Belated Blogiversary

My second year blogiversary hit February 16th. However I was also approaching a very big milestone in the blogging world: 1 million page views. I decided to wait until that hit to celebrate my second year of blogging, and reflect (with a thankful spirit) on how this blog baby of mine his exceeded my expectations by a million (stupid pun intended) within one year of moving to wordpress.org.

We hit the 1,000,000 view today! I’m still in shock about how my little travel blog, built to keep my family in touch with us while we’re off traveling the world, has turned into such a big network of support. This post is all about you and how you’ve helped me reach this insane goal.
These stats below are as of April 20, 2013-April 22, 2014 (when I moved from WP.com-WP.org).

 

BLOG STATS/FOLLOWERS:
WP Email Subscribers: 216
Bloglovin’: 4,801
Feedly: 125
FeedBlitz: 109
Twitter followers: 2,490
Facebook fans: 1,358
Instagram followers: 1,474
Pinterest followers: 1,178
Google+ followers: 114
TOTAL: 11,865

YOUR TOP 10 FAVORITE POSTS/PAGES:
I Don’t Use Shampoo
I Still Don’t Use Shampoo
No Poo FAQ
Let’s Talk About No Poo
About
Our Travels
30 Day Challenge
12 Tips on Night Photography
Bored on a Thursday Night?
Advertise/Sponsor

TOP 5 COUNTRIES THAT VISIT:
United States (508,126 views)
Canada (46,004 views)
United Kingdom (23,960 views)
Australia (12,962 views)
Germany (5,358 views)

TOP 5 SITES THAT BROUGHT YOU HERE:
Pinterest (177,078 referrals)
Search Engines (141,509 referrals-thank you SEO and Genesis!)
Bloglovin’ (23,373 referrals)
Facebook (16,390 referrals)
Twitter (6,094 referrals)
*check out the power of social media!

TOP 5 OUTBOUND SITES YOU’VE CLICKED (excluding social media sites):
Coderedhat.com (17,787 clicks)
Thesuitcasedesigns.com (1,669 clicks)
Patriciabinfrance.blogspot.com-formerly kissesandcriossants.com (709 clicks)
Postcardsfromrachel.com (303 clicks)
Totheseablog.com (260 clicks)

TOP SEARCH ENGINE TERMS:
No poo method/No shampoo method (3,480 referrals)
Living in Another Language (356 referrals)
30 day Ab Challenge (138 referrals)
Blogging 101 (65 referrals)
.org. vs .com (39 referrals)

I also have a special announcement to make! You may have noticed my ad shop has been down for a couple months. That’s because I’ve been researching and renovating spots to make your sponsor experience the best it can be. It’s now up and running and I’m excited for the opportunity to display your ad on my sidebar! The ads themselves are now bigger and better than before, including bi-weekly in-post shouts, an opportunity for a gigantic quarterly giveaway, and of course guest posts. Go see which one works best for you!

I am also happy to announce I will be offering blog consultation services. It’s a little bit different for me living all the way over here in Asia (talk about completely different schedules and time zones), so this blog consultation will be a three day experience via email and gchat. I’ve been getting quite a few emails lately with bloggers asking me advice. This is the most extensive and thorough service I offer, and I can’t wait to help get you started in your blogging career!

Now, of course you didn’t think I’d be leaving you without a celebration discount now did you? Due to my blogiversary and ad-shop relaunch, I will be offering 30% off all ad spaces for the next 5 days!

Get your discounts by using the code ‘onemillion‘ in the Passionfruit Ad Shop checkout screen.