Easy Content Units is a simple affiliate service allowing you to create content units from affiliate links in a matter of minutes, currently Easy Content Units has over 5.5m product available for you to add to your content unit.

I've been using these on a couple of sites, and the results are pretty good.

You can see examples here:

www.aboutdorset.co.uk
www.presentideas.me.uk/category/engagement-present-ideas

The only 'catch' with their service is that your affiliate links are only displayed 80% of the time, so 20% of the time their links are displayed, i understand a premium version of the tool is planned that will remove their % take.

I use easy content units to supplement content on my voucher code shopping site. They work very well. I think a paid for service gives an seo friendly version.

I think it's worth having the paid version but it's a shame a lot of the merchants feeds are poor (my experience), but that's always an issue and not a reflection on ECU's.

I've been adding them to my main site recently and to a site I've decided to start to add a few bits to and is really easy to implement once I'd coded my bespoke WordPress post template. This page is a WordPress post where the discount codes are added by the template and the ECU is added by adding the ECU number to a post custom field.

Hi Ash,

Sorry don't know what I did there - the link is now fixed. As you'll see nearly everything is autogenned that's going on apart from a paragraph or two.

With the ECU's you have to go through the steps to create a unit i.e. name, select merchant, styling (I've save my templates in there for which ever site I'm putting them on) - but you don't need to search for products, example page above is a random unit which once created I just put the ECU id number (found in the output code) into the custom field for that post.

If you hover over the links you'll see they're different as I wanted to do away with the bog standard link they give. This is achieved with a bit of different code for displaying them and another file for the php redirect.

And before it's asked - I have made sales via ECU units (haven't checked how many but have noticed some clickrefs). I think they're helpful for jazzing things up a bit and giving a bit more content to some (otherwise) sparse pages.