Shopper-Driven Interests

If you like the concept of Reddit, Digg, or del.icio.us, we have something similar to offer - user-driven popularity - an extension to our recently launched most popular click-to-merchant deals.

All deals were not issued equally attractive. One may think a deal is attractive, the other may have different opinion on the same deal. We'd like to leverage statistics generated from users of our site who are all potential shoppers, and name such level of attractiveness as 'interests.' 'Interests' is all about shopper-driven popularity within a limited time frame no longer than its lifetime during which a deal is valid (non-expired). To calculate and derive 'interests', every deal is automatically and implicitly voted on by anonymous shoppers when they click on a deal listing (promotional code, coupon, sale, or product deal listing) and go onto merchant site.

As a result, on a merchant's deal page, we start to present listings in the order of 'interests' as voted implicitly by shoppers. The implicitness should void the concern of user-driven content equals courtroom danger, and respect the anonymous status of all voters. I personally feel the approach is really useful to present merchant with handful offers not easily fit into one short page so readers can quickly spot great deals.

Keeca Pick, You Save!

We ditched our old site tagline and launched our new site slogan of,

"You find. You Shop. You Save"

in late April amids some minor homepage rearrangement. To assure you'll save money online, we've decided to better utilize Keeca.com premium homepage placement to present our pick of great shopping deals. In stead of rotating through several computer-picked hot deals a day, we'll take up the efforts of finding you a couple REALLY good deals of our editorial pick with 125x125 images by putting real human brains behind our picks. We name it KEECA'S PICK. KEECA'S PICK is now on Keeca.com homepage.

Similar to Woot!, each Keeca's pick will be an awesome deal. Unlike Woot, we'd focus on selecting generic online coupons and web sales as Keeca's Picks for the most part, rather than specific products unless the product is a super hot deal in our view. If you're a Woot-addicted already, we don't blame you. Come and check out the face-off between Woot and Yugster.

Merchant List

The lack of a comprehensive view of what online merchants are included in Keeca.com Deal Search has ended. Last night, I put up a page on which all merchants that are affiliated with Keeca.com are now listed. To date, we have affiliated with more than 950 online merchants and growing.

If you run an online store and would like us to cover your store, consider advertise with us.

Deal News RSS

I wanted to let you know about the recent enhancement we've
made to the Keeca website to support RSS 2.0. Our RSS feeds are powered by FeedBurner. During the past week we've added Keeca Deal News RSS subscription points of the following categories:

Beauty
Clothing & Accessories
Computer
Gourmet Food
Health
Home & Garden
Jewelry
Office
Software
Sports & Outdoor
Toys & Games

Wherever you see an orange RSS icon, click on it will lead you to a page that guide you to sign up the feed using your preferred RSS News Readers software. Subscribe to our RSS is a good way to stay on top of the deal news. You may do so using your feed client such as Google Reader, Bloglines, or as part of your iGoogle.