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Two fast, free and easy tools to add ebay affiliate ads to your site.

ZinText

ZinText links keywords on your site to eBay auctions. All it takes is a short line of Javascript to be inserted where you want to display the links. When your visitors hover over the linked keywords a small window containing a couple of items pertaining to that word is displayed. The display has a clean aesthetic and for something that pops ads on the screen feels fairly unobtrusive. I installed it in this post and you can see it in action in the blue, underlined keywords.

AdAptive

is a variation that displays banner ads (4 choices of size), that you can suggest some keywords to or opt in for content match. I only tried it on automatic once and did not get contextual results, need to experiment further. Check out an example of one of these banners at the top of my phpBay bocce balls for sale example page.

Both of these are lightweight and easy to use and are about as fast as it gets for putting affiliate auctions on your site.

• You need to be a member of eBay's Partner Network.
• Grab a Campaign ID
• Insert ID into the ZinText or AdAptive Get Started Page
• Generate Code
• Insert code into your site and you're good to go!

According to their site they take 10% of clicks to support the product. No registration is required and all payments and tracking are done with your eBay account. Also, according to Chris Hedgecock, the developer, ZinText has been approved as an eBay compatible application. What exactly that means I don't know but it sounds good. I recommend you read the FAQ and Privacy Policy as well.

Since they are contextual, both of these scripts may conflict with the Terms of Service of other contextual advertising such as adsense so make sure you check before running too much advertising on the same pages.

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