Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thank you Tazein!

My friend Tazein of transcendingbordersblog has been so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award.

Thanks for your generosity, dear Tazein!

The rules of this award are:

1. Thank the person who nominated you and add a link to their blog.

2. Display the award on your post.

3. List the award rules so your nominees will know what to do.

4. State 7 things about yourself.

5. Nominate 15 other bloggers for the award.

6. Contact your nominees to let them know you have nominated them. Provide a link to your post.

7. Proudly display the award logo (or buttons) on your blog, whether on your side bar, ABOUT page, or a special page for awards.

Seven things about myself:

1. Where did most visits to my blog come from so far today?

Country	Views
United States	85
United Kingdom	27
Canada	22
Australia	12
Germany	7
Russian Federation	4
Philippines	4
New Zealand	4
France	3
Bahrain	3
Belgium	3
Pakistan	3
Singapore	3

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

Top Views by Country for 90 days ending 2014-02-10 (Summarized)

Country	Views
United States	19,572
United Kingdom	9,311
Canada	2,808
Netherlands	2,466
Jamaica	2,181
Australia	1,682
France	1,368
Germany	1,292
India	1,160
Greece	720
South Africa	621
Spain	596
Italy	494
Philippines	489
Ireland	436
Belgium	399
Bahrain	362
Sweden	338
New Zealand	333
Saudi Arabia	325
Turkey	313
Indonesia	304
Pakistan	301
Singapore	285
Romania	282
Japan	264
Republic of Korea	252
Poland	245
Malaysia	228
Finland	213
Switzerland	211
Brazil	211
Norway	209
Armenia	198
United Arab Emirates	194
Thailand	188
Mexico	188
Hong Kong	183
Israel	180
Russian Federation	171
Denmark	167
Portugal	152
Austria	141
Egypt	127
Czech Republic	119
Sri Lanka	109

3. Which blog posts or pages attracted most visits to my blog so far today?

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		42
British spies ‘use online viruses and honey traps to discredit targets’		6
Prehistoric human discovery in England		6
British Prince William killed wildlife a day before his pro-wildlife appeal		6
Anti-immigrant British minister employs ‘illegal’ immigrant		5
Polar bears’ Valentine’s Day		4
Spitsbergen flowers photos		4
The Lighthouse Award, thank you, Horty!		4
Slavery and love in Suriname, new film		4
Most hated animals top 50		3

4. Which blog posts or pages attracted most visits to my blog this month?

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		2,717
USA: poetess Katharine Lee Bates was feminist, lesbian, Christian socialist, and anti-imperialist		321
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		257
About		201
Dutch snowy owls from Newfoundland by ship?		163
Montagu’s harrier migration, new research		155
Lesser Antillean iguana in danger		152
Most hated animals top 50		112
USA: ancient Egyptian sarcophagus as corporate boss’ plaything		97
Little owls in nestbox, video		90
Slavery and love in Suriname, new film		88
Dutch in Suriname, most cruel slave-masters		77
Thai women’s escape from Bahraini forced prostitution		76
Botero exhibition: Abu Ghraib torture, men, women, horse, cat, sphinx. And Escher		68
Fukushima nuclear disaster news update		61
Awards		61
Boys’ mass grave at Florida prison discovered		60
European Union greenwash, cartoon		59
Anne Frank’s toys rediscovered		58
YMCA played at Sochi Olympics		58
Two lion cubs in Lady Liuwa’s pride in Zambia		55
West Virginia water pollution scandal		54
Japanese forced prostitution women’s stories		53
The Lighthouse Award, thank you, Horty!		52
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		50

Referrers for 7 days ending 2014-02-10 (Summarized)

2014-02-03 to Today

Referrer		Views
Search Engines		2,188
Facebook		135
Twitter		71
WordPress Dashboard		64
WordPress.com Reader		57
r.search.yahoo.com		25
go.videoentertainmnt.com		19
topix.com		16
sports.yahoo.com		13
mungaiandthegoaconstrictor.wordpress.com		8
search.tb.ask.com		6
r.duckduckgo.com		6

6. Which sites referred most to my blog, ever since it moved to WordPress in December 2011?

Referrer		Views
Search Engines		173,313
WordPress.com Reader		11,403
Facebook		4,345
WordPress Dashboard		4,141
mail.yahoo.com		2,924
Twitter		2,598
topix.com		1,741
2012indyinfo.com		1,287

7. Which search engines referred most to my blog, ever since it moved to WordPress in December 2011?

Referrer

Views

Search Engines

173,313

Google Search		108,832
Google Image Search		48,303
Bing		6,316
Yahoo Search		5,539
Yahoo Image Search		647
AOL		553
Ask.com		491
Google Mobile		487
search.babylon.com		411
isearch.avg.com		312
mywebsearch.com		227
Conduit.com Search		217
search-results.com		170
search.bt.com		123
search.comcast.net		105
Yahoo Mobile		103

My nominees are:

1. Watch • Humans • Move

2. White Shadows

3. Words We Women Write

4. ‘Soulful’

5. AttraVerso · Cristiano Camaur

6. FIERY FLANEUSE

7. Paint the world with words

8. Artemis

9. letopiseț de web

10. The UGlos Bioscience Blog

11. Head over Heels 2014

12. Mommy Makes Photos

13. Ellie Belfiglio

14. Substance AND Style

15. Denisa Aricescu Poezii

21 thoughts on “Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thank you Tazein!”

dapperdolly on February 10, 2014 at 1:06 pm said:

Congratulations on your very well deserved award and heartfelt thanks for forwarding it to me. I’m honoured to receive it from you and to be among the very informative and educational blogs you’ve listed. Your blog content is important and I value reading the articles you’ve posted. Additionally your stats are very interesting.

Congrats and thanks again and I will post the acceptance soon whilst linking back to you 🙂

All the best!

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- petrel41 on February 10, 2014 at 1:29 pm said:
  
  Well deserved 🙂 All the best for you and your blog! And thanks for your kind words 🙂
  
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thefieryflaneuse on February 10, 2014 at 1:38 pm said:

Thank you so much for nominating my blog! I have really enjoyed reading your posts, which as dapperdolly pointed out are always important and interesting. You really deserve your nomination. I’m very happy to be on your list, especially as my 3-month-old blog is only just beginning to get hits and feedback! Thanks again, I’ll do my post soon 🙂

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- petrel41 on February 10, 2014 at 1:41 pm said:
  
  Well deserved 🙂 No need to hurry, as the award is for helping bloggers, not for hurrying them 🙂 Your blog will get much more feedback!
  
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robbinsrealm on February 11, 2014 at 4:10 am said:

Congratulations!

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- petrel41 on February 11, 2014 at 7:27 am said:
  
  Thank you! Best wishes for you and your blog!
  
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soulfulchitra on February 11, 2014 at 8:48 am said:

Thank you so much for nominating my blog here. The inspiration here is mutual. I am excited and would like to know where is it happening and what am I supposed to do here? 🙂 Do I have to nominate people for this?

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- petrel41 on February 11, 2014 at 8:56 am said:
  
  Well deserved 🙂 All nominees are completely free to do with the nomination what they want. You can indeed nominate bloggers if you know about blogs who deserve such an award.
  
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  - soulfulchitra on February 11, 2014 at 9:35 am said:
    
    Thanks much. 🙂
    
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  - soulfulchitra on February 11, 2014 at 9:36 am said:
    
    I mean, do I need to make any effort or follow any rule to qualify or m eligible?
    
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    - petrel41 on February 11, 2014 at 1:25 pm said:
      
      If you are nominated, then you have the award. You can, if you want to, make a blog post about it. You might, eg, copy my blog post, and then replace everything in it which applies to me, but not to you (like nominees’ names and address) with your own words.
      
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      - soulfulchitra on February 11, 2014 at 2:25 pm said:
        
        oh thank you so much for this. It’ll be great 🙂
        
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        petrel41 on February 11, 2014 at 3:51 pm said:
        
        🙂
        
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      - soulfulchitra on February 11, 2014 at 3:37 pm said:
        
        Hi Petrel, your awards are inspiring 🙂 .. see I have also tried to showcae it here 🙂
        http://soulfulchitra.com/award/
        
        Thank you again.
        
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Words We Women Write on February 12, 2014 at 3:32 am said:

WWWW thanks you! Happy Blogging 🙂

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- petrel41 on February 12, 2014 at 8:14 am said:
  
  Well deserved 🙂 All the best for you and your blog!
  
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dapperdolly on February 17, 2014 at 2:52 am said:

Hiya, just to let you know I posted my acceptance post and to thank you again!

Very Inspiring Blogger Award – Home Calling

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- petrel41 on February 17, 2014 at 7:51 am said:
  
  Well done 🙂 All the best for you and your blog!
  
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