How to Effectively Search for, Find and Organize Fresh Coupon Codes
How to Effectively Search for, Find and Organize Fresh Coupon Codes
The smart and frugal shopper will begin their shopping experience knowing some vital rules about coupons and discounts. Discounts and coupons are promotional and expire. These bargain hunters will bring this basic principle into practice when couponing, and so should you. To start, you need to know where the coupons are. For instance, newest-coupon-codes.bigsexyshow.com (my site) is set up to be an aggregation of couponing sites. Most of the information provided on this site are from other blogs and couponing sites. We’ll get to that later. To start, run a google search for “coupon codes”, and see what pops up. Here’s what I got….
Now visit the top sites. Many of the smaller sites get their content from these sites; but there are many exceptions. For instance, coupons.com is a great wealth of coupons.However, for coupons.com; most of the coupons are printable, not online coupon codes. Many prefer this, such as grocery store couponers. Online shoppers however, need coupon codes for their discounts. coupon codes. For the the newest coupon codes, and to get them on autopilot… you need to approach this by utilizing more of google’s powerful tools. Click on the more button that I have highlighted in yellow… it is on the left sidebar of google on the search results page you have just run.
Once you have done this, and the list of Google options has expanded; click on “blogs”. This will narrow your search inquiry for ‘coupon code’ to blogs only.
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Now you have two powerful blog search options for your search term ‘coupon codes’. The first list of links are for websites dedicated to coupon codes. These are entire websites which are built around ‘coupon codes’ being the primary subject. In the second list below the pagebreak line, you have something very unique to Google that not that many people utilize. This is a list of actual posts that center around the keyword phrase ‘coupon codes’. It is not so important because of the content. It is important because the list can be sorted in a strict chronological order:
Now that we have gone through how to search, lets get into how to put your coupons on autopilot. Lets say that you choose this website as one of your content providers. You visit this site: http://newest-coupon-codes.bigsexyshow.com and you choose the category ‘Online Sites Codes’…. linking you to hundreds of daily coupons from popular online companies. Now, if you look in your navigation toolbar (where you type in url’s):
Now, click on the rss feed icon. You may receive a dropdown box of options. Make sure that you are choosing the rss or atom(pretty much the same) which has the categories’ information. For this site, it basically says “subscribe to newest coupon codes >>> Online Sites Codes category feed”. Now you are on the rss options page, which will show you the most recent posts in this category. Choose Google as your subscription method in the dropdown box at the top:
Now we are almost done. If you do not have a Google account, get one. On the next page, you will be asked if you want the feeds content to appear on your Google homepage, or in your Google Reader. For our purposes, we will use Google Reader. So click that now. Now we are within Google Reader. Your feed content will be displayed within a large window. Your feeds will be arranged on the left.
Click on the ‘manage subscriptions’ link in the lower left corner of the Google Reader screen. This will take you to the following screen, where you will be able to locate your new feed by it’s name, and choose a Folder for it:
Now that you have a feed, and folders for your coupon code feeds, you can duplicate this feat over and over until you are satisfied with your list of coupon codes from different feeds. Make sure that your list is weeded for inactive feeds from time to time. With that, you are now ready to pre-shop for coupon codes and print coupons in a centralized and organized web locale. Happy shopping!
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