Overall: Every day I review and filter through numerous tools, softwares and solutions for internet marketing. While there are dozens of rank tracking solutions out there, Pro Rank Tracker provides the most robust solution on the market for the most affordable price. If you're looking for a rank tracking solution for SEO, I highly recommend it.
Pros: It's very robust and allows you to hyper target pretty much anything you want to do with SEO. Also, it gives you a lot of automation with reports, which makes your life much easier if you're working with clients.
Cons: I personally prefer the previous UI but other than that it's the best tracking solution on the market for the most affordable price. Every other solution out there comes with less features and costs more.
Recommendations to other buyers: It's just a great solution and if you're serious about anything in business you need to be tracking it. So, if you're involved in SEO, I definitely recommend a rank tracking solution, and they have a free plan to get started, so you really have no excuse.

I am a blogger in a very competitive niche. SEO can be extremely confusing and overwhelming. I like the way thehoth worked with me to help me make an informed decision about my SEO needs. I felt as if they were concerned with helping me to achieve my goals and not just get money out of me (like so many online companies). I found them refreshing, not only do I plan on being a long time customer but I intend to recommend their products to others as an affiliate.

Using Mangools's KWFinder is really easy and the functionality is excellent. I can decide very quickly what keywords to focus on for my affiliate blog post. I would be flying blind if I didn't have access to this tool. Thanks!

I have worked extensively with SS on multiple projects and from a designer/user input level it's pretty amazing. It's easy to use, the output is fantastic and to your point, displays very well on mobile. You have to determine what it is you're trying to do as your end-game. If you want to aggregate images/content that links off to clients manually then SS can get that done - it's not overly time consuming and IMHO based off of the fact that you're just learning WP, it'll be the best display output you could ask for.

A big part of this is determining how you plan to set up your affiliate site - - are you a blog, a guide, a comparison tool, etc. because depending on what route you take, you'll see that SS has some limitations. SS does a good job of optimizing their webpages for search, which is a huge benefit if you don't have extensive SEO/SEM/Coding knowledge.

Just my two cents.

I do some affiliate marketing myself and had the same concerns but my WordPress sites were constantly being hacked so I decided to try SquareSpace and am loving it. As for affiliate links, while I was used to the Pretty Link wordpress plugin, here is my workaround/solution/tutorial.