Published March 8th, 2010
in Popular Sites Series.
This is February 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 January results and includes all deal sites from my database that meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement. A total of 38 sites have made it this month which is 2 less than the last month
The average deal site lost 14.73% in Alexa rank this month. The top gainer this month is bargaineering.com (8.9%). The top loser is gottadeal.com (-206.97%) which had a sharp drop in rating that can be explained by the Christmas holiday shopping moving out of the 3 months moving average that Alexa is tracking (the same sharp drop was in February last year). I missed dealcatcher last month so the results are a bit skewed. For whatever they are worth, please enjoy them below.
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Published August 5th, 2009
in Popular Sites Series.
This is July 2009 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 and includes all deal sites from my database that meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement. The list has 40 sites, the same number as last month
The average deal site gained 2.38% in Alexa rank this month with anandtech.com (13.77%) gaining most of all. The top losers this month are gottadeal.com (-9.51%) and buxr.com (-8.27%). Yeah, one of these is my pet project and I can confirm that it hit the dirt lately :-) . April was the best month but ever since traffic has gradually gone down. Talk about Alexa being worthless!
Published March 5th, 2008
in Popular Sites Series.
This is February 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 January results. The list has a total of 29 web sites which is 3 less than the last month. There are 52 more in my database that didn’t meet the Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.
It is another down month for the deal sites. Alexa rank is red for all but three sites and those three are up in single digits. The 3 sites that are gone from the list this month are keepcash.com, dailydeals.com, and bargainshare.com
The biggest decliner is gottadeal.com (-25.44%) which still falls from the huge spike of Black Friday activity (Alexa rank is a 3 month rolling average). The runner up is judysbook.com (-19.8%). The last I heard about them is that they were for sale. DealTaker has been bought as well, I wonder how that reflects on its ranking a few months from now
Published December 5th, 2007
in Popular Sites Series.
This is November 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 October results. The list has a total of 30 web sites. There are 51 more in my database that didn’t meet the Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.
The good news is that the list is not shrinking any longer. Two sites appeared in the list this month, dailyedeals.com and (surprisingly for me) bargainshare.com who came with a whooping (54.08%) Alexa rank increase. If anyone has an explanation to this, step out. Looking at their Alexa chart however it sounds like it was a one time event.
Despite this phenomena, the best result this month comes from gottadeal.com (72.36%). I am sure this is thanks to their established Black Friday reputation. judysbook.com (-9.92%) had the worst result in November. I guess the news about site being sold starts to take effect
I should also note dealtaker.com who is winning the Favorite Deal Site contest I am running on this blog. Check out the top 5 deal sites in the widget I added to the upper right corner of the front page and vote for your favorite if you have not done so yet!
Published November 4th, 2007
in Popular Sites Series.
This is October 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 September results. The list has a total of 28 web sites. There are 53 more in my database that didn’t meet the Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.
This list is still shrinking, fishingfordeals is out this month, but the average Alexa rank growth is positive for the first time in very long time. I attribute this to the upcoming shopping season.
As usual, there are winners and losers. gottadeal.com (18.21%) had an excellent month followed by dealsea.com (17.46%). By the way, gottadeal already has a very active Black Friday discussion at their forums. Check it out.
The worst number comes from anandtech.com (-14.29%). I have recently discovered an interesting thing about Anandtech. They seem not to use affiliate links in their shopping forums. Can anyone comment?
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