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New Max Banner Ads Ninja Affiliate Plugin Released Today

By Tim_Jones On September 2, 2008 Under Affiliate Marketing, Blogging

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I’m a big fan of MaxBlogPress plugins, as you can probably tell from my use of the Max Banner Ads.  Pawan Agrawal makes very easy to use, effective plugins that really add to a sites usability and profitability.  Today, he released a new plugin that further adds to the arsenal of plugins for Word Press blogs.

Like pop-ups in the past, consumers are becoming “blind” to banner ads on websites.  One of the key ways to thwart this “blindness” is to include affiliate linked keywords within your posts and pages.  If you want to add these, you must hand code the link and usually, you must also “cloak” it to avoid having your commission stolen by some less ethical marketers.  This can become very time consuming and I like to work smarter, not harder.

I knew that WP-Affiliate-Pro offered a plugin that did a lot of this work for you, but it also costs $97.  I attempted to find a free plugin that would do the job, but didn’t have any success.  I had pretty much resigned myself to buying WP-Affiliate-Pro when I got an email from Pawan about increasing your blog profits using keyword links.  I quickly commented on his post about keyword linking that he needed to create a plugin for this task.

As a side note, before resigning myself to buying WP-Affiliate-Pro, I actually looked through the MaxBlogPress site to see if he’d already created something similar, to no avail.

My comment was followed up by a new post announcing Pawan’s new Ninja Affiliate plugin that would do exactly what I wanted from a keyword plugin!  I bought it as soon as he released it, today.  He’s currently offering a $20 discount on the plugin for the next 4 days, making it $77.  After the 4 days, it will go back up to $97, the same as WP-Affiliate-Pro.  I figured I was going to buy this type of plugin one way or the other and I liked many of MaxBlogPress’ previous plugins, so I went with the Ninja Affiliate plugin, as opposed to Affiliate Pro.  I also feel Pawan has had an opportunity to learn from the Affiliate Pro plugin and improve on it’s features.

As I said, I just bought the plugin, today, so I haven’t had much chance to use it, but here is a quick comparison from Pawan to the WP-Affiliate-Pro plugin: (You can see more of his comments on this post).

MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate

WP Affiliate PRO

Designed to track and manage affiliate links as well as convert the keywords inside the posts to affiliate links. Designed to convert the keywords inside the posts affiliate links only
Smart caching feature so that it don’t slow down your blog. No caching feature and your blog may become unstable by using it.
Links generated by it are short and meaningful. E.g. http://yourblog.com/recommends/easywordpress Ugly link.

e.g.

http://www.yourblog.com/wp-content/plugins/wpaffpro/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=2

Can create sub campaigns Can’t create subcampaign
Single link can have multiple keywords assigned Single link can have only one keyword assigned
Two or more links can have same keyword assigned No freedom in keyword assignment. You can’t assign same keyword to multiple links.
Format the appearance of the link from easy user interface No user interface for editing the appearance of link.
You can manually use any ninja links in the post itself. There is a drop down box in the write post page for easy insertion of any link. Link created by it is not meant to be used manually.
Categorize and manage your links in separate groups No grouping feature at all
Smart replacement of keywords Poor replacement of keywords

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  • I like the work they're doing with Max Banner Ads. It's a great solution if you have one or a few blogs to sell space on.
  • This really is a great plugin. I have it also and am loving it.

    Shannon
  • Thank you for the feedback on the plug-in! I've been very happy with
    it, as well. I actually had some difficulty with it on an IIS server
    for one of my blogs and they fixed the issu quickly and easily. Max
    Blog plug-ins just work and I love it when things just work!
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