3 AI Tools That Skyrocketed My Blog Income!

Want to make money from your travel blog? Did you know there are AI tools out there that help you double and even triple your affiliate revenue? 

Let me show you exactly how in this article 🙂

I’ve always been a bit wary about new tools, especially when it comes to blogging.

 It’s easy to get overwhelmed and end up using tools that slow your site and hinder your progress. So, I’ve always been extremely selective when a new tool comes to the market.

My motto is: ‘Less is better. Keep it simple.’

But when I had to go on maternity leave recently, I had a choice : 

• Have my blog income grind to a halt, or 
• Continue to earn from my blogs

Seeing that the cost of childcare made me consider setting up an OnlyFans for my cat, I decided to look into how I could continue to earn from my blogs……while not really working at all.

Note: I would use this picture for her OnlyFans account 🙂

There had to be a way to work smarter, not harder —a way to automate some of the processes. 

Lo and behold, three of Travelpayouts’ AI tools came to my rescue. 

Before I go into more detail, and in case you are wondering who the heck I am, allow me to introduce myself. 

Now, let’s get back to automating and growing my blog earnings.

Three specific AI tools are helping my blogs earn while I’m on maternity leave. I’ll discuss them and how I use them, one by one, below. 

1. Emerald

This cool tool scans your content and seamlessly integrates top affiliate tools where they’ll earn you the most. (YES. No more manual adding of links.

The best thing about this tool is that it does all the thinking for you!

Because I know for sure, especially when I was a new blogger, I didn’t know what affiliate opportunities to recommend or how to do so. 

I’ll show you what I mean below.

I have a post on Busan, Korea, on one of my travel blogs.

Within the post, Emerald adds a ‘Recommendation Blocks’ of affiliate opportunities, which are both helpful for my readers and also help me earn.

Emerald also has ‘Tool tips’, which are in-text previews of travel services promoted through affiliate links. 

Each time a user hovers over an affiliate link, it appears and provides quick details such as a brief tour description. 

These in-text previews help readers make decisions without leaving the page, which, in turn, helps bloggers retain traffic and boost conversion.

They look like this : 

The great thing about these tools is that you switch them on in the Travelpayputs dashboard, and they automatically start working for you!

You can step away from your blog, and it will continue to earn in the background. 

Now, let’s move on to the final AI tool that’s helping me automate my blog earnings.

2.LinkSwitcher 

LinkSwitcher is a free AI-powered tool that automatically:

• Turns regular links on your site into affiliate links.
• Changes affiliate links from direct programs or other networks to Travelpayouts links.

This is useful for a few reasons : 

• Often, Travelpayouts negotiates higher commission rates with affiliate partners. LinkSwitcher replaces links with Travelpayouts ones so you can enjoy the high rates and promotions.

• LinkSwitcher updates old content that hasn’t been monetised in seconds.  It’ll automatically update links even in articles you’ve already forgotten about. They weren’t making money before, but now they’re monetized. 🙂

• If you haven’t bothered to sign up to other affiliate platforms, and thus far, you’ve only included non-affiliate links on your site, Linkswitcher will automatically CONVERT them into affiliate links FOR YOU, and you can earn from them immediately!

This is an example of a post that didn’t have affiliate links: 

Then I switched on Linkswitcher and it automatically found a GetYourGuide affiliate opportunity and added it to the post (the pink font)

These AI tools have given me the flexibility to spend more precious time with my little girl and worry less about my blog earnings. 

 They do all the heavy affiliate lifting for me!

3. Content Analytics Tool

Travelpayouts’ content analytics tool makes it easier than ever to track the performance of every blog post and consolidate traffic and revenue data from your website. 

It provides detailed page-level insights, unique visits, and conversion metrics, so there’s no need to juggle multiple tools or tabs anymore. 

Specifically, you don’t need to jump from Google Analytics, to Google Search Console, to each affiliate platform to figure out which blog post is making you the most affiliate income

See here below, the data is all on one page!

Being able to drill down traffic and conversions to each specific blog post helps you uncover opportunities for optimization and maximizes your revenue effortlessly.

Here are some additional benefits of using this tool 

• Detailed Analytics for Each Article
  
  See how every page with Travelpayouts tools is performing with granular data.

• Unique Visits
  
  Access data on not only visits but also the number of unique users.

• Dynamic Conversion Funnel
  
  You can Visualize how users progress from visits to bookings, including conversion rates along the way.

• Tool-Specific Insights
  
  Analyze the performance of each tool, including clicks, bookings, and the specific page and link that generated the booking.

• Convenient Booking Details
  
  Click on a booking to see which tool drove the result, the source of the booking, and the originating page.

So, how do you set this up on your website?

Step 1- Sign up to Travelpayouts (if you haven’t already)

Step 2-  Click on Content Analytics on the left sidebar 

Step 3 – You will be shown a screen that asks you to ‘ Get Script’ like the one below : 

Step 4– I selected the ‘WordPress Plugin’ installation option 

Step 5- Then I clicked ‘Install and activate’, to get the script 

Step 6 –  I installed the free Headers and Footers plugin so I could paste the code easily. 

Step 7 – I pasted the code on the header section of the plugin. And voila! Its done, data will start being tracked!

BONUS!

Now, technically, this is not an AI tool, BUT I wanted to include it as it’s been SO useful for my blog. 

Travelpayouts Chrome Extension

The Travelpayouts Chrome extension gives me quick affiliate links for any affiliate recommendation. 

Let me show you how it works in practice. 

Let’s imagine I am writing a post on traveling in Bali, and I want to recommend this beautiful villa in Bali, which I stayed at, it’s on Booking.com.

Before using the Chrome extension, I would :

1. Open up WordPress and write the post 

2. Open up Booking.com and look for the accommodation I want to recommend, and get the link 

3. Open up Booking.com’s affiliate page

4. Copy and paste the link and get the affiliate link 

5. Go back to my post and add the affiliate link 

6. Repeat every single time I want to create an affiliate link for my post 

Phew, it took AGES!

 In fact, it took so long that I had to pay a Virtual Assistant to help, which increased my cost per post!

Now, look at the process with Travelpayout’s Chrome extension : 

1. Open up WordPress and write the post 

2 .Open up Booking.com 

3. The affiliate link automatically appears above the page.

Like this below : 

Now I can easily add multiple affiliate links to my posts. 

It also works for many other affiliate opportunities ,such as Viator and Klook!

The Chrome extension saves me so much time by automating and streamlining the affiliate link process.

This, in turn, frees up my time and energy to travel more and recommend more cool experiences on my blogs!

Now, how about the second AI tool?

If you are on the fence, here are some reasons why I think you should consider using these AI tools : 

• These AI tools have already generated $230,000+ in earnings. That’s money you could be making today.

• These AI tools are free with no commitment required. If it doesn’t work for you, it’s easy to roll back.

• Easy setup, no hassle – Get started in just a few clicks. No complicated integration or coding required

• Save time, earn more – AI automates tedious tasks, optimizes performance, and helps you maximize earnings.

• Tried, tested, and trusted – Travelpayouts has been supporting content creators for 12+ years and is rated 4.5/5 on Trustpilot.

• Help when you need it – The Travelpayouts team is there for you 24/7, with an average response time of just 26 minutes.

I’d say give it a go and then watch your blog income grow; you have nothing to lose  

You can try them for FREE here! 

Thanks for reading!

If you have any other AI tools you have found helpful, please share them in the blog comments below.

Happy blogging!