Affiliate Link Marker vs Title and Nofollow For Links (Classic Editor)

Head-to-head on the signals that matter, from the public WordPress.org data.

Title and Nofollow For Links (Classic Editor) is the safest pick: health A · 86 against 82 for Affiliate Link Marker, led by stronger maintenance.

Affiliate Link Marker

by Johannes Kinast

Health B82

Title and Nofollow For Links (Classic Editor)

by WPKube

Health A86

Active-install trajectory

Affiliate Link MarkerTitle and Nofollow For Links (Classic Editor)

Active installs, each indexed to 100 at the start of the window. A line above 100 is growing its install base, below 100 is shrinking.

Metric	Affiliate Link Marker	Title and Nofollow For Links (Classic Editor)
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	400–500	10K–20K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	-67%
Overall health	B · 82	A · 86 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	90/100	99/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	82/100	83/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.3★	4.3★ ✓
Reviews	6	23 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	90/100	96/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	5mo ago	3mo ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	175	2.4K ✓
Download momentum, last 30d vs prior 30d Dips that follow a release spike are normal: wp.org counts every update as a download, so the weeks after a release run lower.	+24%	+9%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	5.9% ✓	4.3%
Category	Uncategorized	SEO

✓ marks the stronger plugin on each row. Rows where they're level show no marker.

Release activity

Affiliate Link MarkerTitle and Nofollow For Links (Classic Editor)

7-day average daily downloads. Downloads spike for about a week after each release as the install base re-downloads, so read this as release cadence, not growth.