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Affiliate marketing and WooCommerce tutorials, tips and resources designed to help you grow your ecommerce business.
WooCommerce affiliate marketing KPIs and metrics: A complete guide
If your online business has an affiliate program, you’ll probably want to know how well it’s performing. CTR, CVR, AOV…what does all this affiliate jargon mean? Which ones matter the most to your business? In this guide, we’ll discuss the…
How to recruit affiliates: 10 actionable strategies to recruit top-notch affiliates
Want to recruit affiliates to your program? Affiliates are the life force of every affiliate program — no program would exist without them. However, recruiting top-notch affiliates can be daunting if you’re a small business or your affiliate program isn’t…
How to Create Affiliate Groups in WooCommerce
Creating affiliate groups is one of the best ways to optimise and efficiently manage your WooCommerce affiliate program. By using the Coupon Affiliates plugin, you can categorise your affiliates into different groups, enabling custom settings, personalised rewards, and targeted incentives,…
Cookieless Affiliate Marketing: How to Use Coupons for Effective Tracking
Cookies have been a core part of affiliate marketing for a long time, allowing platforms to track user activity from the moment they click a referral link until they complete a purchase. However, with growing privacy regulations (such as GDPR…
Version 5.16.0 – Affiliate Groups
Version 5.16.0 of Coupon Affiliates is now available! In this update we have added new “Affiliate Groups” functionality that allows you to group your affiliates together using “user roles”. Affiliate Groups Previously in the plugin, you could still create new…
12 Ways to Increase Sales and Conversions in WooCommerce
Running a WooCommerce store comes with unique challenges. While traffic is important, converting that traffic into actual sales is the true goal. Fortunately, WooCommerce offers lots of useful plugins and strategies to help you boost sales. Here are 12 ways…
Version 5.15.0 – Affiliate Leaderboards
Version 5.15.0 of Coupon Affiliates is now available! In this update we have added a brand new “leaderboards” feature that lets you generate and view a leaderboard of your top affiliates referrals for a certain date period (month or year)…
The complete guide to working with YouTubers in affiliate marketing
Thinking about working with YouTube affiliates? Or wondering how to make your existing YouTube affiliate partnerships more effective? This guide has your back. In this ultimate YouTube affiliate marketing guide for online businesses, we’ll walk you through the following: Ready?…
4 Ways to Shorten Links in Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is a powerful tool for driving sales and generating revenue. However, lengthy URLs can look unprofessional and be challenging to share. Shortening your affiliate links makes them more user-friendly and easier to manage. Here are 4 effective ways…
Version 5.14.2 – Welcome Bonuses
Version 5.14.2 of Coupon Affiliates is now available! Welcome Bonuses This update includes a brand new “Newly Created” trigger for the performance bonuses feature. This allows you to provide a welcome bonus to new affiliates as soon as they register,…
AffiliateWP Alternatives – Coupon Affiliates vs AffiliateWP
Anyone who has researched AffiliateWP knows that it’s a solid, but somewhat expensive, affiliate solution for WordPress websites. But is it worth the cost if you’re running a WooCommerce site? Or are the specific plugins that target WooCommerce a better…
Version 5.14.0 – Responsive Dashboard Improvements (Mobile & Tablet)
Version 5.14.0 of Coupon Affiliates is now available! In this update we have made several improvements to the responsive design and layout of the affiliate dashboard, for mobiles and tablets. Mobile Header & Navigation The affiliate dashboard navigation has been…
24 Best WordPress Affiliate Programs To Join in 2024
Affiliate marketing is now the most effective channel for customer acquisition, providing site owners with an effective way to increase revenue, and for affiliate marketers to earn some extra income. Today, we’re delving into the world of WordPress theme, plugin…
How To Pay Affiliates in WooCommerce (The Easy Way)
If you’re looking for a quick and easy guide on how to pay affiliates in WooCommerce, this tutorial has your back. Here, we’ll cover: The plugin used in this tutorial: Let’s jump right in. Types of Affiliate Payout Systems in WooCommerce Broadly speaking, there are two…
How To Create An Effective Affiliate Newsletter
Creating an effective affiliate newsletter can significantly boost your affiliate marketing efforts, helping you keep your affiliates engaged, informed, and motivated to create more sales. Utilising the Coupon Affiliates plugin, integrating affiliate registration with your mailing list becomes seamless, enhancing…
Version 5.13.0 – Mailing List Integrations
Version 5.13.0 of Coupon Affiliates is now available! In this update we have added integrations with several third-party mailing list tools, to automatically add your new affiliates to a mailing list upon successful affiliate registration. The following 8 providers are…
The best way to set affiliate commission rates in WooCommerce
If you’re wondering how to set affiliate commission rates for your WooCommerce website, this detailed guide has your back. Here, we’ll explore: Ready to dive in? Let’s begin by discussing the various kinds of WooCommerce affiliate commission rates you can…
Why your affiliate program is not making money (+ how to fix it)
Affiliate marketing works. Recent studies show that: Those are impressive numbers! But that’s not to say that every business’ affiliate program is profitable. If you run an online business (especially a small or mid-sized one) and have yet to see positive results…
Version 5.12.8 – Security Fix
Version 5.12.8 has been released which includes a fix for a security vulnerability that was discovered by Patchstack. We released a fix for this issue with just a few hours of being made aware of it. We suggest updating to…
Keeping Your WordPress Affiliate Site Secure
WordPress affiliate sites are prime targets for hackers who are looking to spread malware, create a botnet, or maliciously generate a passive income over time. But there are certain things that you can do in order to drastically reduce your…

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