A Leonine Voice, 2010 in review

Hey there readers, followers, fellow bloggers!  Wordpress was ever so kind enough to send this out to me…. it’s a review of my stats for 2010 all nicely and neatly summarized!  Just thought I would share…. 2010 was a pretty decent year for my new blog and I’m VERY pleased!

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a concert. This blog was viewed about 61,000 times in 2010. If it were a concert at Madison Square Garden, it would have performed about 3 times.

In 2010, there were 54 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 291 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 37mb. That’s about 6 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was September 28th with 746 views. The most popular post that day was The Casting of Catherine of Aragon.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, 74.125.67.100, biodork.wordpress.com, en.wordpress.com, and search.aol.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for anne boleyn, frida kahlo, catherine of aragon, natalie dormer, and rachel mcadams.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

The Casting of Catherine of Aragon April 2010

2

The Tudors, Season 4, Final Episode July 2010
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3

The Tudors, Season 4, Episode 9 June 2010

4

The Tudors, Season 4, Episode 5 May 2010

5

The Tudors, Season 4, Episode 6 May 2010

No more writer’s block!

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As I am sure many of the WordPress users out there already know, there are some tools out there to help combat writer’s block.  A new one that WordPress came up with is called, “Plinky.”  You can find the site here:

http://www.plinky.com/

Out of sheer curiosity, I decided to check out the site.  I signed up, as it has a handy dandy way of connecting to your WordPress account and publishing your writing on both sites when your post is completed.  I like this….. it gives me a little more flexibility in my writing… it also helps me to come up with topics when I am stumped which most certainly happens to even the most seasoned writers.  I like having a little back up tool to use when I really, really have the urge to write, but nothing comes to me.

If you are looking for new, fun tool to use for your writing, I would definitely recommend checking this one out!

Bambi on ice…

Or at least, that’s how I am feeling about WordPress right now!  Didn’t realize it was so complicated to personalize my stuff on here!  A friend told me that there is “WordPress for Dummies” book out there.. I am going to HAVE to buy it!  It drives me crazy when I can’t figure something out on my own!