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Popular price comparison sites - October 2008

This is October 2008 revision of the Popular Price Comparison web sites list. You can find the last month revision of the list here.

The change in rating shows the difference compared to September results. The list has a total of 34 web sites which is the same number as last month. There are 18 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.

Just as I predicted last month, jellyfish.com dropped off the list, but I added one more website this month - dealio.com is now taking position #20, so the total number of sites in the list hasn't changed

The best performer this month is shopwiki.com (26.23%) who passed bottomdollar, the last month leader, by a small margin. Another notable event is that shopzilla.com has passed pricegrabber.com who has been on a steady decline for some time. The worst performer this month is again dealtime.com (-41.28%). Please enjoy the complete list below.

#Web SiteAlexa RankPage RankOnline Since
1shopping.yahoo.com 1 (*) 8 18-Jan-1995
2froogle.google.com 2 (*) 7 11-Sep-2001
3shopping.msn.com 6 (*) 7 10-Nov-1994
4shopping.aol.com 25 (*) (-19.05%)7 22-Jun-1995
5shopper.cnet.com (info) 157 (*) (-9.03%)7 05-Jul-1996
6shopping.com 518 (0.19%)6 03-Jul-1997
7nextag.com 532 (0.75%)6 15-Oct-1998
8bizrate.com 591 (2.96%)7 24-Apr-1996
9shoplocal.com 1007 (-10.66%)7 24-Sep-1998
10 (2)pronto.com 1228 (3.76%)8 01-Jan-2006
11shopzilla.com 1282 (-1.5%)6 04-Jul-2002
12 (2)pricegrabber.com (info) 1290 (-9.04%)8 10-Mar-1999
13 (2)smarter.com 1779 (4.66%)5 28-Apr-1998
14 (1)dealtime.com 1855 (-41.28%)6 07-Oct-1998
15 (1)epinions.com 1886 (-13.41%)7 12-Feb-1999
16thefind.com (info) 2686 (18.21%)6 19-Oct-2006
17become.com 3443 (4.12%)6 20-Jan-2004
18 (1)like.com 4174 (6.68%)6 22-Feb-1995
19 (1)pricerunner.com 4223 (-17.21%)6 19-May-1999
20dealio.com 4714 (n/a) 5 (n/a) 08-Sep-2004
21 (2)shopwiki.com 6090 (26.23%)5 15-Dec-2004
22 (1)retrevo.com 7394 (-1.25%)6 10-May-2006
23 (1)mysimon.com 8677 (-9.91%)7 15-Apr-1998
24 (4)calibex.com 9226 (-27.27%)4 02-Oct-2000
25 (1)ebates.com 10032 (11.71%)5 29-Dec-1998
26 (1)pricewatch.com 15254 (-4.96%)6 26-Sep-1995
27 (2)bottomdollar.com 19108 (24.22%)0 04-Jul-1997
28dealighted.com (info) 23991 (4.84%)6 09-Oct-2006
29 (3)sortprice.com 26317 (-7.07%)4 15-Jan-2004
30 (3)bestwebbuys.com 26391 (-5.05%)6 06-Jan-1998
31 (1)pricescan.com 44471 (-2.93%)6 03-Sep-1997
32 (1)hawkee.com 52197 (**) (-1.45%)5 02-Jan-1997
33 (1)mpire.com 53275 (4.94%)5 01-Jun-2006
34 (1)streetprices.com 84852 (5.59%)5 16-Oct-1997

(*) Note: traffic stats for these sites is an aggregate of all traffic to the top domain (e.g. Yahoo.com or Google.com) and thus cannot be used to judge how popular this particular price comparison service is.

(**) Note: the web site is a portal with price comparison engine being one of the offered web services. Alexa rank cannot be used to judge how popular this price comparison engine is.

Popular deal sites - October 2008

This is October 2008 revision of the Popular Deal Sites list. You can find the last month revision of the list here.

The change in rating shows the difference compared to August results and includes all deal sites from my database that meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement. I am sticking with the original limit as moving to 50,000 seems to cut some interesting sites.

The winner this month is again buxr.com with a gain of (22.36%). I am really happy that my idea was sound and our project finally gets some recognition! The worst performer is again the anandtech.com forum with Alexa rank dropping like a stone at the rate of (-40.11%). Something is clearly going on over there. If you have a clue - chime in in the comments

#Web SiteAlexa RankPage RankOnline Since
1slickdeals.net (info) 868 (-20.06%)6 10-Nov-1999
2fatwallet.com (info) 1530 (-11.43%)5 29-Nov-1999
3dealnews.com (info) 4709 (-3.09%)6 20-Jan-1999
4deals2buy.com (info) 5756 (-24.32%)5 15-Nov-2002
5bensbargains.net 5923 (-11.42%)5 21-Mar-2000
6 (1)techbargains.com (info) 6219 (-2.57%)5 03-May-1999
7 (1)dealsea.com 7856 (-10.35%)6 27-Jun-2001
8 (1)dealspl.us (info) 8240 (7.43%)4 15-May-2006
9 (3)anandtech.com 8387 (-40.11%)7 24-Aug-1997
10dealcatcher.com 9940 (-0.59%)5 28-Jul-1999
11cheapstingybargains.com 11297 (-5.55%)5 20-Jan-2005
12dealigg.com (info) 11390 (4.21%)3 04-Sep-2006
13dealtaker.com (info) 12521 (-3.19%)6 08-Feb-2004
14spoofee.com 16890 (-3.89%)5 31-Dec-2000
15 (2)resellerratings.com (info) 18132 (-3.08%)6 18-Jun-1998
16 (1)edealinfo.com 18294 (-11.73%)5 12-Dec-2000
17 (1)dealsofamerica.com 18823 (-6.33%)4 06-Sep-2003
18 (2)xpbargains.com 19182 (-10.65%)4 29-Nov-2001
19 (1)gottadeal.com 25304 (14.84%)4 27-Jan-2003
20 (1)dealofday.com 27994 (1.46%)5 30-Aug-1999
21bargainist.com (info) 30772 (3.03%)3 21-Nov-2006
22couponalbum.com 35731 (4.39%)4 18-Jan-2006
23judysbook.com 38258 (-1.84%)5 11-Aug-2003
24 (1)savings.com 40458 (7.77%)4 20-Apr-1995
25 (1)bradsdeals.com 42835 (-0.66%)4 29-Jun-2005
26dealslist.com 56841 (-5.72%)4 18-Jul-2000
27 (1)bargaineering.com 60203 (-0.13%)2 01-Dec-2004
28 (1)passwird.com 63126 (-5.01%)3 28-Aug-2001
29 (6)buxr.com 67840 (22.36%)3 04-Dec-2007
30dailyedeals.com 68009 (0.15%)4 18-Feb-2000
31 (2)gotapex.com 71903 (-11.48%)4 29-Apr-1999
32hotdealsclub.com 73618 (-3.96%)4 27-Dec-2000
33 (2)ableshoppers.com 73706 (-5.9%)4 08-Oct-2000
34 (1)dealhack.com 79608 (-3.58%)5 06-Feb-2005
35 (1)deals.com (info) 85517 (9%)3 28-Feb-1995
36 (2)shopping-bargains.com 92061 (16.99%)5 20-Feb-1999
37 (3)hot-deals.org 92375 (-8.35%)4 10-May-2000
38webbyplanet.com 95894 (n/a) 4 (n/a) 09-Feb-2006

Popular coupon sites - September 2008

This is September 2008 revision of the Popular Coupon sites list. You can find the last month revision of the list here.

The change in rating shows the difference compared to August results. This list currently has 28 sites - one more than last month. I added couponcodes4u.com after the owner Mark emailed me earlier this month.

An interesting thing happened during the last Page Rank update. Google seem to have punished retailmenot.com, its Page Rank fell to 0. Could be just a glitch. For example couponbug.com was upgraded from PR4 to PR7 last month but this month lost all of the gain and then more.

There are 24 more coupon sites hiding in my database that didn’t meet the Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement. Please, enjoy the list of those that made it below.

# Web Site Alexa Rank Page Rank Online Since
1 coolsavings.com 1637 (3.93%) 6 03-Jun-1996
2 retailmenot.com (info) 2344 (1.22%) 0 (-6) 27-Oct-2006
3 eversave.com 2403 (11%) 5 08-Apr-1999
4 coupons.com 2994 (4.01%) 6 07-Sep-1994
5 couponmountain.com 7938 (-8.77%) 5 (-1) 05-May-2001
6 couponcabin.com 9923 (8.82%) 5 27-Feb-2003
7 coupons.smartsource.com 13343 (6.16%) 5 (-1) 27-Apr-1995
8 mycoupons.com 21082 (0.6%) 5 16-Feb-1999
9 hotcouponworld.com 21481 (-0.01%) 4 15-Jun-2006
10 (1) ultimatecoupons.com 30985 (0.34%) 4 02-Jul-2001
11 (1) couponmom.com 31087 (-0.19%) 6 (1) 25-Jun-2002
12 deallocker.com 38588 (-4.74%) 4 (-1) 24-Mar-2007
13 wow-coupons.com 41003 (-6.84%) 4 (-1) 26-Nov-2003
14 (1) flamingoworld.com 41056 (-0.88%) 4 (-1) 19-May-1999
15 (1) savings.com 42779 (7.2%) 4 20-Apr-1995
16 (2) fabuloussavings.com 44190 (-9.78%) 5 (1) 27-Jan-1999
17 (1) thegrocerygame.com 49928 (-3.91%) 6 28-Aug-2001
18 (1) valpak.com 50118 (5.67%) 5 (-1) 22-Jun-1994
19 (2) couponwinner.com 51047 (-7.04%) 4 (1) 30-Jan-2006
20 currentcodes.com 68337 (-3.51%) 5 27-Dec-2000
21 gogoshopper.com 73996 (5.21%) 4 16-Dec-1999
22 couponshare.com 74401 (5.33%) 4 21-Jan-2002
23 (2) couponbug.com 82135 (4.73%) 3 (-4) 24-Apr-2002
24 (1) couponheaven.com 82348 (-0.82%) 3 (-1) 28-Sep-2003
25 (1) couponsurfer.com 82791 (4.89%) 4 11-Feb-1998
26 couponcodes4u.com 84782 (n/a) 5 (n/a) 01-Aug-2007
27 (3) couponchief.com 88621 (-4.23%) 5 (1) 15-Jan-2005
28 (1) couponseven.com 90728 (-4%) 4 23-May-2006

Popular price comparison sites - September 2008

This is September 2008 revision of the Popular Price Comparison web sites list. You can find the last month revision of the list here.

The change in rating shows the difference compared to August results. The list has a total of 34 web sites which is the same number as last month. There are 17 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.

One website is probably going to be out of the list very soon, jellyfish.com (-50.87%) which is the worst performer this month and currently stand at the last position. After Microsoft integrated cash back part of the site into Live Search, JellyFish is technically no longer a price comparison site. Smack shopping is all that is left of it.

The best gainer this month is bottomdollar.com (54.74%) which had a terrific month according to Alexa. If anyone has an explanation to this phenomena - speak out! ;-)

#Web SiteAlexa RankPage RankOnline Since
1shopping.yahoo.com 1 (*) 8 18-Jan-1995
2froogle.google.com 2 (*) 7 (-1)11-Sep-2001
3shopping.msn.com 6 (*) 7 10-Nov-1994
4shopping.aol.com 21 (*) (-5%)7 22-Jun-1995
5shopper.cnet.com (info) 144 (*) (-9.92%)7 05-Jul-1996
6shopping.com 519 (-10.66%)6 (-1)03-Jul-1997
7nextag.com 536 (-1.13%)6 (-1)15-Oct-1998
8bizrate.com 609 (3.79%)7 24-Apr-1996
9 (1)shoplocal.com 910 (-7.82%)7 24-Sep-1998
10 (1)pricegrabber.com (info) 1183 (-11.39%)8 10-Mar-1999
11 (1)shopzilla.com 1263 (-0.4%)6 (-1)04-Jul-2002
12 (1)pronto.com 1276 (13.49%)8 (1)01-Jan-2006
13 (4)dealtime.com 1313 (-87.04%)6 07-Oct-1998
14epinions.com 1663 (-9.62%)7 12-Feb-1999
15smarter.com 1866 (8.35%)5 (-1)28-Apr-1998
16 (2)thefind.com (info) 3284 (21.1%)6 19-Oct-2006
17 (1)become.com 3591 (-8.56%)6 20-Jan-2004
18 (1)pricerunner.com 3603 (-3.45%)6 19-May-1999
19like.com 4473 (9.32%)6 22-Feb-1995
20calibex.com 7249 (-22.86%)4 02-Oct-2000
21 (1)retrevo.com 7303 (6.32%)6 10-May-2006
22 (1)mysimon.com 7895 (-8.78%)7 (-1)15-Apr-1998
23shopwiki.com 8255 (30.67%)5 15-Dec-2004
24ebates.com 11363 (6.21%)5 (-1)29-Dec-1998
25pricewatch.com 14533 (-8%)6 26-Sep-1995
26 (1)sortprice.com 24579 (-2.43%)4 (-1)15-Jan-2004
27 (1)bestwebbuys.com 25122 (4.81%)6 06-Jan-1998
28 (2)dealighted.com (info) 25212 (-9.7%)6 09-Oct-2006
29 (2)bottomdollar.com 25216 (54.74%)0 04-Jul-1997
30 (1)pricescan.com 43207 (-8.79%)6 03-Sep-1997
31 (1)hawkee.com 51449 (**) (11.78%)5 02-Jan-1997
32 (2)mpire.com 56041 (-1.02%)5 (-1)01-Jun-2006
33 (1)streetprices.com 89874 (6.16%)5 16-Oct-1997
34 (1)jellyfish.com 98705 (-50.87%)5 26-Jun-2006

(*) Note: traffic stats for these sites is an aggregate of all traffic to the top domain (e.g. Yahoo.com or Google.com) and thus cannot be used to judge how popular this particular price comparison service is.

(**) Note: the web site is a portal with price comparison engine being one of the offered web services. Alexa rank cannot be used to judge how popular this price comparison engine is.

Popular deal sites - September 2008

This is September 2008 revision of the Popular Deal Sites list. You can find the last month revision of the list here.

The change in rating shows the difference compared to August results and includes all deal sites from my database that meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement. I am sticking with the original limit as moving to 50,000 seems to cut some interesting sites.

The top gainer this month is buxr.com with a gain of (16.84%). It was really a surprise to me. I knew our site would break 100,000 threshold but I didn't think it would come out at the top! The worst performer is the forum anandtech.com (-38.47%) which was also at the bottom last month.

This month Google had a Page Rank update and it affected many deal sites in a negative way. Interestingly though that anandtech.com was one of the few who gained PR even though they lost Alexa rank. By the way, read this old interview with the founder. The guy was just 15 when he started the site in 1997!

#Web SiteAlexa RankPage RankOnline Since
1slickdeals.net (info) 723 (-14.04%)6 10-Nov-1999
2fatwallet.com (info) 1373 (-8.28%)5 (-1)29-Nov-1999
3dealnews.com (info) 4568 (-10.13%)6 20-Jan-1999
4deals2buy.com (info) 4630 (-10.77%)5 (1)15-Nov-2002
5 (1)bensbargains.net 5316 (-12.82%)5 21-Mar-2000
6 (1)anandtech.com 5986 (-38.47%)7 (1)24-Aug-1997
7techbargains.com (info) 6063 (-8.79%)5 (-1)03-May-1999
8dealsea.com 7119 (-10.13%)6 27-Jun-2001
9dealspl.us (info) 8901 (1.02%)4 (-1)15-May-2006
10dealcatcher.com 9882 (-8.22%)5 (-1)28-Jul-1999
11cheapstingybargains.com 10703 (1.61%)5 20-Jan-2005
12 (1)dealigg.com (info) 11891 (1.8%)3 (-1)04-Sep-2006
13 (1)dealtaker.com (info) 12134 (-2.21%)6 08-Feb-2004
14spoofee.com 16257 (-8.03%)5 (1)31-Dec-2000
15edealinfo.com 16373 (-6.08%)5 12-Dec-2000
16xpbargains.com 17335 (-8.66%)4 (-1)29-Nov-2001
17resellerratings.com (info) 17591 (-9.11%)6 18-Jun-1998
18dealsofamerica.com 17702 (-0.48%)4 06-Sep-2003
19dealofday.com 28408 (-1.46%)5 (-1)30-Aug-1999
20gottadeal.com 29713 (0.19%)4 (-1)27-Jan-2003
21bargainist.com (info) 31732 (-0.27%)3 (-2)21-Nov-2006
22 (1)couponalbum.com 37371 (-3.31%)4 18-Jan-2006
23 (1)judysbook.com 37568 (-4.94%)5 (-1)11-Aug-2003
24bradsdeals.com 42556 (0.37%)4 (-1)29-Jun-2005
25savings.com 43865 (4.57%)4 20-Apr-1995
26dealslist.com 53768 (-6.68%)4 18-Jul-2000
27 (1)passwird.com 60115 (-8.65%)3 (-1)28-Aug-2001
28 (1)bargaineering.com 60127 (1.96%)2 01-Dec-2004
29 (2)gotapex.com 64501 (-17.19%)4 (-1)29-Apr-1999
30 (1)dailyedeals.com 68112 (-4.61%)4 18-Feb-2000
31 (1)ableshoppers.com 69599 (-11.57%)4 08-Oct-2000
32hotdealsclub.com 70816 (-8.23%)4 27-Dec-2000
33dealhack.com 76856 (-4.83%)5 (-1)06-Feb-2005
34hot-deals.org 85254 (-10.99%)4 10-May-2000
35buxr.com 87382 (16.84%)3 04-Dec-2007
36deals.com (info) 93977 (10.85%)3 28-Feb-1995



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