Amazon does have amazing tools for their affiliates, which I have used before (and still will be using on sites I have), but the plugin I ended up going with allows me to pull products in directly and then set them up to post randomly for as long as I choose – which gives my blog a more natural appearance for posting. It also integrates very well with the SEO plugins, and is so quick and easy to use. You can set up categories based on your keywords, and then pull products in targetted at those categories.

Another very nice feature of it is that it has click tracking – you can see exactly what your visitors are clicking on, which is good for getting a feel for what they are searching for. I had thought of using the aStore, but the problem I see with that is that it is difficult to SEO your site for keywords – by using the plugin, I am able to optimize my site to be set up around the keywords I have found and then just have the categories set up to put the products into.

I likely could have done much of it with Amazon tools, but it would have taken me a lot longer. I had this set up and running within just a couple of hours, which is nice.