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Perhaps I should have just titled this one HELP!!!!
I hope there are some really good sports out there in the car blogosphere that won't mind answer a few questions. Please don't take it personal if I ask you to back it up
with a study. Don't let the lack of proof stop you from answering the questions with things such as opinions, hunches and 'I-heard-from-somebody...'. These are all very useful, in their own way. I've got to learn to be an information blood-hound and all those things will help be find the information scent.
Here it goes...
1.) What is more important to you as a car-blogger LINKS or POSTS ? and why?
What I mean is, what do you feel is your most effective tool to achieve the effect
you want as a blogger? Do you concentrate on posting long or detailed entry's to your site or do you feel it more important to link to other sites?
Or do you feel it is more important that others are linking to your site, thus bringing more traffic in to read your postings.
(in a political race where blogs were involved the winning side had far more links,
back and forth in their sphere of bloggers. The loosing side had more postings. Some think this holds significance. Do you? )
2.) Are you aware of any studies or other evidence that either links or posts have more powerful effects in getting the bloggers message out?
3.) Why do you blog? ( that can be a tough one, if you really like something I understand that it's a question that has no easy answer)
4.) What do you think (beyond your own personal satisfaction) is important about Car Blogs as a whole?
5.) In reference to question 4, can you point out a study or some other evidence that agrees with this? [told'ya I'd ask you to back-it-up. ; ) ]
6.) Roughly, how many friends/associates have you met OFF-LINE that you can talk about cars/automotive related subject at the depth that you want to?
7.) referring to Q 6., Roughly how many have you met ON-LINE ?
8.) Have you ever met another car enthusiast on-line then met them face-to-face?
9.) Do you have opportunities to meet other car enthusiasts (that you don't already know) face-to-face in events such as car-rallies, car-specific conventions,
auctions, swap-meets, parts flee-markets, etc. ?
If you made it this far, thanks ! Please answer what you can or what you want.
Please follow the link to "Survey Monkey"
when you are ready to take the survey
Click here to take survey
Perhaps I should have just titled this one HELP!!!!
I hope there are some really good sports out there in the car blogosphere that won't mind answer a few questions. Please don't take it personal if I ask you to back it up
with a study. Don't let the lack of proof stop you from answering the questions with things such as opinions, hunches and 'I-heard-from-somebody...'. These are all very useful, in their own way. I've got to learn to be an information blood-hound and all those things will help be find the information scent.
Here it goes...
1.) What is more important to you as a car-blogger LINKS or POSTS ? and why?
What I mean is, what do you feel is your most effective tool to achieve the effect
you want as a blogger? Do you concentrate on posting long or detailed entry's to your site or do you feel it more important to link to other sites?
Or do you feel it is more important that others are linking to your site, thus bringing more traffic in to read your postings.
(in a political race where blogs were involved the winning side had far more links,
back and forth in their sphere of bloggers. The loosing side had more postings. Some think this holds significance. Do you? )
2.) Are you aware of any studies or other evidence that either links or posts have more powerful effects in getting the bloggers message out?
3.) Why do you blog? ( that can be a tough one, if you really like something I understand that it's a question that has no easy answer)
4.) What do you think (beyond your own personal satisfaction) is important about Car Blogs as a whole?
5.) In reference to question 4, can you point out a study or some other evidence that agrees with this? [told'ya I'd ask you to back-it-up. ; ) ]
6.) Roughly, how many friends/associates have you met OFF-LINE that you can talk about cars/automotive related subject at the depth that you want to?
7.) referring to Q 6., Roughly how many have you met ON-LINE ?
8.) Have you ever met another car enthusiast on-line then met them face-to-face?
9.) Do you have opportunities to meet other car enthusiasts (that you don't already know) face-to-face in events such as car-rallies, car-specific conventions,
auctions, swap-meets, parts flee-markets, etc. ?
If you made it this far, thanks ! Please answer what you can or what you want.
posted by Bill at
8:35 PM
20 Comments:
I don't
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Ben K, at 5:13 PM
Oops.
What I mean to say was:
I don't understand the 1st question. Links or posts from or to where?
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Ben K, at 5:15 PM
1. I think the content (posts) is more important than anything else. Since car-blogging is not a contest there really are no winners or losers. I link to others when it seems appropriate to me, or when it helps solidify the point I'm trying to make, or when I'm giving credit to someone.
That being said, I always enjoy links to my site (www.ifitsgotanengine.com) so more people get to read what I've written.
2. I am not aware of any.
3. I blog for the satisfaction of knowing that there's someone out there reading what I'm writing. If I happen to make a valid point now and then, all the better.
4. I would be hard pressed to call any blogs important.
5. Nope. Sorry.
6. Probably five or six.
7. Less. Maybe two or three.
8. No.
9. Yes. I attend autocrosses semi-regularly and meet many new folks there.
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Dorri732, at 6:30 PM
OK, done. :)
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Ben K, at 6:31 PM
All of these answers are my opinions, unless noted...
1. This is a hard question, but if you don't have perfect posts, then people will not want to read them anyway -- links are important, they get the word out about your site and what you have to say.
- You have to have a balance of both to be successfull.
2. nope, however, I will use my site as an example, started in March 2005 and after some growing pains, in June 2005, I had 50 posts and a .com that worked and not much traffic to show for it. (less an 50 a day) When my link was posted on other sites, the traffic went up.
Look at The Auto Prophet who gets about 400+ hits a day and has been around the same time as my site has and his link is listed on lots of different sites.
3. Two reasons: I am a web designer & I enjoy writing, the thought of readers reading my work. Other than that, I don't know.
4. Quality posts (perfect posts), not how many posts.
5. nope, but look at Autoblog.com who has huge traffic and so many posts a day.
6. a couple, less than 5
7. a couple, less than 10
8. no
9. yes, at auto shows, NASCAR events and so on.
Brian
Racedriven.com
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Racedriven, at 9:40 AM
1.) What is more important to you as a car-blogger LINKS or POSTS ? and why?
What I mean is, what do you feel is your most effective tool to achieve the effect
you want as a blogger? Do you concentrate on posting long or detailed entry's to your site or do you feel it more important to link to other sites?
Or do you feel it is more important that others are linking to your site, thus bringing more traffic in to read your postings.
(in a political race where blogs were involved the winning side had far more links,
back and forth in their sphere of bloggers. The loosing side had more postings. Some think this holds significance. Do you? )
For me the content of the Post is what’s most important. It’s all about my ability to have my say. But Links are almost as important. I link to sites that I think others will find interesting and especially to sites that have linked to mine. I’ve been told that linking to others will increase my traffic, and to be honest, I like the idea of increased traffic.
2.) Are you aware of any studies or other evidence that either links or posts have more powerful effects in getting the bloggers message out?
No, I’ve never read any studies on blogging.
3.) Why do you blog? ( that can be a tough one, if you really like something I understand that it's a question that has no easy answer)
As I say on the intro to my blog, one reason I started blogging was because I was frustrated that emails I had sent went unanswered and I wanted to have my say. Now I blog because it’s fun, it keeps me busy doing something I love. I’m not a writer like some and I don’t work in the industry like others, I’m just an “Average Joe” who enjoys the experience. I have no aspirations of getting paid or networking, it’s just for “shits and giggles.” That’s not to say I don’t take it seriously, I’m proud of what I do and hope that others enjoy it.
4.) What do you think (beyond your own personal satisfaction) is important about Car Blogs as a whole?
I honestly don’t know that any of this is really “important” but it is a good resource when researching something. I’ve had posts on rare cars and received help from other bloggers. I’ve been able to assist others.
5.) In reference to question 4, can you point out a study or some other evidence that agrees with this? [told'ya I'd ask you to back-it-up. ; ) ]
Again, I’m not an academic, just a blogger, but check my comments and posts and you’ll see that people search blogs for information on new and classic cars. I did a post on a Wankel powered Mustang and on the South African Siera XR8. Those both are examples.
6.) Roughly, how many friends/associates have you met OFF-LINE that you can talk about cars/automotive related subject at the depth that you want to?
I’m fortunate in that respect, I have several friends that are car nuts and two brothers (one my twin) that are both cerifiable nuts. To put a number to it, maybe 8.
7.) referring to Q 6., Roughly how many have you met ON-LINE ?
The blog has shown me that there is a real “community” of bloggers out there, over the last few months I’ve met about a dozen bloggers that I have corresponded with and traded info and many non bloggers. Amazingly people from all over the globe, including Australia. Very cool when you think about it.
8.) Have you ever met another car enthusiast on-line then met them face-to-face?
No, but I’ve only been at this for a few months.
9.) Do you have opportunities to meet other car enthusiasts (that you don't already know) face-to-face in events such as car-rallies, car-specific conventions,
auctions, swap-meets, parts flee-markets, etc. ?
Yes, I’m fortunate enough to attend some shows and races each year. My good friend, also named Joe, and I try and make one weekend event a year. When I went to Nashville in 2004 for the Mustang 40th Aniversary and this year when I went to Fords at Carlisle, I met many interesting people.
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Big Ford Fan, at 10:54 AM
1) Posts. It's easy to find links, any number of search engines will return too many to go thru. But, posts I follow are from like-minded persons and I get ideas from those.
My blog (like most) is made up of some stuff I write myself... and some other blogs that I find interesting.
2) None. I don't see any powerful political message, and I don'[t subscribe to the theory that blogs haqd anything to do with thelast election.
3) I started a huge website.. it got larger and larger... the counter kept on going up and up. I needed a means of putting up small thoughts, that weren't formally written up as an article. Blogs (RSS feed) was the right way to do that. My daily counters are very high, surprisingly so.
4) It's an experiment... I dind't want to continue this forever but now I'm stuck chasing consistent and growing numbers. I'm particularly intereste din seeing what happens late next year when the Windows replacement has RSS and viewing built in... I expect this entire thing to take off then. Whethe ror not I still have a personal interest ion maintaining a time-consuming personal site then is another matter... but ultimately doesn't matter since there will always be somebody else to replace me.
5) No study.. just a feeling. Personal (as oppossed to commercial) auto hobby websites come and go... very many remain in existence for any long period of time. Mine is purely personal, no advertisements or sponsors. It's been in existence now for 6 years (although I've changed URL:s three times, finally settling on an ISP).
6) Very very few... I have a circle of intense automotive enthusiasts who want to talk at length. Thsi isnt' because of the blog, or even the website, it's because of the hobby of teaching Open Track events.
7) None... I don't particularly encourage feedback to my site, and I have never purposefully met anybody as a result of the site. 8) In my travels to race tracks, some people have mentioned they've seen it.
9) Yes, that's the only place I meet any of them. They see the website and blogs as secondary.
-Jeff
http://www.jwfisher.com
(RSS feeds, weblogs, and thousands of images and web pages)
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Anonymous, at 4:04 PM
1. Neither links nor posts can specifically be said to be more important. From one perspective, the web can be thought of as nodes and connections. In this case, a post would be a node, and a link would be a "connection" to another node. What's more important is communicating the best data/information/knowledge. Sometimes the best data/info/knowledge is unique new content (a "post"), and sometimes it's a connection to some other content (a "link"). For example, Google has virtually no content. Yet, they communicate the best content, without necessarily creating it. Data/information/knowledge is much more important than the form it takes.
Obviously, other sites will link to good content. A site with many linkbacks is like a person's idea that gets mentioned often. Linkbacks are a method of ratifying content. Ratification can be very helpful, both online and off.
2. There are numerous studies (some more credible than others) as to the value of linkbacks. Most of this information comes from the search engine optimization community. It is generally accepted that links lead to more referrals, and better search engine rankings, which in turn lead to more exposure.
3. No easy answer :). You could say that people communicate with the intent to effect other people's perspectives in a favorable manner.
4. The automotive industry is a prime example of profit winning over knowledge. Car blogs are a method of leveraging mass communication to minimize the informational asymmetry that exists between automotive manufacturers and the average car owner.
5. I don't know of any hard data related to the effect of automotive blogging on the automotive industry. Acquiring information of that nature would be difficult.
6. A few dozen.
7. A few thousand.
8. Yes.
9. Yes.
Jonathan
CrankshaftCoalition.com
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Anonymous, at 5:15 PM
1.The most important thing when writing a blog is its overall aim. Like with Autoblog the goal dictated was as many posts as possible to build traffic. Good quality just helped. We mixed link posts and original posts and it worked well.
With MPH’s blog it is supposed to be the backstage so to speak of what life is like running a car magazine. These posts are almost entirely original and we want it to be added content to the main mph site. We don’t want to link to other blogs because people aren’t coming to us for that kind of stuff. 10+ other sites already do that.
For a new car blogger you have to think “what do I want to do with this blog” if you’re just joe public and want to express your views about the state of the auto world it is hard to do well. Create a blog about BMWs, Saabs etc and you could get a lot of instant readers.
2.) It’s really about how you’re viewed by the enthusiast. They’ll figure out if you’re worth reading or not. If so you’ll build traffic. If not you won’t.
3.) We blog at mph because it gives a voice to the staff that an “editor column” in print just can’t provide. Plus those are boring.
4.) They give a voice to the consumer and to the press to send unfiltered views out to the automakers and to other enthusiasts..
6.) Not Many. Most ask me what car they should buy. I only talk cars when I’m at some press event with a bunch of other auto journos.
7.) referring to Q 6., Roughly how many have you met ON-LINE ?
Hundreds.
8.) Have you ever met another car enthusiast on-line then met them face-to-face?
Sure.
9.) Do you have opportunities to meet other car enthusiasts (that you don't already know) face-to-face in events such as car-rallies, car-specific conventions,
auctions, swap-meets, parts flee-markets, etc. ?
See above.
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Dave T., at 5:33 AM
1- Posts have to be the most important. I much prefer reading someone's opinion of something than just a link to a news story.
2- None that I know of.
3- Blogging is one way I express myself creatively. It's done for me personally, not for an audience.
4- Getting different viewpoints about the automotive world is probably the most important aspect. You get exposed to ideas that you may not have thought of yourself.
5- Nope, sorry.
6- Only a few. Most people just don't share my passion for cars.
7- Several.
8- None yet.
9- When I can get time off from work and school, which is a rarity right now.
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J G Halmayr, at 10:04 AM
This is a great car blog...! Good job.
Carman_Turbo
http://www.support-support.com
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