It’s the little things… There is now a widget for pulling in your current Amazon.com Sales Rank from NovelRank. This allows the viewers of your book blog (that you of course have to promote your book) to quickly track your sales rank and see how your book is performing! On each of the detail pages for books you’ll find the snippet, but here is a basic example of one:
<script src="http://www.novelrank.com/embed.php?asin=143571590X" type="text/javascript" ></script> <noscript> <a href='http://www.novelrank.com/asin/0470325070'>Amazon Sales Rank</a> by NovelRank</noscript>
You’ll notice inside the src tag in the beginning it ends with the ASIN number for the book (which is also used for the details page):
http://www.novelrank.com/asin/143571590X
Just change that code for your books ASIN and it will now pull down the results for that book! There is also a currently secret flag you can add to disable all the default styling (for those who want to apply their own CSS to the embedded code). After the ASIN code and before the double quotation mark, add the following:
&styles=false
Thus the new link under the src tag would be:
http://www.novelrank.com/embed.php?asin=143571590X&styles=falseHere is the HTML that was dynamically created by the widget and is written to your page when you use the above code:
<div id="novelrank"> <p class="nr_title">Amazon Sales Rank:</p> <p class="nr_salesrank">833,704</p> <p style="display: block !important; visibility: visible !important;" class="nr_tag"><a href="http://www.novelrank.com/">Sales Rank</a> by NovelRank.com</p> </div>
Update: September 22, 2009
You can now specify the domain you wish to use! Just like the &styles=false example above, you can append the following:
&domain=uk
OR
&domain=ca
The default (if nothing is specified) is Amazon.com, but using the above values you can now have a widget for each domain NovelRank tracks!
Update: October 31, 2009
Three more domains now available:
&domain=fr
&domain=de
&domain=jp
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