MyReviewPlugin Review: Create Wordpress Affiliate Review Blogs
Wednesday
Jan 20, 2010
There are a few Review Plugins for Wordpress out there and after a lot of debate I decided to try something other than what I was already using. MyReviewPlugin was the second I tested and I will be writing another Review on the first Review Plugin I tried later. The bottom line is: MyReviewPlugin is the best Review Plugin I have ever used for Wordpress.
There are several reasons why, but it lies mainly in the large amount of features that are available with the Plugin. You can quickly and easily setup Rated Reviews and Comments on ANY Wordpress theme. You can create a Business Directory or Affiliate Review site quickly and manipulate the content any way that you want. You are able to add the rating categories and criteria you want for each Post and then choose whether your ratings or your visitors ratings make each post or product rank in your site. Then you can embed Comparison Tables based on whatever criteria you want to show your site’s Top Products or Top Rated Listings. It is all up to you.
Some of the Best features are things like Import Man which allows you to import CSV Files and Affiliate Datafeeds to your site with thousands of products or listings in just minutes and then Cloak your Affiliate Links instantly. It will also Import Listings from Yellowpages.com from any specific category or search from that site based on the URL you choose. You can then use the Bulk Modification settings to add Review ratings to every product or listing that you Imported into the site. Then the Comment Man settings allow you to add Comments and Reviews to Products you have already added to your site to make your site look active and to provide specific ratings for your products as well. You can do it en mass or by Post. It is up to you.
The fantastic thing is that it has a built in Affiliate Link Cloaker and Keyword Tool which allows you to cloak each and every Affiliate Link for full SEO Friendliness.
The overall amount of options is actually overwhelming at first. You have the ability to change almost everything and the auto embed functions that allow you to manipulate how you put Reviews on your site are amazing. The only real way to show you all of this is to actually show you. That is why I created the Video below.
Check out MyReviewPlugin:
Overall, after using this Plugin, I have to say that there is not a better option for creating any type of Review site with Wordpress. Whether you want to create an Affiliate Product Review Site or Just a Business Directory, this is the one and only product I would use.
*Note: Since I wrote this Review of Version 1.0, Version 2.0, and Now 3.0 of MyReviewPlugin have been released with the following upgrades:
In Version 2.0: A complete overhaul of Import Man that included the following new features:
- Support for more import methods: YellowPages, CSV, RSS, Google News, etc.
- Import scheduling and compatibility with 100k+ record databases.
- Amazon-esque “Did you find this review helpful?”
- Comment Man improved to support names weighted from real world data, per-decade.
And Now in Version 3.0:
- Vertical comparison tables.
- 3 new excellent high quality themes.
- New, even more powerful embed mechanisms.
- Thumbnails / product images gathered instantly from Thumbshots.com.
For more information on this great Review Plugin for Wordpress, click here: MyReviewPlugin
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WPReviewEngine Review: Create a Wordpress Affiliate Review Site
Monday
May 18, 2009
There are alot of Affiliate Review sites built with Wordpress, but there are not a lot of Wordpress Review Plugins built specifically for Wordpress which actually work well. Well, that is no longer true. WPReviewEngine is a new, but highly effective Wordpress Affiliate Review Site Plugin.
What sets WPReviewEngine apart from the competition?
The feature list is simple, but it is more about the execution than anything. Sometimes pictures show you better than anything. Here is what you can do with WPReviewEngine:

Out of the box (so to speak), WPReviewEngine breaks down into 3 Wordpress Plugins. A CSV Plugin for Mass Importing of reviews, an Affiliate Link Cloaker, and Review Engine (the heart and Soul of the Program). The first 2 I didn’t really bother with as I already have a good link cloaker and tracker, but the Review Engine is worth it’s weight in Gold.
You can use your own Wordpress Themes, or you can use one of the two themes included with the Plugin. The picture show above is based on one of the included themes. When you use their themes you do not have to select the “embed” option because the code is already written into the themes.
You can easily add Reviews and choose to either Rate the Posts/ Products/ Services yourself, or you can choose to let the visitors to your site Rate the items and leave their Comments. If you rate the posts, the Rating will always stay the same. You can choose to show the Rating Table which shows the current order of the Rated items from #1 to whatever. If you let your visitors ratings decide the order, the items can and will change their order in the Ratings Table based on the results. I like this as it begs for return visits. (You do not have to show the Ratings Table if you do not want to.)
If you already have a site filled with Reviews, you can setup your Rating Criteria (you can set an unlimited number of Rating Criteria) and Mass Apply it to every Post. You then only have to input your “Editor” Ratings if you are using your Ratings, or you can let it sit and wait for visitor input.
Most of your options are built right into the Add New Post area of Wordpress which makes this very convenient and easy to use. I created a cPanel Hosting Review site in about 15 minutes: The cPanel Host (still adding reviews).
I initially had some issues with the activation.php file which comes with the program, but within 2 hours, Customer Support had me taken care of. I was pleasantly surprised.
Overall, this is one of the most feature rich Wordpress Review Plugins I have had the chance to use. I like the fact that they provide excellent themes with the Plugin, but you don’t have to use them. I can’t think of an easier way to make Wordpress Affiliate Review sites fast.
For more information on the WPReviewEngine, click here: WPReviewEngine



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