Published October 5th, 2010
in Popular Sites Series.
This is September 2010 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 July results and includes all deal sites from my database that meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement. A total of 33 sites have made it this month which is the same number as last month.
The average deal site lost (4.12%) in Alexa rank this month. The top gainer this month is shopping-bargains.com (7.1%) and the top loser is again cheapstingybargains.com (-30.66%). Please enjoy the complete list below.
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Published September 14th, 2010
in Business: Strategy.
This can hardly be considered news since Techcrunch and a few other media outlets reported on it two months ago, yet I feel I am obliged to add my own opinion since this story affected me personally and in a big way. My long time readers sure know that rounding up deal sites every month is not the only thing I do in life as one would think by looking at the recent articles on this blog. So here is the gist of it.
In late 2007 I launched my latest project with Mike Glozman of CheapStingyBargains and things went fine for some time. 2010 however marked an important event, one I couldn’t tell you about earlier but now I can. My partner chose to quit Buxr leaving me as the sole owner and the main reason for doing so is in that Techcrunch’s report. WhaleShark bought Mike’s business and part of the agreement was that he would not run any other deal site. This obviously meant I had to pick up the tab and continue alone.
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Published September 6th, 2010
in Popular Sites Series.
This is August 2010 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 July results and includes all deal sites from my database that meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement. A total of 33 sites have made it this month which is one more than last month. I missed shopping-bargains.com last month by accident
The average deal site lost just 1.03% in Alexa rank this month. The top gainer this month is bradsdeals.com (10.62%) and the top loser is cheapstingybargains.com (-20.94%) which beat deals.com (the former top loser) by a short margin. Please enjoy the complete list below.
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Published October 6th, 2007
in Popular Sites Series.
This is September 2007 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. The list has a total of 29 web sites. There are 47 more in my database that didn’t meet the Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.
Two websites come off the list this month, dailyedals.com and mrcheapstuff.com, as their rating falls below threshold. For the third month in a raw the best rating change comes from cheapstingybargains.com (25.96%) who advances 4 more positions up. The worst result comes from fishingfordeals.com (-25.65%)
If you look at the chart above, you will notice that the cheapstingybargains.com number is really a fallout from the surge in August (the Alexa number is 3 months rolling average). The site rank hasn’t changed significantly recently.
The overall trend across all deal sites is slowly improving. Alexa rank changed (-0.48%) on average this month compared to (-3.59%) in August.
Published September 4th, 2007
in Popular Sites Series.
This is August 2007 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 June results. The list has a total of 31 web sites. There are 45 more in my database that didn’t meet the Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.
This monthly blog post keeps shrinking as more sites fall off the list. hot-deals.org and shopping-bargains.com have disappeared this time. Among the sites that managed to stay in the list, cheapstingybargains.com (40.64%) sports the best rank change while dailyedeals.com (-25.27%) has the worst
I happen to have spoken on the phone with Mike of chepstingybargains.com last month and we discussed his ranking. He admitted that he started a few new ad campaigns however the traffic increase he saw then wasn't proportional to his rank increase reported for July. I wonder if he saw increasing growth later in the month that would explain the August numbers.
The overall trend across all deal sites is still negative however I notice gradual improvements. Alexa rank changed (-3.59%) on average this month compared to (-7.88%) in July.
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