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The shopping and comparison sites--use em? Like 'em?

trevor

2006-04-28, 7:06 pm

hey group. anyone using pricegrabber, bizrate, amazon, nextag, dealtime,
etc? any best/worst in category or horror stories?

just sent a few thousand records up to Froogle. we'll see what happens when
our rough and tough western data hits their mild mannered eastern servers.

"well where IS it ok to spit then?"

Swampy Bogtrotter

2006-04-28, 10:50 pm

trevor wrote:
> hey group. anyone using pricegrabber, bizrate, amazon, nextag,
> dealtime, etc? any best/worst in category or horror stories?
>
> just sent a few thousand records up to Froogle. we'll see what
> happens when our rough and tough western data hits their mild
> mannered eastern servers.
>
> "well where IS it ok to spit then?"

Only ever used Kelkoo and Froogle.....
They drive pretty high volumes of qualified traffic to your site, although I
found they delivered pretty poor conversion rates.....Certainly not high
enough to make their clickthrough rates sustainable.....

Mark Goodge

2006-04-29, 6:56 am

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:40:20 GMT, Swampy Bogtrotter put finger to
keyboard and typed:

>trevor wrote:
>
>Only ever used Kelkoo and Froogle.....
>They drive pretty high volumes of qualified traffic to your site, although I
>found they delivered pretty poor conversion rates.....Certainly not high
>enough to make their clickthrough rates sustainable.....

We've found Froogle very benficial. Not bothered with Kelkoo as you
have to pay to be on them. But price comparison sites only work if you
have competitive headline prices, to attract the clickthroughs, and
have a well-written online store that they can use when they get
there. If people follow a link from Froogle and then feel that they've
been lured under false pretences, they won't be back.

Mark
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trevor

2006-04-29, 6:56 am

Swampy wrote stuff. thanks Swampy.

Mark Goodge wrote:

> We've found Froogle very benficial.

only free submission site i've found yet. it kind of makes up for them
having devastated the map thing we had going.

> Not bothered with Kelkoo as you
> have to pay to be on them.

and man, some of the rates charged...it's just another affiliate deal,
powerful though they be. administrative cost is the hidden killer in those.

> But price comparison sites only work if you
> have competitive headline prices, to attract the clickthroughs,

ok, no problem.

> and have a well-written online store that they can use when they get
> there.

this site is as good as....our website is....we tried to make....we're
always in the process of improving our....oh heck. it's a tweaked
OSCommerce site.
*composure breaks*
oh god
*sob*
it's a living hell for my users
*sob*
my poor users
*uncontrollable sobbing*

> If people follow a link from Froogle and then feel that they've
> been lured under false pretences, they won't be back.
>

*peeks through fingers*

if good bla and a solid bla bla bla do the trick, bob's our uncle.

> Mark

right on bro