Today I am reviewing “Best Practices for Coupon Sites,” a transcription of a roundtable audio discussion about best practices for coupon sites with Affiliate ABCs hosts Deborah Carney and Vinny O’Hare joined by Kim Salvino, Amy Ely, and Jeannine Crooks of buy.at, who talk about best practices, tools, and ideas for coupon sites in the affiliate industry. When first reading this I wasn’t originally sure if I would get any value from it. That being said, I’ve now found a group of podcasts and books add to my collection.  I love having resources available to check back later.  This ebook is a transcript of a discussion – the video is also available to watch on youtube.  I love having resources available to refer back to, so for me the document is valuable.  I did find myself after listening to the discussion online, filling in the appropriate voices each time I went back to re-read a section in the transcript.

Topics include:
• Best practices – ensuring sites are adding value and providing complete, updated coupons, removed expired deals and coupons quickly
• Tools available – affiliates and plug ins
• Ideas – Be Unique
• Scripts, plugins – Same thing Be Unique
• Check Merchant Rules about coupon sites – Follow the rules. (They especially highlight the “Click to Reveal” Practice)

If managed well, these sites can tap into the massive revenue opportunity presented by digital coupons in the US market. You must though have a unique site that adds value and not  just toss up an automatically generated site and hope they find it. For Example: Highlight Deals for Moms.

Published by Nightfire Publications and available from Amazon for only $0.99!

This is an easy to read, 12-page introduction to running your coupon site. Keep in mind that this is a transcript of a discussion and so it is not as fluid as a written book, however it is very easy to follow. It is not a book on how to start a coupon site. This ebook is intended for people who have just started or are thinking about starting a site, and already know some of the workings and lingo of blogging. I think the most valuable tips they give are to make your site stand out and to be honest and ethical with the information you provide.
I recently had the opportunity to review this book. As I started reading it I enjoyed the way it was set up. I could imagine these people really doing the podcast that this book is written from. At first I wasn’t too sure what to expect from this book, I wasn’t sure if they were going to try and sell me something or convince me that I needed to be involved with certain sites. That is the farthest from what this book is about. I loved how they put that you need to put effort into your blog instead of just copy/paste things on your blog and how to deal with coupons on your blog/site. I don’t want to give anything away from this book but I’m very glad that I got a chance to read it. It’s given me ideas on how to improve my blog and how I can try and make my blog stand out from others.
There are so many coupon sites launching these days, I see them all over the place. Now I’ll admit some of them are really good, but there are others that are on the other end of the spectrum and they are really quite terrible. The coupons are expired or they simply don’t work, among other issues.

A lot of e-books that I have read not only want to sell you their e-book, but then in the book they try to sell you something else. Not the case with this book. This book is simply and truly an educational book about how to better establish, market, and maintain a coupon site if you so desire.

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