Comments on: Daily Deal Site – Dealoco.com Review

By: Yan

Yan — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:15:08 +0000

The problem is not with the amount of traffic since Spottt shows your ad every time it is shown somewhere else (after Spottt takes their hefty 50% toll). The problem is that you can’t control what kind of sites your ads appear at. That is in addition to the fact that you have “Link Exchange” featured on each ad. As they say, there is no free cheese…

By: Steve Cospolich

Steve Cospolich — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:25:40 +0000

Yan,

We ran a small test and noticed that the majority of the ads were in fact going to tiny sites with little to no traffic. Spottt has been disabled from our site. Thanks for the feedback.

By: Yan

Yan — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:52:44 +0000

Steve, I seriously think LinkExchange makes more damage to Dealoco image than it does good. It is very inefficient since you have no control over what kind of site your ads pop at. I just clicked through to one via your ad: fjetsam.com
A blog about nothing with 38 subscribers. Tell me I am wrong…

By: Steve Cospolich

Steve Cospolich — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:27:37 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, Yan.

Spottt was one of the TechCrunch 40 in 2007. It is basically a revamped version of LinkExchange.com, which was a casualty of the dot com bust. Back in the day, the 8th site to join LinkExchange was a small, unknown startup called eBay.com. :)

Spottt is a great way for a bootstrapped startup to get its name out there.

By: Yan

Yan — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:22:25 +0000

I like the design and features but the logo doesn’t sit well with a serious site. This is a kind of an image I would put on a video sharing site for kids. ;-)

Also, who are Spott and what “link exchange guys” are doing on a front page of a shopping site? Doesn’t make a good impression, IMHO. Anything “link exchange” is associated with spam for me…

By: Steve Cospolich

Steve Cospolich — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:17:40 +0000

Paul, thanks for the review! We love getting such valuable feedback.

We are working hard to streamline the deal posting process. We should have a new deal posting feature in place in the near future. The site was definitely designed with the intent to list many more than 15-20 deals per day; hence the focus on category filters and the power search. Stay tuned… :)