An observation on how new feature car people find TWF.com
The April 2010 issue of Mustang Monthly has an article in the Late Model Corral that mentions this site. It is a very nice mention that provide a good overview of the site. It does state that, at first glance, the site seems oriented toward 1993 cars. But, it’s not, and they quickly conclude that. I’ve explored that topic in the past and see no reason to revisit an identity change. But, it is an interesting observation from outside of our “feature car” centric world.
In looking at how search results get people to this site I have always felt rather good that the top search results that get people here always involve “triple white fox” or some variation. I feel that I was the first person to put those terms together back in 2002 in order to describe my car so its interesting to see how popular it has become.
But, taking a slightly different view of these numbers, we see that there are no search terms related to 1992 that got people here during February 2010 the month from which they stats come. That is typical of most months where, at most, there are a few search results related to 1992.
Now search results are not really representative of who visits here regularly. You existing members link directly here so we don’t see that in the search results. And, some of our most active and enthusiastic members come from the 1992 crowd. But, I think I can conclude that there is more work to do to get this site out there and noticed. A mention in Mustang Monthly certainly helps!
What about the 90 cars? I did a google search for them and really nothing popped up. There are a few links to specific cars. Carlisle does have them listed under the “feature” catagory for the show this year. I am not really sure how the two groups ie: 90 owners and 92 owners feel about that? Thanks for the thought. Chet
Don’t forget about Steve at http://90limited7up.stangnet.com
I am guilty as well of throwing the 90 cars into the mix with the 92’s and 93’s under the ‘feature car” title. I try not to compete with what Steve is doing on his site but we’re all in the same boat as far as getting a little more recognition that we are an important segment of Mustangs. Steve has a registry and a solid amount of details on the cars. The only thing I am really doing here with the 1990’s is tracking the ebay auctions and trying to get them to come to Carlisle.
I just Googled 7 Up Car and the first two links that came up were for my site. I frequently get people telling me that they found my site while searching for information on the cars, so the search engines seem to help. When I put the site up in 2000 there was no real source of information on the internet for the 90 Feature Cars. Even the Registry, which I took over years later had no internet presence.
I have been known to send owners of 92/93 Features over to TWF. Afterall, we are all in this Mustang community together.