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Just had notice about Amazon Widgets , which looks like it is tring to go down the route of auctionads . On first look you get quite a few options for what you want to do

There is quite a selection and you are sure to find something you like. After you have chosen what you want to show on your site you can move onto the next stage.

You can do a search what what products you want to feature, for example if you are using it on a blog about bloggind you could search for 'wordpress, blogger' and then you will see a selection of items you may want to add.

As you can see above you see a list of items and you add them to the selected items. You can add your own comments to try to talk people into buying the items.

After you have finished you will arrive at the content and layout screen all of the views explain themselves well and can add some extra visual feel to the widget.

After choosing the layout you then have a screen with a long list of places you may want to add the script, you could also add the script manually by cutting and pasting the script.

Once you have it pasted or added to your blog/website you will have a nice visual widget that could earn you money through referrals and sales from amazon.

I like the look and the way you have so many options for the layout and what you want.

You can find an example of the widget here and have a look in the sidebar

Still not sure how to do any fancy ones but try this one

Kukuh over at Graphic Identity has created some graphics and logos for me and you can see them here.

The Buttons above are logo1, logo2 e.t.c from to top as if you are reading normally so if you

 wanted logo4 

you would add the following

Which would show like this

 Any problems just ask

So if you are after quality graphics, why not pop over there and see what they can do for you

A huge, huge thanks for these and long may they last 

Now I am a big fan of Auctionads as its where I have made most of my money on other blogs that I have had.


As you can see they have a simple site layout with clear instructions on how what to do.




Plus with their new web 2.0 style ads the look and feel is very modern.

Signing up is simple and straight forward, and its straight into setting up your ads. The plus side of auctionads is you dont have to have your blog checked to see if they will allow you to use them or not.


As you can see from they layout of the setup its quite straight forward, it asks you for keywords which will target the ads to specific areas of items for sale. My tip is to add a little something extra that isnt related to your blog like motors or cameras, I have had the bigest payouts from these extra keywords that are non-related


Obvously match the colours as close as you can to your blog colours and keep it within the feel of your blog layout.

You will be best of adding little campaigns like blog top left e.t.c. so you can see where you are getting the most clicks and which are just wasting space.

Select which campaign you want to use and then choose what sort of ad type you want, no need for anything really big as it could viewers eyes away from the content and just make them feel like its a blog for adverts.

You can choose from the old style or the new fresh feeling style, I would take the old style if it will match your blog.

After you have done all that you can see the finished layout at the bottom of the screen so you can preview what it will look like, alter it if it doesnt look right rather than thinking that will do.

Try AuctionAds





A few sites that can offer a bit more information and some tricks you may use:

Using page title as keywords

A bit more on the new look

I dont normally have advertising in fact if you have a look at Blogsrecord there is no advertising on there whatsoever.

But I thought I would look into advertising for this little blog and see if you can earn money from networks and advertising. Note I am a total beginner at this so I may make a dollar.

Crispads.com has a web 2.0 look about it and gets of to a good impression to start with.





Signup was simple enough, username, password, email address, paypal address and blog address.

Takes 24-48 hours for them to review your blog, but you can access the backend straight away. Another plus side is not having to verify your email address, which really winds me up on some sites.



All seems simple enough, and please note they will ban your account for fraudulent clicks.

Onto the setup, first thing I notice is a very limited amount of categories and some may find it hard to find one that fits.

After going through the process of setting up the ad, Im still not sure what somethings mean.

I also note ads will only be displayed in the following areas

• United States, Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland
• Spain, Austria, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, France
• Virgin Islands (U.S. & British)

Heres a fun site Ive found, the object of the game is to write words by moving the fridge magnets around the board, but there is only a limited amount of letters on the board.

The biggest problem is there is other players who have great joy in taking your letters to make their own words.

Heres a challenge for you, try to spell your sites name before someone snatches your letters.

The site can be found here