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DALANEL Stats

I always like to give you a behind the scenes access to DALANEL. Normally, I talk about views and followers. But, and you know this if you run a WordPress blog, there’s more to talk about.

On Tuesday, DALANEL had its best day of views. It was incredible because this is coming off of two bad weeks in a row for the blog and two days after I mentioned the setback. What was interesting about it was that most of my referrers were from Pinterest. If I’m not mistaken, this was the first time I ever got anything from Pinterest. And so I took a look at my referrers from all time and I was right.

The top post from that day was Daily Good Stuff 77. I looked at the post. It wasn’t a special themed post. It was just a standard post. And yet it took over 60% of the views. What made it special? I don’t know.

But then, on Wednesday, I had an even BETTER day. What was interesting about it was that it performed similar to Tuesday. Two great days in a row after two weeks of crap.

Now that we’ve talked about the best day ever, let’s look at the site’s entire history.

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A Tour of DALANEL

As you may have noticed, I’ve made a few changes to DALANEL appearance-wise. This is a post talking about that as well as talking about the various pages on the site. If you’re new here or been following this blog for quite some time, you’ll need this post.

I’m Dante, and I’ll be your tour guide. Please hold all questions until the end of the post. Please stay with the group at all times and absolutely please touch any pages that interest you.

Let’s start with my widgets.

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Follow DALANEL

Welp, every once in a while I gotta encourage you to follow me and this blog at many social media platforms. I’ve joined a couple of other places since the last time I talked about this so I figured I’d catch you up. I’ll list each place by where I’m most active. In parenthesis, I’ll put my username or name that I use for that site.

  • Twitter (DanteWrites)
  • Facebook (Dante Writes)
  • LinkedIn (Dante Nelson)
  • Tumblr (DALANEL)
  • Goodreads (Dante Nelson)
  • Google+ (Dante Nelson)
  • Path (Dante Nelson)

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DALANEL Review: Windows Phone 8 Nokia Lumia 920

This is the first post of DALANEL Review, which reviews various products and stuff. Today, I’ll be talking about my Windows Phone. This is not a standard review like you see on other sites. I’ll talk about what I like about it and what could be better. I am not receiving any endorsement for my comments.

When I was due for an upgrade, I had choices of the iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy 4, and Windows Phone 8. I say that to say that I could’ve gotten the latest in any of the top phones. Now, to be specific, I have the Nokia Lumia 920 so I can only speak from this point of view. Other versions most likely will have the same stuff but there’s some differences too. So why Windows?

Customization

First off, the ability to customize the phone to my liking. Unlike a lot of other phones, WP8 lets you take control of the apps you see and notifications you get. Essentially, the many FREE ringtones, color schemes, and app preferences will create a phone like no other. It’s to the point where you can lay your WP8 next to 100 other WP8’s and you’ll be able to tell which one is yours just my looking at the home screen.

Xbox

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Daily Good Stuff 62: Twitter Style 2

I noticed that the most popular of my posts was Daily Good Stuff 22: Twitter Style (just glance to the left). So, I guess I need to do it again.

Let’s start off with an image:

pac-man-on-twitter2

 

There are so many things about this that makes this wonderful. I found this little article. It talks about the 7 deadly sins of Twitter. Are you on that list? I’m at least the last one.

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New DALANEL Milestone Reached

On April 18th, 2013 DALANEL reached a high on viewers in a day. Well, I am excited to announce that on May 8th, 2013, we reached an even higher viewership. I just want to say thank you.

I put the hits on the site and out in the open because I want you to see how this site is doing. I’m not here to try an lie to you about what’s going on. And I like to share the site’s goals and accomplishments with you all because it couldn’t happen without you anyway. And, as you can see, I don’t have a lot of hits. But I’m not complaining. It’s cool with me. I’m working hard and it’s paying off nice and easy.

It’s interesting because looking at the site stats, the best month ever for the site was May 2011. And here we are, two years later, and May once again is a month of milestone. But hey, just last month became the 2nd best month for the site. June 2011 is currently the 3rd best month. 2012 wasn’t a very good year for me, at least until the relaunch of the site as DALANEL (formerly known as Dante’s Opinion) in August 2012. I have more viewers as DALANEL than as Dante’s Opinion so the relaunch helped me out there.

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