ReviewAZON has affiliate program support for all the major Amazon affiliate programs. These include, United States, Canada, Germany, France, Japan and the United Kingdom.

Once you get your web services key and create your Amazon associate account id you want to use for tracking, you plug the values into the settings screen and choose the country of your affiliate program.

Amazon tracking links are automatically created for you to use in your templates that are targeted to your specific affiliate program.

That is all you need to start get commissions from those customers who visit Amazon by clicking links on your site.

One of the out of the box features ReviewAZON offers is the ability to display product review information in a tabbed interface.

More and more product review websites are going to a tabbed approach to save space. This offers your customers a very uniform and easy to navigate way to get to the product review information.

You will have the ability to create multiple tabs and assign product review information to each tab you create.

As an added bonus, you will also be able to add eBay auctions as a tab in the interface by integrating phpBayLite.

This is just another way that ReviewAZON gives you the flexibility to display data in a creative and user friendly format.

If you are an eBay affiliate and you want to add eBay auctions to your product review pages you will love this next feature.

I am offering as a bonus feature to ReviewAZON customers the ability to add eBay auctions as a sidebar widget to your review pages by integrating with phpBayLite.

phpBayLite is a free eBay auction listing plugin that you can use in your Wordpress blog. I sometimes like to add auctions as a sidebar widget rather than inline in the blog post.

By simply turning on the eBay auction integration in the ReviewAZON advanced settings page and adding the sidebar widget you can activate this functionality.

A custom field is added to each review product post that feeds the widget the search information to pull back the right eBay auctions to display for each product. The default search text is the Amazon product title, but since this is saved as a custom property on the blog post, you can tweak the search text to get just the right auction results to show up for each product review post you create.

This will be offered as a free download for each ReviewAZON customer.

If you are not familiar with phpBayLite, you can read about it here.

For those of you who like to show the product brands and price ranges I’ve included custom sidebar widgets that give you this capability.

There is also another sidebar widget included that will allow you to assign featured products to display as well.

All you have to do is create your categories and then assign the category id to the corresponding  widget.

This is a great way to give your customers alternate ways to search for the products they are looking for in an easy to use manner.

Each sidebar widget allows you to edit the widget title and assign a parent category id. When setting up the Brand and Price Range widget you will want to create a top level category and assign the various subcategories as needed.

One of the things that our beta testers really wanted more control over was the HTML output of the review post data such as customer reviews, descriptions, product details and review excerpts.

Based on that feedback, you have total control over how each section will look via custom the custom templates section of the plugin.

How does it work? Well, we give you template “tokens” that allow you to create the HTML you want and insert Amazon data into the area defined by the token.

So as an example, if you wanted to insert a product image into your template, you have three options to do so using the %%SMALLIMAGEURL%%, %%MEDIUMIMAGEURL%%, and %%LARGEIMAGEURL%% tokens.

You have a wide selection of tokens to use such as the product title, customer reviews, product description and a whole lot more.

Don’t worry if you are not very good with HTML coding as out of the box templates are there for you to use as well.

Our first product feature is an Ajax enabled product search. When you are going to create a product review post, it only makes sense to have product search capabilites right there on the Add New post page.

You get an Amazon product category dropdown list (based on which Amazon Associate program you belong) to help narrow down your search results.

Once you find the product you want to promote, all you have to do is select “Add Review” and the post title is pre-populated with the product name and the post content is added to allow you to pull in the product review information for that post.

Your search results are also saved so that when you go to create a new product review post you don’t have to do another search to get back the previous search results. This is handy if you are adding several products off the same search result page.

Well, I finally got the blog setup for the Amazon product review plugin I’ve been working on called ReviewAZON.

So far things have been going really well with the beta testing. I’ve gotten some really good feedback from those folks that have been using it during the testing phase. I have also taken some of the feedback and added some new features that should make setting up a review blog VERY easy.

That was the goal from the beginning, to make things easy and less complicated. There are so many good products out there in the IM niche that are just way to complicated to setup and configure.

Over the next few weeks, I will be posting more information on the product such as screenshots, some videos and product features. I am also going to add an Opt-In section so that you can sign up and get email alerts on progress and availability.

I appreciate all of the great emails and comments that I’ve gotten over the past month from those on the Warrior Forum. Once you see the product for yourself, I am convienced that you will enjoy it as much as I do.

Oh, and yes, I DO use this product on my own sites. So not only am I the creator, I am also a user!

Best Regards,

Brad