Top Six Money Making Plugins For WordPress

Written by John Cow on March 27th, 2008

Hello boys and girls. In today’s webisode we’ll be showcasing the top six wordpress plugins we’re currenty using on our money making blog. Obviously we all make money with our blogs, primarily from selling ads. WordPress being the most popular blog CMS out there, a lot of people have developed some excellent plugins to help us bloggers out. We can’t all be coders, but uploading and activating a plugin is something we can all do (we hope). Here’s a top six list of our favorite and recommended plugins for making money with selling advertising space on your blogs.

1) The Ad Zone Plugin - With this plugin, you no longer have to go through your WordPress theme’s code to manually set up all the places where you’d like the ads to appear. You just tell the plugin where you want them to show up, and the plugin takes care of the rest! Sure saved us a lot of time and frustration.

2) The Ad Randomizer Plugin - This plugin will make sure that your advertisers will get an evenly divided exposure above the fold if you’re using 125×125 banners like us on your blog’s sidebar. Besides the exposure, this will also help to prevent ad-blindness because with every refresh, there’s another banner in the old banner’s spot.

3) The Ad Performance Tracking Plugin - Your advertisers will be very happy to see what exactly they are paying for. This plugin provides detailed statistics about how their ad is performing on your blog. The plugin will email them weekly stats, and you can see for yourself what ad spot performs better than others. Obviously this is a win-win situation for both Publisher and advertiser. You can calculate exactly how much your ad space is worth.

4) The Ad Auto Renewal Plugin - Here’s a real moneymaker! Once an ad has run on your blog for whatever time you’ve been paid for, it won’t go to waste. If the advertiser was happy with the results, they just pay you via paypal and you can reactivate the ad in a second. No extra hassle by submitting new details.

5) The Custom Sales Plugin - If you have sold all your adspace and you still want to make some extra money online, perhaps you could offer your services as a writer, a coder, sell your wordpress themes, ebooks…whatever. This plugin makes is SO easy for you to setup a custom sales page that will let your readers/customers pay via PayPal and download your themes or ebooks for example after that. This plugin makes sure you’re not paying any commision to anyone either. (except for PayPal :evil: )

6) The Affiliate Engine Plugin - If you’ve used the Custom Sales Plugin, chances are you’d like to make some more money with whatever you’re selling. How about you start attracting affiliates to do your selling for you? With this plugin you can setup your very own affiliate system which keeps track of who sold how much of your stuff for you. Easy to setup the percentage you’re willing to pay out, extensive reports on sales etc. A must have if you’re serious about making money online.

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Hah! Lets see who’s the first one to comment, saying we’ve screwed up the links since they are all pointing to the same plugin. We didn’t mess up, we just think that this plugin has so many useful features that you could consider it a mashup of all the advertising plugins you’ll ever need as a blogger. We could have extended this list to the top 25 plugins, but we think you guys got the point. This plugin rocks!

PS We’ve got a few spots open if you’re interested in getting some great exposure for your blog via us.

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39 Responses to “Top Six Money Making Plugins For WordPress”

  1. Your page is now on StumbleUpon! says:
    March 27, 2008 at 9:01 pm

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  2. smartguy says:
    March 27, 2008 at 9:04 pm

    ur links r screwed up

  3. Infogle says:
    March 27, 2008 at 9:21 pm

    Nice post about plugins - this is must for every blogs to include plugins that relate to your niche as its helps a lot.

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  4. BigPappa says:
    March 27, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    Ok I know this isn’t about the post but I have to ask. What is the little tiny smiley face about. I am sure you know it’s there. It’s right up there between the columns. You may have already addressed that in another post sorry if this is a duplicate question. Oh and how goes the Entrecard test?

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  5. Mubin says:
    March 27, 2008 at 9:35 pm

    This will surely bring in some nice stumbleupon traffic.

    Mubin’s last blog post..WTF is Up With All the Viral Video Posts?

  6. John Cow says:
    March 27, 2008 at 9:36 pm

    Well don’t forget to give it a big thumbs up Mubin :twisted:

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  7. Mubin says:
    March 27, 2008 at 9:46 pm

    Pretty quick on the witty responses today Mr. Moo!

    Mubin’s last blog post..WTF is Up With All the Viral Video Posts?

  8. John Cow says:
    March 27, 2008 at 9:49 pm

    That’s just because we love you Muby

  9. Lori says:
    March 27, 2008 at 10:04 pm

    I knew it wasn’t a screw up at all…in fact, it’s pretty smart. It’s a powerful plugin and I love it!

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  10. John Cow says:
    March 27, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    BigPappa, that smilie is because of the wordpress stats plugin.

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  11. Mattaw says:
    March 27, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    It is really one of the best plugins my blog has. It has not only helped me manage my ad space better but sell it to! Great post Cow, definite thumbs up.

    Mattaw’s last blog post..Entrecard Will Experience Slower Growth and Possibly a “Crash”

  12. John Cow says:
    March 27, 2008 at 10:13 pm

    Thanks Lori, we don’t get accused of being smart very often :oops:

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  14. Mubin says:
    March 27, 2008 at 11:08 pm

    Approve my ad damn you!

    Mubin’s last blog post..WTF is Up With All the Viral Video Posts?

  16. Mubin says:
    March 27, 2008 at 11:35 pm

    check adbrite out.

    Mubin’s last blog post..WTF is Up With All the Viral Video Posts?

  17. John Cow says:
    March 27, 2008 at 11:43 pm

    Ah, those are supposed to get auto-approved.

  18. Mubin says:
    March 27, 2008 at 11:44 pm

    Ohh, might just be there slow system. You really have to try out their in text advertising as well. It rocks much better than amazons.

    Mubin’s last blog post..WTF is Up With All the Viral Video Posts?

  20. Jason says:
    March 28, 2008 at 4:22 am

    I’m purchasing OIOpulisher after the WTW contest is over..to see if maybe I win it, lol.

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  21. Young Online Millionaire says:
    March 28, 2008 at 8:21 am

    Thanks for the list! Found a few that will be very useful for me.

    Young Online Millionaire’s last blog post..5 Wordpress Plugins Every Blogger Should Have

  22. John Cow says:
    March 28, 2008 at 8:48 am

    Young Online Millionaire, its comments like that which make us wonder if you’ve even read the post :neutral:

  23. Malin says:
    March 28, 2008 at 9:08 am

    Funny to see that some doesn’t read the post at all :P

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  24. Mubin says:
    March 28, 2008 at 9:42 am

    Just jumping in quickly to get a backlink!

    Mubin’s last blog post..WTF is Up With All the Viral Video Posts?

  25. Loy says:
    March 28, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    Think I’m at the wrong place :roll:

  26. Steven Finch says:
    March 28, 2008 at 6:10 pm

    Very funny post. Nice work!!

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  27. Information Doorway says:
    March 29, 2008 at 9:44 am

    links from Technoratiparticipate on your blog is extremely important. New readers and potential advertisers will take notice quickly on how much participation your blog spurs. Of course the majority of us want to make money from our blogs. John Cow wrote about some greatWordpress Plugins that will make advertising much more efficientfor you and maximize your income potential. Darren Rowse from ProBlogger writes about making pages on your blog. Pages are not entries, but static pages such as your “about me” page or an “advertising

  28. Kellex says:
    March 30, 2008 at 2:16 am

    maybe I should start using wordpress? :)

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  29. K-IntheHouse says:
    March 31, 2008 at 9:16 pm

    Very nice of way of marketing this plugin.. exactly the reason why I read your blog. :-)

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  30. JTPratt's Blogging Mistakes says:
    April 1, 2008 at 11:34 pm

    I think it really sucks the way you sneakily wrote this post to have all the links (as if there were 6 WP plugins) pointing to OIOPublisher. Why didn’t you just review OIO and all it can do?

    JTPratt’s Blogging Mistakes’s last blog post..JTPratt’s Guide to Article Directory Promotion

  31. John Cow says:
    April 1, 2008 at 11:44 pm

    @JTPRATT, We think it really sucks that you’ve been a sneaky comment whore here to get backlinks for your BANS websites (which you proudly admit in this post), yet you didn’t hear us complain did you?

  32. JTPratt's Blogging Mistakes says:
    April 2, 2008 at 12:00 am

    Wow, that’s really not a fair comparison at all. A comment whore is someone who comments “wow, nice post” or “I really like what you had to say” like you’ve pointed out with commenters you’ve had problems with. I actually participate on blogs and try to leave meaningful comments each and every time - in fact I commented on 30 blogs earlier today, and this page just happenned to be one of them.

    But you know what, I came across this post in the first 5 sites I visited, and I kept that tab open for a few hours until all my commenting and reading was done. Then I fully read your post last (because it interested me the most) and I thought I would be finding 6 brand new WP plugins for making money like your title said. Your linkbait didn’t pay off and what looked like 6 cool plugins turned out to be nothing more than a single plugin (that did 6 things) that I already owned.

    People build links every day and most sites welcome participation for the exchange of the link. If that makes me a comment whore - then I guess all commenters are…

    :roll:

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    April 29, 2008 at 4:05 am

    great plugins. now to come up with stuff i can use them on. xD

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