Comments on: Amazon Associates Program Introduce Carousel Widget

By: fundimar

fundimar — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:12:36 +0000

We are trying used amazon associated,but is never success to the earnings. earnings is zero for one year.

By: Juha Ylitalo

Juha Ylitalo — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:05:16 +0000

From European’s point of view biggest weakness in Amazon is that if you want to make real business with them on global scale, you would have to be associate/affiliate for each and everyone of those amazon shops and then you would have to code by yourself that if user comes from country xyz, show him/her ads from amazon.co.uk, if he comes from abc, show ads from amazon.com, if he comes from country def, show ads from amazon.de, …

By: Dee Stewart

Dee Stewart — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:24:15 +0000

Film-Book you can redo the carousel and input the correct dimensions for your page. I had to customize mine for my blog. I use the slideshow widget to show my top book pick of the month. This month I added the carousel for more effect. I like when my blog opens the carousel moves. It’s a great attention getter. I’ve sold a few books already.

By: Film-Book dot Com

Film-Book dot Com — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:09:22 +0000

The widget messes up the layout of my wordpress page.

By: Nantucket Art

Nantucket Art — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:45:43 +0000

Nifty Little Widget. Pretty slim too ;)

By: Bengt - fortyplustwo

Bengt - fortyplustwo — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:50:34 +0000

Firefox users with FlashBlock installed will not see the carousel. Regular images does show up for everyone.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:11:58 +0000

Lets say you wanted different ones under different posts, can you choose what it shows?

By: Mr.NiceGuy

Mr.NiceGuy — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:08:44 +0000

I like it. Looks exciting.

By: 01478.com

01478.com — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:23:20 +0000

I don`t notice the arrow keys.
First,I use mouse pointer to click and drag,but they don`t move.Then,I have to find some button to click.

By: Barbara Ling (aka Owlbert)

Barbara Ling (aka Owlbert) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:10:00 +0000

Amazon.com has always been a great deliverer of affiliate commissions for me. I’ll have to test out that particular widget; generally I stick with direct text URLs. Sometimes simple works best.

Data points,

Barbara

By: James Mann

James Mann — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:53:52 +0000

That looks pretty cool. I think I will give it a go.

I noticed that the arrow keys don’t bring the next book around automatically but it’s fun watching them spin.

I don’t think anyone looking at the products would mind that the arrow doesn’t work all that well yet. They are more interested in the products.

thanks

By: Boris H

Boris H — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:46:05 +0000

This looks fantastic. It fits perfectly on my sci-fi oriented site :) :)

By: blizme

blizme — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:03:25 +0000

gimmick! but does look nice in a blog post

By: Frugal Dad

Frugal Dad — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:46:18 +0000

I have to say this is one of the better-looking ad implementations I’ve seen in a while. I added a “ferris wheel” to my sidebar with some personal finance books. Remains to be seen if they convert better than the classic links.

By: DB Ferguson

DB Ferguson — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:22:37 +0000

I got the same e-mail this morning and had the widget up by noon. The first time I saw the carousel on the Amazon site, I thought, man, I wish I could see that with products containing Stephen Colbert. So today, after I built it, I just watched the products go round and round. I even blogged about it here – http://www.nofactzone.net/?p=3493

Then again, there is the argument about valuable real estate on the blog and is it worth the space for a gimmick. Only time will tell. I haven’t gotten any sales out of it yet, but then again, most of the power users of my blog own the majority of these products.

By: The Masked Millionaire

The Masked Millionaire — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:13:29 +0000

Hey….I can use the WordPress for dummies book!!

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:52:33 +0000

Very cool! They got some nice ideas there.

By: Mary Gallagher

Mary Gallagher — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:27:43 +0000

This is very cool. I love how you can just plug it in. And keep it moving. That will be fun to add to blogs and websites. Thanks for the tip!

Best,
Mary
http://www.twitter.com/marygallgher

By: ravi karandeekar

ravi karandeekar — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:05:49 +0000

I liked it. I enjoyed it. It’s pleasure to rotate it. I keep on doing it in a store. Of course, i stop to pick up the book and browse. Exciting!

By: NextInstinct

NextInstinct — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:43:33 +0000

Are you able to affect what’s in the rotation?
Or is it auto generated by Amazon? Hmmm.

Either way,
the added variety is helpful in marketing,
but the User Engagement could really increase sales.