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The Amazon affiliate team has announced many new features to make their widgets more effective for affiliates.

Amazon Widgets launched last September, and since then affiliates have created over 200,000 unique widgets which have been displayed over 800 million times.

In response to feedback, Amazon has picked the most requested features and implemented them in this new release. Some of these new features include:

• Shuffle Products: While building ‘My Favorites’ and ‘Slideshow’ widgets, you can now select the Shuffle Products option to show your products in random order each time the widget is displayed. You can also go to My Widgets and enable this option in previously saved widgets
• Default Search Term: With the new ‘Use default search term’ option in the Search widget you can specify a search term that will be used to populate the Search widget when it is first displayed. Remember, you can always add a default search term to previously saved widgets by going to My Widgets and editing your saved Search widgets
• Delete Widgets: Is your My Widgets page cluttered with widgets that you no longer use? Use the delete icon besides each widget on the My Widgets page to permanently delete unused widgets
• Tracking Ids: Monitoring your widgets with custom Tracking Ids has never been easier. You can now easily change the tracking id associated with each widget by locating the widget on My Widgets and clicking the change link in the Tracking Id column.

To start using these new features and build more widgets, go to http://widgets.amazon.com or login to Associates Central and click Build Links/Widgets under the Tools menu.

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