In order to make money online, sometimes you just have to take an already existing technique and tweak it to your evil needs!

The Link-A-Dink plugin for Wordpress has the ability to replace every single chosen keyword on your site with a hyperlink of your choice. For example, you could set every occurrence of the word “money” on your site to link to any site you choose! The potential that this plugin has is amazing. It can monetize your site by:

• Automatic affiliate link creation - It gives you the ability to have every affiliate site related keyword automatically link to your referral ID. For example, you could set every use of the word “link” on your site to automatically point to the Text Link Ads sales page.

• Keyword auctions - You could auction off every occurrence of a keyword to an advertiser who could link it to their site. Can you imagine how much money CashQuests would make if every single use of the word “money” was sold and linked to an advertiser? A fortune!

• Internal SEO - A big part of great search engine rankings is how you link to your own inner pages. Having every occurrence of the phrase “make money” link to one of your own sales pages would definitely improve your rankings for that term.

It’s a versatile money maker!

Installation and use

Installing the Link-A-Dink plugin is easy. Simply download it, place it in your plugins directory and activate it. After installation, you’ll be greeted with this screen:

To make every appearance of “money” link to CashQuests.com, you would put “money” in the ‘Find’ field and in the ‘Replace’ field put the html:

<a href=”http://www.cashquests.com”>money</a>

If you’ve done it right, you should see this appear in the main box:

Easy! The plugin won’t replace any existing links that included the word in the anchor text as that would make them quite messy. It will only replace those words which were not previously hyperlinked.

Keyword auctions are hot

I’m incredibly excited about the potential this has in relation to keyword auctions. Even if you have a site with just a trickle of traffic, auctioning off the keyword “money” or another highly sought after word to the highest bidder would definitely bring you cash!

I tried to count how many links the keyword “money” would generate for an advertiser on CashQuests.com but quickly realized the task was too great. The plugin will also create the links in comments so I estimate the number of links it would generate for an advertiser to be well over 3000.

Is it for you?

Although it will be a money maker for some, I’m not going to conduct a keyword auction on CashQuests.com

The reason is that I have a policy of only linking to an advertiser during a paid review. It doesn’t seem fair in my mind that someone would purchase a post and then have links out to other non-paying sites during the post. This is all part of the great extremes that I go to in order to look after advertisers on CashQuests.

If I were to conduct a keyword auction, I would have to cease paid reviews which would mean that the price for the link would start around $600 per month. I’m also a little concerned about the SEO consequences which would push the price up further to around the $800 region.

If someone wants to pay that - let me know!

Obviously, the plugin would benefit from being able to exclude certain categories or particular posts!

Ideal for smaller sites

If your site isn’t yet big enough to receive paid review offers or you’re not too concerned about the SEO ramifications, a keyword auction could be the perfect way to bring in some bucks.

Whoever does it first will be the one to receive the most publicity and I’d love to hear who is going to be the first to make money online from auctioning off their keywords!

Download the Link-A-Dink plugin or visit the plugin homepage.

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