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Plugins & Functionality Requirements of a Traffic Grabbing Website

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Functionality Requirements Of A Traffic Site and Plugins That Deliver

Here are a list of functionality that doesn’t come with WordPress or many WordPress Themes as standard, out of the box. There are a tonne of FREE WordPress Plugins that will add awesome functionality to your publishing website and really amplify the impact of your content strategy and content marketing.

List of Functionality:

  • Amazon Affiliate Link Management
  • Comparison Table Creation
  • Image Compression and Optimisation
  • GDPR Compliance Management – Cookies
  • Ability to roll back plugin and theme updates
  • Ability to replicate / duplicate a pre-existing page
  • Spam control on comments and forms
  • Comments section on articles and posts
  • Product review graphics and ratings, including rich snippet schema markup
  • Ad insertion plugin (for Ad Sense or even controlling affiliate disclaimers site wide)

Whether creating an Amazon Affiliate Site, Authority Blog or a Traffic Site to promote your own physical products sold on Amazon, this approach and these plugins will help drive traffic to Amazon listings.

This article contains affiliate links which means we may earn a small commission if you purchase plugins and services we mention at no extra cost to you. We only recommend the best plugins and services – which we have used and can recommend.

Amazon Affiliate Link Management

I’m going to bundle Link, Call To Action AND Image management relating to Amazon and using their Product Advertising API.

Amalinks Pro

https://amalinkspro.com/demo/ref/256/
AmaLinks Pro

Insert text links, call to actions and images as links – all whilst being compliant with Amazon’s Terms of Service for the Associates Programme.

Check out Amalinks Pro HERE ->

Of course if you’re evaluating your options, both paid and free ways of inserting Amazon Affiliate links into blog posts on WordPress, you should check out this post I wrote comparing your options when it comes to WordPress Amazon affiliate plugins vs using Sitestripe to access the Amazon Advertising API to embed images, descriptions and more!

Creating Comparison Tables in Articles

Amalinks Pro Table Builder

Amalinks Pro also has a Table Builder

https://amalinkspro.com/amalinks-pro-high-converting-product-comparison-tables/ref/256/

Check out Amalinks Pro Product Camparison Table Builder ->

Image Compression & Optimization for WordPress

ShortPixel

GDPR Compliance Management – Cookies

GDPR Cookie Consent

Ability to roll back plugin and theme updates

WP Rollback

Ability to replicate / duplicate a pre-existing page

Duplicate Page

Spam control on comments and forms

Akismet

Comments section on articles and posts

Comment Luv

Product Review Graphics, Ratings and Schema Markup

Levels of “review graphics” can come built in as widgets on certain themes. Extra by Elegant Themes has some of this functionality for example.

There are plugins dedicated to this particular functionality though.

WP Review (and WP Review Pro)

You can also get a paid version of the plugin for some more advanced features

https://mythemeshop.com/plugins/wordpress-review/

This plugin was recommended by Spencer Hawes at Niche Pursuits.

It operates on a yearly subscription model for about $67 per year.

WP Product Review

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-product-review/

You can also get a paid version of the plugin for some more advanced features

https://themeisle.com/plugins/wp-product-review/

It operates on a yearly subscription model for about $56 per year.

Content Egg

This plugin is recommended in a few Facebook groups

Ad insertion plugin

Ad Inserter

This one was recommended by Doug Cunnington on one of his podcasts. Interestingly in Doug’s example, the plugin was being used for Affiliate Disclaimer Management as well as Ad Placement.

It’s worth mentioning at this point that these “Ads” could in fact be your own self hosted “Ads” promoting your own products across the site on scale without editing hundreds of pages.

Advanced Ads

By Ashley Pearce

I'm the founder of Future State Media, a "small-on-purpose" creator-focused SEO agency skilled in helping creators systematically generate traffic, build audiences and maximise their monetisation whilst staying true to their brand.