Thanks a lot for downloading this guide.  You’ll find this guide very useful in your affiliate marketing career. So make sure you save it a place where you can access it easily. :)  My name is Kulwant Nagi, I am running one of the top blogging niche blogs in India with name BloggingCage. I have spoken at India affiliate summit, Indian affiliate conference, BlogX, Success conference, appeared in SEMRush webinars and active at many other platforms.  I have built many successful affiliate blogs in the last 7 years and they all are making 5-figure per month combined.  Affiliate marketing is no doubt one of the best methods to make money online. You can pick the products as per your niche and start promoting them.  When I started my affiliate marketing career in 2012, I couldn’t find all the tools at one place. There were many EPIC articles written by many awesome bloggers, but the information was so scattered that it was very difficult to find all the tools at one place.  Now I am doing affiliate marketing since 2012 and I have tried almost all the tools in the market.  I have listed all the products which we personally used to build our affiliate marketing business. Some of the products are not directly related to affiliate marketing but they have helped me a lot to build my affiliate business indirectly.  Let’s check the tools and become an awesome affiliate marketer.  

Hosting  A2Hosting - I recommend this hosting if you are just starting your affiliate marketing career. They have FREE SSL and fast server to support your affiliate blogs. Never buy BlueHost or HostGator because they are one of the shittiest servers.  WPXHosting - We recently moved to WPXHosting. You might have seen the customer support at various hosting companies but not like WPX Hosting. Blazing fast support system and very secure and fast servers. If you are looking for a managed VPS server, WPX is highly recommended.  DigitalOcean - Almost 90% of our affiliate websites are hosted at DigitalOcean. It’s an unmanaged VPS server which gives you the freedom to host your blog on per hour basis. We have been using DigitalOcean for last 5+ years and it never disappointed us.  CloudWays - We are using this hosting since 2016. CloudWays is a wrapper around DigitalOcean. As I told, DigitalOcean is an unmanaged hosting but with CloudWays you can make it managed by just paying a few extra dollars. We have around 10 of our stable affiliate sites hosted at CloudWays. While creating server at CloudWays, you can select from DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, AWS, Linode and many other server.  

Email Outreach Tools  NinjaOutreach - NinjaOutreach an awesome tool to do the email outreach. We have used this tool for many of our affiliate blogs to do the backlinks outreach. This is a must have tool if you are an affiliate marketer. This tool helps you to find social media influencers easily.  

Mail Shake - MailShake is an awesome alternative of Ninja Outreach. We use this tool to do guest blogging outreach. It’s a must-have tool if you do any kind of outreach in your business. Either you buy NinjaOutreach or MailShake. Just one is enough.  LemList - Want an awesome email marketing tool for the cold audience? LemList is the tool I recommend to buy. LemList has awesome email personalization feature where you can email by printing their names on banners, laptop or at any place. It gets picked dynamically. So powerful marketing technique.  AirMail - AirMail is my most loved email client I am using since 2014. I have added all my email logins in this tool and I can see all the emails in a single dashboard. This might not be a tool I directly use for affiliate marketing but it helps me a lot indirectly by making me more organized and productive.  

Email Marketing Tools  ConvertKit - ConvertKit is an outstanding email marketing service. We have used almost all the services like Aweber, GetResponse, MailChimp, etc. but the automation and deliverability you get with this service is outstanding.  Note: Stop using services like MailerLite and MailChimp is you are seriously looking forward to building your email subscribers.  

Email Optin Tools  ThriveLeads - When it comes to email marketing, ThriveLeads is the plugin we love the most. I have used this plugin on numerous affiliate sites to build email subscribers.  

ConvertPro - ConvertPro is another awesome alternative of ThriveLeads. They have many pre-made designs which you can use as it is or modify as per your needs.  

Social Media Management Tools  ContentStudio - Content Studio is a great social media automation tool. With this tool, you can automatically push your content to your Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other social media profiles.  Promo Republic - This is an all in one social media automation tool. This tool not only gives you the freedom to automate everything but you can create stunning graphics also.  

Automation Tools  GetGist - GetGist is all-in-one automation tool. Live chat, email marketing, event tracking, and other marketing automation can be created with this service.  ManyChat - Such an incredible Facebook messenger tool. We are using ManyChat for BloggingCage and 2-3 other affiliate blogs to capture messenger subscribers.  ZoConvert - This is a great alternative to ManyChat. We are using this tool at a few of our affiliate sites to build Facebook chat subscribers.  

Project Management Tools  Google Drive - Google drive is no doubt one of the best project management tools. We have all our files, plans, backlinks, promotions, web 2.0 accounts, profiles, and many other important things saved in our 

Google drive. We have integrated Google drive with many of the tools to manage everything even much easier.  Plutio - We started using this tool around 6 months back. This is the best project management tool we have ever used. We are managing all the writers, clients, tasks, etc. with this tool now.  Flock - Flock is an awesome team management tool. We have added all our team members, clients, writers in this tool to have a conversation with them. Don’t get confused between Plutio and Flock. Both have different functionalities.  Trello - Trello is a free task management tool. They have a nice kanban approach to make things easier for you. We used to use this tool to manage all our guest blogging, content writing tasks in the past. As I said, we recently moved to Plutio now.  Evernote - Evernote is one of the most loved management tools. I am using it since 2011. We create all the plans, projects, execution reports etc in this tool.  

FTP Tools  FileZilla - FileZilla is the tool we are using to access all the files from our servers. If we want to quickly upload any landing page or want to create any quick change in the landing page, we use this tool.  

File Editing Tools  Sublime Text - Sublime Text is an awesome tool to edit any kind of files. You can open HTML, PHP, Java, .net or any kind of file with this tool.  

Notepad++ - This is another awesome tool to edit files. You can open many types of files using this tool easily.  

Screenshot Tools  Skitch - All the instructional images you see at BloggingCage are created with this tool. We can easily add arrows, blur any confidential area, add text and do a few other things with the images using this tool.  Nimbus - Nimbus is an awesome tool to capture images online. You can capture images, record screen and edit them easily with this tool. You can capture online images and upload them on your affiliate sites.  Screencastify - I am using this tool to create instructional videos for my team. Every time I want to give some instructions to my writers and clients, I just click on this Chrome extension and everything starts recording automatically.  

Spy/SEO Tools  SEMRush - SEMRush is one of the most loved SEO spying tools. We keep on spying the competitor’s backlinks, keywords etc. to make our affiliate blogs awesome. I cannot imagine my affiliate marketing business without SEMRush. Grab our 14 days SEMRush FREE Trial here.  Ahrefs - Ahrefs is another outstanding tool to spy the competitor’s backlinks and do the keyword research. We use this tool as much as we use SEMRush. I personally love the speed and UI of this tool.  Anstrex - This tool is best for the Native Ads and Push notifications Ads spying. We keep running various Ads for different affiliate products. So this tool helps us to find new ideas. 

 KWFinder - They have the most awesome UI I have ever seen in any keyword research tool. It’s fast, accurate, and easy to use tool for your affiliate marketing success. Grab our 15% discount KWFinder Coupon here.  LSI Graph - This is an awesome tool to generate many LSI keywords around your main keyword. I strongly recommend this tool to you if you want to write SEO optimized articles for your blog.  Rankz - Rankz is another must have tool for every SEO professional. This tool helps you to track your keywords positions, do the backlinks profiling and many other exciting things.   

Page Builders  Elementor - Elementor is the page builder we are using for all of our affiliate sites. YES!! All. :)  With this tool, you can create anything you want. Coupon boxes, feature boxes, rating, popups or whatever you can imagine for your affiliate blogs, it can be created with this tool.  Elementor is way beyond awesome when it comes to page builders.  Chrome Extensions  Grammarly - Grammarly is something without which I cannot write. Seriously, I cannot write without this tool now. My schooling is from government schools (and that too in Hindi medium) so it’s obvious that neither I have good Grammar nor good vocabulary. So this tool helps me a 

lot to rectify my grammatical mistakes. Make sure you check our Grammarly coupon if you want to buy the premium version.  LastPass - I am using this premium extension from last 5 years. Believe me, this is the best thing you can ever have if you are doing affiliate marketing. With LastPass, you can save all your passwords at one place (I hate saving passwords in Google Chrome). So when you are traveling somewhere or want to log in at a computer which is not yours, just login in LastPass and all your passwords are there.  You can even share the passwords with your team. Which makes it super easy to share the login access of some paid tools.  Google Translate - We promote many products in various countries. So Google translate helps us to translate the page as quickly as possible and we can read the content easily.  SpyBar - SpyBar is a paid extension. Have you ever visited any affiliate site and liked the design so much?  SpyBar can help you to find all the plugins they have installed and which theme they are using.  Facebook Pixel Helper - This is an official Facebook extension to find the retargeting pixels installed on any page.  Express VPN - As I told, we run Ads in various countries. You cannot see geo-targeted Ads running in Australia by sitting in India. So you need VPN to visit those URL and then you can see those landing pages. ExpressVPS is the VPN we use to see those landing pages. It’s very fast, awesome UI and very secure VPN.  

Meeting Tools  Skype - Everyone loves Skype. It’s free, fast, secure and easy to use. We are connected with many of the affiliate managers on Skype. I have attended more than 40 conferences in 20 countries so far so I have met many affiliate managers worldwide. So Skype is the tool which helps me to stay connected with them.  Zoom - Zoom is a meeting tool which we recently started using. Every Sunday we do the group calls (with team members, affiliate managers, writers) to keep up the pace.  

Photo Editing Tool  PhotoShop - I am using Photoshop since 2010. I have learnt so much in Photoshop that I can literally do anything with it. I can create banners from scratch, featured images, promotional graphics or whatever when it comes to Graphics creation.  DesignBold - I bought this Black Friday lifetime deal in 2017. This was one of my best investments as we have created many designs, features images, banners, Ads and a lot of other graphics using this tool.  Stencil - Another tool I bought on Black Friday. This is an awesome tool to create professional banners, Ads, Graphics, etc. for your affiliate blogs.  

Content Writing  AffloSpark Blog Writing Service - We have recently launched our content writing service where we have more than 30 professional writers working with us. 

 After trying so many platforms like UpWork, Freelance, OnlineJobs, Truelancer and what not, finally I decided to create my own content writing team.  So we have awesome content writers in each niche who can create epic content for any affiliate or business blogs.  

Premium Images  Freepik Premium - Freepik is our one-stop destination to create stunning images for anything. All the images you see at BloggingCage are created with the premium images we bought from FreePik.  Deposit Photos Premium - Deposit Photos is another awesome platform to find the professional images at a cheap price. In some cases, when we are unable to find professional images at other platforms, we use DepositPhotos.  Stock Unlimited - Another best investment so far. I bought this AppSumo lifetime deal in just $49. They have 1 million images which I can download anytime for free. :)  Few other sites we are using to get FREE images are listed here.  

Link Shorteners  PixelMe - This is link shortener service. So you can shorten the affiliate links with this tool easily. The best thing I love in this tool is the freedom to add Facebook Pixel in your link. So when someone clicks on the short link created by this tool, they fire a Facebook Pixel too. Nice retargeting. ;) 

 Replug - With this tool, you can shorten, track and optimize your links with catchy call-to-action, retargeting pixels, branded links and powerful analytics. It’s very easy to configure and UI is awesome. :)  

Backlinks Service  LinksManagement - I have built many sites by buying links from LinksManagement. You can see the site’s URL, filter them as per DA, PA and finally buy the backlinks from them in just a few clicks.  Adss30 - This is the service we are using these days. They have a wide variety of link building service. Just choose the service as per your needs and grab quality backlinks.  Spin Rewriter - This is actually not a link building service. It an auto content creation tool which you can use to build the backlinks. We create the content for web 2.0, article submission etc. using this service.  Note: Don’t use this tool to create content for the money site. It will hurt the ranking of your blog.  

    

WordPress  

WordPress Theme  GeneratePress - I have used many themes in my 8 years of blogging career. But this theme is something which I cannot stop appreciating. They have added all the features in this theme which makes a theme awesome. Right now 90% of my affiliate blogs are using this theme. It’s super easy to customize, SEO friendly, fast and super awesome theme.  StudioPress Themes - I have recommended StudioPress themes to everyone in the last 5-6 years. They are also fast, secure, SEO friendly and very easy to use. I have 2-3 affiliate blogs still using StudioPress. But to be very honest, we are moving them soon to GeneratePress.  Writer Theme from MyThemeShop - This is a very minimal theme with the nice design, typography and customization features. We have used this theme in the past for many of our affiliate blogs.  

WordPress Plugins  RankMath - RankMath is the future. We have stopped using Yoast SEO at many of our blogs and we are slowly moving to RankMath now. Advanced SEO optimization, Rich Snippets, 404 Monitor, Redirection, Local SEO, Google Search Console are few of the awesome features which make this a killer pugin.  Elementor Pro - We have covered this plugin in page builders. Saying again, this is the best page builder I have ever seen. You can create any layout for your affiliate blogs using this plugin. 

 Ultimate Addons for Elementor - We are using this on our affiliate blogs to add some extra features in Elementor.  TablePress - Want to create awesome tables in your content? This is the plugin we recommend. :)  GetAAWP - This is a must have plugin for every Amazon affiliate blog. You can create stunning buttons, featured products, lists and many other layouts to make more money with Amazon affiliates.  Easy Table of Contents - Using this plugin at our affiliate blogs was one of the best things we have ever done. Because of this plugin, many of our affiliate articles are in featured snippets area. I strongly recommend using this plugin.  Q2W3 Fixed Widget - This is an awesome plugin to increase your affiliate marketing earnings. With this plugin, you can fix any banner in the side and make it sticky. So every time someone reads your whole article, this banner will be always visible in the sidebar.  Thrive Clever Widgets - As the name says, this plugin is seriously very clever. With this plugin, you can create a sticky widget in different posts. i.e you can show different sticky banners in different posts.  Broken Link Checker - A must have plugin for every affiliate blog. This plugin will keep on checking all the broken links on your blog and you can remove those broken links with just a few clicks.  MalCare Pro - Right now I am using this plugin for 5 of my top affiliate sites. This plugin secures your blog from hacking attempts.  

Pretty Links Blogger Edition - A must have plugin for every affiliate blog. Never ever use any direct affiliate links on your blog. I am using this plugin on 100% of the blogs since 2011 (from day one when I started blogging). You can cloak your affiliate links with this plugin and make them memorable links easily.  ShortPixel Image Optimizer - This plugin compresses all the images I upload at my affiliate blogs so that my blog posts can load faster.  Social Pug - An awesome plugin to add beautiful social share buttons at your affiliate blogs.  Stackable - Gutenberg Blocks (Premium) - I am totally in love with this plugin. I was so much impressed with the features that I bought a premium version for a few blogs. You can create awesome designs in your theme with this plugin if you don’t want to use any page builders.  W3 Total Cache - We have this plugin installed on all of our affiliate blogs. This plugin is best to improve the loading speed of your blog.  WP Coupons - Want to create awesome coupon boxes at your blog? This plugin can help you to create coupon boxes at your blog.  WPRichSnippets - Another must have plugin for affiliate blogs. We use this plugin to add star ratings for review articles.  

Misc Tools/Products  UI Names - Looking for some random names and images for your affiliate blogs? This is the platform we use to find the pseudo names ideas for our affiliate blogs.  

UI Gradients - UI Gradients is an awesome platform to find amazing gradient images. This is my one-stop destination to find amazing ingredients.  Sip - This is a Mac software to pick color codes from any images (offline and online). We use this to grab some great colors from the popular sites and use them in our banners.  Camtasia - Camtasia is an awesome tool if you want to record the videos. In few of our articles we have recorded videos around the products. This is the only tool I use for video editing, processing etc.  CoSchedule Headline Analyzer - Do you want to write best titles for your blog posts? This is the tool we use to write awesome headlines for our blog posts which brings more CTR and ultimately more sales.  Clickmagick - I have used this tool in the past but we are not using it right now. If you are looking for an awesome tracker, I recommend ClickMagick.  

Affiliate Marketing Forum  STMForum - If you want the latest affiliate marketing information, I strongly recommend this forum. This forum is best if you want to try paid Ads for affiliate marketing. I don’t recommend this forum to complete newbies.  Newsletter: WTAFF is the newsletter I highly recommend to join right now. This is the best newsletter I have ever joined. It will help you to stay motivated and share a lot of crazy hacks to make more money with affiliate marketing.     

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Kulwant Nagi 

  

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