After creating an Amazon affiliate website, we often rely on various plugins to handle different tasks. While the right and essential plugins are crucial, unnecessary ones can slow down your site and pose security risks. I’ll focus only on the few plugins that are absolutely must-have and worth installing. These are as follows:
For Spam Protection
Akismet: Akismet automatically filters spam comments on your WordPress site, keeping your blog and contact forms clean. It helps maintain credibility, saves time by reducing manual moderation, and protects your site from harmful or malicious content.
Visitors, Locations, and Link Click Tracking
Jetpack: Jetpack is an all-in-one plugin that enhances WordPress security, performance, and marketing. The main purpose of this plugin is to track visitors, visitor locations, and link clicks in real time directly from your WordPress dashboard. It’s free and far better than most other free options for tracking organic Amazon affiliate marketing traffic. Additionally, it offers downtime monitoring, brute-force protection, site backups, social sharing, and analytics, making it ideal for bloggers and business websites.
For SEO
Rank Math SEO: Rank Math SEO helps optimize your website for search engines with on-page SEO analysis, XML sitemaps, rich snippets, keyword optimization, and automated meta tags. It’s beginner-friendly yet powerful, making SEO management easier and more efficient.
Google Analytics
Site Kit by Google: Site Kit by Google integrates Google services like Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, and PageSpeed Insights into WordPress. It provides actionable insights, real-time traffic data, and performance reports, helping you improve site visibility and revenue.
For Speed Optimization
You have to use just one of them.
WP-Optimize: WP-Optimize cleans your WordPress database, compresses images, and caches pages to improve site speed and performance. It reduces bloat, removes unnecessary data, and ensures your website runs smoothly, making maintenance simple for both beginners and experts.
LiteSpeed Cache: LiteSpeed Cache is a powerful caching plugin that speeds up WordPress sites with page caching, image optimization, and database cleanup. It improves load times, reduces server stress, and enhances user experience, especially on high-traffic websites.
Disable RSS Feed
Disable Everything: A skilled SEO expert’s job is to keep the Search Console or Webmaster dashboard clean and ensure that no unnecessary errors appear. However, this is not always possible due to issues caused by RSS feeds. To prevent such problems, the RSS feed is often disabled using the Disable Everything plugin.
Other Plugins Required Occasionally
WP Table Builder: A drag-and-drop WordPress plugin that makes creating responsive tables simple. It’s one of the best free WordPress plugins for creating product comparison tables for Amazon affiliate marketing sites. WP Table Builder is ideal for comparison, pricing, and list tables. With 7 customizable elements and cell management features like adding rows, merging, and splitting cells, building tables is fast and flexible.
Note: From my experience, I would not recommend relying on extra table plugins. They take a lot of time to build and manage. Instead, I prefer using WordPress’s default table block with a simple two-column layout. It saves time, keeps the site lightweight, avoids security risks, and handles most use cases without needing extra plugins.
Better Search Replace: Better Search Replace is a powerful WordPress plugin that safely searches and replaces text in your database. It supports serialized data, dry runs, multisite compatibility, and precise control, making migrations, URL changes, and content updates fast and reliable tasks.