November is a good time to curl up in a chair and read a book–or watch a DVD–or maybe read a blog? Time for my almost monthly report on where the traffic is coming from and which posts were most popular in the past month.
The Geography of November? Vienna, Texas, Arizona, France, Egypt, New Mexico, Utah, Ireland, Oklahoma, Scotland, Iran, Oklahoma.
Ten Most Popular Posts
Two about movies, three about my personal travel, three by guests, five about books, one about Passports With Purpose.
1. A Mystery Book and a Taste of Vienna a guest post by Kristen J. Gough. She talks about a mystery book set in Vienna, her experience living in Vienna, and gives us a link to a Vienna torte recipe. THANK YOU, Kristen for writing the post that got more than two times the visits as the 2nd post on this list!
2. Being a Cowboy in Wickenburg, Arizona This travel post described our weekend stay at the luxurious guest ranch, Rancho de los Caballeros. Those wonderful folks also donate a 3 night stay worth $1500 to Passports With Purpose. You can have a chance to win it for a $10 donation. Yippee! for los Caballeros!
3. Ten Perfect Gifts for Travelers Who Read. Among the other gifts, three new books were mentioned in this post: Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust to Go, Lonely Planet’s Moveable Feast, edited by Don George and the Museyon Film + Travel Guides. Not to mention suggesting you check out Interlink Publishing.
4. My post on Passports With Purpose gets traffic as people visit to check out the prizes I’m hosting–Rancho de los Caballeros in Arizona and the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans. Are YOU in??
5. Remembering the Veterans of Normandy. Ken’s and my visit to Normandy and the book he was reading as we traveled.
6. Agatha Christie’s Egypt. A wonderful guest post by Benedict Davies, an Egyptologist who reads more than scholarly papers. Don’t miss this one. He contributed some lovely photos, too.
7. Movies that Travel. A peek at two coming movies that travel, and some websites for travel/movie fans.
8. Books for the Road Trip to New Mexico. Three authors, three cultures of New Mexico
9. Movie Review: Secret of Kells. This review by movie guru, Jane Boursaw of the Film Gecko, sold me on going to the gorgeous film. (The clip helped, too!)
10. Osiyo. Another post about travel rather than books or movies–this tells about my visit to Oklahoma with the Cherokee Nation and the invention of their alphabet.
TOP COMMENTERS
Bloggers are catching on to the fact that in coming links are a very good thing. And everybody who manages to comment frequently at A Traveler’s Library, will be rewarded with a link to his/her blog. Not only that ALL bloggers who comment are rewarded by being able to highlight a post from their site when they comment, thanks to Comment Luv. And as for the rest of us–we just love to hear the conversation.
Among visitors who commented five or more times in November, we have three ties.
First place with 8 comments:
- Kerry Dexter of Music Road
- Richard Mussler-Wright, of no blog at all.
Second place with 7 comments:
- Kristen J. Gough, of My Kids Eat Squid
- Jessie Voigt of Wandering Educators.
Third place with 5 comments:
- Casey Barber of Good. Food. Stories.
- Sheryl Kraft of Mid Life Matters.
REFERRALS
And now for the beloved people who send readers over to A Traveler’s Library. As usual, search engines and Stumble and Twitter and Facebook get lots of credit, but there are other folks being helpful as well. These are the ones who sent the MOST traffic in November.
- Passports with a Purpose (Have you checked out the prizes yet??)
- Lonely Planet Because I’m a L.P. BlogSherpa and my posts go on their site.
- My Itchy Travel Feet I wrote a guest post for this NUMBER ONE RATED Baby Boomer Blog about visiting Bayeux
- Practical Travel Gear I wrote a fun guest post for this very useful web site about 5 Things to Pack
- Paperback Traveler Although this site is on hiatus, there are some good traveler literature reviews to be seen.
- Midwest Guest Dominique lists articles she likes, and she’s referred to ATL .
- Mother of All Trips One of my very favorite family travel sites.
December will be a short month, as we’re taking a break after December 17, so read fast!!
These posts are so fun, Vera! Folks always like to see their name in lights. 🙂
Still can’t get CommentLuv to work with Google’s Blogger, if I could, I’d invite you all to comment there as well. (If anyone has made it work please let me know).
I look forward to reading your blog, Vera. Thanks for such interesting posts – I have enjoyed them all.
You’re so sweet – and you feed my appetite for good reads too! Have a wonderful, relaxing holiday.
I love that you look at your data like this. I really need to pay more attention to such things.
What a great variety of posts and people and fun info you have, Vera. I’m delighted to be part of A Traveler’s Library.
And we’re so glad to have you. Read that review of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, by the way, and it is a terrific review. Congratulatons.