I've tried many different themes, plugins, and custom hacks to try and get wordpress to perform at an affiliate marketers level but WP smart tools is without a doubt the best solution out there. Setting it up on your blog is a snap and it took maybe 2 minutes to upload and activate the themes/plugins/licensing and within 10 minutes I had a fully cutomized farticle with geotargeting, author profile, disclaimers, embeded youtube videos, exit lead saver and replaced all my target text with cloaked affiliate links. Before WP smart tools it would take me about an hour to get a website up and running with all of those features but now it's just a handful of clicks and a little copy/pasting.
As for performance, it's been rock solid and stable. At first I was little worried about how many plugins there were but after throwing traffic at the lander I can assure you that it won't slow down your server or get you booted from your shared hosting
. The pages load fast and work great on all major browsers, I tested firefox, ie, opera, chrome, netscape, aol browser, and safari and never experienced any errors or browser hangups/memory leaks.
If you're building flogs/farticle landing pages then WP smart tools is a must have! It has everything you will ever need and is so easy to use that it will be impossible for your $1 a day drones from India to do it wrong. At $117 it's one hell of a deal and too good to pass up!