There was a time where affiliates were ignoring the WordPress platform, sticking to simple HTML sites to earn money online. But in the past couple of years they have caught the drift that WordPress can be used for money making sites. While affiliates starting making the jump to WordPress in the past few months, affiliate networks such as LinkShare did not capitalize on that move, until now. LinkShare has just released a plugin for affiliate marketers that makes it easy to deep link or search for products right from your WordPress blog.

The plug-in is still in beta, but LinkShare has done a great job taking action to try to capitalize on affiliates’ move to WordPress platform. LinkShare WordPress plug-in can save you time putting affiliate links on your site, but I’d like to see more advertisers allow deep-linking on that platform.

Here is where you can download the Linkshare plug-in.

Joomla has given us WordPress crazy folks a run for our money. Joomla is a portal CMS that makes it easy to create membership communities. I personally prefer WordPress to Joomla and often get tired of seeing folks claiming how great Joomla is in comparison to WordPress. Well, with WP Membership, I really don’t see any advantage to using Joomla.

WP-Membership, which is going for $29.99 per domain, is a premium plug-in that makes it very easy to turn your WordPress website into a fully-fledged membership site (very similar to amember). For instance, you can define what pages folks have access to, and what pages is part of your premium membership program:

The nice thing about this theme is that it allows you to use PayPal effectively to make money. You can also define user levels (gold, silver), and give them different rights. You can create and register pages under these tiers, making sure that folks get what they pay for. Overall, WP-Membership is a nice addition to the WordPress community. WP-Membership may not be as advanced as amember, but it’s effective for small membership sites on WordPress.

Duplicate content is frowned upon by Google, and you can be penalized heavily by Google if your content is deemed to be duplicate of someone else’s. In essence, having duplicate contnet on your blog is the fastest way to get yourself into the supplementary index on Google. Many folks believe (incorrectly) that using private label articles helps them get around the duplicate content issue. But that can’t be further from the truth. If you can buy the articles and others can do too, then you are going to have duplicate content.

That’s what I love about Synonymizer. This cool plug-in allows you to spin words around and make your articles unique. In other words, this is like injecting steroids to your automated WordPress blog. What makes Synonymizer different from article spinners is that it not only spins all your blog posts, it directly works with WordPress.

Synonymizer is compatible with RSS2Blog and WP Auto Blog. Better yet, you can work with HTML, Javascript, and even PHP. And you are not limited to PLRs. You can also work with RSS feeds and still avoid duplicate content penalty. If you are one of those Adsense guys or just want to use auto-blogging solutions to keep your blog updated when you have no time to do it yourself, Synonymizer is a must have (see the video here). Who says you can’t be a lazy blogger?