Amazon widgets
For some reason, I have always been doing well with Amazon offers.
Their good name and huge selection helps, of course, as well as the fact that almost everyone on the net has an account with them.
Now we see the release of amazon widgets, which are well worth checking out. They offer a good range of nice tools for webmasters from a handy quicklinker for bloggers to slideshows and movie previews.
As an example, here are some programming books for you:
(REMOVED, since they broke the blog design AFTER working OK for a while - what gives, amazon?)
However, there are still some rough edges to this service.1. I am not too happy with the sizes offered. Take the above example and you can see why one might want smaller cover images.
2. The GUI is still lacking in parts. So you can save your widgets, but you won’t be able to retrieve the HTML code unless you go through the editing process.
3. Saved widgets can only be edited in parts. Although this might make sense for some things, not being able to change orientation or width does not seem justified.
Anyhow, I will use some of those and can see how they can add functionality, attractiveness and (last but not least) some earning possibilities to a site.
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I’ve never had much success with being an Amazon affiliate. Then again, I didn’t send them that much traffic. I thought that their commissions were kind of low, but they do increase the more that you sell.
Anyways, I like the idea of these widgets - but like you said, it would be nice to see a little more functionality out of them. I am interested to hear how they perform for you.
Hi Promo.
This is far too early to give a definitive answer to that.
I like the idea, the future will tell how well those things fare.
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