In the past I’ve gotten to work with Unique Blog Designs and have always enjoyed their work, so I have to admit I was excited when I saw that they have released some new affiliate landing pages for WordPress.   This new theme package, known as the Affiliate Theme, is an affiliate marketers dream!

With the purchase of this premium WordPress theme you get 6 different landing pages, 30 different header graphics built into the affiliate landing pages, and lifetime theme support.

Here are the features listed by the creators of the Affiliate Theme:

• Choose From 6 Layouts to Improve Conversion – If you are an experienced affiliate marketer, you are probably familiar with manually updating multiple layouts in order to split test your affiliate landing pages. With WordPress, it is easy for you to input all of your affiliate offers and tracking URL’s and then easily change the layout for the purpose of split testing. We have built six (6) effective multi-post layouts. Say goodbye to the days of wasting time re-creating variations of the same landing page, review site, or blog. Save time (and money).  This theme would also work brilliantly with the LP Jumper plugin.
• Optimized for your PPC and SEO Campaigns – Once you have set up Affiliate Theme, driving targeted traffic is, of course, the next step. That is why we coded Affiliate Theme to improve the SEO (search engine optimization) over the standard WordPress theme. You write the headlines and page copy, Affiliate Theme takes care of the rest! Proper use of header, alt, title and META tags can go a long way in improving your search engine ranking and quality score. Also, save time by integrating tracking scripts from the Theme Options panel.
• Built-in Color Picker (Perfect for every niche) – Our advanced “Photoshop-like” color picker makes it easy for you to change Affiliate Theme to any color scheme you want! Red for dating? Blue for web hosting? You will be amazed at how effortlessly you can rebrand your Affiliate Theme. You can change the color of everything from post headlines to button rollovers and site background.
• Lifetime Access to Resource Center and Support – Need help using Affiliate Theme? Excellent! Watch over a dozen video tutorials, browse and search through our extensive knowledge base, and even post your questions to the Affiliate Theme support forum. Watch tutorials and read articles on everything from how to use Affiliate Theme to creating specific types of affiliate websites.
• Need to test more? Change everything you need – Want to try a larger call-to-action button? How about changing the size of the product image? Button color? Font-size? Keywords in the title? Don’t worry about going back to Photoshop or hacking code to change any of that – Affiliate Theme allows you to change all of this and more! We wanted to make it as easy as possible for you to build dynamic sites that require no skill to modify.
• Hate coding? No problem. Love it? Great – Coding newbies, rejoice! You will be able to take full advantage of the powerful Affiliate Theme Options Panel, allowing you to change the layout, logo, colors, fonts, background, header graphic, even rollover button color – all without touching a single line of code. If you are a code-head, you will Dig the clean XHTML + CSS + PHP, fully commented source code. We even have put together an advanced customization guide for people who want to get extra friendly with Affiliate Theme.

Pretty much everything is done for you, allowing you to avoid touching code and giving you the ability to create an affiliate landing page using WordPress in under 5 minutes!    Here is the control panel so you can see what I’m talking about:

And here are a few of the templates which are included with the Affiliate Theme:

Affiliate Theme (Dating Version)

Affiliate Theme (Ringtone Version)

Affiliate Theme (Make Money Version)

Affiliate Theme (Acai Berry Version)

You can view the live demos of each of these landing page themes here.

My favorite part when I learned of this new affiliate theme was the price.   You have the following three purchase options: Single-Use ($97.00), Multiple-Use ($147.00), or the Developer’s Pack ($197.00).

If you’d like to learn more about the Affiliate theme, or are interested in purchasing a copy for your affiliate landing pages, you can get additional information here.

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With the LP Jumper WordPress plugin, the concept is really simple.   All you have to do is upload and activate the plugin.  Once activated, you can control all the WordPress themes in your theme directory from the settings panel, setting rotation percentages (percentages much total 100% in order for the rotation to work properly).   Once done, the theme displayed will change each time the website is refreshed based upon the percentages you set.

Here are some of the features of this premium WordPress plugin, which are any affiliate marketers dream:

• Rotate Multiple Landing Pages from One Traffic Source
• Find Out How Many Times the Specific Landing Page was viewed
• Give Specific Priority to a Landing Page base on its Performance
• Ability to Test your Current Landing Page Layout with Different Color Variations
• Easily Create One Campaign and Utilize One Traffic Source to Test

If you’d like to learn more, you can read about the LP Jumper plugin here.

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It’s a little known fact that WordPress contains it’s own RSS parser, and you can use it to your advantage to make custom dynamic pages!

This is a tutorial on how to take an ordinary RSS feed, parse it using WordPress’ internal RSS parser, and then create dynamic pages with it. I’m not talking about being a scraper, creating a splog, or doing anything spammy at all. I’m talking about creating added value for visitors and your blog while making money. We all know what a “splog” is. It’s a “spam blog”…or someone who takes RSS feeds and generates pages and posts from them and tries to profit using say Adsense or affiliate ads. The pages are just excerpts and titles from RSS feeds (sometimes full posts), and while they do link back to your site (usually) – they’re not the type of links you want to get. These spam blogs don’t have any redeeming value at all, no contact information, and certainly no original content at all.

Now – let’s take your blog, let’s say you have a birdwatching club in Buffalo, New York. You’ve developed a great site with loads of original content, bunches of articles, and your members visit regularly. The two things that you and other members talk about regularly are binoculars and digital cameras. This is what you could do…

Craigslist is America’s garage sale. If you don’t live in America, I’m sure something like this is in your region. Craigslist offers RSS feeds on each and every page. Here’s how the birdwatching club could benefit from that.

First – create a page template. From your WordPress theme directory, download “single.php” (or the theme template that creates post pages) to your desktop. Open it in Notepad or any text editor, and add the following lines of code to the top:

/* Template Name: Craigslist Template */ ?>

This is the tricky part, because each and every theme is different. You need to look for the following block of code (which is what prints the page content out):

<div class="entry">
<?php the_content(__('Read more &raquo;')); ?>
</div>

Right after those lines (or “the loop” in your template, you want to copy and paste this code:

<?php include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss.php');
wp_rss('http://example.com/rss/feed/goes/here', 5); ?>

That code comes from this page in the WordPress Codex. WordPress has a built in “RSS Parser” that will read any RSS feed and spit out a list of links is list ordered fashion to a page. So, if you visit the Buffalo Craigslist Photo page, you’ll find at the bottom of the page a little orange RSS icon. Click on that link, and then copy the URL, and paste it over the example URL in your template. The number (20) that comes after the URL is the number of items from the RSS feed to parse and display. Save the template, and upload it back to your theme directory of your WordPress blog.

In your WordPress Dashboard, go to “Write -> Page”. Type some original content in the box, and scroll down to the bottom (in WordPress 2.5, on the sidebar in <2.5) and select “Craigslist Template”. Title your page “Craigslist”, and then save and publish the page. Now if you go to www.yourblog.com/craigslist you should see a listing of things from craiglist with your original content on top.

Look what you did, now the Buffalo Birdwatchers Club won’t can look at photo equipment right on the member web site without having to go to Craigslist unless they see an item they like. You can add multiple feeds to the same page, just copy and paste that code block in multiple times with different RSS feed URL’s. Just remember, the more your add, the longer they take to parse, and the longer the page will take to load. I loaded 6 feeds @ 20 items per feed, and the page took about 20 seconds or so to load.

This Craigslist example is just that – an example. If you want to see how this looks in realtime, look at this Craiglist RSS example I just built. You could use RSS feeds from just about anything, digg, google news – any site that has a feed. As long as you’re only using headline feeds and not stealing content – nobody should ever think you’re plagiarising them in any way, you’re sending them traffic. In your template file, before you parse the feeds add a few paragraphs of original content about what they user might find (on Craigslist – or whatever) and now you have a page with ever changing (daily) content, AND orignal content that google can index!

Now, how do you monetize this? Well, use your noggin and add some affiliate banners, adsense, or other items above, below, or in your sidebar. There is a better way to monetize without using these though…

eBay has RSS feeds – don’t they?  All you have to do is add your affiliate code to an eBay RSS feed, and you could use it instead of the Craigslist feed for a list of eBay items, and every time someone clicks, bids, and buys an auction you profit! First you have to be a member of the eBay Partner Network (EPN). Once logged in go to “Tools->Widgets->RSS Feed Generator”. Then just enter in what you’re looking for. Like Craigslist, you can “geo-target” what you want by scrolling down and checking “Items within 50 miles of xxxxx zip code”. Then click “search” and the page you get should be auctions for only that area. Again, scroll to the bottom of the page and see the orange RSS icon. Click on it and copy the URL and use that as the URL in the code block in your template, save the page now your blog page will list eBay auctions! The difference between these listings and Craigslist is that you profit from each won auction click on these.

I’ve just given you a few ideas, the sky’s the limit with these. You could probably do the exact same thing with Amazon. Now, there’s one thing I didn’t tell you, often people want to know how to take an RSS feed an automatically create blog posts from the feed and publish them, kind of like what’s called an “auto-blog”. Let me state first that there are very few legit reasons to do this, because of duplicate content issues in google, etc. Most people want to use this to try and create quick spammy blogs with no original content, but there are (just a very few) legit reasons to want to create posts from an RSS feed (like doing a blogroll type page for members of a larger community). You can do that easily (and freely) with RadGeek’s Feed WordPress Plugin

Now, get hacking, come back to comment and tell me what you’ve come up with!

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