TTAC Sends You 2.5 Million Thanks

Bertel Schmitt
by Bertel Schmitt

Ed Niedermeyer is probably too humble to say it, so it’s left for me to say: TTAC has been doing exceptionally well over the last few months. Thank you.

Yesterday was another record day: 122,000 views. Thank you, Jack Baruth for having written the 2011 Mustang review. It pulled in readers in droves. (Today’s Mustang GT review is developing into another scorcher. And thank you, Ford, for making the cars available.) Thank you, Paul, for writing another classic curbside classic about the Honda Prelude, and about the illicit substances you had sworn to keep away from your son. Thank you, Paul, for writing the runner-up traffic generator, about Honda’s high-revving, mid-engined whacky pick-up.

As you see, the most read topics on Thetruthaboutcars.com are as eclectic as our readers. Which brings me to the secret of TTAC’s success:

You.

You, the Best & Brightest come back, again, and again, and again. It’s not Google that brings us the most traffic, not the many links in other blogs that, well, get inspired by our stories. Most of our readers check in every day, sometimes several times a day to see what’s going on, and to keep the lively – and sometimes controversial – discussions going. Thank you.

Last November, we had 1.5m views a month. This March, we had a million more with 2.5m views (and March has still a few hours to go.)

Thank you. You make us strong. And you make us proud.

You may also have noticed that advertising is back in a big way. Be proud of it. The way the Internet works, a lot of advertising on a site is a sign of a lot of success. Nobody makes a lot of money with TTAC, but the advertising money generated helps us create even better content for even more visits by even more of our Best & Brightest.

Thank you, dankeschön, merci beaucoup,xie xie,domo arigatou, kiitos, momapsumnida, molto grazie, etc. Thank you for being where you are: Here, at Thetruthaboutcars,com


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  • Ronnie Schreiber Ronnie Schreiber on Mar 31, 2010
    You may also have noticed that advertising is back in a big way. Be proud of it. The way the Internet works, a lot of advertising on a site is a sign of a lot of success. Nobody makes a lot of money with TTAC, but the advertising money generated helps us create even better content for even more visits by even more of our Best & Brightest. Yes, the ad revenue is much appreciated by the contributors. That period when the corporate overlords cut the editorial budget kinda sucked. Now if we can only get the overlords to speed up their checkwriting, things would be copacetic. BTW, it'd probably be a nice token of gratitude if the Best & Brightest threw some clicks at Farago's new site, The Truth About Guns. Disclaimer: Robert ran a story I wrote about an orthodox Jewish gun dealer in Nashville.

  • FromBrazil FromBrazil on Apr 02, 2010

    De nada, de nada. Obrigado a vocês!

  • Jdt65724922 How can a Chrysler E-Class ride better than a Chrysler Fifth Avenue?
  • Lorenzo This series is epic, but I now fear you'll never get to the gigantic Falcon/Dart/Nova comparison.
  • Chris P Bacon Ford and GM have decided that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Odds are Chrysler/Cerberus/FCA/Stellantis is next to join in. If any of the companies like Electrify America had been even close to Tesla in reliability, we wouldn't be here.
  • Inside Looking Out China will decide which EV charging protocol will become world wide standard.
  • Chris P Bacon I see no reference to Sweden or South Carolina. I hate to assume, but is this thing built in China? I can't help but wonder if EVs would be more affordable to the masses if they weren't all stuffed full of horsepower most drivers will never use. How much could the price be reduced if it had, say, 200hp. Combined with the instant torque of an EV, that really is plenty of power for the daily commuter, which is what this vehicle really is.
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