Hello everyone welcome back and thank you for visiting my blog! This week I am going to be sharing with you about a very influential blog within the video game world. When I first started to conduct research about what makes the best video game blog there were a few things I had to consider. First I needed to know what makes an influential blog and how it stands apart from the hundreds of other blogs out there. At first I thought I could determine this by just seeing how many people are subscribed to a particular blog to see who has the most and therefore is the most influential. But upon doing my research there are many websites with thousands of followers but they weren’t necessarily the most original or they didn’t contain a lot of different content. Then I stumbled across a website called “Teads”. Which is a website based out of London that essentially links users to people’s websites based on how well they rank on a particular scale that they use to measure these sights. I used this sight to search for influential video game blogs and it gave me a bunch of different sites based off of “numerous parameters including the number of back links, the number of shares of its articles on Facebook and Twitter. From there I was led to what I believe to be a very influential blog for video games and that website is called VG247.com. VG247 was founded in February of 2008 by an industry veteran Patrick Garratt. This blog features other writers as well who are accomplished within the industry. VG247 won Best Online Blog at the Games Media Awards in 2009 as well as an award for Best Specialist Online Writer (Patrick Garratt). VG247 is published in the United Kingdom, has hundreds of thousands of followers and the mission of the blog is to “deliver all the latest best gaming info, reviews and guides around the clock.” Please check out the blog for yourself, it is very extensive with a lot of good content and features a lot of different writers so you get a very holistic view of what is happening in the video game industry.
Pictured above: Patrick Garrett co-founder of VG247.com
Here is the link to the blog:
www.vg247.com/
Here is a link on the blog where you can learn more about the writers and their expertise within the industry:
www.vg247.com/staff/
Here is a link to Teads.com which is where I got some of the information regarding how blogs are rated and the link below that will be to the Facebook page for VG247 which is where I got the info about the blog itself.
uk.labs.teads.tv/top-blogs/gaming
www.facebook.com/VG247/about/
Finally here are the links to where I got the pictures the first link is for the top picture I used which is just the blog's logo. The second link is for the actual image of Patrick Garrat which I pulled off of his twitter account.
images.vg247.com/current//2013/12/VG247-Scotland-Sized.jpg
twitter.com/patlike
www.vg247.com/
Here is a link on the blog where you can learn more about the writers and their expertise within the industry:
www.vg247.com/staff/
Here is a link to Teads.com which is where I got some of the information regarding how blogs are rated and the link below that will be to the Facebook page for VG247 which is where I got the info about the blog itself.
uk.labs.teads.tv/top-blogs/gaming
www.facebook.com/VG247/about/
Finally here are the links to where I got the pictures the first link is for the top picture I used which is just the blog's logo. The second link is for the actual image of Patrick Garrat which I pulled off of his twitter account.
images.vg247.com/current//2013/12/VG247-Scotland-Sized.jpg
twitter.com/patlike