Building a deals/coupons site

Ranking for <Merchant Coupon> is very easy :D

As someone said.. Don't use the feed DIRECTLY
Pay someone in India to customise the feed. 5 Feeds a Day shoould get you going decently.

You won't bank as hard as the rebills but then it is good. Even the Adcents add up on stale pages. PS: Google will still rank your stale pages... untill they clean up thier algo.. they still rank stale pages... if you are a little ingenious that is...
 


I agree that paid traffic to a coupon site is not the way to go. It will be hard to break even. The organic traffic is the name of the game in this case. Getting site's name out there and getting people to notice would be one way to start. Just creating an Amazon style huge site with coupon in every category imaginable is just going to overwhelm the user. Look at woot.com, their model is just one deal a day...so need a twist on the existing deals sites and once you have that, it's going to be little dare I say easier.
Spendlessly said:
If you want to get into the coupons/freebies niche prepare to bow at the altar of Quality Health.

... But for those of you saying it's impossible, too competitive, etc. That just means there is money there. If you have looked at ANY of the top freebie/coupon/sample sites outside of RetailMeNot - they are pretty much garbage.

The powerhouses of the industry have their own networks - and they still suck at monetization... and even those guys have to swing from Quality Health's dick.

The reason people say it's nearly impossible to break in is simply because it's hard to BUY your traffic and break even.
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blogspotter,
Good idea! Yeah cleaning up the feed, have someone prune the listings and do mix of manual and automated SEO will get me started. Submitting to video sites, social bookmarking sites(Digg etc) will be good SEO wise.
Another things I can think of is providing a price comparison on the a given deal, so let say Canon on amazon is 34% off but it's 40% off at newegg. I haven't found an off the shelf price comparison plugin/solution for wordpress except this one: comparipress.com

It doesn't allow for automated insertion of price comparison units but does allow for manual integration with individual products.

blogspotter said:
Ranking for <Merchant Coupon> is very easy :D

As someone said.. Don't use the feed DIRECTLY
Pay someone in India to customise the feed. 5 Feeds a Day shoould get you going decently.

You won't bank as hard as the rebills but then it is good. Even the Adcents add up on stale pages. PS: Google will still rank your stale pages... untill they clean up thier algo.. they still rank stale pages... if you are a little ingenious that is...
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blogspotter said:
Ranking for <Merchant Coupon> is very easy :D

As someone said.. Don't use the feed DIRECTLY
Pay someone in India to customise the feed. 5 Feeds a Day shoould get you going decently.

You won't bank as hard as the rebills but then it is good. Even the Adcents add up on stale pages. PS: Google will still rank your stale pages... untill they clean up thier algo.. they still rank stale pages... if you are a little ingenious that is...
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Buy old domains with keywords in it. Let someone you know do the typing, pay them for the hours work, skip Adsense (If you work it out allright an average clickout can go up to $0,45. Adsense won't get close), skip India & skip feeds. It's worth the investment if you get up high in the SERPs with the important keyword combo's, get unique texts in with perfect density & perfect SEO lay-out.. Lot's of them, even hire SEO companies to back you up. Textwriters are cheap: use them :)


After you reach top 10 places and notice important keywords though the SEO, use adwords for support. There are always good keywords available since new big shops appear out of nowhere (Thanks:bowdown: Groupon)

Btw: You can bank quite well, realise you're building up value. Ift's a long term think, rebill = short term.

Good luck ;)
 
Didn't quite get the old domains part. So If I want to create newcooldeals.com (don't know if exists, too lazy to type in google and find out) , I won't be able to find an old domain that is aged if the domain name I want is new/made up and is not taken? Are you saying that if I wanted to ran my main deals website for <coupon + merchant>, I should look for a domain name that has coupon + merchant and then buy it and redirect it to main site.

I guess there's a reason I'm a newbie :-(

I understand the importance of having KW in the domain name and value of an aged domain for rankings.

That Groupon twist is cool! Thanks

@Trader said:
Buy old domains with keywords in it. Let someone you know do the typing, pay them for the hours work, skip Adsense (If you work it out allright an average clickout can go up to $0,45. Adsense won't get close), skip India & skip feeds. It's worth the investment if you get up high in the SERPs with the important keyword combo's, get unique texts in with perfect density & perfect SEO lay-out.. Lot's of them, even hire SEO companies to back you up. Textwriters are cheap: use them :)


After you reach top 10 places and notice important keywords though the SEO, use adwords for support. There are always good keywords available since new big shops appear out of nowhere (Thanks:bowdown: Groupon)

Btw: You can bank quite well, realise you're building up value. Ift's a long term think, rebill = short term.

Good luck ;)
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Because old domains are easier to rank....
Find old domains with the keyword Coupon(s), Deal(s), GAP, JCPENNEY, DELL, Pizza and suchlike..e
Finding Merchant + Coupon will be difficult.. so I woould just concentrate on either
 
Still not sure if I get it, so I get bunch of these aged domains with keywords deals, coupons , JCPenny (this wil be an issue trademark violation?) in them and then once they rank for that term, what am I putting on the site? Is it just one offer for JCPenny? May be I'm being extremely dense and sorry for that.

Are you saying that if I wanted to create a deal site and I find an aged domain called JoeShmoesDeals.com it could rank well for "deals" as the domain is old. Now I could build my deal empire on this one site. If I wanted a certain domain name (let say DealSpeelsWhatever.com), then I won't be able to find a an aged domain because this is brand new domain name I came up with.

May be there's another use for owning multiple domains with keyword deals in them and then monetize them sorta of independent of main deals site?


blogspotter said:
Because old domains are easier to rank....
Find old domains with the keyword Coupon(s), Deal(s), GAP, JCPENNEY, DELL, Pizza and suchlike..e
Finding Merchant + Coupon will be difficult.. so I woould just concentrate on either
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Ah... I have single domains alright, but l also usually own several "sorrounds" that mini sites and usually link back to the Main site. I like to "own" a SERP be it with a single site or multiple. Of course, there always is the mother site... but this have worked so fasr as Interlinking is "controlled"
 
Say I found an old domain name jcpennydeals.com, so that would be a good candidate to capture some of the organic traffic. Now I should forward that domain to the main deal site domain?
 
What if you made niche coupon sites, have a main site (i.e. thecouponmountain.com) and just have the individual niches as subdomains (i.e. books.thecouponmountain.com). Now you focus on 1 niche at a time, get as many coupons in as many sites as you can. After that you research hot topics within that niche (i.e. top selling books). Then you can bring that to the search/content network and bid on those keywords (i.e. "where the red fern growns book coupon"). This seems to me like it would work, then you could just keep on making different categories and eventually make the main site linking all of these categories together as your site grows.

I know SEO is out of the question, was wondering what you guys think of this being an alternative.
 
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