If you are monetizing your WordPress site through Impact (formerly Impact Radius), you already know they host some of the best premium affiliate programs in the world. But as your site grows, manually generating, inserting, and tracking those links across hundreds of blog posts becomes a massive bottleneck.
To solve this, we are thrilled to announce that automated Impact link extraction is now officially available in Auto Affiliate Links.
Instead of hunting down tracking URLs for every single merchant, our plugin can now connect directly to your Impact account and automate the entire process.
Why Automate Your Impact Links?
Manually copying and pasting affiliate links is a ticking time bomb for your website’s maintenance. By centralizing your Impact links through Auto Affiliate Links, you instantly gain three massive advantages:
- Save Hours of Manual Work: Stop opening old blog posts to manually hard-code tracking URLs. You set your keywords once, and the plugin retroactively applies your Impact links across your entire website in seconds.
- Eliminate Broken Links: If an Impact merchant changes their link structure or you want to swap a link, you don’t have to edit 500 posts. You update it once in our centralized dashboard, and your whole site updates instantly.
- Maximize Your Sales: By automating link insertion based on high-converting keywords, you ensure you never miss an opportunity to monetize your content, especially on your older, high-traffic archive posts.
How the Impact Module Works
Once connected, the plugin’s Impact module will securely communicate with your account. It is designed to automatically extract your unique tracking links exclusively from your approved merchants.
This means you never have to worry about inserting links for programs you haven’t been accepted into yet. The plugin handles the heavy lifting, matching your approved merchants’ links to your designated keywords automatically.
How to Set Up the Impact Integration
Because this feature relies on direct API connectivity, the Impact module is available exclusively in Auto Affiliate Links PRO.
If you are a PRO user, here is how to get your automation running in just a few minutes:
1. Generate Your Impact Credentials
You will need your Account SID and Auth Token to connect the plugin.
- Log in to your Impact.com dashboard.
- Navigate to Settings -> Technical -> API.
- Click on the “Create Access Token” button.
- Important: Make sure you add the required scopes to your API key. You must check the boxes for “Ads”, “Campaigns”, “Catalogs”, and “Products” when generating the token.
2. Connect and Activate the Module
- In your WordPress admin dashboard, navigate to the Auto Affiliate Links -> API Management page.
- Activate Impact Module and click on Configure Impact.
- Paste your new Account SID and Auth Token into the respective fields.
- Once the API key is added and saved, you will see links from Impact appearing in your content.
We Want Your Feedback!
We are constantly refining our API integrations to make your link management as seamless as possible. Once you have set up the Impact module and automated your approved merchant links, let us know how it is working for you!
If you have feature requests, run into any issues, or just want to share how much time the tool has saved you, please reach out to us directly through our Contact Form page.
Upgrade to Auto Affiliate Links PRO today and put your Impact commissions on autopilot.