Affiliate Link Manager and Link Shortener Plugin - LinkGenius

LinkGenius is a powerful affiliate link management plugin designed to simplify the management of your affiliate links. It offers a range of benefits for affiliate marketers, ensuring a seamless user experience while complying with FTC guidelines and enhancing your affiliate marketing strategy. Here are some specific benefits of using LinkGenius for affiliate marketing:

• Compliance with FTC Guidelines: LinkGenius helps you include clear affiliate disclosures in your content, ensuring compliance with FTC guidelines and building trust with your audience.
• Increased Click-Through Rates: Customize the appearance of your affiliate links with LinkGenius, including attributes like opening in a new window, adding classes, ugc and sponsored attributes, and custom rel attributes, to optimize click-through rates.
• Increase Affiliate Commissions: LinkGenius empowers you to optimize your affiliate links for higher commissions, helping you maximize your earnings.
• Boost SEO: With LinkGenius, you can improve your website's SEO by creating clean, user-friendly affiliate links that are search engine friendly.

Let’s take a closer look at some of the key features of LinkGenius: Link Management: Easily add, edit, and delete affiliate links using LinkGenius. Keep your links organized and easily accessible by categorizing and tagging them as needed. Easily Add Individual Links or Link Lists in Your Posts or Pages Display an individual link or a list of affiliate links based on tags or categories to provide a cohesive representation of related links. Customize the layout using templates or separators and order them alphabetically or with a specific order. LinkGenius supports creating links or link lists via multiple blocks, shortcodes, or by simply selecting text in the block editor. Customizable Link Appearance Customize the appearance of your affiliate links, including attributes like opening in a new window, adding classes, ugc and sponsored attributes, and custom rel attributes. Affiliate Disclosure Maintain compliance with FTC guidelines and build trust with your audience by adding an affiliate disclosure statement to your content. Alternatively, you can utilize a tooltip or appended text to clearly indicate which links are affiliate links. Link Branding Enhance the appearance and security of your affiliate links by branding them. Create shorter, branded, and more memorable links that are less likely to be blocked by ad-blockers or marked as spam. Customize link cloaking on a per-link basis. Multiple Redirect Types Take full control over how your users are redirected, including 301 (Permanent), 302 (Temporary), 307 (Temporary) redirects. Pro Features While LinkGenius is completely free, there is also a pro version with additional features available. Go to All-affiliates.com to get more information on the pro version.

• Automatic link insertion: Automatically insert affiliate links into your content by linking specific keywords to affiliate URLs. Exclude certain pages or posts from automatic link insertion.
• Automatic link replacement: Automatically replace URLs in your content with either shortened or uncloaked LinkGenius (affiliate) links.
• Expiring Links: Set an expiration date on your links and redirect users to a specific location after clicking an expired link. You can also make links expire after a certain number of clicks.
• Geotargeting: Redirect visitors based on their country of origin to geographically appropriate affiliate URLs.
• Link tracking: Track the performance of your affiliate links with ease, using LinkGenius's link tracking capabilities powered by Google Analytics. Gain valuable insights into link performance and optimize your strategy accordingly. The server-side Tracking option allow you to even track clicks from directly from social media.
• Destination checker (Coming Soon): Easily check the final URL of an affiliate link and store it for future comparison.

Install LinkGenius from within WordPress

1. Visit the plugins page within your dashboard and select "Add New";
2. Search for "LinkGenius";
3. Activate LinkGenius from your Plugins page;
4. Navigate to the 'LinkGenius' menu in your WordPress dashboard to start managing your affiliate links.

Install LinkGenius Manually

1. Upload the linkgenius folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
3. Navigate to the 'LinkGenius' menu in your WordPress dashboard to start managing your affiliate links.

1.1.4

• Added linkgenius_additional_headers filter to allow adding or modifying additional headers on redirect
• Improved copy to clipboard functionality for unusual permalinks
• Introduced variables for tracking and destinations

1.1.3

• Improved importing by adding fields for broader support
• Fixed issue of nofollow and sponsored headers not always being set correctly
• Improved Linkgenius post type constants
• Added css to support LinkHealth feature
• Tested on WordPress 6.4

1.1.2

• Added filtering links on Tag and Category in admin table
• Added importing function from CSV/XML

1.1.1

• Editor Fixes
• Testing on php 7.4 and WordPress 5.8

1.1.0

• Added capability management
• Added easy copying of branded URLs
• Improved layout affiliate disclosure tooltip
• Fixed default prefix setting mismatch displayed and applied

1.0.1

• Processed feedback of the Wordpress review team

1.0.0

• Initial release of LinkGenius plugin.