Ok, so in addition to the magazine poll, which is really not all that important in the grand scheme of things, this is a reader poll and its very important. notice the italics. italics convey importance. italics is the new bold and the new “unnecessary” quotation marks combined. So listen up.
My interest is with the surfing-focused lot of you. I’ve been trying to get a handle on who comes to this site, who reads the rss feed and how often they do it. If my mint install isn’t deceiving me, there are roughly 250-300 total visitors (half of those are uniques) to this site daily. and roughly 150-200 people reading the feed. I assume that 90% of the incoming traffic to this site is from people that come from searches and what-not.
What I’d like to know is how many of you come to Quality Peoples specifically for surfing-related content. So if there was a list of questions, it’d be this:
- Do you come for surf-related content?
- Are you a dedicated surfer or just interested in surf culture in general?
- If you’re a dedicated surfer, how often do you come to this site?
- What other surf culture related sites do you go to?
- Of the sites you (presumably) listed, which do you feel are cultural lightning rods for core surf culture?
If you don’t mind, take a few minutes to think about it and either drop answers in the comments or shoot me an email: ed[at]qualitypeoples.com
Yes, this is probably annoying, but I’m genuinely interested in the answers to these questions, they’ve been swirling around my horizontally tilted brain for months and I’d be genuinely grateful for any input. Hell, I’ll even come over and do your dishes for one night, I swear.
I’ve never surfed. Boogie-boarding is as far as I’ve gone. So, I’m generally not all that interested in the surf-related content. I’m more interested in the Photography, Design, and misc. But, the surf content is still interesting, and it’s part of the character of your site. I may be more interested than most, because although I don’t surf, I can hang at the beach drinking beer with the best of them. It’s my #1 vacation.
I’m one of those 150-200 feed readers. NetNewsWire is running all day, refreshing every 30 minutes. I generally don’t come to the site, unless it’s to comment.
Cheers.