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Popular price comparison sites – September 2010

This is September 2010 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 32 web sites, the same number as the last month. There are 18 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement. The average price comparison site has fallen (2.63%) this month

The best performer this month is streetprices.com with a gain of (31.46%). The second best is thefind.com (8.24%). The worst performer this month is for the third month in a row hawkee.com with a loss of (-24.76%). Please enjoy the complete list below.

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Popular price comparison sites – July 2010

This is July 2010 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 May results (I missed a month to vacation). The list has 32 web sites, the same number as the last month. There are 18 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement. The average price comparison site has lost (2.54%) this month

The best performer this month is bottomdollar.com with a gain of (25.09%) (which to my surprise lost 1 point in Google Page Rank) followed by thefind.com (20.67%). The worst performer this month is hawkee.com with a loss of (-33.13%) followed by like.com (-20.36%). Please enjoy the complete list below.

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Popular price comparison sites – May 2010

This is May 2010 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 April results. The list has a total of 32 web sites which is the same number as the last month. There are 18 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement. The average price comparison site has lost (3.61%) this month

The best performer this month is thefind.com (11.26%) followed by mysimon.com with a gain of (7.7%). The worst performer this month is streetprices.com with a loss of (-44.24%) followed by bottomdollar.com (-12.54%) which also lost 1 point in Google Page Rank. Please enjoy the complete list below.

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Popular price comparison sites – April 2010

This is April 2010 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 March results. The list has a total of 32 web sites which is the same number as the last month. There are 18 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement. The average price comparison site has lost (6.47%) this month

The best performer this month is for the third time in a row like.com (8.73%) followed by thefind.com with a gain of (8.35%). The worst performer this month is bottomdollar.com with a loss of (-52.25%) followed by mysimon.com (-46.39%) who by the way was the worst performer last month. Please enjoy the complete list below.

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Popular price comparison sites – July 2008

This is July 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 June results. The list has a total of 35 web sites and there are 16 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.

The best gainer this month is thefind.com (26.13%) which has been doing very nicely this year, up to #18 from #27 in December, 2007.

The worst performer is jellyfish.com (-28.48%). This is understandingly. After Microsoft integrated cash back part of the site into Live Search, smack shopping is all that is left of JellyFish.

# Web Site Alexa Rank Page Rank Online Since
1 shopping.yahoo.com 1 (*) 8 18-Jan-1995
2 froogle.google.com 2 (*) 8 11-Sep-2001
3 shopping.msn.com 6 (*) 7 (-1) 10-Nov-1994
4 shopping.aol.com 21 (*) 7 (-1) 22-Jun-1995
5 shopper.cnet.com (info) 126 (*) (1.56%) 7 05-Jul-1996
6 shopping.com 429 (-8.88%) 7 03-Jul-1997
7 dealtime.com 531 (-16.19%) 6 (-1) 07-Oct-1998
8 nextag.com 536 (1.29%) 7 15-Oct-1998
9 bizrate.com 642 (0.31%) 7 24-Apr-1996
10 shoplocal.com 823 (3.86%) 7 (-1) 24-Sep-1998
11 pricegrabber.com (info) 971 (-7.89%) 8 10-Mar-1999
12 shopzilla.com 1271 (-2.17%) 5 (-2) 04-Jul-2002
13 epinions.com 1411 (-0.64%) 7 12-Feb-1999
14 pronto.com 1640 (8.94%) 7 01-Jan-2006
15 smarter.com 2060 (-0.64%) 6 28-Apr-1998
16 become.com 3173 (-9.64%) 6 20-Jan-2004
17 pricerunner.com 3657 (14.09%) 6 (-1) 19-May-1999
18 (3) thefind.com (info) 5240 (26.13%) 6 19-Oct-2006
19 like.com 5739 (8.43%) 6 (1) 22-Feb-1995
20 (2) calibex.com 5955 (-6.7%) 4 02-Oct-2000
21 (1) mysimon.com 6903 (-3.31%) 8 15-Apr-1998
22 retrevo.com 7673 (6.48%) 6 10-May-2006
23 (1) ebates.com 12061 (0.53%) 6 29-Dec-1998
24 (1) pricewatch.com 12456 (-3.48%) 6 26-Sep-1995
25 (1) shopwiki.com 16117 (21.91%) 5 15-Dec-2004
26 (1) dealighted.com (info) 20376 (-10.91%) 6 09-Oct-2006
27 sortprice.com 22613 (-3.69%) 5 (-1) 15-Jan-2004
28 bestwebbuys.com 27518 (-0.78%) 6 (-1) 06-Jan-1998
29 pricescan.com 38530 (-1.86%) 6 03-Sep-1997
30 jellyfish.com 52167 (-30%) 5 26-Jun-2006
31 mpire.com 53733 (-8.7%) 6 01-Jun-2006
32 hawkee.com 63372 (**) (6.77%) 5 02-Jan-1997
33 bottomdollar.com 66316 (6.48%) 0 (-4) 04-Jul-1997
34 streetprices.com 92439 (-3.51%) 5 16-Oct-1997
35 salescircular.com 98028 (0.67%) 6 (1) 09-Jun-1998

(*) 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.




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