• Stay away from this plugin! No matter how many features or how pretty it is, this plugin was designed to STEAL MONEY FROM YOUR SITE. They will automatically opt you in to rewrite your links on your site with their affiliate links. Try opting out and it will opt you back in automatically with the next update (the most updated plugin on WP btw).

    When your site has 100’s of thousands of hits a month and you spend marketing dollars to drive more traffic to your site and carefully construct your own affiliate links on your own site, it is infuriating to find out that Shareaholic rewrites links to their own affiliate links.

    And their staff will reply here and come up with a million excuses saying it’s for your own good. But truth is they’ll opt you in without your consent and rewrite your links without you knowing… then where’s the earnings they promised they were doing for your own good?!?? Oh you had to set up the site on their site before the plugin did the rewrites. So all those affiliate traffic they gathered off your site without your consent is all theirs. It’s just plain evil!

    Stay away! DON’T SUPPORT THIS UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR!!

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  • Hello there Basemara,

    Thank you for your review. Its truly what makes the WordPress community such a strong one! I wanted to reach out and simply address a few of the points that you made in your review, so that you at least feel like you have some more complete information about our tools, directly from us!

    Most importantly, none of our applications steal from our publishers. With specific regard to our Affiliate Links program, designed to generate more revenue for our users, our VP of products David Zakur recently published a blog post addressing several of concerns directly related to the ones you raise. If you would like, please read that article here, as it’s full of great information and clarification:
    https://blog.shareaholic.com/additional-details-about-our-recent-monetization-product-offerings/

    Please be reassured, that all of our monetization offerings can be opted out of easily, and are never auto re-enabled when our users update our plugin. Additionally, though we do ask that you link your plugin to a valid shareaholic.com account, it’s so that you can easily login and access all of our great reporting functionality, including both social stats, and your sites’ earnings metrics, both integral to the of our monetization tools, and your experience.

    If you have an account already, then you can easily track and view your site’s performance across applications here:
    https://shareaholic.com/earn/dashboard

    We really do understand that the hard work our publishers put in should be rewarded, and that is the intention behind our monetization tools. It is my sincere hope that at very least you find some of the above information helpful!

    Sincerely, and thank you again,

    Thread Starter basememara

    (@basememara)

    Thank you for your diplomatic response, although very dry and the same script that is posted everywhere that reveals Shareaholic’s deception. For anyone who thinks of downloading this plugin, don’t be a fool and do your homework. Search the web for “open letter shareaholic” to get raw truth about Shareaholic’s WordPress plugin.

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