Sociable – You might see some little icons at the bottom of posts in WordPress for various sites such as Facebook, StumbleUpon, Technocrati, Digg and many others. These are all social websites where users participate in finding interesting things to share. What could be better than having them share your content? Can you say more traffic?

WordPress Download Monitor – Have an Ebook? Would you like to make a bit of extra cash with it? Want to know how many have downloaded it after they have paid you using the ArePayPal plugin? Just use this handy plugin to upload your ebook. Track the downloads and secure it to members only.

Google XML Sitemaps – This is probably the most absolute handy plugin you could install. It is a definite must have for any WordPress blog. Configure it once you install it and your pages and posts will be added to the Google directory search much faster than if you waited for Google to crawl your site. Sometimes only hours from the time you post to the time people find you through the search engine.

WP-Affiliate – Affiliate marketing is always a touchy thing. People can just copy the link and remove your id to deny you any commission. This can happen easily if someone uses an iframe to display your site and some software to just swap their affiliate id with yours. Users are also a bit more inclined to click on a link that doesn’t have an affiliate id. This plugin will allow you to add links that will redirect to the actual link without the user knowing until they are already there. It will also help you with your Google page ranking as Google looks for those affiliate id’s and off site linking. This works great with affiliate programs like Clickbank and Commission Junction.

With a little work you can have a healthy number of revenue streams with your WordPress Blog. All while providing great content for your readers.

What exactly did Google do?

They increased the fees of advertising in the Adwords program to the point that it wasn’t really profitable to use the advertising if all you were doing was pushing people to a splash page and then redirecting them to the actual sales page.

Yep. That’s right. They penalized affiliate marketers for doing what they do best. Creating traffic for a product where they gained a commission.

It would be nice if Google actually penalized other forms of marketing in the same manner but they didn’t.

It also affected may other legitimate websites. Some to the point that it made advertising with Google extremely difficult and expensive.

A new tool, Google Goggles, tries to help SEO Specialists and website owners by providing a tool to mimic what Google sees and rank your pages accordingly. Hopefully increasing your chances of lower advertising fees by showing you what to improve or change.

Not only does it allow you to know in advance if your campaign will be a stinker, or a goose that lays golden egg. It even makes specific suggestions as to what to tweak, in case it determines that your campaign won’t fare as well as you had hoped to, so you can, in actuality, still make it profitable right there and then! – Google Goggles

I can’t say for certain that this tool will be the end of “Google Slaps”, but it definitely can’t hurt to give it a try if you are using Click Bank for your affiliate marketing.