Found this via Twitter
The Best Buy Remix blog just announced a beta of a “Best Buy Best Selling Widget” for affiliates of Best Buy.
I have included both a working version of the widget and a screen capture. The blog post indicates that the current test of the widget would go dark at a later date. I had to scrape the code from the page source in order to display it.
In order to get the actual widget, I would have to be a Best Buy Affiliate and I noticed that they don’t seem to provide the HTML embed code. Just links to various platforms such as Blogger, WordPress, Orkut etc. are provided to incorporate this widget.
The Remix blog post also indicates that a person can check local stores (via zip code) for product availability and also initiate a purchase through the widget. (almost makes me wish I was a Best Buy affiliate.)
The widget will show by category the top 5 best-selling products in the category selected. You can also enter your zipcode to see local store availability and then click a buy link to be taken to BestBuy.com to purchase the item. Additional photos of the item are also shown.
It appears as though Nintendo currently occupies 4 of the 5 “Best Sellers” spots in the “All” category in this widget. Is this a true indication of what is really Best Buy’s top selling items? Amazingly there is no category for computers. I wonder if affiliates aren’t allowed to sell computers?
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Hi I’m Joe the Community Manager for Remix.
I just wanted to make a note that the widget is distributed using the ‘copy me’ function on the widget. Not HTML Embed code. That’s why there might have been some confusion.
Good to know it’s not as self explanatory as I thought though.
Nice writeup.
I should also add that I can add categories to the widget, I just haven’t done so yet. I put out what I had for the time being.
Affiliates can sell any product available through Remix (which is pretty much everything).
@Joe Thanks for clarifying this. I do like the fact that you guys are putting out an interactive widget that adds benefit for your affiliates. Feel free to include us on future updates to this and other widgets.
Will do, based on your feedback I might see how hard it would be to include the embed code for launch. I can imagine quite a few people would want that over the ‘copy me’ function.