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DALANEL Stats: 2013

The year is over. Let’s see how we did. Top ten everything is possible.

I got 7,215 views this year. That’s okay in the successful blog department. Considering that I had 332 in 2012, I’m not complaining. Of course, I had 624 in my first year. Total followers for the blog is at 1,035

Okay, so, the most viewed posts:

  • Daily Good Stuff 133: It’s My Birthday!
  • Weekly Funnies 6
  • Daily Good Stuff 49: Funny Comics
  • Daily Good Stuff 83: Birthday Party!
  • Top Ten Funny Gifs
  • Daily Good Stuff 230: Funny Comics 2
  • Daily Good Stuff 50: GIFs Added
  • Daily Good Stuff 77
  • Daily Good Stuff 197: A Sister’s Birthday
  • Weekly Funnies 27

Good stuff clearly dominant. I can only hope Daily Good News can take over soon. Let’s look at referrers:

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DALANEL Stats: December 2013

December was the second best month for the blog behind the awesome November. But, unlike November, December was a lot more consistent in viewing per day.

Top five viewed posts:

  • Daily Good Stuff 133: It’s My Birthday!
  • Top Ten Funny Gifs
  • Daily Good Stuff 230: Funny Comics 2
  • Weekly Funnies 27
  • Daily Good Stuff 223: Get Dirty 2

Clearly, you all love the blog’s ghost posts. What about referrers?

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Daily Good News 41: Donations

I got a nice batch of news waiting for you. Are ya ready? Of course you are. Let’s do this.

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First news. A little girl had to get a tumor removed. Because of that resulting surgery, she ended up with hypothalamic obesity, a condition characterized by uncontrollable weight gain and food cravings. There’s surgery available to fix this, but the insurance won’t cover it. So:

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Dante’s Opinion: What do you think about self publishing books?

Time for another batch of questions. You ready? I am.

First question is from Firepaw_The Storyteller of Life:

What do you think about self publishing books? Do you think it might be the future of publishing? (Please explain)

Okay, so I self published a couple of books. I always thought it was a good way for people to be heard. Publishing companies of course are better able to filter out not so good products. But, there are a lot of good writers that simply would not be able to get with a publisher for one reason or another. So yeah, I think it’s a good thing. As for it being the way of the future…I can agree with that too. Many self publishing companies will allow you to do things for free but also have professional services for things like marketing or even looking at your work for you. I think self publishing, especially free services, are a way for authors to get something out there. In the end, there’s not much difference between going to a publisher or doing it yourself if you pay the self publishing platform for various services. I wouldn’t be surprised to start hearing about big publishers offering self publishing opportunities. I don’t think we’re close to that but it could happen in another decade or two if success stories continue to pop up from self published authors.

Felix:

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Daily Good News 40: Top 10 Stories of 2013

This post isn’t going to be easy at all. However, I’m going to go through all of the good news I posted this year and selected my top ten that really stood out for me. We’ll start with out usual image and then get to the news. The links in the date take you to the original post that I shared the news in.

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Okay, so, allow me to go into the archives. And, again, all from this year. So, this will include Good Friday posts, Daily Good Stuff posts, and Daily Good News posts.

This story is from January 18th:

Derrick Hogan is a police officer who helped an 86 year old woman in a great way. First, the police station sent him to her house as she wasn’t able to drive. Relatives who usually helped her had passed, including her son. So, Hogan goes in and it turns out that the lady needed a way to get food from the local church.

Dogan decides that maybe the church wouldn’t help. So, he went to the grocery store himself and bought the little old lady food…with his own money. She gave him a list but he bought more than what was on the list. He bought her some tasty ham as well as decorations for her house.

February 22nd:

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Breaking Down the Discounts for My Book

Okay, so I’ve tossed around prices for this and codes for that. I wanted to go into greater detail of what this all means. Basically, there are two forms of discounts for my book. One is for print and the other is for Kindle.

Discount on print:

Here, I published my book using CreateSpace, and Amazon.com company. My book is available in many places (where ever books are sold, it has the potential to be there). However, the discount on the print version only works as CreateSpace. When you go there, my book will be available. I have a code that can get you 15% off of the $10 tag. Again, only works at CreateSpace. Not even Amazon.com.

Discount on Kindle:

Okay, now what about Kindle? Well, the Kindle MatchBook program offers customers who purchase, or have previously purchased, a print book from Amazon.com the option to purchase the Kindle version of that title for $2.99 or less. Authors choose a Promotional List Price of $2.99, $1.99, $0.99, or free; as long as the price selected is at least 50% lower than the regular Digital List Price.

So, basically, I had the option of putting my version in the program and then being able to select one of those prices. I went with free. Now, Kindle on its own is $2.99. If you buy print, and decide you want Kindle too, you don’t even have to pay for it.

Do the math:

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