Widget Manager

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The Widget Manager allows you to promote your products virtually anywhere online by driving qualified traffic to your eBay or storefront listings. Just paste the generated HTML code into any marketplace, blog, forum or website and your eBay items will appear in one of the widget templates. Any field that is highlighted in PINK is required information to make a widget.

1. When you get to the widget page, click on the small plus sign logo to the left of the page. This is the Add a New Widget button.
2. Now, fill in the widget specific details:

  • Product Source: Choosing eBay will display products from eBay. Choosing Kyozou will display products from your E-Commerce storefront.
  • Widget Name: Give your widget a name
  • eBay Seller ID: Specify the seller ID you want the widget to display products from.
  • Keywords: You can use various search terms and other operators to display exactly what you want in your widget


    • The Widget processor searches for item listings where the keywords are found in the title and subtitle, returning those items in the result set. The value specified for the Keywords field can contain one or more keywords and combinations of wildcard characters. The words "and" and "or" are treated like any other word. Only use "and, "or", or "the" if you are searching for listings containing these words. You can use AND or OR logic by including certain modifiers. Wildcard characters (e.g., "*") are also supported. Be careful when using spaces before or after modifiers and wildcards.

    The following table shows the operators and character punctuation that can be used in the Keywords field, and what the effects of each are.

    Widget Keywords Operators and Punctuation
    Modifier Purpose Example Returns
    Space between words Applies and Logic to multiple keywords. baseball card Items with both the words "baseball" and "card".
    Comma between words in parentheses Applies OR logic to multiple keywords (baseball,card) Items with either the word "baseball" or "card".
    Quoted words Requires an exact sequence of words. "baseball card" Items with the exact phrase "baseball card"
    -word Specified word cannot be present baseball -autograph Items that have the word "baseball" but not "autograph"
    -(word,word,word) Specified words cannot be present baseball -(autograph, card, star) Items with the word "baseball" but not "autograph", "card", or "star".
    * Substitutes for one ore more characters baseball* Items starting with the string "baseball". Do not use "*" by itself unless you are using CategoryID or you are searching by seller.
    @ sign Search must find two of three words from a list @1 baseball autograph card Items with two of the three words "baseball", "autograph", and "card". For a 3 our of 4 search, use @2 and a list of four words.
    + Concatenates a query using AND logic and another keyword. @1 Baseball autograph card +star items with any two of the three  words "baseball",

    "autograph,"

    or "card" in the title plus the word star.

    The following rules apply when there are spaces embedded into multi-word query strings:

    1. Use a single space after a quote " character only when the quote is followed by either a minus - or a plus + character.

    2. Do not use a space before the minus - or plus + characters when the previous character is the right parenthesis.

  • You can use the price interval to filter displayed items by the minimum and maximum values specified.
  • If you are signed up for commission junction, you can find your PID by logging into your CJ account > to to the Account Tab > go to the Web site settings subtab > and your PID will be listed there. Input this is you're using CJ with your widget.
  • Item Sort Order will sort the eBay item output on Widget based on the selection.
  • Now, choose the number of items to have in your widget. Keep in mind that the more you select, the longer it will take to load so if you put 10000, no one might see your widget.  We recommend not displaying more then 20 products in your Widget. It is better to have multiple widgets with specific search criteria then to have a single widget display too many products.
  • Click the Next Step Button

    Widget Styles

  • Choose a widget style. Note, in Laris, the style preview is not working (and Kyozou won't fix it...) you can see the widget style previews here:

    Ruby Red Image:Ruby1.jpg 
    Sky Blue Image:Sky1.jpg 
    Solid Silver Image:Solidsilver.jpg 
    Simple Grey Image:Simplegrey.jpg 
    Super Silver Image:Supersilver.jpg 
    Sour Apple Image:Sourapple.jpg 
    Standard Grey Image:Standardgrey.jpg 
    Wide Charcoal Image:Widecharcoal.jpg 
    Wide Super Silver Image:Widecharcoal.jpg 
    Wide Solid Silver

    Image:Widesupersilver.jpg 
    Advanced Grey Image:Advancedgrey.jpg
    Simple Black Image:Simpleblack.jpg
    Wide Slate Image:Wideslate.jpg
    Classic Widget Image:Classicwidget.jpg


  • Now, choose a Widget size.
  • Select if you would like to display your item's bid prices in your Widget.
  • Choose if you want to display a logo, and upload it to the Widget Manager.
  • Specify a widget note. This will be display in your widget manager and can help keep track of multiple widgets.
  • Choose an Item Rotation Speed. The number you set here will cause each item in your widget to rotate or slide to the next item. For eample, setting the value to the number 2 here will tell the widget to slide every 2 seconds.

    Now, click on create widget. You now have a widget!

    • Using & Managing Widgets


    On the Widget manager screen, after you have created one more more widgets, you will see a list of the widgets.
    If you click on the Name or Description of the Widget, you will see a preview of the widget.

    Actions

    IMage:Icon_widget_delete.gif - Delete Widget - Use this button to delete any widget you wish.
    Image:Icon_widget_edit.gif - Edit Widget - Use this button to edit a widget you've previously created.
    Image:Icon_widget_html.gif - View Widget HTML - Use this button to view the widget HTML.  You can paste this HTML into any website you want to display your widget.
    Image:Icon_widget_copy.gif - Copy Widget HTML to Clipboard - You can use this button to instantly copy the Widget HTML to your clipboard for easier pasting.

    Image:Icon_widget_preview.gif- Preview Widget - You can use this button to preview your Widget.



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