Thirsty Affiliates Review

Thirsty Affiliates is quite different from most of the solutions reviewed in our Affiliate Software category. In this Thirsty Affiliates review, we shall discuss briefly about the software and its major features.

What Challenges do online marketers face?

When we first started with affiliate links, the first problem for us was that those affiliate links were long and difficult to remember. It was difficult for us to go back to the product website and copy the affiliate link each time we mentioned the products in our posts. Another problem was adding nofollow attribute to affiliate links. There were also some products that we recommended more often than others, and we wished there was an easier way to convert keywords into links while still keeping the links to a minimum level.

What is Thirsty Affiliates used for?

ThirstyAfiliates is a WordPress plugin that offers affiliate URLs management services. This plugin is pretty popular and is considered one of the best in the field. Also, it allows you to create affiliate links within the website or domain.

What does Thirsty Affiliates do?

With it you can easily shorten your affiliate URLs to eliminate distracting numbers and symbols. In addition, you can configure links to open in new tabs when you click and insert affiliate links on a page or publication through a drop-down menu. First you have to make sure you have added the affiliate links to ThirstyAffiliates first

Who is Thirsty Affiliates for?

ThirstyAffiliates is a powerful link cloaking or uncloaking solution for businesses, bloggers, and Amazon affiliates.

What Thirsty Affiliates offers

It is a WordPress plugin that offers complete control over your affiliate links. While free, you can opt for paid add-ons to increase the functionality of Thirsty Affiliates. Adding affiliate links to the library makes it easier to add links on the fly without leaving the WordPress editor. Thirsty Affiliates allows you to add affiliate links to pages, blog posts, and comments.

Thirsty Affiliates Features

However, if you go with ThirstyAffiliates Pro, you also get a number of smaller features to help you accomplish those goals. Those features are:

Autolinked keywords – automatically link specific keywords in your content to make sure you don’t miss any earning opportunities.
Affiliate link picker tool – no need to track down affiliate links manually – ThirstyAffiliates includes a user-friendly tool that lets you add affiliate links right from the WordPress Editor.
Geolocation links – provide different destinations depending on which country a visitor is coming from. This is super helpful if you’re linking to an offer that doesn’t accept international traffic, or if you’re linking to a geolocated store like Amazon.
Smart uncloaking – uncloak certain links in order to stay compliant. For example, Amazon doesn’t allow link cloaking, so this gives you the other benefits of ThirstyAffiliates without getting you booted from Amazon Associates.
Automatic 404 checker – if one of your affiliate links stops working, ThirstyAffiliates will let you know so that you don’t miss out on any money.
3rd party imports – easily import from third-party APIs like the Amazon Products API.
Google Analytics Events – sync with Google Analytics Event Tracking to view click stats right inside your Google Analytics dashboard.
Link categorization – this helps you easily manage all of your affiliate links on the backend.

Event Notifications – get notified when a link has been clicked a certain number of times.

How does Thirsty Affiliates work?

Once installed, the plugin allows you to customize all your links. There is also the option to customize the links on a global basis or a per-link basis. After activating the plugin, you will notice a new “Affiliate Links” section in your WordPress dashboard. Click on it and head on over to “Settings.” First, let’s have a look at the main settings panel of the plugin. It offers you a number of different options to make things easier. To start with, you have the option to select the link type, you can go for the link URL or shortcode type.