There are a lot of ways you can add ads to your WordPress blog. As part of my month long series on WordPress Plugins, I thought I’d take a glimpse into WordPress Plugins that help you monetize your WordPress blog.
WordPress Plugins that add ads to your blogs may assign advertising blocks to specific areas, or allow you to customize where they appear. Others will automatically inject them between blog posts or within the post content itself.
Note: For the most part, the following WordPress Plugins involve editing your WordPress Theme template files in order to add the Plugin template tag exactly where you wish the generated information to appear. For information and tips on installing any of these WordPress Plugins in WordPress Themes, see How to Install, Configure, and Use WordPress Plugins.
Adding Adsense Ads to Your WordPress Blogs
For a long time, AdSense from Google was one of the most popular methods of monetizing your blog. Thus, there are a lot of WordPress Plugins to help you add AdSense to your blog.
Adsense Deluxe WordPress Plugin place the above AdSense Deluxe screen to your WordPress options panel. From there you can create multiple AdSense ad units and decide what parts of the site should have or not have ads, and what ad sizes to run. The Adsense Deluxe+ WordPress Plugin claims they go farther to help you customize your ad placement and improved performance.
AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System WordPress Plugin helps you track your AdSense earnings and impressions, including publicizing the information. Other WordPress Plugins that will help you track your Adsense income include Adsense Clicks Tracker and Adsense Earnings WordPress Plugin.
Author Adsense WordPress Plugin permits ads to be displayed by author, so the post author gets credit for the ads, not the blog itself. For multiple blogger blogs, this is an interesting way to share the wealth.
- AdSense Widget for WordPress Sidebar
- Adsense Injection WordPress Plugin
- Adsense Inline WordPress Plugin
- MightyAdsense WordPress Plugin
- Adsense Attachment WordPress Plugin
- Mighty Adsense WordPress Plugin
- Google AdSense Referral Rotator WordPress Plugin Widget
- Adsense-Paster Plugin for WordPress
- Textlink-adder
Amazon.com WordPress Plugins
There are several different Plugins that will help you add Amazon.com ads, wishlists, current reading lists, and other Amazon ad types to your WordPress blog.
The powerhouse of all things Amazon.com for WordPress is Amazon Media Manager WordPress Plugin. There is a lot of flexibility and customization in this Plugin. It’s been around for a few years and only gets better with time. The Amazon Media Manager allows you to select Amazon.com books, music, and products from within your WordPress Administration Panels and easily add them to your WordPress blog in a variety of ways. It keeps track of what you’ve added, and helps you choose how to display the ads, and so much more.
Now Reading WordPress Plugin incorporates data from Amazon.com and allows you to add a “review” or commentary about the book or product.
WP-Amazon WordPress Plugin lets you to search Amazon as you write your post and embed the Amazon information directly into your blog post or Page.
Last Amazon Review WordPress Plugin showcases your most recent review on Amazon.com, helping you to promote the book or product. It features customized configuration of the incoming information and is also available as a Widget to work with Widgitized WordPress Themes.
Amazon Wishlist WordPress Plugin lets you put your Amazon.com wishlist on your WordPress blog, a nice way of asking for books in lieu of money.
Other Advertising WordPress Plugins For Your WordPress Blog
A lot of advertising javascripts and links require no special features to add to your WordPress Theme, but sometimes, a little WordPress Plugin help goes a long way.
CafePress WordPress Plugin allows you to create an online store front for selling your blog products through CafePress.
eMiniMall WordPress Plugin works with Chitika’s eMiniMalls to integrate them into your WordPress blog.
Text Ads Link Sidebar WordPress Widget helps you add Text Ads Links to your sidebar.
AdKit24 WordPress Plugin adds an ad bar for your WordPress blog with configuration through the WordPress Administration Panels.
TicTap Ads WordPress Plugin helps you add TicTap Contextual Ads ads to your blog.
Bidvertiser WordPress Plugin for Bidvertiser ads.
Many large website and blog supporting advertisers feature their own WordPress Plugins to help you add their ads to your blog.
Ad and Banner Rotator WordPress Plugins
There are a variety of random generators and rotators you can use to feature random ads and banners on your WordPress blog. Some are simple scripts while others are easy-to-use and highly customizable WordPress Plugins.
WPAds WordPress Plugin provides rotating options but also allows you to define the ad positions on your blog. It supports AdSense, Yahoo Publishers Network, and other ads including image banners.
PHPAdsNew Integration WordPress Plugin helps to add an ad banner or other content to your WordPress blog.
Other general ad rotating scripts and WordPress Plugins include:
- Photomatt’s Random Image Rotator
- Image Rotator PHP from Automatic Labs
- Andersdrengen – Randomizer WordPress Plugin
- AdRotator
Shopping Cart WordPress Plugins
I thought I would find more WordPress Plugins that help you set up a store front or online shopping cart, but I only found two.
Instinct e-Commerce Light WordPress Plugin adds a shopping cart to your WordPress blog for selling products and services, or for accepting fees online.
YAK WordPress Plugin is simple to use, allowing association of products with specific blog posts and more. There are some customization options and it adds two Admin Panels to your WordPress blog for showing and fulfilling orders, helping you keep track of orders, and managing products.
Are you familiar with any other shopping cart style WordPress Plugins?
PayPal Donations WordPress Plugins
There are several WordPress Plugins and Widgets that will help you include a PayPal Donate Button on your WordPress blog, which is especially helpful for WordPress Plugin and Theme authors.
They include:
- EasyPayPal WordPress Plugin
- PayPal Donate Plugin for WordPress Widget
- Simple PayPal Donate Plugin
- Paypal Donate WordPress Plugin
Adding Ads to Feeds
While I’m not personally a fan of ads on feeds, here are some WordPress Plugins to help you add ads to your WordPress feeds. Be aware that some advertisers will not allow you to run their ads in your feeds. Check your Terms and Conditions before using any of these.
Better Feed WordPress Plugin supposedly offers an option for adding ads to your feeds. Other WordPress Plugins that allow ads on feeds include:
- PostPost WordPress Plugin (Commission Junction and Adsense)
- WordPress Plugin: Pre and Post Feed Content
- Feedvertising WordPress Plugin for Text Link Ads
Monitoring Other People’s Money
There are only a few WordPress Plugins that will help you monitor other people’s money, and maybe some of your own, though there are a lot of Google Gadgets you can use are similar to Widgets and Plugins, and integration into WordPress is fairly easy.
Stock Quote Tooltip WordPress Plugin allows you to create a hover mouseover effect over the link of any business to display the stock quotes in an AJAX mini window, similar to the Snap Preview effect.
Stock Quote Sidebar allows you to customize which stocks you want to follow and displays them as a list of stock quotes in your sidebar.
Stock Chart Widget displays a chart of your stock quotes in WordPress Widget.
Web 2.0 Rubble Widget is a regular Widget you can add to Widget-enabled WordPress Themes that tracks 10 Web 2.0 type stocks that are considered “popular”.
Move The Markets Post Stocks List WordPress Plugin isn’t the name of this Plugin which the author hasn’t yet named. Still, it’s an interesting stock market and investment oriented WordPress Plugin. It scans your post for stock market symbol names (like Exchange: SYMBOL, NYSE: CSX, Nasdaq: SUNW) and creates a table at the bottom of each post with links to search results for that ticker symbol on Yahoo, Google, and StockTickr.
Monetizing Your WordPress Blog
I’m sure I’ve missed a few good WordPress Plugins that help you add ads and money-making fun to your WordPress blog. Any tips, tricks, or recommendations?
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151 Comments
Thanks for the mention of PostPost. This plugin is really to allow you to customize content before or after your post on your site and, separately, in your feed. That could be ads from Google, Commission Junction, or any other advertiser. But, it could be utilized for simply putting a Copyright or banner, etc.
You have a fantastic blog, Lorelle! I really enjoy reading it and am so happy to be posted on it.
Thanks!
Doug
Good stuff — Lorelle, you do a great job, thank you, and keep it up!
Awesome Lorelle. You rock!
Cheers!
Alpesh
WP-Shop is another e-commerce plugin. You can find it on wp-plugins.net
That just made my life a whole lot easier. Now I just have to finish going through every one of you’re articles. They’ve all been extremely helpful so far!
It would be great if you can include the version compatibility of these plugins.
Some of them are like of 2006 april.
This is a great resource list and a big help for me for adding some new features to two of my blogs this week! You just made my work a lot easier for the day!
Thanks Lorelle for the plugins; the Amazon plugins will be a huge time saver.
Here is another WP shopping cart [or a shop] I found by googling for it:
http://cregy.net/downloads/
It seems the info there is not yet organized or not organized clearly, or maybe I am too slow to grasp the site easily. The only other extra info I could find on that same shopping cart plugin was at:
http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/01/31/wordpress-plugin-wp-shop/
It may not have been updated for a while, though.
Which is why they weren’t included at the time I wrote this. If I couldn’t find specific and updated information, they weren’t included on the list. And this is in no way a complete listing of all the possibilities out there. Just the ones I found that looked “reputable”.
I found a lot of out of date Plugins, but the ones listed here appeared to be viable in WordPress 2+. When possible, I tried to put my focus on WordPress Plugins with clear and recent activity and support from the author.
I might also mention my Amazon Showcase WordPress Widget. The widget allows you to display up to 10 Amazon items in your sidebar, and lets you enter your Amazon Associate ID to earn money from the click-throughs.
Amazon Showcase WordPress Widget
Enjoy, and great post!
Thats a great list. Thanks for putting it together.
I’ve been wanting to implement some ad banner rotation for a while now and you have found the plugins for me 🙂
Thanks again.
Lorelle,
While you may not care for ads on feeds, there’s an excellent alternate way to use the features of the Feedvertising WordPress plug-in from Text-Link-Ads.
I’ve had great success using the Private RSS Ad Listings to offer subscriber incentives.
I place links to my free ebooks, special reports, and downloads in the footer of my articles – so that subscribers are rewarded with access to additional premium content.
I got the idea from Copyblogger.
Great list of monetizing wordpress plugins. Now that it’s not a problem to monetize our wordpress site, do you have a good list of SEO WordPress Plugins?
There are actually very few WordPress Plugins that will help you with SEO. People seem to forget that SEO means “search engine optimization”, fixing the code under the page to make your blog search engine friendly. No Plugin can fix bad or broken code. WordPress comes very SEO ready right out of the box. It losing it’s SEO qualities when people choose badly formed Themes or do-it-yourself Themes and screw up.
The rest of the so-called SEO WordPress Plugins are just frosting. You need meat and potatoes for good SEO and you will find it in Do-It-Yourself Search Engine Optimization Guide.
Thanks for the mention of YAK.
🙂
Thanks. It will be more easier for us to find a good and profitable wordpress plugins for our blog.
Lorelle,
you have a beautiful way of conveying even complicated technical matters to relatively laymen like me. Thanks so much for your contribution.
Now, I was under the impression that blogs on wordpress sites cannot monetize their content through ads. Am I wrong or has there been a recent relaxation of this no-ads rule?
I am currently blogging on here
Adbrite Plugin…I’ve covered it on my article Web Advertising Adbrite
What a great list! Thanks a lot for taking the time to write it all down for us.
Anyone know of any good ad companies or affiliates that focus on progressive, socially/environmenally responsible companies? I’d love to put ads up on my blog, but I’d like to have a little more respectability in the ads I display, if you know what I mean.
The easiest and most profitable way to monetize a website is to charge a cover charge. I charge $1.00 per day to visitors of my Franworst.com site. Unlike your site, they get many times more than $1.00 value from each visit.
To those who say it doesn’t work, or it’s bad form, I say: “That’s why I’m a millionaire and you’re not.”
Millionaire Richard Quick, Esq.
Franworst.com
Nice,
I’ll visit You more often
It’s a very impressive list of plugins. I will found some rare plug ins here.
Thank you.
Yes there is a wordpress shop plugin but its not quite the same as using the original… grab WP e-Commerce now while its still hot!!!
Another great source for revenue for your site can be through using Kontera’s ContentLinks. I have created a plugin that makes adding this to your WordPress blog a breeze. The plugin makes it easy to add the necessary Kontera JavaScript and has options to control the placement of the ContentLink.
If you have any questions you can contact me through my website.
Thanks for the information, so I can monetize my blog easily.
Hi,
Thanks for the great plugins.
hrm…e-commerce light is bear to get working and support is 80$ an hour and only if you buy the gold edition.
AdSense management plugins for WordPress make your life easyer. There are lots of tutorials out there on how to set up AdSense on your blog. Some free blog hosting websites offer this plugin installed by default. All you have to do is enter your AdSense ID and start earning.
Hey,
we need a Ebay Relevance Ads 2.0 Plugin. 🙂
Hi Lorelle…..I have researched and read info for a couple of weeks and your site has helped me……without confusing me…..more than any other site about wordpress ads. Thank you! The WordPress site I listed above is brand new and no content yet. I do have another blog at http://www.potpourri-elektra007.blogspot.com. It is up and running. I bookmarked your site and plan on sharing it with others. 🙂
Hi Lorelle,
Can those blogging on the free WordPress.com blog have ads or write paid posts?
I wanted to just get a domain and continue to host my blog here at WordPress.com
but not sure if I can do paid postings with PayPerPost, Blogitive and etc?
Thanks!
Angeleyes
You can not use AdWords, Adsense or any advertising on your WordPress.com blogs. No paid posts. VERY SERIOUS on that one. That’s part of the “free” in “free”. Free of advertising. 😀
You can pay for a VIP account and then do whatever you want, including stuffing your blog with ads, though they review and decide who they will accept, so if you are an add stuffer, you are not likely to be accepted.
That was fast!
How about if I have my own domain but want to host it here with WP?
Can I do the paid postings? Or I have no choice at all but to get it
host elsewhere?
If one day I decided to not host my blog anymore with the hosting company and
wanted to revert back to the ‘Free’ WP, can that be done?
Thanks!
Angeleyes
WordPress.com blogs are free. There is no advertising or pay-per-post money making activities allowed. Free is free and has restrictions.
You can purchase a domain on WordPress.com, which is actually “domain mapping”. You buy the domain name and pay WordPress.com to map it to a free WordPress.com blog. However, I believe the advertising issue still remains.
You can use the WordPress.com VIP hosting which is several hundred dollars a month and do ANYTHING you want.
You can use the free full version of WordPress on any paid hosting site which works with WordPress requirements and do whatever you want in any way shape and form with few restrictions.
You can import and export into a WordPress blog (any of them) to and from most popular types of blogging programs, and take your WordPress.com free blog with you when you leave it, or come back to a free blog whenever you want.
Thanks Lorelle! You’ve been a great help!
thank you so much lorelle
Roffi: You are welcome and I’d like to remind you, since you are signed in with a WordPress.com blog, that you cannot use WordPress Plugins on a WordPress.com blog, nor can you post advertising or pay-per-post. Just a reminder for everyone.
Hey, Thanks for posting this list it was just the information I was looking for to help me monetize my new blog. I am using the Adsense Injection plug-in its pretty cool.
Lorelle, your post was good. I learned a few new things here and I am very happy that you made this post. Keep up the good work!
Great post. I love plugins. We have just transferred our blog over from Blogspot to WordPress and the range of plugins is enormous. It was well worth the effort.
thanks for sharing however i wish we had some links on site using the plugins you have posted on. I i would want to put it on my site only to realise that it doesnt look that great for my products or packages
Muy buenos estos plugins gracias por todo una sujerencia es una seccion en español para los mienbros de abla hispana.
Your post is great Lorelle! It taught me a bunch of things…keep it up
Thanks for giving a huge variety of ways for monetizing blogs.
i really appreciate it.
Thanks.
Very interesting article. I like the layout and template of your site also.
I have an original nintendo blog at http://classicvideogamereviews.blogspot.com
Thanks for the articles advice. Have a great day.
Thanks for the article advice. I have a blog myself at http://classicvideogamereviews.blogspot.com
Have a great holidays.
Hi Lorelle,
I am very happy that you did this post. I was especially looking for the ones that dealt with the stock market and shopping cart. Your work is well researched and well appreciated. Keep it up.
Excellent resource for monetizing blogs! Many of my new slients are jumping into using blogs because they are an easy CMS. However, not many know appropriate ways to earn money with their blogs. I shall use a few of your tips for a couple new RV Camping websites I am building. THANKS!
i want to download adsense-widget-wordpress-sidebar at mikesmullin blog.
but i can’t find it.. maybe it has been deleted.
@ Ohwillie:
First, never put your email address inside of a comment box. It is in the comment form – which is enough.
Second, if you had read Mike’s post, you would have read:
You do not need this Plugin which is why you probably can’t find it.
You have a great list of nice plugins to monetizing a wordpress, but i have noticed that my plugin is missing 🙂 Would be nice if you can add it! -> http://www.textlink-adder.com
Hi Lorelle
I’m wondering if a year later this list has evolved and changed with the upgrades to WordPress to Version 2.3.2?
I’ve seen a number of plugins fail with the upgrade, and as I search for monetizing plugins, I’m coming up short. I’d love to see an update piece on the topic.
Cheers, Lee
@ onemancan:
If a WordPress Plugin on this list has not been upgraded to the current version, please contact the author. They might have an update but my link might not be to the updated version. There will be a LOT of changes to WordPress in the next version, so I’m holding off updating more than 30 of these articles on WordPress Plugins until then.
Who Sees Ads WordPress Plugin is now considered one of the hottest Plugins for adding ads.
thanks, for plugin… 🙂
hello lorelle
I hear that there are 6 plugins for WordPress that can be used to start a product review blog but… I’ve tried to do a Google search to find them myself but I only managed to find 1 of them:
1) The DG Review Site (DGRS) plugin for WordPress
can anybody help here?
@ Africa Travel and mo:
Try Testing Readers: Survey, Polling, Rating, Testing, and Reviewing WordPress Plugins.
Really help full for us this monetizing wordpress plugin
Well, you forgot to mention the “pay per read” plugin from blogonsteroids.com. It allows you to sell access to the content of the posts inside a WordPress blog 🙂
Cheers,
Vladimir
These are definite plugins for my site!
Making money online is what majority of people love and Looking for.
My own experience showed me that Google AdSense is easiest and quickest way to make money online.
The Adsense Deluxe and WordPress Plugin are great to get the big benifits from AdSense
Ads.
Thanks – Super list. When was it last updated?
@ Techwatch:
When someone tells me a link doesn’t work and gives me the specific information, it’s updated. These Plugins show you what is possible, and sometimes there are two or more versions of the same Plugin, so it’s goal is to help you find the keywords and ideas behind what is possible, then go hunt for the specifics yourself. Plugins are updated in and around major releases of WordPress, but also on a schedule known only to the author.
I really ignored there were so many plugins for AdSense available on WordPress platform, it sounds crazy!
May be I will consider blogging also with WordPress on my future blogs…
B.
Hi Lorelle, there’s a very simple and practical plugin for ads and banners called AdServe, witch counts impressions and clicks.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adserve/
Great Post.
thanks for the links.
Thanks for the great post Lorelle 🙂 I’ve recently used SMF to monetize my blog.
The latest SMF2 beta version offers a paid subscription system whereby users can register, pay via PayPal or credit card and then automatically gain access to previously hidden areas of your WordPress site.
Currently I’m only giving users access to another section of SMF, but I plan to extend this to a paid upgrade service for my dropdown menu CSS generator (which is part of my WordPress theme).
eShop is a wordpress plugin.
thanks for bidvertiser plugin 🙂
Do any of these plug ins allow for 125×125 ads? Thanks!
@ lawton chiles:
This is a standard size but you will have to investigate their details to find out which one does which.
thanks a lot lorelle for this listing this ‘money making’ plugin.. 😉
i’d digg this too…
Wow thanks Lorelle!
I just downloaded and installed the WP e-Commerce 3.6.6 plugin and it worked fine.
Later alligator 🙂
Great list but I’m surprised that you don’t mention OIOPublisher, arguably the best WP plugin for managing ads on a WordPress blog. It’s not free but at $37, it pays for itself with the amazing feature allowing you to setup your own advertising affiliates.
@ Jacob:
Probably it’s not mentioned because there are fabulous Plugins that manage ads on WordPress blogs that are free, including the very popular Who Sees Ads by Ozh. There are many Adsense and monetizing WordPress Plugins, paid and free, and even more since I wrote this article.
it’s great resources that i’ve been looking for…
God Jobs!! bro
You rock man!!!
Im having trouble finding a good alternative to adsense.
Yahoo seems like a good alternative, but good luck getting in.
Bidvertizer ads was promising but their ad targeting leaves TOO MUCH!! to be desired…
Kontera hover over link popup style looked ok at first but it looks to cheap for a “Serious Website” and it’s not really like a billbord on the side of the road that cought your attention, it’s mor like a bum knoking on your car window trying to get a handout.
We will stay with Adsense, so far so good.
I’m pleased to announce that WP e-Commerce is about to launch UPS and USPS Shipping options, Table rate shipping, and Weight rate shipping options. Also stay tuned for the new WP e-Commerce Affliliates module.
Soon you will be able to do everything e-commerce in your WordPress site.
Great collection of plugins.
I googled here using “wordpress donate plugin”.
Found two that work, but prefer the “Simple PayPal Donate Plugin”.
Thanks for the info 🙂
Lorelle,
Great post!! I am just getting to the part where I feel comfortable with my content and SEO and want to begin understnading the monetization aspect. Thanks for this post.
hi,lorelle…
nice information.thank’s
i love it
keep the good work
Thanks you Lorelle for sharing good plugin.
Can you recommended more Amazon Plugin 🙂
@ Anya:
There are several of them in the WordPress Plugin Directory. They are free. Try them to see which one works best for you. I have no favorites.
Thank’s. I really need them. Thank’s a lot…
Do you know if the Amazon Media Manager Plugin is still being maintained? Does it contain security problems? The author does not seem to be maintaining it. Do you still recommend it?
@ California Jerry:
You will have to contact the Plugin author or check on the WordPress Support Forums.
Lorelle,
Great list!
But what I most want to say is that after reading through comments on many of your posts, I might become a convert on leaving dates off my posts. It used to bug me that I couldn’t figure out when a certain post on a blog was published, but I think that for a blog like yours (and mine) that shares information that can be used for many months or even years, why limit things with a date?
This post has been commented on regularly for almost TWO YEARS. It’s true that many of your posts are just plain evergreen. But even so, people just seem to continue commenting on your posts because they’re not bothered by a date making them think the post is “old.”
Have you written a post regarding your views on leaving posts un-dated? I looked, but couldn’t find anything specific.
You rock!
Sara
Yes, I have, but mostly incorporated into other articles. Ones of specific interest to you might be Cleaning Up Old Posts, The Gateway to Your Blog, Revitalizing Your Blog’s Past Posts, and SEO Tips: Increase Page Rank By Revitalizing Your Old Posts. Thanks! And thanks for noticing. 😀
WP keeps saying putting ads is not allowed.
so the plugins you are mentioning, won’t they break the ad rules of WP?
or is this applicable only for VIP accounts?
what about if the WP blog is used to power one’s own domain? is it allowed to advertise then?
This article is only for full, self hosted versions of WordPress, as is stated within the article. It is not for WordPress.com blogs. VIP accounts have their own rules, depending upon what they choose when they sign up – each one is fairly customized by the agreement they make with WordPress.com.
I found this as well, supposed to teach you how to monetize your WordPress site by using it for marketing. I’m using it now, though I haven’t finished reading it yet (900 pages…omg). So far I see a lot from the above post, lots of new ideas too.
Does anyone know of a WordPress plugin that will serve ads into comments. For example every 3 comments show a banner?
Thank’s a lot… really need them
Hi,
Thanks for the list! This is such a helpul information. I wonder where i can find the link of a plugin wherein it will not show the date of all my post.
Thanks
That’s not a Plugin. You need to edit your Theme’s sidebar and remove the default code for post archives, and the post meta data section where the date appears on the single.php or index.php template file – all within your WordPress Theme.
The best list for WordPress Ads Plugin never seen! A good Work.. Thanks
Lorelle, thank you for this post. I was searching for a way to add music lists to my website. I think the Amazon plugins may help. Going to check them out. Thanks, Tim
I have a wordpress blog and would like to monetize my blog. how do I do this–I thought monetizing, affiliate links etc..was a no no with wordpress blogs?
You can monetize a full version of WordPress, but not WordPress.com – at least not directly.
Thanks for the compilation of plugins. I am using some of them because of you.
Hi,
This list is missing one of the most complete plugin to monetize your blog using Commission Junction: wpCJ
Look forward to see an update of this post.
All best,
Will
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amazon plugin and rotate ads plugin is so cool
hi,
I need a Ebay Relevance Adsense 2.5 Plugin please !
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I would like to add a new Amazon plugin to this mix. The Amazon RSS in WordPress plugin imports images as clickable affiliate links from Amazon RSS feeds. Users can customize this plugin on many different levels. Perhaps the best feature of this plugin is finding then selecting custom RSS product feeds that the blog product images will be coming from. As Amazon updates their RSS, the images update too. Too much infomation here. (IonCube is needed for it to work.)
There are chitika plugin for monetizing blog, it’s good to try to get money from chitika, google tough to filter adsense blogger, but chitika welcoming everyone to join and provide the plugin
Hello Lorelle, thanks for this very comprehensive list. The Amazon plug in is very useful for sites carrying music related content. There’s also an iTunes one as well that comes in handy and worth checking out.
Best wishes,
Mike
I use those adsense plugin very much
I’m just wondering if this post still gets updated with the latest plugins to monetize WP?
When I have time, but sometimes a while passes between updates. If you find a problem with a link or something, please tell me specifically so I can update it. Thanks.
Lorelle,
I just wanted to add another edition to your donation plugin list. I just launched it:
http://slekx.com/donate-everywhere/
It adds PayPal donation links to the end of every blog post. I thought this would be useful because, after all, users come to read your content, not click on your ‘donate’ page.
Thanks,
Ryan
Nice article…some great links. I do reviews of plugins. I use ’em and they work great.
[Edited: This blog does not promote premium WordPress Plugins or Themes.]
Hey it’s really a great resource.
since i spend lots of time in blogging i was seriously searching for this information, thanks …here i got everything i need!
Hi Lorelle –
As a programmer beginning to create WordPress themes, I’m interested in a twist on this idea: not creating themes for monetized blogs, but actually monetizing the themes themselves, without directly charging for the themes.
For instance, one idea I had was to offer a theme for free, then provide a link to a site for the theme where users could get updated graphics, create banners or menus with decorative fonts, etc. The pages for these services would contain ads, turning the theme into a driver for traffic to the site.
If you have any other ideas on how to make money on free themes and plugins — as ironic as that sounds — I’d love to hear them.
Cheers
Wow, you are new to the community. These have been done and the backlash was amazingly thoroughly and deathly. Trust me, this is not a path you want to go down. It will be rejected by the WordPress Community, not permitted in the WordPress Theme Directory, and you will have a very small audience for what are considered “spam” themes and Plugins. There are ways to do it, but this ain’t the route.
Thanks Lorelle. This was a great list. Unfortunately, many of the mentioned Amazon plugins are now defunct.
We have recently compiled a list to monitor the developments of WordPress Amazon plugins for both bloggers and affiliate marketers. And we plan to periodically revisit the page and keep it up-to-date.
This isn’t a list meant to be updated. It is a list showcasing the Plugins available at the time and what is possible to do with WordPress. Thanks.
Awesome Lorelle. You rock!
Cheers!
Always appreciative of plugin listings and tips to effectively monetize!
Thanks
Great Plugins and thanks for the tips! I wrote the Better AdSense Targeting plugin as well, it uses hooks to inject the Google Section Targeting comments for sections of your site. You can choose to tell AdSense to ignore or use the header, content, comments, sidebar, and footer of your WordPress site when determining ads for your page.
You can get it from my Blog or within the WordPress Extend Directory
http://www.chriskdesigns.com/plugins/better-adsense-targeting/
Thanks again.
Hi Lorelle, if you or anybody else recalls how donations worked on the Movember website, they have this great thing where when somebody donates on the website they can leave their name and the amount they donated and it automatically shows up in a little feed on the site. Do you have any idea how to do that? I am connected to Paypal, and have a donate button and everything, but there is nothing on the site to say when somebody has donated. Let me know!
Thanks,
Ellen
There are several of them. Check the WordPress Plugin Directory and Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins where I might have featured an example of one. They all do different things, so you need to dig to find one that meets your needs.
Your URL says WordPress.com, and I’m sure you understand that you cannot add WordPress Plugins to WordPress.com blogs.
Looks like this a popular page with people trying to monetize their wordpress. (LIKE ME LOL) But I notice there is no mention on the reply’s about woocommerce, a shining example of what you could have with the woocommerce plugin that is based off the Jigoshop fork. Woocommerce is only a year old and this article’s date is 2007 so I understand why the author has no mention. But for anyone coming here looking to for gold nuggets in recent comments and posts to older pages woocommerce or jigoshop is worth looking into.
There are many ecommerce WordPress Plugins, some great, some not so great. This article is not about those, and yes, it was written a while ago and many of the Plugins mentioned are still going, which is always exciting.
I do not endorse nor recommend WooCommerce or any other ecommerce WordPress Plugin. In Evaluating What Makes a Shopping Cart Work Best, I discuss the challenges associated with choosing such a Plugin, and why you need to be very careful in doing so.
Hey! Just found your blog and it is very informative, except that I am just not understanding. I am new to wordpress and recently found out how to add widgets to my site. I thought widgets and plug ins were interchangeable words but I am trying to find all the plug ins you mentioned and cannot seem to find them in the widget column. Ha. Do you mind explaining to me how to find the plug ins so that I can add them to my pages?
If you are on the self-hosted version of WordPress, you may add WordPress Plugins. If you are on WordPress.com, you cannot add WordPress Plugins nor affiliate advertising per the terms of service. This article is for the self-hosted version of WordPress, often referred to as the dot org. Widgets are customized through the Administration Panels > Appearance > Widgets.
Thanks! I should have figured as much. Do you think it’s worth it for a part time blogger/amateur blogger like myself to invest or transfer my blog over to a wordpress.org blog?
You are welcome, and no. I do not. Wait until you have a good 18 months under your belt concentrated on developing your skills. No one makes money consistently for the first 18 months or more, at which time they usually stop, start over, and do things better. Focus on building your content, web writing skills, style, voice, and audience – your comm7unity – before moving over to a self-hosted site. It can cost you $100 to $500 a year for a self-hosted site and that does not include the time and effort you put into it. Learn to blog smarter before you start blogging for money.
Thanks! I’ll keep that in mind. 🙂
Very helpful. Thank you. I’ll try those.
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