LNIM048 – WordPress Plugins for Affiliate Marketing With Dustin Hartzler (Part 2)

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Late Night Internet Marketing with Mark Mason -- Affiliate Marketing Tips, Online Business Advice, Email Marketing and SEO

Feb 26, 2013

Mark Mason - Entrepeneur and Online Business Coach

WordPress Plugins For Affiliate Marketing with Dustin Hartzler (part 2). We welcome WordPress Guru Dustin Hartzler from YourWebsiteEngineer.com back to the house. Dustin talks all about his favorite must-have WordPress plugins.
I also get some feedback about Forever Affiliate and share a new Internet Marketing Music Video!
This is part 2 of a 2-part interview interview with Dustin.
In this episode of the Late Night Internet Marketing Podcast I talk about plugins.
This is part 2, and here is the entire list of plugins that Dustin covered.
WordPress Plugins For Affiliate Marketing

* Techniques for picking the right plugin.

* Google what you are looking for ( function + WordPress plugin )
* Most links will open up in the WordPress repository
* Then here's what I check

* Does the plugin have a large banner graphic. This is a relatively new feature within the plugin directory. It helps me know whether the plugin developers took the time to design something creative
* Next I look at the LAST UPDATED field. I has to have had a revision in the last 6 months for me to consider it
* Then I look at the number of downloads. If it has a lot, 10,000 or more, it's probably legit
* Lastly, I always look to see if it contains screenshots. Lots of plugins don't so it's hard to know which ones are good by seeing what the plugin looks like installed.

* Then I will highlight the plugin name and go back into WordPress and search within WordPress. This makes it much easier to install (you don't have to download, etc.)

* Backup

* Backup Buddy ( http://ithemes.com )
* BackWP Up ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/ )
* WordPress Backup to Dropbox ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/)

* Security

* Better WP Security ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-wp-security/ )
* WordFence ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordfence/ )

* Spam

* Akismet ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/ )
* Antispam Bee ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/antispam-bee/ )

* SEO

* WordPress SEO by Yoast ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/ )

* Cache

* W3 Total Cache ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/ )
* WP Super Cache ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/ )

* Stats

* Google Analyticator ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analyticator/ )
* Jetpack (

Late Night Internet Marketing with Mark Mason -- Affiliate Marketing Tips, Online Business Advice, Email Marketing and SEO

LNIM048 – WordPress Plugins for Affiliate Marketing With Dustin Hartzler (Part 2)

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