Traveler’s Library Books in April

Top Traffic Posts of April

Hooray for Guests! The top four new posts in April were written by Guest Posters!  Thanks go to

• Kerry Dexter for Family Travels From Ireland . Follow Kerry at Music Road
• Mark Heers for Twain’s Travel Literature Sways Another Mark. Mark’s look at travel wonders is a must read for me.
• La La Corriere for New Book Brings France to your Kitchen. Get more of her delicious writing at her blog.
• Jessie Voigts for A Travel Book Guide to Ghosts in Chicago. See the very incredible travel site Wandering Educators for more of Jessie’s Work.

Usually I don’t bother to tell you about older posts that rank near the top, but I thought you might find it interesting. So here goes, with new posts in bold and older posts in ():

• Family Travels from Ireland
• (Road Trip Books: The List)
• Twain’s Travel Literature
• (Old Book for a Quiet Corner of Ireland) People go there to snatch the picture, and only stay a few seconds.
• New Book Brings France to your Kitchen
• (36-Hours or So in Tucson Slide Show)
• (Italy Week at A Traveler’s Library)
• (3 Best Travel Secrets of Greece)
• (Hiawatha, American Classic Poem for Children)
• (Ancient Rome in Literature) I suspect folks may be looking for pictures of the Roman Forum here, but they stick around a while, so maybe its the topic)
• A Travel Book Guide to Ghosts in Chicago

People Who Comment (a Lot)

You may have noticed that bloggers or web site owners are rewarded for their comments at A Traveler’s Library by getting their latest post promoted, but ALSO, if you have a twitter handle, you can add that so that people can follow you. Cool!

More than Ten Comments during April:

• Anjuli (Connie Ong)
• Jessie Voigts (Wandering Educators–link above)

More than Five Comments during April:

• Kerry Dexter (Music Road–link above)
• Richard Mussler-Wright
• Mark Heers (Travel Wonders–link above)

I would like to mention that the blog drew a whole lot of new commenters last month, and we hope they will keep joining in the conversation. I just love to see those new names pop up!

Next month I will not be reporting on most comments–because the contest will skew the results. Back in July with a report on June’s commenters.

People Who Drive Traffic to the Site (Other than Search Engines and Stumble, etc.:

2010 Bloggies.com (still sending viewers because I was one of five finalists as best of travel blogs in Bloggies 2010)

Fisher Academy International Blog (linked to a guest post about a children’s book on Monet’s garden in Giverny.)

Lonely Planet (Where I am a BlogSherpa)

Dream of Italy 2 (The blog for the wonderful newsletter about Italy. I’m on the blogroll there and wrote an article for the newsletter about fractional properties in Italy.

Wandering Educators (Where I am Traveler’s Library Editor)

Music Road (Who partners with me on The Great American Road Trip).

Thank you all!!

And having launched the Great Big Literature Giveaway II in yesterday’s post, I look forward to your comments as you vie for the awesome bunch of books to be given away.

Tomorrow The Great American Road Trip returns with a post from a family member who lives in old Virginny. If you have missed any of the New England or mid-Atlantic states that we covered before heading into the South..be sure to start with the kick-off post,  Blue Highways, and check the posts every Wednesday after that to get your reading material for the road trip.

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