Update: for the latest revision of this list go to Popular deal sites – April 2011.
I have always wanted to do it and I think now is the time. I will list bargain hunting sites I know and will sort them by popularity. Alexa rank and Page rank (by Google) will do for the measure of popularity. One can argue how accurate these ranks are… well, if you have other ideas let me know. Meanwhile here it goes…
| # | Web Site | Alexa Rank | Page Rank | Online Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fatwallet.com | 332 | 7 | 29-Nov-1999 |
| 2 | slickdeals.net | 416 | 6 | 10-Nov-1999 |
| 3 | anandtech.com | 1,506 | 7 | 24-Aug-1997 |
| 4 | techbargains.com | 2,041 | 6 | 03-May-1999 |
| 5 | bensbargains.net | 2,647 | 6 | 21-Mar-2000 |
| 6 | dealnews.com | 2,871 | 6 | 20-Jan-1999 |
| 7 | dealsea.com | 4,849 | 4 | 27-Jun-2001 |
| 8 | dealcatcher.com | 5,955 | 6 | 28-Jul-1999 |
| 9 | edealinfo.com | 6,162 | 5 | 12-Dec-2000 |
| 10 | judysbook.com | 7,828 | 6 | 11-Aug-2003 |
| 11 | flamingoworld.com | 8,803 | 5 | 19-May-1999 |
| 12 | xpbargains.com | 10,899 | 5 | 29-Nov-2001 |
| 13 | dealspl.us | 11,924 | 3 | 15-May-2006 |
| 14 | spoofee.com | 12,291 | 4 | 31-Dec-2000 |
| 15 | dealtaker.com | 14,358 | 4 | 08-Feb-2004 |
| 16 | gotapex.com | 14,918 | 6 | 29-Apr-1999 |
| 17 | dealofday.com | 17,158 | 7 | 30-Aug-1999 |
| 18 | dealsofamerica.com | 19,426 | 3 | 06-Sep-2003 |
| 19 | fishingfordeals.com | 20,616 | 4 | 23-May-2000 |
| 20 | cheapstingybargains.com | 24,726 | 3 | 20-Jan-2005 |
| 21 | hotdealsclub.com | 27,267 | 3 | 27-Dec-2000 |
| 22 | bradsdeals.com | 29,169 | 4 | 29-Jun-2005 |
| 23 | dealslist.com | 29,577 | 3 | 18-Jul-2000 |
| 24 | ableshoppers.com | 33,658 | 5 | 08-Oct-2000 |
| 25 | gottadeal.com | 35,107 | 5 | 27-Jan-2003 |
| 26 | passwird.com | 44,882 | 5 | 28-Aug-2001 |
| 27 | dealplumber.com | 49,376 | 4 | 17-Jul-2006 |
| 28 | dailyedeals.com | 58,061 | 5 | 18-Feb-2000 |
| 29 | bargaineering.com | 61,141 | 4 | 01-Dec-2004 |
| 30 | mightygoods.com | 65,585 | 7 | 21-Aug-2004 |
| 31 | dealhack.com | 69,189 | 3 | 06-Feb-2005 |
| 32 | morestuff4less.com | 74,020 | 5 | 05-Nov-2002 |
| 33 | dealspy.org | 75,296 | 3 | 03-Mar-2006 |
| 34 | dealdetectives.com | 75,558 | 4 | 03-Oct-2004 |
All sites in the list have Alexa rank less than 100,000 and Page rank more than 0. Will do an update in a month. It will be interesting to see how the list changes.
I excluded pure price comparison sites (e.g. shoplocal.com, nextag.com, etc), coupon databases (e.g. currentcodes.com), and sites specialized on just freebies (e.g. freesamplesite.com, absurdlycool.com, etc).
dealmac.com is not listed. It is closely affiliated with dealnews.com (as well as deallink, dealcam, and dealcoupon) therefore including only the best ranked site from the group.
A few last notes. damideals.com was just 7K short of getting into the list. Will check them out next month. Will have to check scottishwallet.com as well since it seems to be growing fast. dealunion.com has good Alexa rank but missed the Page rank test.
Inspired by Pete Freitag’s Deal Shopping Sites Roundup which received tons of comments.
Update 09/21: adding xpbargains, bradsdeals, cheapstingybargains, dealhack, bargaineering and gottadeal
I am working on this new site dealigg.com, digg style list of deals… i hope it can get into the list by the next time google updates PR :-)
Don’t forget http://www.daddyodeals.com.
you say damideals is 7K short but it says it’s rank is 113,811, far off from the list
scottishwallet is even farther off: 159,384
dealigg, you’ve got a long way to go: 741,918
daddy-o, you certainly spam everywhere, but you still can’t break the list: 110,104
you could add cheapstingybargains, gottadeal or some other mediocre sites if you’re trying to be comprehensive. but you may want to stop at the top 15 or 20 since the rest are pretty lame compared to the top ones.
To: validator
damideals was 7K short at the time I compiled the list. The rank must have grown ever since
scottishwallet: if you check their 1 week Alexa average it is actually less than 100,000. This is why I even mentioned them.
Why does the list have no hard limit? Partially because I want to see how popular the niche is. If we see newcomers that break the threshold it clearly says the market is getting hotter. And the opposite way: if sites start dropping out – it cools off.
I will add your two web sites. Thanks for the tip.
Hi Yan:
In this list, dealplumber has been listed to be online since 2004, but that was when we had registered the domain name. We launched on July 17th, so just about 2.5 months old. I just wanted to confirm.
Best,
-Vaibhav
I was also wondering about the discrepancy. Thanks for the explanation. Has it actually taken you 2 years to cook the idea? :-)
I don’t know if you’re limiting to American sites, but http://www.redflagdeals.com is the biggest Canadian site and bigger than all but a few of the sites on your list.
I found that scottishwallet.com site you mentioned purely by accident. I guess I done a bad search on google when trying to find a specific type of wallet. Too funny. At the time, I decided to bookmark it for no apparent reason other than I was bored. I hadn’t really looked at it in a while until a week or so ago. That too was a bad yahoo search. Anyway, I noticed they now offer some sort of cash back program similar to fatwallet. Not sure that is new or I was just too oblivious to notice the first time. Although I am not too sure what this alexa thing is. Maybe someone can clue me in?
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