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Using Widgets Without Keywords

  1. I've created a shopping widget for my site, and because it is a reference site - I don't want to choose any particular keywords or categories. I need the widget to base the results on the keyword that the user of the site has searched for. I've tried implementing the following code with no success - only the blue shopping.com ad will serve.

    var sw = new ShopWidget();
    sw.mode = "kw";
    sw.width = 160;
    sw.height = 600;
    sw.linkColor = "#0033cc";
    sw.borderColor = "#003399";
    sw.fontColor = "#000000";
    sw.font = "arial";
    sw.linkin = "8054806";
    sw.categoryId = "0";
    sw.keyword = "";
    sw.render();

  2. Ryan2009-04-28T18:22:09

    Hi Melissa,

    Unfortunately, the Shopping.com widget does not have contextual capabilities - i.e. it cannot figure out the search keyword or content of your pages by itself. You need to find a way to dynamically populate the keyword parameter of the widget with the keyword your user has entered (e.g. using javascript, or by modifying your server side code.)

    --ryan