Special thanks to Mudassar Iqbal for his photo on Pixabay
Why I created this toolkit
In the past, whenever I was setting up a new product comparison website to try to increase my passive income using affiliate marketing, it was always a struggle trying to find out which of the plugins I would have to install before I could actually start creating some content. Therefore, to save myself some time, a lot of frustration and many headaches during the creation of all of my future affiliate marketing websites, I decided to put together another toolkit so that whenever I’m creating a new WordPress-based product comparison site intended to make money from affiliate marketing, I can now simply search for this post and find a list of the essential plugins for any of my new WordPress websites. If you would like to make use of it as well, by all means go ahead.
How to use this toolkit
Simply clicking the name of a plugin name, i.e. the drop-down menu, will reveal its description including a link to the WordPress plugin page (as shown in the following GIF).
Hope it helps!
The must-have WordPress Plugins
All In One SEO Pack is a out-of-the-box SEO for WordPress. Features like XML Sitemaps, SEO for custom post types, SEO for blogs or business sites, SEO for ecommerce sites, and much more. More than 50 million downloads since 2007.
Classic Editor Enables the WordPress classic editor and the old-style Edit Post screen with TinyMCE, Meta Boxes, etc. Supports the older plugins that extend this screen.
Pricing Tables WordPress Plugin – Easy Pricing Tables allows you to create a Beautiful, Responsive and Highly Converting Pricing or Comparison Table in Less Than 5 Minutes with Easy Pricing Tables for WordPress. No Coding Required.
Google Analytics Dashboard for WP by ExactMetrics (formerly GADWP) displays Google Analytics Reports and Real-Time Statistics in your Dashboard. Automatically inserts the tracking code in every page of your website.
Jetpack by WordPress.com brings the power of the WordPress.com cloud to your self-hosted WordPress. Jetpack enables you to connect your blog to a WordPress.com account to use the powerful features normally only available to WordPress.com users.
Manage Notification E-mails gives you the option to disable some of the notification e-mails send by Wordpress. It's a simple plugin but effective.
Post Types Order allows you to order Posts and object types using drag and drop menus.
Shortlinks by Pretty Links – Best WordPress Link Tracking Plugin allows you to shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website! It basically is a very convenient way of creating custom, short, easy, powerful, recognizable links using the domain name of your own website.
With Schema – All In One Schema Rich Snippets you can now easily add schema markup on various pages and posts of your website. Implement schema types such as Review, Events, Recipes, Article, Products, Services etc., meaning that search engines such as Google are able to recognize markups such as ratings, number of reviews, images etc.
WordPress Share Buttons Plugin – AddThis can be used to set up sharing tools from AddThis right in WordPress. With AddThis you can see how your users are engaging with your content, provide a personalized experience for each user and encourage them to share your content in their social networks. Follow tools, recommended content, conversion tools and social analytics available to registered accounts at addthis.com.
Smush – Compress, Optimize and Lazy Load Images can be used to reduce image file sizes, improve performance and boost your SEO using the free WPMU DEV WordPress Smush API.
Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons is an easy to use and 100% free social media plugin which adds social media icons to your website with tons of customization features.
Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan is a security, anti-virus, firewall and malware scan plugin. Since security is so important, this plugin usually is the first one that I install for each new WordPress website that I create.
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Show Notes & Resources
→ Get The Best WordPress Web Hosting & Domain Name(s) from SiteGround
→ Subscribe to Sjoerd L.J. Blok’s YouTube Channel
→ Get my Unique Step-By-Step Affiliate Marketing eBook ‘The Web of Money’ for FREE
Gear Used to Shoot This Video
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→ The Microphone That I Used to Record The Sound in This Video
→ The Tripod That I Used to Capture This Video
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This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the links, or go to one of the links in any other way, I may get compensated. However, you don’t have to worry, this won’t cost you anything. In fact, using my affiliate links may even get you a discount! Other than that, these affiliate links support me, allowing the creation of more videos like this.
This video is property of Sjoerd L.J. Blok who assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions in the content of this video or other videos of Sjoerd L.J. Blok’s channel(s). This content is for educational purposes only, and is not tax, legal, or professional advice. Sjoerd L.J. Blok can’t and doesn’t intend to guarantee that you will be able to make money or achieve similar or better results as what is shown in the content of this video or other videos of Sjoerd L.J. Blok’s channel(s) in any way. In fact, any action based on the content in this video or other videos of Sjoerd L.J. Blok’s channel(s) may result in the loss of money. Therefore, Sjoerd L.J. Blok highly advices to always do your own due diligence. Any action you take on the information in this video is strictly at your own risk.
In this video I show you step by step how you can get discounted web hosting and a free domain name from HostGator in just 5 minutes. This way you can start creating your own online money making (affiliate marketing) websites fast and cheap, at the same time!
Show Notes & Resources
→ Get Your Own Web Hosting & Domain Name(s) at HostGator
→ Subscribe to Sjoerd L.J. Blok’s YouTube Channel
→ Get my Unique Step-By-Step Affiliate Marketing eBook ‘The Web of Money’ for FREE
Gear Used to Shoot This Video
→ The Camera & Lens That I Used to Capture This Video
→ The Microphone That I Used to Record The Sound in This Video
→ The Tripod That I Used to Capture This Video
Legal Disclaimer
This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the links, or go to one of the links in any other way, I may get compensated. However, you don’t have to worry, this won’t cost you anything. In fact, using my affiliate links may even get you a discount! Other than that, these affiliate links support me, allowing the creation of more videos like this.
This video is property of Sjoerd L.J. Blok who assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions in the content of this video or other videos of Sjoerd L.J. Blok’s channel(s). This content is for educational purposes only, and is not tax, legal, or professional advice. Sjoerd L.J. Blok can’t and doesn’t intend to guarantee that you will be able to make money or achieve similar or better results as what is shown in the content of this video or other videos of Sjoerd L.J. Blok’s channel(s) in any way. In fact, any action based on the content in this video or other videos of Sjoerd L.J. Blok’s channel(s) may result in the loss of money. Therefore, Sjoerd L.J. Blok highly advices to always do your own due diligence. Any action you take on the information in this video is strictly at your own risk.
In this video, I take you through the process of getting web hosting and a free domain name, including easy WordPress install and a free ssl certificate from Bluehost, step by step and in just 5 minutes. So, whether you’re into affiliate marketing, or you have a small or startup company and you want to setup a website yourself, make sure to watch this video.
Show Notes & Resources
→ Get Your Own Web Hosting & Domain Name(s) at Bluehost
→ Subscribe to Sjoerd L.J. Blok’s YouTube Channel
→ Get my Unique Step-By-Step Affiliate Marketing eBook ‘The Web of Money’ for FREE
Gear Used to Shoot This Video
→ The Camera & Lens That I Used to Capture This Video
→ The Microphone That I Used to Record The Sound in This Video
→ The Tripod That I Used to Capture This Video
Legal Disclaimer
This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the links, or go to one of the links in any other way, I may get compensated. However, you don’t have to worry, this won’t cost you anything. In fact, using my affiliate links may even get you a discount! Other than that, these affiliate links support me, allowing the creation of more videos like this.
This video is property of Sjoerd L.J. Blok who assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions in the content of this video or other videos of Sjoerd L.J. Blok’s channel(s). This content is for educational purposes only, and is not tax, legal, or professional advice. Sjoerd L.J. Blok can’t and doesn’t intend to guarantee that you will be able to make money or achieve similar or better results as what is shown in the content of this video or other videos of Sjoerd L.J. Blok’s channel(s) in any way. In fact, any action based on the content in this video or other videos of Sjoerd L.J. Blok’s channel(s) may result in the loss of money. Therefore, Sjoerd L.J. Blok highly advices to always do your own due diligence. Any action you take on the information in this video is strictly at your own risk.
The above image sums up the average distribution of subjects in email inboxes according to GetResponse.
Unlike you may expect, newsletters, i.e., subscription emails, are easily on top with a whopping 29% share! This clearly demonstrates how many subscription emails people are willing to receive in their inbox.
Time for you to take action, because email marketing is extremely powerful for pretty much any sort of business. However, writing emails that convert into sales isn’t easy…
Fortunately, GetResponse set up a free email marketing guide that helps you write emails which actually get opened, read and clicked. Just take a look yourself and see what you can learn from it.