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Auctionbytes-NewsFlash, Number 1624 - September 19, 2007 - ISSN 1539-5065      Previous Story | | Next Story

Amazon.com Affiliates Can Monetize New Widgets
By Ina Steiner
AuctionBytes.com
September 19, 2007
Reading AuctionBytes: Amazon.com Affiliates Can Monetize New Widgets

Amazon.com launched "Amazon Widgets," a series of small, visually dynamic and easily configurable widgets that feature products from Amazon on blogs, websites and social networking pages. In as little as one minute, users can populate a widget with their favorite Amazon products and their comments about those products, and select from a set of color and layout themes to match both their mood and website.

Amazon Widgets are free to use. Users have the option to make money with their Amazon Widgets by joining the Amazon Associates program and when a visitor to their site clicks through their Amazon Widget to the applicable Amazon website and makes a purchase, they may earn up to 10 percent in referral fees from Amazon.

All Amazon Widgets, except the Amazon Unbox Video Previewer which is available only in the US, are available for each Amazon site that offers the Amazon Associates program, including Canada (Amazon.ca), France (Amazon.fr), Germany (Amazon.co.de), Japan (Japan.co.jp) and the United Kingdom (Amazon.co.uk).

"Bloggers and active online social networkers have asked us for a fun and interesting way to display Amazon products on their pages as a way to showcase their favorite things. With Amazon Widgets, they can now do this and make money at the same time," said Sean McMullan, Manager, Amazon Associates. Amazon today launched seven new widgets in the Amazon Widgets Gallery, and there are more specialized widgets coming soon.

http://widgets.amazon.com

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