Comments on: Deals.com goes social http://probargainhunter.com/2006/12/04/dealscom-goes-social/ News, Tips and Resources for Online Bargain Hunters Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:44:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Yan http://probargainhunter.com/2006/12/04/dealscom-goes-social/comment-page-1/#comment-1089 Yan Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:47:10 +0000 http://probargainhunter.com/2006/12/04/dealscom-goes-social/#comment-1089 They don't mention anything in ToS about use of aff links. It is either a neglect or a planned strategy for an expedited launch of the site. Re: image extraction. Take a look at Roosster, they are doing a great job extracting those from different sources. According to Leapfish the Deal.com domain is worth $266,418. It might not be too far from the actual market price. I personally just love it! They don’t mention anything in ToS about use of aff links. It is either a neglect or a planned strategy for an expedited launch of the site.

Re: image extraction. Take a look at Roosster, they are doing a great job extracting those from different sources.

According to Leapfish the Deal.com domain is worth $266,418. It might not be too far from the actual market price. I personally just love it!

]]> By: Scott http://probargainhunter.com/2006/12/04/dealscom-goes-social/comment-page-1/#comment-1086 Scott Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:20:50 +0000 http://probargainhunter.com/2006/12/04/dealscom-goes-social/#comment-1086 D'oh. These social bookmarking style deals sites are really dime-a-dozen these days (and I've just done one last week). Maybe one day there will be more sites than the actual deals around :) As of Deals.com and profit-sharing, there seems to be Amazon items with affiliation on it. I guess aff links are okay with them. Also the thumb nail images are from shopping.com price comparison affiliation links, but no image on the actual "story" itself. I've been toying with this thumbnail generation thing with my own site, and having found the best way to create an image WITHOUT asking the users to include the image URL. Figuring out the product image from any random product page is certainly possible, but not always the case. However you must say, deals.com has one of the best domain name, and they'll surely get a lot of type-in traffic this way. D’oh. These social bookmarking style deals sites are really dime-a-dozen these days (and I’ve just done one last week). Maybe one day there will be more sites than the actual deals around :)

As of Deals.com and profit-sharing, there seems to be Amazon items with affiliation on it. I guess aff links are okay with them.

Also the thumb nail images are from shopping.com price comparison affiliation links, but no image on the actual “story” itself. I’ve been toying with this thumbnail generation thing with my own site, and having found the best way to create an image WITHOUT asking the users to include the image URL. Figuring out the product image from any random product page is certainly possible, but not always the case.

However you must say, deals.com has one of the best domain name, and they’ll surely get a lot of type-in traffic this way.

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