Great tool written by fellow affiliate for adding bike maps to Wordpress sites and mobile app

Posted on May 8, 2011 by admin · Posted in Affiliate Tools, Blogging, Wordpress · Comment 

As an affiliate, a large number of you will use wordpress as a blogging platform or even as your core affiliate website.

The beauty of WordPress is that its totally free, comes with a great and easy to use CMS, and utilises plugins that can do just about anything you can think of.

Wordpress has a number of valuable features that you may find useful:

  • Easy to change the look & feel of a site by simply changing the theme used
  • Add your content quickly and easily, no HTML knowledge required
  • User accounts allow you to outsource certain tasks
  • Choosing the right theme ensures effective on-page SEO
  • Plugins allow complicated code to be added to your site to deliver useful functionality, without any knowledge of PHP or other coding languages

But what next? What comes beyond using wordpress as the basis for your website? Google has always said that websites should be built with users in mind, naturally built sites with naturally generated links. Thus, as webmasters it is important to deliver good quality content. Content, however, is both interesting, uniquely written articles on a broad range of related topics, and functionality that users find useful. For example, the Walk, Jog, Run website [walkjogrun.net] provide running routes. It’s a free online running route planner that allows runners to see how far they have walked, jogged or run over a course.

So why is this important for affiliates? Link bait. If your website offers something that users find interesting, it will attract links from admiring webmasters. Links that are on-topic and relevant, two elements that are important in obtaining positive responses from the SE bots.

Route Finder

Another example of a site that provides a useful tool is Bikes.org.uk which has developed a Route Finder tool for cyclists, mountain bikers, walkers, runners and even sailers.

The Route Finder tool is available as a Widget, iPhone App, Android App and as a Wordpress Plugin. The wp plugin allows webmasters to embed routes into wordpress posts and pages. It is ideal for Wordpress Blogs dedicated to cyclists, mountain bikers, runners, joggers, walkers, hikers, swimmers, canoeists, sailers, motorbikers and anyone else looking for routes, trails or tracks, on roads, paths, trails or even on water.

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