Welcome to the latest of our product stack up posts where we put our affiliate link management plugin, ThirstyAffiliates, against other solutions made for affiliate marketers using WordPress.
Today we're going to be comparing ThirstyAffiliates with WP Affiliate Elite.
One of the things that we often find is that other link cloaking and link management solutions aren't built with the end user (busy affiliate marketers) in mind.
Comparison Categories:
- Site License
- Automatic updates
- Link categorization
- Commission protecting 301 redirection
- Link picking tool
- Import/Export Links into other blogs
- Click recording
- Statistics reporting
- Automatic keyword linking
- Money Back Guarantee
- Support
- Price
As affiliates ourselves we know what features are must-haves and what makes a tool like this great. We've been refining our tool for a number of years now and are always finding new and innovating ways to improve.
There's a lot that goes into producing a plugin like this and it's more than just adding features.
Here at ThirstyAffiliates, we pride ourselves on our customer service and try our best to ensure everyone has a good experience while using our product.
We give an industry best 60 day guarantee on our product and we take care of our customers personally when it comes to support issues rather than just sending everyone to an inactive ghost town forum.
With that all said, it's often hard to compare two products directly based on features. This is why we do the comparison across a number of categories.
So how did ThirstyAffiliates stack up against WP Affiliate Elite?
The results are in, check out how ThirstyAffiliates compares with WP Affiliate Elite:
| ThirstyAffiliates | WP Affiliate Elite | |
|---|---|---|
| Site License | Unlimited sites | Unknown |
| Automatic updates |  | 🚫 No |
| Link categorization | Hierarchical WordPress-like categories | 🚫 No |
| Commission protecting 301 redirection | | 🚫 No. Only disguises link with javascript |
| Link picking tool | Full graphical tool with search, can drop in image links, standard links, and shortcode links | 🚫 No. You must enter keywords to be auto-linked, doesn't support manual linking |
| Importing/exporting links | Uses standard WordPress import/export | No |
| Click recording | Filters web crawlers & robots | |
| Statistics reporting | Full stats graph & dashboard to drill down into links and categories | Basic reporting of total clicks, no dashboard |
| Automatic keyword linking | Simply list keywords/phrases to add links around, it takes care of the rest | 🚫 Doesn't support manual linking, this is the only method of linking affiliate links |
| Money back guarantee | 60 days | 🚫 No |
| Support | Direct email support Speak to the developers | Unknown. Forum link is broken |
| Price | Standard $39 Premium $59 Professional $79 | $47 |
