Published March 4th, 2010
in Money Saving Tools.
RetailMeNot took the coupons market by the storm when they launched in 2006 and ever since have been dominating the online coupons landscape beating the closest competitor by a wide margin (according to Alexa). How did that happen?
The site relies on a number of dedicated toolbars users who feed the RetailMeNot database with enormous quantity of coupon codes that they stumble upon. This creates volume which in turn creates buzz and links. Links help RetailMeNot rank for coupon related terms on Google which in turn brings people to the website and drives the Alexa chart up, not to mention all the revenue that comes alone.
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Published September 10th, 2009
in Interesting / Other.
My old timers have sure noticed that my blogging frequency went down a lot in the past several months. My projects sure take a tall but it doesn’t mean I am less active online. ;-) The quick deal posts I used to put up on ProBargainHunter now all go to Twitter. I just find Twitter more convenient for quick shout outs which many shopping deals really are. If you are interested in these quick updates, please follow me on Twitter. You can also find my most recent updates on the Twitter widget I embedded on the home page of this blog.
