Comments on: Popular bargain hunting sites – February 2007

By: Yan

Yan — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:22:25 +0000

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By: Digital Kaos

Digital Kaos — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:57:53 +0000

Yes, which is why there are tons of other copycat sites who do the same thing.. Share the wealth, as they say…

-DK

By: Yan

Yan — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:28:20 +0000

What can I say, their “business model” works. ;-)

I have noticed the resemblance but unfortunately I don’t have the resources to single out these websites.

By: Digital Kaos

Digital Kaos — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:55:59 +0000

I’m actually surprised that you show “ableshoppers.com” in the list. AbleShoppers.com is nothing but a complete RIP of the Bens Bargains site. Look at their deals and text, it’s the SAME order as Bens Bargains.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:12:44 +0000

Hi Yan –

I work for Quantcast and thought I would pop in and comment.

Affiliates have the same problems that many publishers have… namely a lack of high quality comparative data. Our estimates are good, but because of the inherent limitations of panels they may still not be perfect.

For the first time, publishers can let the truth be known. Widely and for free. Sites that Quantify improve the accuracy of their profile via direct traffic measurement, better representing themselves with partners, clients and potential advertisers.

Given that the Internet is inherently measurable, why not do it?

The program: http://www.quantcast.com/quantified-publisher.jsp

Mark

By: mike

mike — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:04:27 +0000

Perhaps you could include quantity of inbound links, # pages of indexed..

Also, include other Alexa like services like compete and quantcast.

By: Yan

Yan — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:01:00 +0000

I haven’t heard anything about it. I attribute the overall slide in ranks to the after-holiday period. Ranks were on the rise in October-December.

By: AnthonyD

AnthonyD — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 04:48:11 +0000

Is it rumor or fact that Google will soon try to “label” affiliate sites (with prejudice?) so that the rankings will be adversely affected?

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:42:33 +0000

Cool post, wow, it must take a while to compile all that data. It is pretty interesting to see each of the site traffic patterns.

Seems like Google must have made some changes and affected many of the coupon site rankings.

By: Yan

Yan — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:05:05 +0000

If you think Compete or Quantcast give more precise numbers, think again. Here is an interesting real life example which proves that both of these tools can be wrong by as much as 8x to 12x.
http://venturebeat.com/2007/02.....cast-does/

In fact I like that Alexa is not giving the numbers in visitors or page views. This is not what they measure. Unless you install a measuring pixel (like the one from SiteMeter on my blog) you will not be able to get exact figures, just a relative estimate.