Comments on: Popular deal sites – April 2007

By: Yan

Yan — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 09:06:47 +0000

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By: top 10

top 10 — Thu, 10 May 2007 01:22:54 +0000

I run one of the top 10 sites you have listed, and while my alexa rank may be slipping, my stats are still about the same, so alexa is not completely accurate, but it’s not hugely far off either.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 05 May 2007 16:36:15 +0000

Yea, Alexa ranking is sometimes taking too seriously and is not the best indicator for determining traffic.

By: XynamaX

XynamaX — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:36:12 +0000

There’s no true statistic to use, the Nielsen ratings for TV are a “small” subset of all TV viewers. Just like Alexa is a small subset of all Internet users.

If you want true figures, jump into the Dun & Bradstreet records and pull in the revenue data from these companies to see how much they take in.

-X

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:32:08 +0000

I think Alexa is just a bad indicator. I know some of these sites are experiencing growth while Alexa says the opposite. Maybe you can use a different metric like the number of “free shipping” deals each site has. Or maybe the number of coupon codes or registered users. Or you could count the number of times each site was mentioned in a blog at Technorati for the past 30 days. Or maybe even average the figures from compete.com, Technorati and Alexa to come up with a unique figure.

By: Yan

Yan — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:56:05 +0000

punishment: I wish you were right. The comeback hasn’t materialized in several months. There must be something else going on.

Markdown Monkey: I like your point about RSS feeds acceptance. It sure has some merit since RSS users are not accounted for by Alexa. However the vast majority of FatWallet and SlickDeals users go to the forums directly yet these sites ranking is sliding as well.

By: Mike G.

Mike G. — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:49:34 +0000

It might be due to that fact that there are over 5 billion deal sites now :)

By: Markdown Monkey

Markdown Monkey — Thu, 03 May 2007 16:45:25 +0000

I wonder if some of the drop in Alexa rank can be attributed continuing mainstream acceptance of RSS feeds.

My Google page rank was not affected by the latest update, but my Google search results have been destroyed. I was just starting to get first-page results for some keywords, then the new update came out and I lost a lot of ground. (BTW- I do not use any black hat SEO techniques) That could also be attributed to the very competitive market for deals sites. Maybe the other guys just did a better job with their SEO than I did.

By: punishment

punishment — Thu, 03 May 2007 15:44:48 +0000

I don’t think google is punishing affiliate sites, but the holidays are over, and last month people needed to pay taxes, so rank is down. I think it may pick up this month.

Also, I think alexa is adding more sites to it’s index, so the % and rank for each site may be going down, but the traffic may actually be going up.