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One way to overcome this sort by "Most reviews" which normally Amazon hides (I think they do it to give chance to sell new brands/products more). You have more
by ceyhunkazel 8y ago
One way to overcome this sort by "Most reviews" which normally Amazon hides (I think they do it to give chance to sell new brands/products more). You have more chance to find the product you want and more trustful if it had 10K reviews instead of 10 reviews. I wrote about how to do it. Full disclosure, I am the author of free web app tool on the article.
https://medium.com/@ceyhunkazel/amazon-search-hack-eliminate-amazon-products-that-have-4-or-5-starts-but-only-few-reviews-f485d35d5969 https://medium.com/@ceyhunkazel/amazon-search-hack-eliminate...
- rapnie 8y agoI directly clicked through to your junglesearch.net Looks nice! But is it really free, or do you 'live' off user search data?
- ceyhunkazel 8y agoThank you for the comment. It is really free , I do not sell user search data I do not even record them, I only use Yandex Metrica to see how users use the site to improve site usability. One main problem is user try to chose "Most reviews" sort option without choosing any Amazon Department (When All Departments is active most of sort options will not work so I do not show them) and I even placed a site tour to make users notice it and it worked for some some users but not all of them but it is an improvement. Actually money comes from Amazon Associates Program that's the only way to monetize the site.
- jwillmer 8y agoWould you mind adding an option to change amazon country?
- nonninz 8y agoThis. In Europe each country (with an Amazon presence ofc) has its own website, each with its own stock and sellers. Buying from the US website is often a no-go, because of the shipping times and the customs fees, and also buying from other european countries is often bad as you forego free shipping and returns. But anyway thank you for your product, it's already pretty useful for brand products. :)
- ceyhunkazel 8y agoThank you for the feedback! I will gradually add other countries first two are UK and CA. What is your country?
- nonninz 8y agoGermany. And thank you again :)
- ceyhunkazel 8y agoSite is recently reopened (2 weeks) with new domain https://www.junglesearch.net https://www.junglesearch.net and I get feedbacks to add other countries and I really like to add them. It requires some API work to get new country's categories and checking which options are working on which department so it required some work. CA, UK are on my top list to add.
- ceyhunkazel 8y agoBad news Amazon closed related associate account again.
- ceyhunkazel 8y agoBy the way Amazon canceled the affiliate account again after commenting in this thread so probably it will be closed again. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18277073 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18277073
- designtofly 8y agoI've noticed that sellers have been gaming this metric as well. I was recently shopping for a phone case and other phone accessories. What I found is that sellers are re-purposing SKUs from other highly rated products. I found a ~4.5+ star product with thousands of reviews but saw that most of the reviews were for a completely different item that is no longer being sold. So they'll take a highly rated product, put a different item in its place.
- ceyhunkazel 8y agoI heard that issue recently, merchants exploits this variant issue and Amazon does not provide a way differentiate variant comments.