Why my WordPress followers are my favorite

Oh Lord, what did I do!? I don’t look at my followings from various places as my kids. I do have a favorite following.

Huh, I guess I do look at you all as my kids. I know for a fact my baby sister is the favorite of the three of us. My parents deny it; but it’s true.

I guess my favorite kid is WordPress. Ya know, when I first joined WP and was trying to understand terminology, I came across publicize. You could connect your social media accounts to the blog. Apparently, the blog used at least the numbers from Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook as well as the blog itself as to give one number: You following. At least, that’s how I figured it out. When I put in the “Follow Blog” widget, when I check the little box to show the number of followers, I noticed it was bigger than the blog’s actual following. After doing some math, that’s how I came to my conclusion. I just wonder why G+, LinkedIn, and Path aren’t a part of it. But, whenever I talk about my following, I mention each of those areas in publicize.

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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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Let’s Try This Again…DALANEL’s New Look

This theme is called Newsworthy and this was second place when I decided to go with a new theme early last month. My new blog has this theme as well. And, after hearing and seeing more negative than positive reactions to Writr, I decided to go with this new look.

There will be a poll at the end of this post asking you how you like this new look compared to the other. This link will take you to WordPress’ demo site of my previous theme so you can compare.

Okay, so let me just walk you through the new look if you’re not familiar with it.

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DALANEL Stats November 2013: A Terrible Blog Improves to Bad

The historic month is over. November out did all of this year. It accounted for one third of the blog’s views for all time. So yeah, this blog had a nice explosion during this month. However, that explosion happened in the second week of the month. After that, viewing has been a joke. So much that I anticipate a huge setback on monthly views. Still, let’s talk about how November went.

For most viewed posts, here’s what you’ve been looking at. By the way, I normally look at the top five, but, for this great month, we’ll look at top ten:

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Wait A Minute…Can DALANEL Get to 1,000 Followers!?

Hold on.

*grabs a calculator and adds values*

I…I-I don’t think I’m getting this correctly. Help me out. I’m trying to add my social media following as well as WordPress following.

  • Facebook: 373
  • Twitter: 212
  • WordPress: 126
  • Tumblr: 114
  • LinkedIn: 98
  • Google+: 26
  • Comment: 1

Can you tell me what that adds to? I keep getting 950, but, that can’t be right. I just got to 800. Is my following on the verge of 1,000? As I keep saying, these are the numbers WordPress uses as “publicize”. Fellow WP users know what I mean; especially if you look up the term publicize.

*checks numbers again* It’s possible! Holy…

What do I do? Do I go for it?

DARN RIGHT.

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