for keeping content looking fresh long in to the future, or for putting pressure on users to act quickly.
Geotargeted locations. Geotargeting has two primary uses within WP Smart Tools: you can enter something like “Hi, I’m Ashley and I’m from [smartlocation level='City'].” and it will be replaced with the city the current user is from (or you could do country, province/state, whatever). The other use is to show offers only to certain people (if, for example, the affiliate offer you’re looking at using is only available in certain regions). Using [ifsmartlocation country='Canada']This text only shows to people in Canada[/ifsmartlocation] you can easily create “intelligent” sections of your site.
Cloaked links. Professional looking links like www.yoursite.com/ResV are easy to make with WP Link Engine Basic, a part of WP Smart Tools. Link Engine lets you rotate links (so that /ResV link could try out 10 different offers), geotarget links (so that when a user from Canada clicks your ResV link they go to a Canadian offer, and when a user from the U.S. or somewhere else clicks it they go to a different offer), and much more. This is an essential part of your toolkit for sure.
Exit popups. “How about adding a popup to people leaving my product page offering a 25% discount. I mean, if they’re leaving my product page, they were at least interested enough to look: how about we sweeten the pot a little? Yeah, took all of 5 minutes to get it rigged, [and I got] 3 25% off sales in the next 36 hours. That’s three sales that were leaving my site that this plugin saved in 36 hours.” Money that would be lost, is no longer lost. Exit popups are that simple. Use them. Make money with them.
Protect yourself from landing page theft. Everyone is doing it. Stealing landing pages. Affiliate marketers are immoral people or something. I don’t know why, but it is incredibly common for affiliate marketers to just save landing pages that appear to be successful, bid on the same keywords (increasing your cost) and eventually, make the market you’ve found unprofitable. WP Smart Tools protects your landing pages from theft – actually – it does better than that: it lets your landing pages be stolen. How could that be better? Stolen landing pages protected by WP Smart Tools will have the affiliate links point to whatever site you wish, even when the thief replaces them with his own. This is done with a little Javascript trick that foils the majority of thieves and gets you free traffic from the thief’s efforts. Awesome.
“Funny too with the theft protection; someone ripped off a landing page on one of my sites [in the first week of using Smart Tools], but now I get a bunch of free traffic (at least until they figure out what’s going on).”
WP Smart Tools has hundreds of other features that make it the single solution to affiliate marketing within WordPress.
Overall, people are very impressed with WP Smart Tools.
Check out these testimonials:
“I want you to put this on your testimonials page. WP Smart Tools is so awesome I would nearly trade my wife to not have to give it up: every single lander I’ve made in the last 6 months has used it in some way. WP Smart Tools is perfectly designed, perfectly awesome, and I recommend it above everything ever. If you’re going to do for your marketing, BUY THIS NOW.”
“One last thing, if you are nooby noobistan, and you know how to install wordpress to your server (and if you don’t either shoot yourself in the face or spend the hour googling it and testing it until you do) but don’t really know much about affiliate marketing, well, buy this [sweet] suite of tools and go through the demo’s, go put it up on a couple sites and test all the features, and you’re going to know way more about affiliate marketing, in the trenches, than you did before.” (note if you don’t know how to install WordPress, WP Smart Tools includes free installation – I’ll personally install WordPress and the plugin for you -Joe)
“WP Smart Tools is exactly the type of product that will make your life a lot easier, the type of product that’s going to make you go ‘how did I manage to survive without something like this?!?’”
Tags: Affiliate Marketing
