Thursday, March 27, 2008

Popular Grocery Items @ Amazon.com

This is the one of a series of quick articles on popular products from Amazon.com. Of course, the most obvious measure of popularity is Amazon sales rank, the default listing order of Amazon's aStores. That order is already represented in the search engine listings, at least in theory. These items are ones that I have actually sold.

The idea here is that these items are popular enough that someone would buy them, but not so popular that they are widely listed elsewhere. Though this approach may seem wildly random, it is very likely that if someone bought these before, someone else might want to buy them in the future. Perhaps they are just what you're looking for!

Gourmet Items

Grocery Items

Obviously, these categories aren't doing as well as I might have hoped. Is it because people don't want to buy non-perishable grocery items online? Few people know that these categories exist? Other Associiates are doing a MUCH better job promoting them?

Maybe, but I've generally found that sales correlate more or less directly to the number of products listed in the major search engines. Let's take a quick snapshot so we can come back later and see how these items are being indexed:

GroceryGourmet
Yahoo! (47)Yahoo! (108)
MSN Live (783)MSN Live (687)
Google (0)Google (0)
Ask (0)Ask (0)
Well! That explains a lot! Apparently, Google and Ask don't find us worthy. I suppose turn-about is fair play then?

Popular Brands

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