How to be Unique AND Profitable with Simple Amazon Tool
For those of you who already know about this; great and more power to you. However, "I" just realized this and thought it was crazy-sexy-cool; so, I figured I'd share with those that might not know about it.
Essentially, its a way to leverage Amazon's built-in marketing intelligence to better position your referrals to their site AND without looking like everyone else...fast; (meaning without spending hours and hours researching products to find the right mix).
1. Log into your Associates account at Amazon
2. Click on the Widgets tab
3. On the left hand side you'll see 'Widget Source' (click that)
Now, on this page you can choose from four of their widgets; for the purposes of this post though, just leave it on the default 'Carousel Widget'
Now, look in the Widget Source Template window and you'll see something like this...
What you want to do is make sure the 'widgetType' is 'ASINList'; this allows you to pick and choose what you want to show in your carousel. But, here's the twist... you don't wanna just pick any old thing; here we can leverage Amazon's market research and list what they say people buy.
Scroll down the page and you'll find a section that says...
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
.. and low and behold, there's a proven list of accompanying products to list in your carousel widget.
4. You can right-click (option click for MAC users) and copy the link location
5. Paste each URL into a text editor; like Notepad (or whatever you like to use)
6. Grab the ASIN #'s out of each URL; (the bolded text in the above URL)
7. Make sure you have 'amzn_wdgt.ASIN' in your widget script; you'll have to add it
8. List the ASIN's separated by commas; (as seen above)
9. Set your height and width
10. DONE
Now you have a customized Carousel Widget to put on your site that isn't just a randomly picked list of products AND you didn't have to spend 20+ hours doing research to find the right products to list.
See working example of the above HERE
Have fun with this! I am!
HTH
PLP,
tecHead
P.S.: Including writing this post, it took me all of 15min to do all this.
Essentially, its a way to leverage Amazon's built-in marketing intelligence to better position your referrals to their site AND without looking like everyone else...fast; (meaning without spending hours and hours researching products to find the right mix).
1. Log into your Associates account at Amazon
2. Click on the Widgets tab
3. On the left hand side you'll see 'Widget Source' (click that)
Now, on this page you can choose from four of their widgets; for the purposes of this post though, just leave it on the default 'Carousel Widget'
Now, look in the Widget Source Template window and you'll see something like this...
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<script type='text/javascript'> var amzn_wdgt={widget:'Carousel'}; amzn_wdgt.tag='YOUR-TRACKING-ID'; amzn_wdgt.widgetType='ASINList'; amzn_wdgt.ASIN='B002ATBEVI,B001RQ9XOA,B00155V210,B0009JR41U,B001 T9NUJE,B0002L5R78,B001GTTEBK'; amzn_wdgt.title='VIZIO VO320E 32-Inch Complete Package'; amzn_wdgt.width='490'; amzn_wdgt.height='200'; amzn_wdgt.shuffleProducts='true'; amzn_wdgt.marketPlace='US'; </script> <script type='text/javascript' src='http://wms.assoc-amazon.com/20070822/US/js/swfobject_1_5.js'> </script> |
Scroll down the page and you'll find a section that says...
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
.. and low and behold, there's a proven list of accompanying products to list in your carousel widget.
4. You can right-click (option click for MAC users) and copy the link location
| http://www.amazon.com/CHEETAH-MOUNTS...TELEVISION/dp/B001GTTEBK/ref=pd_sim_e_6 |
6. Grab the ASIN #'s out of each URL; (the bolded text in the above URL)
7. Make sure you have 'amzn_wdgt.ASIN' in your widget script; you'll have to add it
8. List the ASIN's separated by commas; (as seen above)
9. Set your height and width
10. DONE
Now you have a customized Carousel Widget to put on your site that isn't just a randomly picked list of products AND you didn't have to spend 20+ hours doing research to find the right products to list.
See working example of the above HERE
Have fun with this! I am!
HTH
PLP,
tecHead
P.S.: Including writing this post, it took me all of 15min to do all this.
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