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How do you use Food Blogs?
The idea of this questionnaire is to be quick, but also to gain information about how people use food blogs. Which features are useful, which aren't? The ultimate goal is to get some data to help food bloggers create more useful and easier to use blogs!
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Name & Contact details
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What country are you from?
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Do you have a food blog of your own?
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Yup, I'm a food blogger!
Nope, but I love to look at other people's wonderful creations
Nope, but I have another type of blog.
For those of you who have a food blog
(Others skip to the next section)
What blogging software do you use?
(If you have one)
Wordpress
Blogger
Blogspot
Tumblr
Typepad
Other:
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How do you track page views of your food blog?
(If you have one)
Google Analytics
Through my blogging software
I don't
Other:
How do you monetize your food blog?
You can select more than one option below.
Through google adsense
Amazon Associates
Adverts on my RSS feed
Other advertising networks
I don't monetize my blog
Other:
Reading food blogs
(For everyone)
How do you keep track of the blogs you want to read regularly?
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RSS feed reader
I subscribe via email
I bookmark / favourite them, and check back occasionally
I follow the person on twitter to get links to their latest content.
I "like" them on facebook
Other:
When reading on a mobile device would you prefer the content to be sized better to fit your screen?
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This often means restructuring the page to make it easier to navigate on a smaller device, like iPhone, iPad or Blackberry
Yes, I find websites that resize their content for mobile devices easier to use.
No, I like being able to view the full content on my mobile device.
I don't browse food blogs via mobile device.
Which type of comment form do you prefer?
Different blogs, have different ways of allowing you to leave comments, some are good, some bad. But which is the one you use when you have the choice?
The standard name, email, website information
Connect through Twitter
Connect through Facebook
Connect through Google
Connect through other social media website
Open ID
Other:
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Which of the following do you use to keep in touch with food bloggers?
Twitter
Facebook
Foodbuzz
CookEatShare
BlogHer
Google Friend Connect
Flickr
Other:
What makes you come back to a blog, or subscribe to its content?
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You can select multiple from the list below.
Interesting recipes
Fantastic Storytelling / writing
"food-porn" photographs
Likeable personality
Frequent Updates
Great giveaways
Same dietary requirements (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, organic, etc)
Seasonal ingredients
Useful how-tos
Video content
Community spirit
Hints on how to improve photography
Hints on how to improve your blog
reviews on cookbooks
reviews on products
reviews on restaurants
Other:
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What annoys you most about the food blogs you read?
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Again, here you can select multiple options.
Slowness to load
doesn't work / looks weird on my browser
Comment form doesn't let me link to my blog the way I want to
RSS feeds are too short
RSS feeds have no pictures
Comments are never responded to
Too many adverts
Giveaways I can't enter, because of location
hard to read text (not enough contrast, font too small)
No easy way to print recipes
can't easily translate content to my language
can't change the units of recipes
poorly written recipes
hard to find links to RSS feed
hard to find links to twitter / facebook
No easy method to post links to twitter, facebook, stumbleupon etc
Out of date About page
Other:
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What features of a food blogger's website do you use to help you find other posts?
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Blogs aren't just all content normally there are sections of links all over the place, to help direct you to more content. Which do you use?
Similar Posts, often at the end of the posts, these show posts with similar ingredients or similar types of cooking.
Categories. Most blogs break posts into categories, types of cuisine, types of dish.
Top Posts, these are usually the most commented on or viewed posts on the website.
Recent posts, using the previous and next links.
Search. Find all blog entries on a specific topic.
pictures of recipes in the sidebar
Calendar, view posts by month and year.
Other:
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Any other feedback?
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