Well, I just found the bookmark and thought I would post it here, after all it’s free, if you can install it and use it, I hope you will.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gocodes/

It’s called GoCodes. The theory is simple- it’s like Tinyurl or my favorite budurl.com (allows you track all your shortened urls at budurl.com) but gocodes resides right in your WordPress dashboard, you create your links with a few clicks and you can actually insert them easily while you are writing your blog post.

Here is the key benefit- we all know that once you write a blog post it lives in the virtual world, forever.. yes, this is how people earn residual income… those links are live and you never know where they will show up.

So think now about a couple scenarios:

• 1. You are sending good traffic to that link but the affiliate program isn’t converting
• 2. You find the same product or similar product that pays a higher commission
• 3. The product is no longer available and you want to replace it.

If you are like me, you posted those links everywhere, your blogs, websites, social networks, article directories, squidoo…you get the point.. you now need to go back and trace all those links if you can and replace them one by one.

Here is the BIG benefit- if you use the GoCodes plugin you create the shortened URL then you can replace it anytime with a new destination URL.

For example, just a few week ago, I was telling everyone to come join me at Perry’s new Video Intensive Course and I created the url to use to promote it

http://moms-business-coach.com/recommends/askmrvideo

Well, that class is now over, but I still highly recommend people look at all the other video resources Perry offers so I just went into my dashboard, removed the URL of his Video Intensive sales page and replaced it with his home page that offers both his membership option and a ton of free video articles.

Boom, one change and I’m done- I don’t need to go track and change 35 links around the web, it’s done automatically!

Remember, it also tracks the clicks! You can see where people are clicking what links and for what tools, resources or products get the most interest!

So there you have it, one quick and easy change you can add to your blog for free to get more for your efforts!

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Cool Tool of the Week

Here is my find of the day folks: a Free Ebay WordPress Plugin that looks super cool!

I know there are hundreds of Ebay WordPress Plugins out there, but this one is free, easy to install and since I’m adding a new ebay component to one of my websites I thought I would try it out.

What can you do with the Affomatic Ebay Plugin?

• Create ebay listings in your posts based on the keyword you choose.
• Input your own affiliate id so you keep 100% of the profit.
• Choose the country to show ebay listings from.
• Choose the category to narrow down your results or choose “all” categories.
• Limit the ebay results shown or show as many as possible.
• Change the way the ebay results are ordered. (I prefer Price: highest first )

I hope this will be a fast, free and easy tool that will help some of you make a few extra bucks with your blog postings!

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Free Ebay WordPress Plugin