WordPress Wednesdays: Link A Dink

Published on Feb 27, 2008   //  WordPress

If you monetize your blog using affiliate marketing techniques, you may already be making use of banners and other methods for driving traffic toward the deal page. On my blog, I have a link to the BlueFur affiliate program in the sidebar, for example. Even so, it has been demonstrated that in-post links tend to be among the most effective. Unfortunately, it can be quite a pain having to type out the link each and every time.

The Link A Dink WordPress plug-in addresses this issue directly, because it “replaces words in your posts with anything you want.” In this way, you can ensure that every instance of term “web hosting” is a hyperlink to your BlueFur affiliate URI. The same can be done for all the other affiliate deals that you may be running on your blog.

Even if you’re not in it for the money, you can use the Link A Dink plug-in to point visitors toward certain webpages on the net. For instance, if your blog has multiple authors, you could have each author’s name automatically link to their respective biography page. This is very handy and what’s more, the Link A Dink plug-in also appears to work with comments. If a visitor makes mention of one of your keywords, their text automatically turns into a link too.

Download Link A Dink here.

1 Comment to “WordPress Wednesdays: Link A Dink”

  • This is a very nice plugin. I have downloaded a hour ago and installed it a little time ago. It works perfectly and maybe it will increase my affilate income. I will post my results in a later stadium