Affiliates: Create an Affiliate Program on WordPress

There are plenty of scripts you can download to manage affiliate links on your site. Of course, in order to start an affiliate program of your own, you are going to have to offer a good or service. Thanks to Affiliates for WordPress, you can set your affiliate program up and running on WordPress. This is the perfect solution for those of you who plan to run a small affiliate program using WordPress.

Affiliates for WordPress tracks visits to your websites and allows you to start recruiting affiliates for your business. Referrals are stored on your website, giving you the opportunity to compensate others for driving leads and sales for your business. The plugin is powerful enough to handle embeddable links and banners for affiliates.

Affiliates for WP offers reporting for referrals. You do have the option to remove affiliate leads based on the search engines referring them to you. This is a practice used by Amazon and many other top affiliate programs. This plugin makes handling that super easy. Users are in control of permissions and standard referral settings too.

Affiliates probably would not work for large affiliate programs. But it should do the job for smaller businesses. It is simple to use and saves you from having to master a new script to go live with your affiliate program.