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important plugins for an amazon wordpress site?

by Vlad Romanov
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I am making a few amazon sites to test the waters and would like to know what are some of the required plugins that you guys use nowadays? Also what free theme is good for this?

Thank you for all the advices,
Vlad
#amazon #important #plugins #site #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Marketer Matt
    Originally Posted by Vlad Romanov View Post

    I am making a few amazon sites to test the waters and would like to know what are some of the required plugins that you guys use nowadays? Also what free theme is good for this?

    Thank you for all the advices,
    Vlad
    Amazon sites meaning that you are doing Amazon affiliate products?

    In any case, some useful plugins that I often use are:
    • Broken Link Detector
    • Wordpress SEO Plugin by Yoast
    • Sociable (unless you have a WPMU membership in which case I use the Floating Social plugin)
    • Google Analyticator
    • FD Feedburner (if you're doing a blog)
    • Some type of cache plugin like DB Cache or W3 Total cache (depending on your site/hosting)
    • Contact Form 7
    • Jetpack by Wordpress
    • Dynamic Widgets
    • AVH Extended Categories

    Want me to keep going?
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    • Profile picture of the author Vlad Romanov
      Originally Posted by Marketer Matt View Post

      Amazon sites meaning that you are doing Amazon affiliate products?

      In any case, some useful plugins that I often use are:
      • Broken Link Detector
      • Wordpress SEO Plugin by Yoast
      • Sociable (unless you have a WPMU membership in which case I use the Floating Social plugin)
      • Google Analyticator
      • FD Feedburner (if you're doing a blog)
      • Some type of cache plugin like DB Cache or W3 Total cache (depending on your site/hosting)
      • Contact Form 7
      • Jetpack by Wordpress
      • Dynamic Widgets
      • AVH Extended Categories

      Want me to keep going?
      yeah i chose a few products and chose a domain in the same category for them... do i really need all those!? Im planning on just making 5 pages (one per product)
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  • Profile picture of the author Marketer Matt
    I find most of them helpful on nearly all of my sites. If you are only doing a 5 page site then no. You could leave out Jetpack, Contact Form 7, AVH, FD, and Dynamic Widgets. How are you planning on getting links though with such a small site?
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    • Profile picture of the author Ralph Moore
      If you are wanting to build an Amazon affiliate site and would like to actually earn any income from it, then I suggest you take a look at Ryan Stevenson's Product Style Plugin.

      Search for phpnetpro in the WSO forum.

      An extremely powerful free theme for Wordpress can be found here:

      Weaver II Theme | Home of the Weaver II WordPress Theme

      I use the paid version which was about $40 for unlimited use on personal and client sites and I will probably never use another theme as this one is head and shoulders above any of the other themes I have tried, paid or free.

      Other plugins that may range from helpful to necessary include:

      All in One Seo Pack
      Google XML Sitemap
      Easy Contact
      W3 total Cache
      and a backup plugin

      If you are planning on building sites that only consist of 5 or so pages, you will need to come up with a way to drive traffic to your site.

      An example of a properly built Amazon affiliate site can be seen here:

      Sweet Almond Oil Benefits
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