Are you an Amazon seller looking to drive sales? Considering to Vipon or Snagshout to help? If yes, then you should know that after listing your product on Amazon, the customers will not start purchasing.

Why do I say this?

The answer is that most of the customers, when searching for a product on Amazon, don’t go beyond the first and second page of the search result. On the other side when your product becomes live on Amazon, it is not even close to the first two pages. Due to this, those customers are not able to see your product and hence make a purchase. In short, to get discovered by the customers and sell your product, you have to rank it to the top. The better the ranking, the more your product will be seen by the customers, and the higher are the chances to get more sales.

If you are comparing snagshout and jumpsend I compare these tools here.

How to Rank on Amazon?

The primary goal of Amazon is to provide a fantastic customer experience and to make money. For doing this, they award the products that sell well by giving them a higher product ranking so that more customers can purchase them. In other words, the core factor in obtaining a better ranking on Amazon is having a high sales velocity.

Since you are not getting enough sales organically, you will now have to get sales artificially to improve your sales velocity. To get these artificial sales, you can offer your product on discount websites that have a large customer base who regularly visit those websites and make purchases from them.

How the discount website work?

You create discount coupons for your product and then advertise it at the discounted price on those discount websites. Customers from that particular website will use that coupon to purchase your product from Amazon; this way, you will have a better sales velocity, improving your ranking.

In this article, you will learn about two famous discount websites and the difference between them. These websites (as you may already have guessed from the title) are:

1.       Vipon

2.       Snagshout

There are many similar services like ExtremeRebate, Samurai.Social, FullyRebate etc 

Vipon

Vipon has a vast audience, and its customer engagement is also good. This audience regularly visits to find new deals and make a purchase.

Marketplaces

Vipon has shoppers not only from the United States (amazon.com) but  from these other marketplaces too:

·          UK (amazon.co.uk) 

·          Canada (amazon.ca) 

·          Germany (amazon.de) 

·          France (amazon.fr) 

·          Japan (amazon.co.jp) 

·          Italy (amazon.it) 

·          Spain (amazon.es)

·          India (amazon.in)

 

Pricing

Advertising your products on Vipon is not free, and you have to pay their monthly fee. Their monthly plans start from a minimum of $100 & $200, which is ideal for a new seller.

Once subscribed, you will be charged every month. If you don’t want to be charged automatically, you will have to cancel the subscription.

Promotion Code

You have to offer at least a 50% discount promotion for using Vipon. This is because they want more customers to get attracted and purchase your product.

Advertisement types

Apart from the regular deals, Vipon offers two more advertising types for you: Banner and Featured Deals

1.       Banner

The banner advertising type shows on the top of the Vipon Homepage. You don’t have any minimum discount requirement to advertise here and it is not limited to Amazon products only. However, they charge $1000 for 4 days of banner advertisement.

2.       Featured Deals

Featured deals are also pinned to the homepage on Vipon, but the duration is of one day only, and the charges for this are $200 if you are a paid member (US site) and $300 if you are a regular seller (US site).

Here are a couple great Vipon reviews:

• https://www.amzdiscover.com/blog/top-10-amazon-discount-sites-help-amazon-sellers-boost-sales-get-reviews/
• https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/vipon.com

Snagshout

Snagshout also gives you the benefit of putting your product in front of their large audience.

Marketplaces

Snagshout is only available in the US. You can use it only if you are selling on Amazon.com.

Pricing

Snagshout offers a 7-day free trial; after which you have to choose your plan from these:

Promotion Code

The promotion code on Snagshout should be at least 20% off. Apart from the discount coupons, you can also offer cash back.

Cash Back Promotion

Cash Back is a promotion in which instead of using a coupon code, the customer purchases your product at full price, and then the discount amount is sent to the customer’s PayPal or Stripe account by Snagshout. Since the customer has purchased at full price, this type of customer order creates a higher impact on your ranking. You can also ask the customer to perform some actions to obtain the cash back. These actions are listed below:

1.       Lifestyle Photo

You can ask the customer to send a photo while using the product.

2.       Video Review

The customer will have to make a video while using the product or explaining his thoughts about the product in the video.

3.       Social Action

You can ask the customer to perform some social actions.

4.       Survey Action

You ask the customer to perform a survey and provide feedback about the product.

You can use these actions to improve your product and build social proof of your brand.

Setting the Coupon Codes

While creating your coupon codes for any of these platforms, make sure that one code can only be used to make only one purchase. Otherwise, they will be able to purchase your heavily discounted product multiple times, due to which you may run out of stock without making any profit from those sales.

Here are a couple SnagShout reviews:

• https://www.amzfinder.com/blog/snagshout-review/
• https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/snagshout.com

Conclusion

Both Vipon and Snagshout are legit and great platforms to use for improving your ranking.

Snagshout is only limited to the US, and if you are selling in some other marketplace, then Vipon is the better option for you. Vipon has a very largest customer base that can be used to get sales quickly, but you have to offer your product at a heavily discounted price in order to use Vipon.

If you are a US seller, then why not use the trial period of Snagshout and see if it is beneficial for you or not. Snagshout has better customer quality, and their action cashback promotions can build social proof and create more awareness about your product.

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As Amazon has skyrocketed over the years in terms of popularity and capability, so has the number of services that are able to use the platform to get their client’s products into the hands of their target audience.  The organizations in question?  Rebate portals such as ExtremeRebate and Samurai.Social. With the potential profit of selling on Amazon being so high sellers are always looking for opportunities to drive sales/reviews… this is why services like these exist. 

Rebate portals are platforms that allow buyers to receive products either for free or at an exceptionally discounted rate.  Hundreds of products are typically added daily.  It’s an attractive gig for buyers for obvious reasons.  They get to purchase products that they want or need for next to nothing.  Sellers are motivated by the opportunity to earn a positive review from buyers who are the most likely to do so, a rating that is earned and then indicated within the portal.  There has been question regarding the legitimacy of such partnerships, but the portals, for the most part, strive to adhere to Amazon’s terms of service.

HOW DOES EXTREME REBATE WORK?

On ExtremeRebate, you can receive up to 100% cash back when purchasing products on Amazon.  While sellers cannot require that you write a positive review for them, it is anticipated, and procedures are even put in place in order to strongly encourage such.

To qualify as a member, you just sign up on their website and note your Amazon profile within registration.  Sellers create listings with offers (i.e. “100% cash back”).  Once you are a member, you can peruse these listings and express interest where it applies.

Rebates are provided on ExtremeRebate in one of two ways: vouchers or rebates.  

If opting to receive by rebate, you request products that you want or need and await seller approval.  You then purchase the products through Amazon and submit the order ID on ExtremeRebate within two days of order.  Once confirmed, ExtremeRebate will utilize your PayPal account to provide cash back.

If using the voucher method, go ahead and request the preferred product, look out for an Amazon promo code via email within 48 hours of this request, and then purchase the product(s) through Amazon, making sure you enter the promo code at time of order in order to reflect your discount.

The method utilized is up to the buyer’s discretion.  Some prefer the voucher method since this gives the discount up front and at the time of order without having to wait for the rebate to be processed or having to “front” payment. 

It’s important to reflect a good rating to sellers as this will make them more likely to want to work with you.  You will rank as a “best buyer” to interested sellers if you tend to leave positive reviews for the products you typically purchase.  So, to increase your chances of obtaining a product for that maximum 100% cash back, it’s a good idea to begin positively reviewing the items within your Amazon order history.

In an effort to regulate the number of products provided, and to ensure that buyers are providing the anticipated reviews, ExtremeRebate has tiers and limits in place.  Once expected reviews are submitted, the tiers and limits adjust accordingly.

IS EXTREMEREBATE LEGIT?

Amazon’s terms of service aim to prohibit any sort of official agreement where buyers write falsified reviews to encourage others to purchase products that may not live up to buyer expectations.  This is understandable as Amazon aims to provide reviews that are helpful and truthful to ensure their customers feel as though they can trust the platform. 

In this case, these rebate portals cannot outright insist or require buyers to leave positive reviews.  The limits in place, however, strongly encourage this sort of practice.  If buyers do not leave positive reviews, then their opportunity to pursue other fully rebated products is removed.  It is a questionable tactic that ExtremeRebate employs the use of limits to garnish a review from buyers.  While not a scam, the use of a limit to extort a positive review is arguably frowned upon.

That being said, there is not much illegitimacy to the participants or sellers themselves.  The seller utilizes rebate portals at the expense of their actual products, and they risk the chance that the recipient could leave a less than satisfied review.  The buyer legitimately receives the requested products and they do have the opportunity to leave an honest, even negative review using their actual Amazon profile.  Of course, this will impact the buyer’s rating within the portal.

Here is a similar review on FullyRebate to see if it is legit.

WHAT ABOUT THE END CONSUMER?

Consumers should be aware that Amazon actively seeks out and bans users who perform tactics that go against their terms of service and they also reserve the right to delete reviews in suspicious circumstances.  This sort of protection is put in place for the end consumer who has no knowledge of rebate platforms and buys with heavy investment into the provided reviews.

As a buyer on Amazon outside of the rebate portal process, it is always important to consider the existence of platforms such as these at time of order and when factoring the weight of reviews into your decision. 

It’s vital for buyers to research products above and beyond the Amazon site to ensure the product will live up to their expectations.  Should it not, however, Amazon’s return policy and customer service is unparalleled. 

TIPS & TRICKS

As can be expected in most third-party transactions, be forewarned that the seller does not cover any applicable Amazon shipping charges, nor do they pay for PayPal fees.  PayPal is the preferred means of providing cash back within ExtremeRebate.

To maximize the benefits for both parties, it is a good idea to pursue products that suit your tastes and purchase those that are likely to satisfy your needs.  This is a moral means of participating in the program as a buyer.  As a seller, ensure that the effort you put into the quality of your product supersedes the effort you put into compensating positive reviewers for said product.

Even in our digital age, nothing beats organic promotion or “word of mouth”, and nothing certainly beats search engines’ ever-changing algorithms when bloggers and news outlets speak their truth about your products and its misleading reviews.

ALTERNATIVES

As could be expected for competition in the marketplace, several rebate portals exist, but each carry their own unique benefits.  Sites like topcashback, Rebatekey, Rebaid, Vipon or Snagshout, Jumpsend and Amazon Rebate Club only offer a maximum of 8% cashback, but their requirements and limits may be less strict than ExtremeRebate.

Samurai.Social is a newer platform that encourages the concept that “everyone is an influencer”.  It is rebate-based and their website reiterates that they strive to stay compliant with Amazon’s TOS by not requiring that buyers leave an Amazon review at all, unlike the limits and expectations put in place by its competitor, ExtremeRebate. 

Sellers and buyers alike are enticed by the multitude of promotional offerings available on Samurai.Social beyond Amazon.  Sellers are able to post campaigns requesting promotion across social media channels, for example.  influencers can register accordingly.  The platform truly pairs sellers with ideal promotional influencers and gives buyers the opportunity to enjoy the products they need while aiding in its growth within its targeted audience.  Buyers agree to promote products within their own legitimate social media profiles and they motivate followers by turning them into consumers. 

What’s even more attractive about Samurai.Social is the opportunity for lower-scale partnerships that benefit the buyer, the seller, and the potential follower-turned-consumer.  One live campaign alludes to the promotion of a messy hair bun accessory.  If already a fan of said accessory, and if already sporting said accessory on social media, how much sense it makes to speak to the benefits of that accessory openly to your following and be compensated in the form of a free product by the seller.  If you are already likely to purchase and promote items that you like, it’s simply sensical for sellers to be guided towards those who are most likely to do so.  Platforms such as Samurai.Social simply provide sellers with a narrowed likelihood that they are sharing their products with positive, influential consumers. 

Samurai.Social’s legitimacy is evident to buyers and sellers alike.  Their effort to create genuine, honest partnerships is admirable.  It speaks to the quality of the products themselves when their leaders are outwardly seeking promotional tactics more in line with organic growth than agreeing to compensate strangers for “fake reviews”.  It is undoubtedly a bit more impactful when a social media influencer shares the truth of a product with their own family and friends than it is to have an Amazon username leave five stars with exaggerated language to help sell said product.   

Taken from one actual live campaign currently on the site, a seller describes his project as, “I am looking for a real buyer and blogger who can help me promote my product and provide honest feedback.”

In this digital marketing age, no one could ask for anything more.

Most of the data processing applications include mail mergers that allow users to send a similar document or letter to multiple recipients.

If you want to prepare a bunch of personalised documents, mail merge is the feature that serves the purpose. Mail merge saves time and effort that creates mass mailings with complete labels or envelopes.

What is Gmass?

Gmass is a powerful mail merge and mass email system for Gmail. This software allows you to send mail merge campaigns through Gmail with automatic follow-ups. It is a popular email marketing solution with personalisation and email tracking.

Gmass do not have a free version, and their pricing starts at $12.95 per month. However, you will get a free trial before you buy it.

Many small enterprises may not have the luxury to buy a mail merge application at this rate. A small startup can perform email marketing through any other free alternative to Gmass. 

Here is a great video from Ron Stefanski at the OneHourProfessor.com

Email Marketing Through Gmass

How is your team collaborating together? You can easily create, send and analyse personalised emails in bulk through Gmass. Add Gmass to your google extensions and list of recipients to your Gmail account. Then you can compose a new message and hit the Gmass button instead of Gmail’s send button.

Team Collaboration Tools on Gmass

After subscribing to the Team Plan of Gmass, you would want to manage your team. Gmass introduced a new feature in November 2020to manage your team members through a dashboard directly. Adding or removing a member from your team is now easier than ever. However, if you cannot access the dashboard due to any reason, you can still manage your team in the old way.

Sync Gmass to Google Chrome

First of all, you need to download the extension either from the Gmass website or the Chrome Web store. Once you have successfully installed the extension, login to your Gmail account to which you want to sync Gmass; when you click on any of the Gmass buttons, you will see a pop up on your screen to link Gmass to Google. Click on that button to add the Gmass extension to Google Chrome.

User Policies of Gmass

Read the terms and conditions carefully before you purchase a Gmass subscription. You can view the terms of use on the Gmass Website. You need to agree to and accept all the user policies to access their services. If you have any query regarding their terms and conditions, you can contact them at their customer support helpdesk.

Click-Through Rate of Gmass

Gmass uses segmented mail campaigns to target recipients. A recent study has shown that segmented campaigns can achieve 100.95% click-through rates than regular campaigns. Click-Through Rate(CTR) is the measurement of the number of clicks on a particular ad or email for this instance.

Time Intervals on Gmass

Gmass can schedule campaigns for you. If your emails are bouncing back, Gmass will analyse the recipients and schedule the emails accordingly. It will divide the emails into batches and select a fixed time to send each batch.

Mail Merge Tool: Gmass

Gmass is one of the most popular mail-merge tools. Connect your spreadsheet to Google Sheets. Then select the Google Sheets that you want to use to choose recipient’s addresses in Gmass.

Pricing of Gmass

There are two separate packages available for Gmass. First is the standard subscription, which comes at $12.95 per month per user. You will get all the features except sequences and follow-ups in the standard subscription. Gmass also have a premium subscription which is priced at $19.95 per month. You will get all the benefits of the standard package along with follow-ups and sequences.

Recipient Lists in Gmass

You can add a recipient list of 50 people for free through Gmass. You will need to subscribe to a paid plan to send more than 50 emails per day. If you are a G Suite user, you can extend your Gmass recipient list up to 10000 people.

Link Building Campaigns on Gmass

You may sometimes need to add a personalised link or URL for the recipients of your email marketing campaigns. Gmass helps to create personalised links either by using a raw URL or an anchor text approach.

Top 8 Gmass Alternative You Must Know

Today, we will look at the top eight alternative mail merge tools you can use as an email marketing solution. In our list, we have some paid and some free tools to be used as an alternative to Gmass.

We will discuss each tool’s pros and cons to get a clear idea of which mail merge tool is best suitable for you.

1.  Minute Mailer

Minute Mailer is a tool designed to combine email marketing campaigns with social media scheduling. It is an intuitive digital marketing tool that is easy to use and contains responsive templates as standard. Besides, Minute Mailer includes inbuilt content calendars along with click-through tracking and statistics.

Its simple User Interface makes Minute Mailer the perfect mail-merge tool for anybody who does not have enough expertise.

This alternative tool to Gmass is best suitable for small business and startups, content creators and social media managers. Its pricing starts at $10 per month, which is cheaper than Gmass.

Why use it: 

• User-friendly tool
• Easy to import contacts
• Simple follow-ups
• Easy to work with images and other attachments
• Able to plan all marketing activities along with emails

What is it lacking:

• The tool contains some glitches which need to be fixed, nothing major, tools though.

2. Polymail Sequences

Another popular alternative to Gmass is the Polymail Sequences, a mail merge application with tracking, outreach, and team management tools. The overall customer feedback for Polymail is quite positive. 

Polymail’s subscription is cheaper compared to Gmass, and it is priced at $10 per month. However, there is a free version of this email marketing tool.

This intuitive mail merge tool is best suitable for entrepreneurs, sales teams, client teams, BD teams and other public relations teams.

Why use it:

• A robust email solution with great features
• Easy shortcut keys
• Detailed onboarding process to help you get familiar with the app settings.
• Let you manage projects from your inbox.

What is it lacking:

• The User Interface is not intuitive enough.
• Some mails remain in your inbox even after deletion.
• You cannot resize an image within a message.

3. Grade My Email

GradeMyEmail is a free alternative to Gmass that you can use to grade your campaigns against metrics like relevancy, blocklist and authentication.

This free online tool is powered by Nectore’s AI-based algorithms that help capture more than a hundred email metrics to bring insights necessary for improved email delivery.

You can subscribe to a weekly domain that is free of cost. GradeMyEmail has premium memberships as well, starting at $12.55.

This tool is best suited for marketers to analyse and plan email campaigns according to customer response.

Why use it:

• Simple and intuitive user interface.
• Provides actionable results.
• Free Subscription,
• Higher conversion rates.

What is it lacking: 

• The tool does not have a flexible design.
• Does not allow email scheduling.

4. Mailchimp

Mailchimp is one of the most popular mails merge tools that can design and share email campaigns across multiple channels. You can integrate this software with other ones that you may already use. Mailchimp helps you to track the outcomes through a dashboard.

Mailchimp has a free subscription as well that includes all the basic features.

It has a free version that you can use as a trial and send up to 2000 emails per month. However, its paid plans are more expensive than other email marketing tools, starting at $15 per month. This standard plan does not include all the features.

This tool will be useful for any online business. Besides, e-commerce markets can use it to generate leads and turn them into customers. 

Why use it:

• Can manage up to 2,000 contacts.
• Has a limit of 10,000 emails per month.
• Leads segmentation through CRM.
• Collects consumer insights.
• Inbuilt Templates.
• One step custom automation.
• Easy integration with more than 200 applications.

What is it lacking:

• Cannot perform A/B testing.
• Not able to create a buyer’s journey for optimisation.
• The free version does not include some features.

5. Omnisend

Omnisend is an exclusive email and SMS marketing tool designed for e-commerce usage. The tool includes all the necessary features for effective email marketing and tracking.

It has four free subscription plans, standard, pro and enterprise. The enterprise is the most expensive plan that comes at $1500 per month with unlimited emails.

Omnisend is best suitable for medium and large scale businesses.

Why use it:

• Features marketing automation.
• Good for surveys and feedback.
• Accurate activity and email tracking.
• Includes WYSIWYG editor.
• Generates triggered emails.
• Can personalise campaigns.

What is it lacking:

• The interface is not user-friendly.
• Too costly.
• The best features are not included in the free version.

6. Email Octopus

EmailOctopus has a strong resemblance to Gmass in terms of features. Besides creating exclusive email campaigns, you can schedule them too. This mail merge tool can attract leads and convert them into customers at a good rate.

There is a free version of EmailOctopus available on the internet. Moreover, it has a paid subscription as well, which costs $10 per month.

Why use it: 

• Can manage up to 2500 users.
• Has a limit of 10,000 emails per month.
• Develops attractive emails with a user-friendly editor.
• You can synchronise it with the Amazon SES account.

What is it lacking:

• Has a smaller email limit than Gmass.
• Except for its limit, EmailOctopus does not seem to lack any important feature.

7. Sender

Sender is a great alternative to Gmass that you can get for free. Unlike other email marketing tools, Sender includes all of the features in its free plan. This automated email marketing tool helps e-commerce marketers to generate more revenue at a very low expense. Its one-click integration makes it easy to use that can connect to several webshops. Besides, you can send transaction receipts in bulk through Sender.

This automated tool is of great importance to small business owners, e-commerce managers and marketers.

Why use it:

• Custom subscription forms help to expand your audience.
• Helps to segment subscribers and leads.
• Includes drag and drop features to create newsletters.
• Lets you attach images and videos in emails.
• Allows you to work with HTML codes.
• Ensures that emails are delivered to each of the recipients.

What is it lacking:

• It has a limit of subscribers up to 2500 and 15000 emails per month.

8. SendPulse

SendPulse is another intuitive email marketing tool that you can use as an alternative to Gmass. It has an additional feature to send social media messages and push notifications. This tool includes a drag-and-drop editor that is easy to use. Besides, you can also set autoresponders on SendPulse. The best part is that SendPulse offers you unlimited emails for any subscription.

This automated email marketing tool is best suited for bloggers, e-commerce retailers, bankers and small and medium business owners.

You can get this tool for free with a limit of 500 subscribers. You can get any of the premium plans according to your needs.

Why use it:

• It offers free subscription forms, templates and email scheduler.
• Includes fundamental automation features from the Automation 360 suite.
• You can test your copies with the inbuilt A/B testing.
• It lets you segment your subscribers.
• Free storage for additional files.

What is it lacking:

• Limited emails of 1500.
• Limited subscribers of 500.
• You cannot use all the automation features.

Summary

We have come up with these eight best alternatives to Gmass. All these tools are popular and effective. Each of these options has its own advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, it is not easy to choose the best of them.

Everybody has different requirements and should choose their mail merge tool accordingly. Almost all of these tools offer a free trial. You can try any of the tools you like, and if you are satisfied, you can buy its premium subscription.

While there are other mail merge tools available as well,  we have handpicked eight best-performing alternatives to Gmass.

Internal links are most useful for building an SEO-friendly site architecture and spreading link equity. A proper internal link structure guides the site crawlers to discover all pages on the website. It helps Google to understand the hierarchy and cluster of topics on your blog and is a super important metric for on-page SEO. In this article, we will cover a one-of-a-kind internal link-building tool Link Whisper that can help you to improve the internal link structure of your site, its alternatives for WordPress, and how to configure this plugin properly. 

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When your blog/website does not have a decent backlink profile, you can use the internal linking strategy to rank your pages on search engines. Many people fail to notice the importance of internal link building and its ability to push a webpage to the top positions in SERP.

In this article, we will cover a one-of-a-kind internal link-building tool that can help you to improve the internal link structure of your site, its alternatives for WordPress, and how to configure this plugin properly. 

What is Link Whisper?

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Link Whisper is an AI-powered WordPress plugin that helps you to place internal links between the pages. During initial setup, it scans the entire website and then suggests relevant blog posts that can be linked. 

Not only that, Link Whisper will automatically find the opportunity to create internal links as soon as you publish or update a blog post/page.

One of the most important features of this plugin is it scans and suggests the anchor text and the relevant link to maintain a proper linking practice. It makes life a lot easier for webmasters by discovering the linking opportunities and finding the right texts to configure the link.

The Link Whisper’s suggested links look something like this:

Just like finding the link, the plugin makes it easier to place it on the page. All you need to check the box located beside anchor text and the internal link will be created immediately. 

Let’s talk about the feature Link Whisper brings to save your time and solve link building work;

#1. Automatic Link Suggestion

There are not many plugins that use the power of artificial intelligence to analyze what you are writing and suggest the most suitable prospect to link an internal page. The link suggestion applies a real mechanism as you write and it helps you to place the hyperlink in a single click. 

For those pages published earlier, you will find the link suggestions via the “Link Whisper Suggested Links” dashboard. The suggested links remain up-to-date with the initial check followed by periodic scans executed by the plugin itself.

While inserting links you can edit anchor texts, alter the texts, and configure custom links within the Link Whisper panel which is a great saving of time.

#2. Bulk Link Creation

Link Whisper also allows bulk internal linking creation. To do that, you have to go to the report dashboard, click on the “Add” button. It will show you all the blog posts/pages which contain relevant content to create internal links collectively.

For each backlink, you can add or remove texts from the suggested anchors. It makes it super easy to insert links in bulk to all important pages of your website. If your site is pretty big, this feature becomes very handy to create links to multiple links in a couple of minutes along with suitable anchors and page relatedness. 

It’s a real solution to save you a lot of time and effort. 

While maintaining such a big task all over the website, Link Whisper is a server-friendly plugin and one of the most database-friendly tools WordPress sites would love to have. You can use this plugin on shared WordPress hosting without having to worry about database and server outrage. 

#3. Link Reporting

Not only it helps you to create internal links effortlessly, but it does also analyze and prepare a report on how many internal links each post of your site has. It displays the count of inbound and outbound links present on every page. 

On the reporting dashboard you will see the exact number of;

1. Inbound Internal Links
2. Outbound Internal Links
3. Outbound External Links

It does a great help by preparing the internal link stats to balance the linking structure all over the website. It can be helpful to analyze how many internal links are helping your pages to grow on SERP too.

Oh, and Link Whisper does report on broken links, 404 errors, and orphan page too.

#4. Automatic Link

Lately, Link Whisper introduced the auto-linking feature to automate internal and external linking even more easily. The mechanism is to link automatically to an URL of your choice every time you can specify a particular keyword in your page/post. 

To limit the possibility of repeated linking, Link Whisper allows you to control these two options:

1. Do not add a link if a page already has a link to the URL.
2. Add only one link per post.

Once you configure a keyword for auto-linking, it can be used for a longer period. Honestly, this kind of feature makes blogging a lot easier to maintain and would be useful to place affiliate links inside your content. 

Not only for affiliate links, but you can also maintain the same anchor text for a specific URL on your website, globally.  

Recently, they have introduced the URL changer feature as well. What it does is allow you to apply 301 permanent redirects to a particular link. In the report section, you can view the links you have applied changes to.

#5. Target Keyword 

Target Keyword linking is another cool feature that makes Link Whisper stand out on the line of internal link-building plugins. 

Basically, you need to set a keyword that you are trying to rank for in Google SERPs. Once you tell Link Whisper that this is the keyword you want to rank for, the plugin will do the rest by suggesting the most relevant links for your articles.

If you use plugins like RankMath, Yoast SEO, All in one SEO then Link Whisper will automatically pull the target keywords and you don’t even have to assign keywords yourself.  

Alternative Internal Link Building Plugins

No doubt, Link Whisper is the most powerful internal link-building plugin available for WordPress. The features we have discussed above makes Link Whisper a better choice than any other link-building plugins. 

Although, for any reason, if you want to try an alternative plugin then this list is for you. 

1. Interlinks Manager: It is a premium plugin with manual and auto-link creation ability available for WordPress. It won’t be incorrect to say it is the second-best internal link-building plugin for WP.

2. Internal Link Juicer: Internal Link Juicer is a free plugin available on the WordPress repository. This plugin automatically creates internal links on your configured keywords.

3. Internal Links Manager: Internal Links Manager is another free automated link-building plugin that creates links as soon as the targeted keyword appears on a page.

4. Rank Math: Rank Math is a popular SEO plugin and is a complete package to improve website SEO. It does report on the number of links an individual page has but the link building takes manual action. 

5. Yoast SEO: Another legendary WordPress SEO plugin that suggests internal linking opportunities while you are editing a page or post.

How to install and configure the Link Whisper plugin?

Installing the Link Whisper plugin is as easy as installing other plugins on your WordPress site. If you want to use the free version then you have to visit the WordPress plugin directory and install it. 

For the premium version though, first, you need to purchase the plugin on Linkwhisper.com. Once you have purchased, download the plugin along with the activation key from your Linkwhisper account dashboard.

Then complete the installation by uploading the plugin zip file into your WordPress plugin installation page. It’s a typical step you follow every time you upload and install a plugin into WordPress.

WordPress will handle the rest part of the installation, making sure to activate Link Whisper once the installation is complete. 

#1. Activate the Link Whisper license.

The plugin is truly active until you verify it with your license key. To activate your plugin, expand Link Whisper on the WordPress dashboard and click on settings. Then move to the licensing tab and place your license key from the LinkWhisper.com account.

Click on the “Active License” button to complete the plugin activation part. 

#2. Run Initial Link Scan 

After activating the license, next you will need to start the scanning process of your site’s content to discover linking opportunities. Depending on your website’s size and server speed the scanning process will take its time. Typically, it’s pretty fast for most websites.

Remember, you will need to wait until the scan is complete. Exiting the tab or your browser will lead to restarting the scan the next time you use the plugin.

Once the scan is complete you will enter the Link Whisper dashboard along with all the features we have discussed earlier in this post. On the dashboard, you will get an overview of the total discovered posts, discovered link opportunities, total internal links, orphan pages, broken links, and 404 errors. 

Right beside the link state, you will also notice the top linked external domain and a pie chart of total internal + external links present on your site.

Link Whisper Pricing & Discount or Coupon Code

Link Whisper premium features three yearly plans and each of them gives access to all core features. The minimum plan starts at $77 with all the features included and a single site license. 

The yearly $117 plan is more suitable if you own multiple websites. This plan allows you to activate Link Whisper on a maximum of 3 websites.

You can use Link Whisper on up to 10 websites with the $167/yearly plan. 

Note: these prices may vary from time to time, might not match with the image all the time. Please verify the current price from the official site. 

It might look a little expensive for an internal link creator tool, but when you look at the plugin’s ability from all perspectives it is worth the price you pay for it. Link Whisper will benefit you in terms of long-term link building without much of a hassle. 

LinkWhisper Discount or Coupon Code

There are occasional discounts and coupon codes that Spencer uses for LinkWhisper. Signup to be notified here or one strategy I have used for other software is to ask via their helpdesk if they have any current promotions running.

In case the plugin does not meet your expectations you can ask for money back via their support email within 30 days.

Wrapping up:

Overall, Link Whisper seems to be a fantastic plugin to work with. The developers update the plugins frequently and add new features. Honestly, this is the kind of plugin bloggers would love to write with, the problem solver.

Better features, relevant link suggestions, and more control over the links make this plugin far more superior to all other internal link-building plugins available for WordPress.

Checkout LinkWhisper here

Did you know that businesses using marketing automation can expect as high as a 451% increase in qualified leads?

If you’re looking to automate your email and outreach campaigns though, here is the thing – you need good lead generation software. Even if you are sending out mass emails, you need to have a personalized feel to them.

What is Mailshake?

Mailshake is an excellent sales engagement and email automation tool. You can certainly grow your business and nurture your customers the right way.

 

One thing about Mailshake prevents many people from using the tool. Mailshake is rather expensive and needs you to pay at least $59 per month, to begin with. You are looking at $99 per month for the sales engagement plan that comes with a demo. 

Not all businesses can afford to invest in a costly sales engagement tool, especially small businesses and startups. Plus, you may not even need all the features that come with Mailshake. A business that is starting out may be able to engage leads with a simple email automation tool.

Sending Email on Milkshake

Mailshake lets you automate your cold email outreach. You can personalize and send bulk emails with a few clicks. You can also use Gmail and Gsuite to send your emails.

Team management on Mailshake

You can easily add team members on Mailshake for easy collaboration and team management. The tool lets you create dedicated sales teams for individual clients and take advantage of team collaboration tools. Team members can track their campaigns and manage leads.

Prospects on Mailshake

Potential prospects are easy to engage on Mailshake. You can automate emails to prospects for vital steps of the buyer journey, like follow-up emails. Your dashboard also lets you track prospect engagements and take advantage of social media messaging.

User policies on Mailshake

Mailshake plans charge based on month per user. You need to pay for each user you add. Mailshake’s user policies are a reason people look for alternatives.

How to reply on Mailshake?

Mailshake lets you automate and personalize your replies. You can also retarget unopened emails and track your reply rates.

Using Google with Mailshake

Mailshake is compatible and easily connectable to Google apps. You can link your Google Sheets, Google Forms, Google Calendar, and more for a connected ecosystem.

Recognizing Spam on Mailshake

Mailshake takes several steps to ensure your email campaigns bypass spam folders. From helping you distribute emails over days to spam warnings, you are more likely to bypass spam filters.

Integrating with Gmail on Mailshake

You can easily use Gmail to send your emails. Mailshake comes with GSuite Integration to help you connect your Google accounts. You can also set up other email providers, like Gmail and Outlook.

Other Mailshake Integration

Mailshake is ready for native integration with countless apps. LinkedIn, Pipedrive, Freshsales, HubSpot- the list of integration is endless.

Mailshake Pricing

If you’re wondering about Mailshake pricing plans, it starts from $55 a month. If you subscribe yearly, you pay less. The base plan can be as low as $44 a month, though higher plans are at $99 a month. Go for an annual plan if you want to save more.

Mailshake Integration

On the integration front, you can expect Mailshake to work with everything from Gmail to Outlook. You will love the powerful Gmail add-on, and the native integration. It’s easy to respond to A/B testing quickly, and you can view prospects in one page. Whether you are using Hubspot or Salesforce, you’ll love using it.

What is Mailshake Lacking?

You get the freedom to send up to 200 emails per day for free with Mailjet. You will also have to tolerate the Mailjet logo in all emails you send. Additionally, you won’t be able to enjoy priority support, multi-user access, dedicated IP, and more.

Mailjet is ideal if you don’t need many advanced options. You can keep sending 200 emails every day without ever paying a cent. It sure deserves a try.

The Top 10 Mailshake Alternative You Should Take a Look at Today

Today, we are going to explore some of the free Mailshake alternatives. You can use these tools free of charge and automate your marketing and outreach campaigns. Some of them even offer unbelievable perks, like unlimited contacts and unrestricted emails to send out.

Let’s start with one of the most popular options we got in the market.

1. Mailchimp vs. Mailshake

Mailchimp is certainly one of the most-used email automation tools. You can choose from several plans to engage potential customers and expand your outreach. Interestingly, Mailchimp also comes with a free plan with all the basic features. 

Why Use Mailchimp:

Let’s see what you can do with Mailchimp for free-

• Manage up to 2,000 contacts
• Send up to 10,000 emails per month
• 1 audience included
• Take advantage of CRM and segment your leads
• Gather audience insight 
• Target your customers in many ways
• Basic templates for creating content
• Create and publish websites
• Create free domains
• Outreach on social media
• Promote landing pages 
• Create custom automation in one step
• Integrate your tool with more than 200 apps
• Send custom product recommendations 

What’s Lacking:

Mailchimp is a great free tool for small businesses and startups. You get everything you need to start your outreach programs. However, you can’t perform A/B testing or create buyer journeys for optimized engagement. 

Mailchimp paid plans are also affordable and not expensive, like Mailshake. You can give the free version a try and upgrade if you feel the need. 

 2. Sender vs. Mailshake

Sender is a great free alternative to Mailshake. You can enjoy all the features in the free plan to get your business more exposure. Sender only limits the number of contacts and emails and lets you enjoy everything else without spending anything. 

You can look forward to most of the features you find in Mailshake. We will explore them right now!

Why Use Sender:

How far can you go free of charge using Sender?

• Expand your audience with custom subscription forms
• Segment your leads and subscribers
• Create newsletters with drag-and-drop features
• Include images and videos in emails
• Work with HTML codes if you want
• Ensure deliverability of emails 
• Automate emails easily
• Analytics for better insights
• API to connect your website or stores

What’s Lacking:

The free plan of Sender allows up to 2,500 subscribers and 15,000 emails each month. You will need to pay if you want to scale your marketing.

Sender is among the most comprehensive email automation and engagement tools. Best of all, you can enjoy all the features of the paid plans for free forever.

3. SendPulse vs. Mailshake

SendPulse is a wonderful tool to automate your email marketing. Not only that, but you can also send social media messages and push notifications. The tool also lets you create chatbots and engage your customers in optimum ways. 

SendPulse has a free plan that gives you the basic automation features. You can also do many things that are not possible for free with Mailshake.

Why Use SendPulse:

Here is what makes this email automation tool appealing-

• Free templates, subscription forms, and email scheduler
• Basic automation features from Automation360 suite
• A/B testing to test your copies
• Segmentation and personalization features
• Drag-and-drop and HTML editors
• Free limited storage for additional files
• Basic reporting and statistics

What’s Lacking:

The free plan lets you send 15,000 emails and manage 500 subscribers. Plus, you can’t use all the automation features.

We think the free features are adequate for a small to medium business. You can, of course, upgrade and even take advantage of pay-as-you-go pricing.

4. Sendinblue vs Mailshake

Sendinblue is a cool option if you want to enjoy unlimited contacts for free. You can manage endless subscribers and nurture them without any cost. Plus, the tool features some of the best marketing automation functions.

Sendinblue is available for free, albeit in a lightweight version. Let’s take a short tour of our chosen solution.

Why Use Sendinblue:

What makes Sendinblue an apt alternative to Mailshake?

• Manage unlimited contacts and segmentation
• Create custom signup forms
• Sales CRM for free
• Send transactional emails and SMSs
• Page tracking and workflow editor
• Real-time reporting for a better picture of your campaigns
• Limited API integrations
• Free email support

What’s Lacking:

You will get the most basic features and the ability to send 300 emails per day for free with Sendinblue. But you can’t get features like A/B testing, retargeting, creating landing pages, or multi-user access.

Sendinblue can fit your bill if email automation is all you need. You can keep sending 300 emails every day and handle endless contacts without spending anything.

5. Moosend vs Mailshake

“Moo”ve over Mailshake and send unlimited emails for free with Moosend. It’s one of the most popular email automation and marketing tools you have ever come across. Plus, the interface is highly visual and very easy to use. 

Moosend carries a free plan that unlocks all pro features except a few. It can be a great choice to grow your business if you can compromise a few advanced features.

Why Use Moosend:

Why should you switch from Mailshake to Moosend?

• Create and deliver engaging emails and newsletters
• Use drag-and-drop builder and email templates
• Automate emails based on triggers and customer actions
• Track behavior of visitors
• Segment your leads for better targeting
• Detailed reporting to manage your campaigns efficiently
• Ecommerce AI for excellent customer experiences
• Integrate with countless tools to connect your systems

What’s Lacking:

You can manage up to 1,000 subscribers with the free plan. Advanced options like landing page builder and transaction emails are also missing. 

Moosend will meet the requirements for most people. You can automate your emails and engage your leads at zero cost.

6. Is Omnisend as good as Mailshake?

Omnisend is a full-scale solution to grow your business. You can automate your emails, SMS, and tie everything with your online store. Advanced targeting, pre-built automation, split tests- you get a complete suite of tools to meet your marketing needs.

The free version of Omnisend lets you automate your email campaigns with limited restrictions. Let’s take a closer look to see what you can get. 

Why Use Omnisend:

• Send 15,000 emails every month (2,000 emails per day limit)
• Manage a maximum of 3 active forms
• Create emails using a drag-and-drop feature
• Take advantage of scheduled campaigns
• Mobile-friendly templates for emails
• Segment your leads
• Sales reports to assess your campaigns
• Free website tracking with history for 1 month
• Clickmap for understanding user behavior

What’s Lacking:

You can’t do anything other than managing email campaigns for free on Omnisend. You also miss out on features like A/B testing, SMS campaigns, live support, advanced workflow manager, and more.

You can use Omnisend for free if automating emails is all you want. If the limits suit you, the tool can turn out to be a big money-saver.

7. Mailshake vs. Benchmark Email

Benchmark Email lets you focus on growing your business by making email automation a breeze. It’s a dedicated tool to manage email campaigns, so you get some really neat features.

Benchmark Email offers a free pack you can try without any credit card. The functionalities are limited but may suit new businesses and small entrepreneurs.

Why Use Benchmark Email?

Let’s explore what you can do with Benchmark Email without paying-

• Create emails using drag-and-drop
• Use engaging email templates
• Enjoy basic segmentation
• Manage signup forms and RSS campaigns
• Perform drip campaigns
• Manage email deliverability
• Live reports and heatmaps
• Add images and videos to emails
• Integrate with over 1,500 apps

What’s Lacking:

You can send only 250 emails per month with the free plan of Benchmark Email. Features like marketing automation, website tracking, and landing page editors are also absent. Plus, you will not get any dedicated support. 

Benchmark Email can be good for a new business. You can send 250 emails every month and let your subscribers grow. If you need to scale further, you can pay for a pro version.

8. EmailOctopus vs Mailshake

EmailOctopus can be compared to the likes of Mailchimp. It’s full of features you need to attract leads and convert them into customers. You can create beautiful emails and put your campaigns on auto mode for extra convenience. 

Like other tools on our list, you get a free plant to start off. It can also turn out to be all you need and eliminate the need to pay again!

Why Use EmailOctopus:

How does EmailOctopus fare against Mailshake? Here is what you get for free-

• Manage up to 2,500 subscribers
• Send a maximum of 10,000 emails every month
• Create appealing emails with an easy-to-use editor
• Reports with 30-day availability
• Connect with Amazon SES account
• Limited support

What’s Lacking:

Paying for EmailOctopus gives you access to advanced features. You can enjoy advanced segmentation, more automation options, put campaigns on auto-pilot, and more. Going for a paid plan also lets you add more subscribers and send more emails.

EmailOctopus is a reliable tool and carries the assurance of being associated with Amazon. You can surely give it a try in place of Mailshake.

9. Mailerlite and Mailshake

Mailerlite is a great free alternative to Mailshake. It’s rich in features and lets you enjoy more functions for free than most tools. Mailerlite is also a lightweight tool, as the name suggests, and helps you boost your revenues.

The free plan can work for most businesses and startups. We will take a closer look at why it may suit your needs.

Why Use Mailerlite:

Why should you use Mailerlite for free?

• Use drag-and-drop editors to create emails
• In-built photo editor and rich text editor
• Build landing pages and signup forms
• Manage subscribers easily
• Automate emails and segment leads
• A/B testing and RSS campaigns
• Surveys and campaign reports
• Multiple user access
• Free websites and landing pages
• Unlimited traffic and analytics

What’s Lacking:

You can send 12,000 monthly emails and manage up to 1,000 subscribers without any charge. Plus, you miss out on priority support in the free version. 

Mailerlite is a perfect and free replacement for Mailshake. You can exploit endless features, including advanced ones that are generally paid. It’s a great tool to automate your emails and do more. 

10. Mailshake vs. Mailjet

Mailjet is a robust email automation, marketing, and management tool. You will never need anything else once you get used to the level of control and flexibility of the tool.

The free version is enough for even power users and helps them grow brand exposure.

Why Use Mailjet:

• Mailjet offers a range of perks for free-
• Manage endless subscribers 
• Email templates and a powerful editor
• Personalize your emails
• Advanced statistics and campaign comparison
• API and integrations with popular apps

Final Thoughts

We have presented 10 best free Mailshake alternatives to grow your business. You can pick any tool you want that meets your needs. We suggest trying any tool for free at first to determine they are right for you. If required, you can pay and scale any time you want. Let us know which email automation tool fits your bill in the comments to help our readers make up their minds.