One Lovely Blog Award, thanks theseeker!

One Lovely Blog Award

theseeker was so kind to nominate my blog for the One Lovely Blog Award.

Thanks so much! This is my third time for that award.

theseeker has a very interesting blog, writing about many varied subjects (a bit similar to what I try to with my blog in that respect 🙂 ).

The rules of the One Lovely Blog Award are:

Give credit to the awesome person who nominated you,
Describe seven things about yourself,
Nominate 15 other bloggers [presumably, linking to them].

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My list of seven things about me:

1. Where did most visits to my blog come from this week?

Country	Views
United States	1,090
United Kingdom	394
Canada	247
Netherlands	240
Jamaica	150
Australia	120
Tunisia	94
Germany	93
India	87
France	80
Greece	64
Sweden	62
Ireland	53
New Zealand	51
Philippines	49
Italy	37
Spain	34
Armenia	32
South Africa	27
Singapore	23
Japan	23
Malaysia	22
Bahrain	22
Saudi Arabia	20
Romania	19
Switzerland	17
Belgium	17
United Arab Emirates	15
Brazil	15

2. Where did most visits to my blog come from this month?

Top Views by Country for 30 days ending 2013-07-01 (Summarized)

Country	Views
United States	5,172
United Kingdom	2,157
Canada	1,094
Netherlands	645
Jamaica	556
Australia	541
India	457
Germany	395
France	333
Tunisia	273
Greece	223
Romania	214
Ireland	213
New Zealand	201

3. Which blog posts attracted most visits this week?

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		428
Rare night parrot found in Australia		77
Curaçao mudskippers, new computer game		53
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		50
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		50
Bishop arrested in Vatican bank scandal		45
Turks oppose German Syrian war soldiers		44
19-year-old finishes third in first Tour de France stage		40
New bird species discovery in Cambodian capital		40
Greek nazis burn Roma people’s homes		31
Greek hospital, TV workers fight austerity		30
Nineteen-year-old cyclist joins brother in Tour de France		29
About		29
Shine On Award, thanks Mush!		28
Semper Fidelis Award, thank you Tazein!		27
Bronzino painting restored after prude censorship		27
Bird paintings and bird sculpture		24
Poisonous caterpillars infest Spurn Point in England		22
British nazis’ swastika-daubing attack on mosque		22
Stop whale meat transport in Rotterdam, the Netherlands		20
Greek Golden Dawn nazis deny Holocaust		20

Top Posts for 365 days ending 2013-07-01 (Summarized)

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		29,825
British Thatcher aide accused of child abuse		5,781
After 35 years, wounds of Vietnamese napalm girl Kim Phuc still hurt		2,309
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		1,936
About		1,831
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		1,122
Thatcher’s Downing Street child abuse scandal		1,029
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl		906
Thai women’s escape from Bahraini forced prostitution		900
Long-tailed tits, owls, and flowers		872
Britain: Tony Blair’s own Watergate scandal		856
Poisonous caterpillars infest Spurn Point in England		825
Big new spider species discovery in Sri Lanka		771
New African monkey species discovered		753
Dinosaur discovery in France		707
Greek nazis burn Roma people’s homes		699
BBC: Pope Ratzinger ‘covered up paedophile priests scandals’. Like US Republicans		682
USA: ancient Egyptian sarcophagus as corporate boss’ plaything		660
Scotland: giant centipede, crocodile, and other fossils brought back to life		646
Will US soldier escape punishment for rape of Dutch girl?		644
Dutch war crimes in Indonesia, photos		609
Bronzino painting restored after prude censorship		600
Günter Grass poem on Greece and austerity, English translation		588
Pompeii: ancient Roman brothel restored. Roman plants		581
Blog of the Year 2012 award, thanks dogdaz!		562
Ghanaian women’s forced prostitution in Bahrain		555
Galapagos islands: why Darwin’s finches differ in beak size		497
Birds and other animals of Madagascar wetlands		449
Georgian prison sexual abuse		436
Dutch Romantic paintings and African mats		412
Kestrel and great egrets		403
New Zealand rare whale discovery		402

5. Which categories and tags attacted most visits?

Most popular topics you’ve written about

Topic	Views
Birds	623
Environment	620
Human rights	600
Economic, social, trade union, etc.	517
Biology	441
Crime	412
Netherlands	375
Mammals	337
Peace and war	272

If you tag your posts effectively, this panel will show you which topics get the most traffic. Snapshot generated from your top posts over the past week.

6. Which search terms brought most visits to my blog this week?

Search Terms for 7 days ending 2013-07-01 (Summarized)

Search	Views
night parrot	15
vatican scandal	8
great tits	7
prostitution in bahrain	7
tour de france 19 year old	5
braccio di bartolo	5
iguana	4
workers’ music association festival	4
national trust for conservation nepal news	4
lady liuwa	4
braccio di bartolo florence	4
vatican bank scandal	4
sexual abuse of children in iceland by catholic priests	3
orthotomus chaktomuk	3

7. Which search terms brought most visits to my blog, ever since it moved to WordPress in December 2011?

Search Terms for all days ending 2013-07-01 (Summarized)

Search	Views
watergate scandal	354
prostitution in bahrain	298
atsinganosaurus velauciensis	256
napalm girl	243
iraq war	201
iguana	201
long tailed tit	194
cercopithecus lomamiensis	188
boy raped	166
bahrain prostitution	151
egyptian sarcophagus	151
poisonous caterpillars	147
lady liuwa	133
wetland animals	132
great egret	126
largest centipede	120

And now I would like to nominate the following 15 bloggers for this Award [sorry, I broke this rule; more than 15 🙂 ]. Please note that I understand completely if you choose not to participate. As the saying goes; ‘No strings attached’!

So here are my 15 nominations:

1. InteriorStockholm

2. Galileo Ramos Wildlife Artist

3. MatthewRichardsPhotography

4. MoonLightened Way

5. all cooking reccipes

6. feministviews

7. By the Mighty Mumford

8. Enchanted Seashells

9. Animal Sciences..Serving Humanity

10. Ma ville lumiere

11. Hand in both boxes