The S.R.E. Web Widget and the S.R.E. Web Widget for Kindle Books add a small portion of the power of Sales Rank Express to your own blog or Web site. They will show your visitors the current Amazon sales rank, customer rating, and other info for one or more books, Kindle Books, CDs, DVDs, or anything else, on Amazon.com or any other Amazon site worldwide. Also included is a link to the item’s page on that site, which can include your Amazon affiliate ID for commissioned sales. Examples appear here on the right.
If you want to show more than one item, or show the same item in more than one country, you can place multiple copies of the code for one or both widgets on your page and insert different sets of variables. There is no absolute limit to the number of widgets on a page.
Web Widget
The first S.R.E. Web Widget is a general widget to display info for any item in any country.
To install the widget, click in the text box below and choose “Select All” from your Edit or contextual menu. Then copy and paste this code into the HTML of your blog sidebar or Web page, at whatever point you want the widget to appear.
Note: If you do not see plain text in the box, you are probably using Internet Explorer. Try again with a better browser, or click here for a text file.
Within the code you’ve pasted, you’ll see placeholders for three “variables”—ASIN, COUNTRYCODE, and ASSOCIATESID. Replace the first two or all three with your own data. For instance, for the first sample widget on this page, this portion of the code reads
( "093849743X", "US", "salranexp-20" )
The first variable is the Amazon Standard Identification Number, a 10-character code of letters and/or numbers. Every item sold on Amazon has a unique ASIN, and this is what tells the widget what to look up. For a printed book, this will usually be the same as its ISBN in the older, 10-digit format, without hyphens. If you look up your item on Amazon, you’ll find the ASIN or ISBN-10 in the section with the item’s essential data (date, dimensions, sales rank, and so on). It will also be part of the Amazon Web page address as seen at the top of the browser window, where the ASIN will directly follow a slash (/). To ensure accuracy, use cut and paste commands to place it in the widget code.
The second variable is a two-letter country code. Your choices are
US—Amazon.com (United States)
CA—Amazon.ca (Canada)
UK—Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom)
FR—Amazon.fr (France)
DE—Amazon.de (Germany)
JP—Amazon.co.jp (Japan)If you do not insert a country code, you will get “US” by default.
The third variable is an Amazon Associates ID. This provides commissions on purchases made by Amazon visitors who follow one of the links in the widget. Place your ID here if you are signed up for Amazon’s affiliate program in that country. (If you fill in an Associates ID from a different country, you will not receive commissions.) If you do not have an ID to insert here, just leave the placeholder as is or delete it, and the widget will use an ID that helps support Sales Rank Express.
Web Widget for Kindle Books
The S.R.E. Web Widget for Kindle Books is a widget optimized and simplified for that use. Note that it works for “paid” Kindle Books only—not for freebies, since Amazon withholds those ranks.
To install the widget, click in the text box below and choose “Select All” from your Edit or contextual menu. Then copy and paste this code into the HTML of your blog sidebar or Web page, at whatever point you want the widget to appear.
Note: If you do not see plain text in the box, you are probably using Internet Explorer. Try again with a better browser, or click here for a text file.
Within the code you’ve pasted, you’ll see placeholders for two “variables”—ASIN and ASSOCIATESID. Replace the first or both with your own data. For instance, for the first sample Kindle widget on this page, this portion of the code reads
( "B002M352TM", "salranexp-20" )
The first variable is the Amazon Standard Identification Number, a 10-character code of letters and/or numbers. Every item sold on Amazon has a unique ASIN, and this is what tells the widget what to look up. For a printed book, this will usually be the same as its ISBN in the older, 10-digit format, without hyphens—but Amazon never uses ISBNs for Kindle Books, ignoring any you assign. If you look up your item on Amazon, you’ll find the ASIN in the section with the item’s essential data (date, dimensions, sales rank, and so on). It will also be part of the Amazon Web page address as seen at the top of the browser window, where the ASIN will directly follow a slash (/). To ensure accuracy, use cut and paste commands to place it in the widget code.
The second variable is an Amazon Associates ID. This provides commissions on purchases made by Amazon visitors who follow one of the links in the widget. Place your ID here if you are signed up for Amazon’s affiliate program in the U.S. (If you fill in an Associates ID from a different country, you will not receive commissions.) If you do not have an ID to insert here, just leave the placeholder as is or delete it, and the widget will use an ID that helps support Sales Rank Express.