Top 10 Most Popular Posts on My Blog in 2013

                 Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2013

Since this blog is only 16 months old, this is my first opportunity to look back at a full year of posts. I'm happy to say there were almost 8,000 visitors last year, a relatively small number as established blogs go, but I'm sure it was a highly select group of readers and bloggers! :)

I was curious to know what brought them here, so I did a little checking and calculating ~ and this is what I found were the top 10 most visited blog posts of 2013.


1. The easy winner of 1st place was ~
Getting Beyond that First "No" (Feb 10). It was also part of a blog hop, which would have affected the participation.  http://www.allyshields.com/1/post/2013/02/getting-beyond-that-first-no.html

2. Two very different coffee chats tied for second place ~
Coffee Chat with Author Milly Taiden (Mar 10): http://www.allyshields.com/1/post/2013/03/coffee-chat-with-author-milly-taiden.html. Milly writes smexy romances!
and
Sunday Coffee Chat with Author Edith Maxwell (Nov 24): http://www.allyshields.com/1/post/2013/11/sunday-coffee-chat-with-author-edith-maxwell.html. Edith writes cozy mysteries!
I always knew I had multi-genre blog readers. I think this proves it! :)

4. The fourth spot really pleased me. It was the Coffee Chat with Writer Kath Boyd Marsh (Apr 3), my critique partner. Apparently you found her as amazing and helpful as I do. http://www.allyshields.com/1/post/2013/04/coffee-chat-with-writer-kath-boyd-marsh.html

5.  Sneak Peek Sunday Feb 24 (which was a snippet for the not yet released second book in my series, Fire Within): http://www.allyshields.com/1/post/2013/02/sneak-peek-sunday-feb-24.html

6. Witches, Witchcraft and the Calin Family Book of Shadows (Mar 10): http://www.allyshields.com/1/post/2013/03/witches-witchcraft-the-calin-family-book-of-shadows.html

7. Another tie for seventh place: the first was a Coffee Chat with Author Dani-Lyn Alexander (Jan 20):  http://www.allyshields.com/1/post/2013/01/coffee-chat-with-author-dani-lyn-alexander.html
and
the second was a link to Murder Most Otherworldly (Oct 28), an article I wrote for a murder/mystery blog: http://www.allyshields.com/1/post/2012/10/murder-most-otherworldly.html

9. The Sunshine Award (Mar 22): http://www.allyshields.com/1/post/2013/03/ive-been-honored-with-a-sunshine-award.html

10. Irish Magic - Three Wishes in conjunction with the Irish Gold Blog Hop: http://www.allyshields.com/1/post/2013/03/irish-gold-blog-hop.html Thank you to all of you who stopped by the blog in 2013. Whether it was regularly or now and then, your visits were appreciated. I hope to see you back in 2014! Have a wonderful holiday!