Why Do My Amazon Affiliate Widgets Disappear?
After you join the Amazon Associates affiliate program, you are able to generate advertising "widgets" to place in the sidebar and other areas of your website. These widgets are directly linked to your Amazon Associates account, so logging into your Amazon Associates account is an essential step to resolve their disappearance.
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Website Widget Area Errors
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Before you log into your Amazon Associates affiliate area, ensure an error with your website isn't preventing the widgets from displaying. While editing another widget, for example, you may have accidentally removed the Amazon widget or edited it so that it doesn't display. Alternatively, even a small change to the website's PHP functions can make the entire widget area disappear.
Types of Amazon Widgets
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Amazon offers associates the ability to choose from a wide selection of widgets. Some of these widgets link to the Amazon homepage, which means that the links in them never expire. Other widgets link to specific products or classes of products and are therefore prone to expiration. If your widget no longer appears, log into your Amazon Associates account and open the "Toolbox" feature to see if the widget you created still exists.
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Product Removed
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If Amazon has removed a product indefinitely from its website, the widget disappears because the link within it would otherwise direct to an error page. You can confirm this in the widget "Toolbox." In some cases, a message will display indicating that the item has been removed, while in other cases, code for the widget will simply be gone.
Generating New Widgets
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Generating new widgets within the toolbox, whether you want to link visitors to the Amazon home page or a specific product, is easy. To get started, click the "New Widget" link within the tool box, set your specifications and click the "Get Code" button. Paste the code into the "Widgets" section of your website to make it display.
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