Five Free Affiliate Widgets Turn Clicks into Cash

Affiliate programs are a popular way for Web shop owners, bloggers and just about anybody with a Web site to earn commission-based revenue. One way to offer affiliate links on your own personal Web publishing space is to embed them in interactive, eye-pleasing widgets. The best Web widgets for affiliate linking are ones that are easy to use and that also have plenty of customization options so you can display ones that work well with your own page design and content.

Here we highlight five free widgets you can customize using your own affiliate referral ID, along with the details on where to get them, what programs they work with and how to tailor them to your needs.

Amazon List Widget
Affiliate Program: Amazon Associates
Developer: Widgizit
Use On: Any blog supported by Widgetbox, Google Gadget for Web pages, Netvibes and more.

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The Amazon List widget is designed to let you display an Amazon list such as a Wedding list, Favorite Books, baby registry, Listmania List, or whatever is most relevant to your site content. To use this widget you will need to register on the Widgizit Web site in order to supply your own Amazon Associates ID when setting up the widget. 

Once you've registered on the Widgizit site you can then customize the widget by adding a title, your preferred Amazon List ID, the type of list you want to display (Wish list, List mania, Wedding Registry, or Baby Registry) and also the format you want to use for display. In selecting a format you can choose a vertical, horizontal, text or image only display. Once you're set up to display relevant content to your site readers, you can then move on to selecting colors and themes so that your Web widget matches the design of your own site or blog.

eBay To Go
Affiliate Program: eBay Affiliate
Developed By: eBay Inc.
Use On: Web pages, Blogs, Social Networking sites.

Despite eBay To Go being a beta widget, there is no doubt that this eBay widget offers eBay affiliates a creative and visually appealing way to serve up their affiliate links on blogs and other Web pages. The great thing about this mini-application, other than how it looks, is that in four easy steps you can create a very cool looking widget.

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• Step 1: Choose one of five display types for the widget. This includes a single item view or multiple item view and options for a search, seller or store widget.
• Step 2: Enter in the search terms to display live items or select specific product listing IDs, depending on the type of widget you chose.
• Step 3: Enter in your eBay Affiliate Partner ID (PID).
• Step 4: Copy and paste the code to your own publishing platform.

After you create your widget, you simply copy the provided code and insert it on your Web space. You can also access detailed instructions for adding your eBay To Go widget to eBay Blogs, MySpace, WordPress, Blogger, Friendster, Yahoo 360, TypePad, LiveJournal and Tagged.

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