WordPress Plugins To Help Your Blog Earn Money

Posted in Tools | On 14th November 2009 | 24 Comments

Getting your blog to the point where is can financially support itself is something most bloggers hope to achieve, once this milestone is reached the next goal would be the blog to start paying you!

Not everyone manages this feat, its somewhat difficult to earn a decent wage from blogging alone so I suppose its the bloggers version of the holy grail.

Wordpress have plugins for almost anything a blogger could desire, below I have listed some great plugins that should get your blog earning you some cash and making the whole concept of managing ads much more simple.

WP125

125

Helps you mange your 125×125 ads in your sidebar, some great features including the ability to set expiry dates and email you a few days before it expires.

Ad-minister

adm

Ad rotation in widget or non-widget format, also logs clicks and allows set time periods.

Advertising Manager

adman

This plugin allows you to rotate your Adsense and any other ads on your blog, its setup to handle a good number of networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks.

AdRotate

adr

This plugin is for management of banners, it allows random rotations for multiple locations on your blog.

Amazon Simple Admin

amaz

Allows simple insertion of Amazon products into your blogs pages.

Buy Sell Ads

buysell

Integrate your Buy Sell Ads into your blog using your zones and zone ID.

ClickBank Hop Ad

clickb

Install Clickbank text link ads as a widget.

Envato Recent Items

env

Allows you to display products from the Envato marketplaces, you can add your referral ID also.

Random / Rotating Ads

rand

This plugin allows you to display random ads in your blog in various places, no limit on the amount of ads.

Ozh’ Who Sees Ads

ozh

Control who will see your ads depending on user defined conditions.

McBonio

McBonio is a full time web designer, blogger and general web lurker. He runs Tropica Web Design, which is a web agency based in Liverpool, UK. You can also catch McBonio at Twitter: @mcbonio

Visit McBonio's website

Related Posts

Like this post? Share it!

24 Comments

  • Dragon Blogger
    November 14, 2009

    Really nice collection of plugins for integrating various adds, well done and well put together. Many I had not heard of, I use the wp125 ads on most of my blogs, but it inaccurately tracks clicks.

  • onlinemediadirect
    November 14, 2009

    I have always found that banner ads are very low performers but do ad a professional corporate look to a blog.

    Text links do work better in my experience.

  • McBonio
    November 14, 2009

    Thanks Dragon Blogger!

    I am about to use WP125 on an upcoming project and clicktracking was an important part, I will monitor that :)

  • Teasastips
    November 14, 2009

    I’m using the Amazon plugin on one of my pages, I like it. Thanks for the info, always looking for ways to enhance my WP experience.

  • Rolando
    November 15, 2009

    great list! thank you very much for sharing it. I was asking myself if these kind of “help” existed.
    cheers,
    @RolandoPeralta

  • Digital Photography
    November 15, 2009

    Great list of plugins for WordPress! Was looking for a way to setup 125×125 ads on my blog and your list helped. Thanks!

  • Julia Andreson
    November 16, 2009

    Nice to see yur blog and specially this article. I always the tips about earning but the conditions these tips must be working. Keep on working thanks.

  • Kelly Foxley
    November 21, 2009

    A great round up of plugins you’ve listed here. You shared one that I haven’t come across before and I’m off to test it out right now.

    Best wishes,

    Kelly

  • Sandesh Mascarenhas
    November 21, 2009

    Hey thanks for this post I was searching for ads plugin at last I found it in this blog. I would like to use wp125 ads in future….

  • Hesham @ FamousBloggers
    November 21, 2009

    Great collection, I love the WP125 plugin for Wordpress, I used to add 126 ads manually but after trying the WP125 plugin on one of my blogs, I realize how much easy I can manage my ads!

  • McBonio
    November 21, 2009

    thanks for all the comments folks :)

    WP125 seems a very popular plugin!

  • DiTesco
    November 21, 2009

    Hello there. Found you through BlogEngage and just voted for this article. Very useful, informative, great, blah, blah, the whole shebang. Just referred your link to a friend of mine which was looking for something like this. I love it. Weekly Echo bound, be on the lookout.

  • McBonio
    November 21, 2009

    Cheers DiTesco I will keep my eyes peeled :)

  • Heather Kephart
    November 21, 2009

    Hello & thanks for the information. I’ve been working to monetize my blog. DiTesco of iBlogZone directed me to this post. Nice to see Justin and Hesham up there as well. Justin told me about the WP125 plugin.

    I am interested to try Buy Sell ads and Ozh’ Who Sees Ads. The latter almost seems to make Chitika redundant. I just installed Datafeedr Random Ads V2 and don’t see it on your list, so I hope it works okay. If not, you’ve provided some solid alternatives. Good work!

  • Michelle
    November 22, 2009

    Hey Thanks for the tips. I was looking for something to manage my banners and WP125 is the answer. Thanks A Bunch!

  • Rhanley
    November 22, 2009

    I spend so much time on 125X125 ads. I’m glad I found this article. I’m going to get WP125 right now.

    Thanks for all the comments!

  • George Serradinho
    November 24, 2009

    Nice collection of plugins. I use to use WP125, but then moved over to adrotate. It’s working perfect for me.

    There are just so many advertising plugins out there that one has to try and find the right one for your blog.

Trackbacks