While I was celebrating my friends’ 50th birthdays (slightly in advance!) in Moscow last weekend, Portobello Book Blog reached a smaller milestone and turned two. I’ve had great fun over the past couple of years sharing my love of books, connecting with the blogging and writing community, reading so many wonderful books and meeting up with authors and bloggers in real life too. My blog was even nominated for a Best Book Review Blog award at the Annual Bloggers Bash, which I was naturally delighted about.
I am still slightly amazed when I look at the statistics for my blog, something I just started for fun and didn’t really expect many people to read or be interested in:
I’ve published 621 blogposts, have had 21754 visitors and 49274 views of my posts. Between blog followers, Twitter followers and people who like my Facebook page I have a total of 3039 followers. My most views in one day was on Sunday June 5th last year following a fabulous afternoon with authors and bloggers in Edinburgh, which I organised. There were 1376 views that day thanks to those who attended sharing my post about our get-together. We’ve had a few more gatherings since then and I’m very much looking forward to the next one later this month.
To celebrate and say thank you to all who have supported my blog in any way, I am running a giveaway for the next week. You must follow the blog in some way to enter. If you don’t already, you’ll find the various options to follow at the side of this page.
So what’s the prize I hear you ask? Well, it’s a surprise but I can tell you there will be three prizes, all book related, and you can enter up to midnight (UK time) next Saturday 15th April. I’ll contact the winners within 24 hours and announce them here and on Twitter.
Click here to enter my giveaway
Congratulations! One of my favourite reads too x
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Congratulations for two years of blogging!
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Happy blog birthday. I love your blog as you know. You do realise you can’t ever stop now though. My TBR relies on you. 🙂
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Happy blog birthday lovely, here’s to loads more brilliant reviews 😘
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A Happy Blogiversary to you, here’s to many more years of enjoying the love of books x
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Happy blog birthday lovely Joanne – and I remember that Edinburgh meet up so well – fabulous day even if I did travel 9 hours round trip to be there! Here’s to many more happy blogging years x
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Happy second blogiversary 😘😘
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Happy blog birthday. I hope you have a super day and many more brilliant years blogging.
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Happy Blogiversary! Congratulations on two years of blogging xx
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Happy blogiversary!! Hope you had a lovely time in Moscow too that sounds like fun 🙂
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Happy blog birthday!!!! Keep up the good work! 🎉🎂🎉
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Happy blogiversary, may there be many more fab years of posts & reviews xxx
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Happy blog birthday!! 😄🎉🎉
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Many congratulations on your 2nd Blogiversary and wishing you very more to come
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Congratulations, Joanne. Yours was a blog I followed before I set up my own and I’ve always loved reading it.
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Happy second blogiversary! Very jealous of your recent trip to Moscow.
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Happy blogoversary !! I see a lot of nice things here on your blog, so keep it up 🙂
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Congratulations, Joanne – and you know you’re one of my favourites! xx
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Happy Blogiversary 🙂 xx
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Happy 2nd Blogiversary ❤
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A very happy blog birthday! Congratulations and thanks for some great reading suggestions 🙂
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Happy bloggiversary! Here’s to many many more ☺
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Happy 2nd bloggiversary! Here’s to many more… 😊x
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Congratulations on your second blogiversary Joanne 🙂
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Happy Blogiversary! 🎂🍾🎂🍾🎂🍾 x
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Many congrats! X
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Such important work you do, Joanne. Many congratulations. xx
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Here’s wishing you a very happy 2nd blog birthday, Joanne. xx
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Thanks everyone for your kind words. Hope you have all entered!
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Happy Blogoversary. Here’s to many more 🙂
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Happy Blogoversary, keep up the good work!
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So awesome… Congrats!!!
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Happy blog anniversary!!! 🙂
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