MOST USEFUL REVIEWS FOR THE PUBLIC

I was looking statistics wise around the site, and it seems that practical household type products, and pets really get more reads by the public than other things (at least in the area I looked at). What areas of your reviews (non specific of course), get the most public reads. Just wondered what the busiest area of dooyoo is from the public point of view.

Cars get a lot more read than any other with as many as 4000 non-member reads.

Xorcise the Beast!
4.12.01 15:08:29 /
4.12.01 15:08:29 Nissan X-Trail Cars
Very useful 10 29 / 5168

make that 5000+

For my review of a shopping centre I had over 2500 reads...and my debate on smoking over 1100...

I saw one today written a while ago but with a star's name in the title that had 3900 reads ! That's some going.

Definitely cars for me, and my review with the most non member reads in the quickest time was my Sat Nav system, written right before Xmas.

I think it is expensive consumer goods that get the most hits. I have had huge hits on my Dyson, Juicer (before they were £20 and everyone bought one) and even an old fax machine.

Bizarrely my series on Delia Smith's How to cook books, have masses of hits. I really should re read to see if there is something smutty in them!

Actually the satnav doesn't surprise me cos its a current topic that people want to know about, but the cooking one does.

Thingywhatsit wrote:

Actually the satnav doesn't surprise me cos its a current topic that people want to know about, but the cooking one does.

Yep, which makes me think there must be a key phrase in there that gets the hits, as I cannot imagine that much research on a cook book!

Whilst things like cars and household stuff are probably the more common searched for items, there is probably other elements at work., such as current fashion and celeb names etc. I tend to do books and music, as you know and fairly obscure stuff at that but I remember when the Da vinci code film came out the book review I did shot up to over 2000. I also think that a clever title can pick up extra reads.

I am not editing anything which has been said, but please generalise rather than pointing to any specific reviews. Thank you.

My TV review on Epinions has thousands and thousands of reads - and has easily been the best earner on eps!

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My TV review on Epinions has thousands and thousands of reads - and has easily been the best earner on eps!
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But we are not talking about earners here, Matty, because you only earn by member reads. We were talking about those which are the most useful to the public.

My most read reviews (non-members) are a really strange mix. Pontins comes in first with >4000 followed by a couple pieces about pregnancy complications at just <2000

I think it is mixture of what is in the title and sometimes the topic under review.

A review of Tesco Clubcard with both Paris and Butlins in the title has attracted a couple of 1000 non member reads.

The title itself is also effective as two reviews "Rate my Boobs" and "Looking up Kylie's skirt" both attractd large numbers.

My 5 top non-member reads reviews (between 5000 and 7400 reads each) include 2 film-only reviews, a broadband service, a mobile-phone tariff, and a prescription-only drug that hasn't been in the Ciao database for years, but the review of which still comes up on a Google search of the product.

Three earned diamonds, but only one is also in top 5 for "member-rated" usefulness . . . (well, one is 6th for usefulness)


. . . only 8.5% of my reads are from "logged in" members . . .

. . . so l must be pleasing some ordinary consumers . . .



Of course, were there a connection between non-member-reads and PF, Matty might WELL have a point about high earners, Rachel.

And who is to say what is useful to the public anyway? High ranking in a "Google Search"?

5600+ hits on a review about applying for visas - I doubt that anyone would have predicted that.

4700+ on a restaurant; 4300 on a beauty product; 4000+ on a cinema scheme.

Those are my top ones and they don't fit the 'cars and household products' type cats that have been suggested.

Mind you, it's also possible to get on the first page of a google search with a small number of hits. I'm on a mission to publicise that crap service I got at a hotel and already both the dooyoo and ciao reviews are coming up on google searches AHEAD of the hotel's own website. Hoorah! That'll teach the bastards (until they threaten to sue dooyoo and Ciao!).

Looking at ciao and Dooyoo there seem to be a similar pattern wth review with high numbers of non member reads.

Shops seem to be my most popular ones (and most of them the cheaper end of the market. I'm wondring if people are looking for thir websites and getting my review instead!

I did notice a well-known member consistently getting exceptionally high non-member reads on newly posted reviews across a broad range of subject types. I had to conclude that same person probably sits at home clicking all day to drive them up and thereby increase the chance of getting a diamond.

So high clicks don't always mean it's a useful review.

There is/was a member on Dooyoo (fairly recent member but definitely pre-new payout system) whose NMR figures across all of their reviews are significantly higher than other members and they reach that stage within a very short space of time.

They're one of the long rather than useful brigade. I don't know if that makes any difference.