In 2020, probably the best web monetization strategy is to simply have more than one strategy.With ad blockers eating into ad revenue across the board, bloggers and web publishers are feeling insecure. Fortunately, when it comes to alternative means of earning income…there is no shortage of options. You can sell affiliate products, streamline existing advertising operations, or even sell digital products and content subscriptions through micropayments.
In this post, we are going to take a look at 30 monetization plugins for WordPress that will help you increase and increase the money you make from your blog.
1. Monetizing WordPress Mobile Gestures
Type: Touch monetization
The WordPress Mobile Gesture Monetization plugin by errnio adds tools to improve touch gestures on your mobile site and improves the UX by creating new monetization channels in addition to any ad setup you may currently have.
The four touch gestures that are activated when this plugin is installed include:
- Scroll: when users scroll down your page, errnio displays a mobile search box that monetizes any outgoing activity. When users scroll back, they recommend articles from your site to improve navigation and monetization.
- Swipe on the screen: actions with left and right thumbs allow you to easily view your site content, through a mobile article gallery that promotes your site content, the plugin also offers here recommended content for monetization.
- Pressing: text selection actions trigger the display of additional information about the selected text, as well as additional monetization.
- Scale: errnio allows users to zoom in on images without distorting your site experience, recommending other images within the interface, and adding monetization recommendations.
2. Monetization of Clk.im
Type: interstitial ads
The Clk.im monetization plugin offers one of the easiest ways to monetize your WordPress blog. It is based on the Clk.im interstitial ad network, which deals mainly with links.
The biggest benefit of using Clk.im is that it doesn't introduce any banner ads or pop-ups on your web pages, so your blog visitors won't be bombarded with ads that detract from their browsing experience.
All you have to do to get started is register with Clk.im, install the plugin and set it up by copying your public API key, which will be available to you after registration.
3. AdPushup
Type: Revenue Optimization (disclaimer: you are on the AdPushup blog)
AdPushup is an automated advanced A/B testing tool that optimizes display ad layout to increase click through rates and increase revenue. Some features include:
- Ad Layout Optimization
- Visual advertising management
- User Experience Optimization
- Intelligent Continuous Optimization
- Segmentation and personalization
- Analytics and reporting
- Account Managers
4. Mobile advertising for WordPress.
Type: Mobile site monetization
AdsOptimal offers innovative ad units designed and optimized for mobile sites. Desktop ad units are also available for those who need it.
- Choose from four different ad types such as banner, interstitial and more.
- Control how often a user sees ads.
- Choose to show ads only after the user has read your content.
- Installation will only take a few minutes. See your income in real time.
- Get paid via Paypal or check.
5. TrenDemon Income Accelerator
Type: Revenue Optimization
TrenDemon helps you increase revenue, page views and conversions on your site. Once you set a goal, TrenDemon will determine which posts on your site have the most impact. Then, using personalized content recommendations and calls to action, TrenDemon automatically drives more traffic to those posts and pages.
- Marketers: Automatically increase your content marketing ROI, get insights and engagement.
- Publishers: increase monetization, page views and engagement. What's more, eligible publishers can also monetize on the TrenDemon media exchange network.
6. Free comments for WordPress
Type: comment monetization
Vuukle helps your community communicate more effectively. Vuukle has also developed a way to monetize the comments section with native ads. So, it's a smart comment system that acts as a source of income, not a cost. Implementing Vuukle will result in increased internal referral traffic, lower overall bounce rate, higher average time spent on page, additional revenue from Vuukle Ad module, and more user comments.
7. Greenapp mobile advertising
Type: mobile web/app monetization
Geenapp is an app promotion platform where you can earn money with every app install. Here are the available advertising options:
- smart banner : You may have a banner at the top or bottom of the page to install the app.
- Interstitial ad : You can show a banner splash screen to install an app.
8. AffiGet Mini for Amazon.
Type: Amazon Branches
AffiGet Mini is an advanced plugin for remotely adding Amazon products to your blog with just one click. AffiGet provides a semi-automated way to build profitable review sites and monetize your blog. Here's how it works:
- By browsing Amazon, you find a product that your readers might be interested in.
- You click a button and AffiGet automatically adds a detailed product review to your own WordPress site.
- Your visitors go to Amazon through a link on your site and you earn a commission of 4-10% on all their qualifying purchases.
AffiGet uses the official Amazon Product Advertising API; so all product information is always current and up to date.
9. Amazon Auto Links
Type: Amazon Branches
Still manually searching for products and inserting affiliate links? What happens if the product becomes obsolete? With this plugin, you have nothing to worry about. Just select the categories and it will automatically display product links from Amazon.
Links are tagged with your Amazon Associate ID. The plugin supports 10 Amazon languages and works even in browsers with disabled JavaScript. Insert the ad as a widget or place the generated shortcode or PHP code where the links should appear.
If you want to search for a specific product, you can do that too. If you're good at HTML and CSS coding and have a little knowledge of PHP, you can even create your own template.
10. Amazon Link Engine
Type: Amazon Branches
The Amazon Link Engine plugin is the easiest way to convert all Amazon links on your WordPress site into global links that work across all Amazon storefronts. By "localizing" these links, you ensure that all clicks from international viewers are redirected to the appropriate item in their own local storefront, which increases conversions.
Plus, sign up for a Geniuslink account to access advanced reporting metrics, as well as the ability to attach your affiliate IDs to ensure you're earning the international affiliate commissions you deserve.
11. Content.ad
Type: Content Recommendation System
Content.ad is a content recommendation platform that helps site owners spend more time on the site and monetize their content easily and unobtrusively. Content.ad serves up billions of impressions on thousands of sites every month. Some key features include:
- Easy installation: installation in 3 steps will help you create your first widget in minutes.
- Flexible Style: Widget creation wizard allows you to easily and easily customize the appearance of the widget.
- Performance orientation: state-of-the-art algorithms learn what content is most popular among your users, reducing bounce rates and increasing overall site revenue. Also, because the optimization happens on the Content.ad servers and the widget is loaded asynchronously, the plugin doesn't slow down your site.
- Powerful features: The free, enterprise-grade features allow you to control how the widget integrates into your site and what content it displays, all without leaving your WordPress admin.
- Advanced reporting: Robust reporting and charting options to see exactly how well your widgets are performing to the hour.
- Personalized support: service staffsupport from The USA can help you properly set up and optimize Content.ad for your needs.
12. CoinTent Paywall
Type: Paywall
CoinTent allows you to generate income on your site through paid subscriptions or micropayments. With CoinTent, your visitors can either pay for individual pieces of content or purchase subscription access to your entire site. You can choose what content to sell and at what price ($0.05 minimum).
- Subscriptions and memberships: sell auto-recurring weekly, monthly and yearly subscription access. CoinTent processes payments without the need for a merchant account.
- Micropayments: sell access to individual articles for as little as 5 cents.
- Analytics: find out what your readers want. See graphs of your sales, user funnels, and viewers. Export data to CSV format for further analysis.
- Customization: CoinTent offers easy, customizable and flexible integration. Create a premium shopping experience that matches your brand.
- Safe and easy payment: CoinTent focuses on security and privacy in payment processing, fraud prevention, customer service, and account management.
13. Block Ads in Bitcoin
Type: Bitcoin donations
Block Ads to Bitcoin is a WordPress plugin that allows publishers to monetize unused ad space with ad blockers enabled. When ad blockers are enabled, it turns ads into bitcoin donation offers.
- Supports four ad sizes.
- Allows you to customize suggested donation amounts
- Allows you to customize the ad copy
- Supports multiple ad blockers
14. Tiny Pass
Type: Paywall
Tinypass is a simple and powerful plugin that allows any online publisher to easily sell access to any type of content, be it a blog post, website subscription, digital download, or even pay-per-view video. Tinypass can accept payments from2 cents ($0.02) , supports24 currencies and does not require changing the existing structure or layout of your site.
Any site, big or small, can use Tinypass to easily create a new paid content revenue stream. And while you can still make money from ads anywhere on your site, a simple paid content plan can quickly outperform what you can earn from ads, even if you're only selling access to a small percentage of your site's content.
15. Membership WP
Type: Paywall
A simple membership plugin that integrates your site with Memberful. Memberful is a service for selling subscriptions to your site using Stripe. Features include:
- Automatic synchronization of your members' data with WordPress.
- Single sign-on: Members are automatically logged into WordPress when they log in.
- Create paywalls and restrict access to content. Quickly secure any posts or pages right from the WordPress edit screen.
- Widget with links to login and manage your account (renew credit card, cancel subscription, etc.).
- Ability to create private RSS feeds
16.WP Full Stripe Free
Type: Band Payments
Full Stripe (Free Edition) is a WordPress plugin designed to make it easier for you to accept payments from your WordPress site. With Stripe, you can embed payment forms in any post or page and accept payments directly from your website without forcing customers to go to a third-party website.
The free version of WP Full Stripe has the following features:
- Create payment forms to accept payments through Stripe.
- Place payment forms on any page or post with a simple shortcode.
- Choose between a set price and a donation style form of payment.
- View the list of received payment details from WordPress.
- Choose to send email receipts for successful payment via Stripe.
- Select redirect to page/post after successful payment.
- Customize forms with additional custom fields, email address and billing address.
- Ajax-style forms without page redirects for accepting payments.
- Create multiple versions of payment forms to suit your needs.
17. Buy Now Button in Easy PayPal
Type: Paypal payments
This plugin will allow you to sell products or services on your website using the PayPal Buy Now button.
You can place the PayPal Buy Now button anywhere on your site where you want to sell something. Your customers can use their PayPal account to pay for your products or services, or they can pay with a debit or credit card.
What makes this plugin powerful is its simplicity. You don't have to spend days setting up an e-commerce solution. Just install the plugin, and in just a few minutes, customers from all over the world will be able to buy products or services on your website using PayPal.
On the plugin's settings page, you'll find clear instructions on how to create a PayPal account if you don't already have one. The plugin also provides instructions for setting up a PayPal Sandbox account, which will allow you to set up a fake PayPal buyer and seller account (with fake money) so you can test everything before you start selling to the public.
18. PayPal Digital Downloads
Type: Paypal payments
The Easy PayPal Digital Downloads WordPress plugin makes it easy to turn your WordPress site into an e-commerce site and start selling digital products.
Simply install the plugin, enter your PayPal company information on the settings page, and use automatic button insertion to place Buy Now buttons on your site.
If you're selling digital goods, this plugin is a must as it keeps customers on your website by opening a popup where they can pay. This reduces the likelihood of customers leaving during checkout. Unlike most PayPal website integrations that keep customers on your site, no security certificate (SSL) is required.
19. PepFeed Instant Monetization
Type: Amazon affiliates
The PepFeed Instant Monetization WP Plugin detects the product names mentioned in your page titles and titles to display the best deals for each gadget.After installation, no additional settings are required. The plugin matches the product names on each page and works on all pages of your website. Some key features include:
- Show deals from the world's leading retailer Amazon.com
- Include your affiliate tag, you save 100% commission
- Offers are updated regularly and automatically
- The growing database recognizes over 10,000 different electronic products.
- Instantly improve your website with the best suggestions to complement your reviews
20. VigLink
Type: Affiliate Marketing
VigLink automatically pays you when people buy the brands and products you write about. By registering with VigLink and installing this plugin, you can automatically monetize links to over 30,000 collaborating sellers. VigLink converts regular links to commercial links, works with existing links on all your pages. This even works for links shared in your RSS feeds.
Once registered, login to viglink.com to check your dashboard for reports of all clicks leaving your site (data that Google Analytics does not provide), giving you an idea of where your readers are going, which links are the most profitable . which pages or posts earn the most and which products people buy.
VigLink retains 25% of revenue. Existing affiliate links are not affected and you get the maximum compensation for your traffic. When clicks leave your site, you create value. VigLink is the easiest and most complete way to measure and record this value.
21. Tabula
Type: Content recommendation
This plugin allows WordPress users to easily integrate Taboola content recommendation widgets into their sites. Earn direct income by viewing Taboola's recommendations for high-quality sponsored content.
22. Affilizr
Type: Affiliate Marketing
Affilizr offers you automatic conversion of "standard" product links into affiliate links. Affilizr generates links automatically, so it's a time saver and an optimal monetization strategy. Affilizr works with approximately twenty affiliate marketing platforms and thousands of retail websites.
In addition, you can view all your statistics (clicks, sales, revenue…) through the Affilizr dashboard.
23. Chitika
Type: Ad network
This plugin automates the insertion of Chitika ads into your blog posts. Chitika Ads will show targeted ads to your blog viewers and is compatible with AdSense.
Chitika provides its network of over 350,000 publishers with monetization solutions for both websites and mobile sites. They specialize in delivering highly relevant, search-targeted advertising sourced from an extensive network of quality advertising partners including Yahoo!, SuperPages and Yellowbook.
Choose the ad unit that best fits your site's content and audience. Choose from search-targeted traditional text and display ads, optimize them for your mobile users, or choose from our family of apps that includes Chitika Linx (text ads) and Hover (sticky scrolling ads).
24. Skimlinks Affiliate Marketing Tool
Type: Affiliate Marketing
Skimlinks eliminates all the effort normally associated with affiliate marketing by working behind the scenes and earning commissions for the valuable links you include in your posts.
- Easy to install : Add the Skimlinks plugin and instantly monetize unused links on your blog.
- SkimLinks and SkimWords integration : Easily manage the Skimlinks products you use from your publisher's interface
- Earn money from your RSS feed : Monetize more activity on your blog, when users click on an external link in your RSS feed, Skimlinks automatically turns them into affiliate links
- Earn more : Join a network of over 8,000 merchants and turn more links in your content into their equivalent affiliate link so you can earn more commissions
- Increase your click through rate : Links only turn into affiliate links when clicked, so they don't look suspicious to your users.
25. YieldKit Affiliate Marketing
Type: Affiliate Marketing
YieldKit is a meta affiliate network that gives you direct access to over 10,000 affiliate programs.
YieldKit converts keywords such as product names, brands or store names, and product links to affiliate links. You decide with what intensity keywords are converted into affiliate links.
Some features of YieldKit include:
- Fully automatic and revenue-optimized monetization of your content
- Access to over 10,000 affiliate programs with one registration
- No more time-consuming research, registration and long waiting times for affiliate programs
- Easy to combine with other marketing programs
- Fair share of income and no investment from publishers
26. Advertising placement
Type: Ad Management
embAD Embed and manage ads on your site with a powerful yet simple drag and drop interface that gives you the ability to scale ads and place ads virtually anywhere on your site. Thus, you can easily and simply place ads on your site.
- Easy integration, no complicated setup… simple advertising
- Post it and forget it, advertise on one page and embAD will match your theme on other pages of your site
- Easy to use
- No coding required
28. RevenueHits Official Plugin
Type: Ad network
Launched in 2008, RevenueHits ad delivery technology delivers over 2 billion impressions daily to a growing clientele of thousands of publishers around the world.
RevenueHits makes it easy for WordPress publishers to increase the revenue of their WordPress websites and blogs. Suggested ad types include:
- Text ads. Text ads and contextual text ads that can be integrated with other formats on your site or placed separately.
- Popups/bottoms: By adding popups/bottoms to your website/app, you will immediately increase your income.
- Apps and Widgets: Not only can you make money from your website, but even from your apps or widgets and mobile traffic.
29. WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin
Type: e-commerce integration
The WordPress Shopping Cart plugin gives you the ability to quickly and easily integrate an online store with a fully featured shopping cart into any WordPress website.
This plugin uses various payment gateways and shipping methods that allow your customers to securely order products online. It automatically sends invoices to your customer, which include shipping, taxes, and handling fees.
With this plugin you can specify taxes and currency for different countries. You can link your suppliers to the shopping cart, which will help reduce the delivery time of goods.
30. Introduction of advertising
Type: Ad Management
Ad injection embeds any kind of advertisement or other content (like Google AdSense, Amazon Associates, ClickBank, TradeDoubler, etc.) into the existing content of your WordPress posts and pages. You can control the number of ads based on the length of the post, and it can limit the number of users who see the ad based on post age, visitor referral, and IP address.
Ads can be configured in the post (random, top and bottom position) or in any area of the widget/sidebar. There is support for split testing, ad rotation and support for dynamic restrictions (by IP address and referrer).
