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Originally Posted by rankscom
Price has only a small influence on rank. We have sites over $30/mo in our top 20. Does it have some affect, absolutely. Do other reviews in mainstream take price into account? Almost always. Go read reviews for MP3 subscription sites, they definitely take price into account. Car reviews, electronics, etc (price is almost always mentioned). The webmaster controls how much the site cost (not us), it's their choice. If they want to offer our users a special price, we would idiots to say no (users benefit, and we make more sales).
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I agree, all those review places definitely factor in price. If they didn't, BMW's, etc would always rank high and family sedans would rank lower. Of course some can't afford a luxury car, but the review shouldn't be hurt because car A offers certain things car B doesn't. Car B doesn't offer these things, but they also don't charge as much as Car A, so you get a lot of value for your $12k car.
That being said, I would be a little leary of an auto review site that went to a specific car dealership and took *their* prices as part of the review. Sure, this car gets a great review because it's only $12k at their dealership, but if you go anywhere else, the same exact car is $15k. I'd rather have a review site that factored in the base price of the car as part of the review, not any sales, deals, etc.
Let's say tomshardware did a review on an Intel chip. He compared it to the current top of the line AMD chip. I of course want to know what chip is the better deal as far as speed / price / etc. I just don't want the price tomshardware sells it for. I want the normal price of the chip as part of the review. I don't click on links at tomshardware, I go to newegg to get my parts, so obviously the price is going to be different, which completely messed up the review tomshardware gave me.
Sure, tomshardware would rather me click on the links on his site to buy products, but I don't, and I shouldn't be expected to. That's the negative side of reviewing a product. You do tons of work, give out lots of detail on the site / product, and often times you don't make anything off it from certain readers.