Wize.com Releases New Widget

Need another way to make some cash on your website or blog? Wize.com has a new widget that shows popular products in a category and ranks them based on aggregated user ratings from the web. I think it's worth checking out at: wize.com/typepad. Look all the way to the right for a widget preview.

Wize.com is a new CSE (Comparison Shopping Engine) distinguished by its "WizeRank." Wize aggregates user ratings from across the web to provide a ranking for products. I was playing with the site a little this morning, and I really think they have something good going here.

Hopefully, they will be coming out a way for businesses to upload their products directly. Surfing their site, it didn't look like they have that yet. If any of the Wize.com folks are reading this, let us know if that's in the works! Read More...

Some New Shopping Comparison Site Technologies

I haven't touched upon shopping comparison sites in a little while, because we've actually only been seeing marginal success from them in our own projects. However, there are a few new developements I thought I should note.

Shopzilla has a brand new homepage. From an idealistic marketing standpoint, it's amazing. I think they may have taken web 2.0 design and conversion techniques a little too far to where it's no longer pleasing to be on the site, though. I think what really bothers me (and others on the Sell Center Team), is that the whole thing seems to be off-center.

In other CSE world news, MPire has released a new set of widgets that display eBay and Amazon listings. The widgets compare prices, show trends, AND allow you to make referral money. The CEO is apparently boasting that their widgets convert an average of 5% more than Google Adsense. They're actually pretty neat and definitely worth taking a look at.

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