The eBay Partner Network (EPN) is the affiliate arm of the marketplace giant and provides tools that help affiliates earn money by driving qualified, quality traffic to eBay listings. Widgetbox allows EPN affiliates to create highly engaging creative from parametrized eBay listings that will serve to increase engagement, drive higher click-through-rates, and help affiliates earn more money.

With one click access to the Blidget Editor from the eBay Partner Network’s RSS Feed Generator, you can have a custom Blidget up and running in no time. You’ll be able to choose from different layouts, backgrounds, patterns, colors, and headers. For advanced customization, Go Pro and take your widget to the next level!

What do you need to do? It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3!

1. Create your account: You’ll need to have accounts at both Widgetbox and eBay Partner Network
2. Set up your RSS feed: In eBay Partner Network, go to the “Tools” tab and click on the “Widgets” section. Within the RSS generator, fill in all the details and press the “generate an RSS link” to create an RSS link
3. Make Blidgets! Once the link is created, click on the link next to “Widget URL” to turn your RSS feed into a widget you can customize in Widgetbox. A browser window will open onto a Widgetbox page to complete your customization settings.

For each of these cities, Kijiji’s widgets dyanmically feature classifieds listings from the community. There is a tab for all listings, jobs, pets, real estate / housing and motors. Kijiji features 100,000s of listings and attracts millions of monthly visitors – so the widgets are a powerful way to keep track of what’s new in each region and across different verticals.

Across the world, there are over 1,000 Kijiji cities and nearly 200 in the United States alone.

Free Houston Classifieds

Free New York Classifieds

Free Chicago Classifieds

Or use the Kijiji Widget Gallery:

Grab a RSS Feed of Your eBay Listings

Start with an RSS feed of your eBay listings or eBay Store – let’s use the “Univeral Home Style” store as an example. eBay provides RSS buttons at the bottom of eBay searches and stores:

Use Your Listings Feed to Start a Blidget Pro

1. Enter your feed into the Blidget Pro creator
2. Choose either “Header & Footer Layout” or the “Full Background” Layout
3. Customize the widget’s layout and size (I’ve chosen 170 x 450 pixels)
4. Provide a “Label” as this will become the widget’s first tab (I’ve chosen “Deals”)

Add Additional Tabs for Listings by Category

This is particularly effective if your eBay Account or Store has several listings. With the Universal Home Style Store, there are hundreds of listings categorized very nicely… so I chose to add tabs for those categories with the most active listings. To do so, simply:

1. Click the “Tabs” link to open the creator and then click “Add New Tab”.
2. Select the RSS option and input the RSS feed for the corresponding category of listings
3. Provide a “Label” (such as “Faucets”)
4. Select the Layout type (The sample is shown in “Brick View”)

Now you have a widget that features all of your listings, is branded and totally customizable… making it the ultimate marketing tool for any active eBay seller:

Learn more about the Blidget Pro and read other Tutorials

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