It has been a little while since I’ve told you (the readers of The Rantings of an Amateur Chef) how awesome you are. You continue to make this blog a success. Here are some of what you have done. Keep in mind, the blog first started in late February 2012.
TOTAL PAGE HITS: 150,325
TOTAL # OF POSTS: 192 (and average of 783 per post)
TOTAL SUBSCRIBERS: 3815 (many subscribers don’t go to the page regularly but read the post from the email, so the number of hits would be much, much larger if you count them)
COMMENTS RECEIVED: 5319
SPAM MESSAGES RECEIVED: 4347 (not included in the comment count above)
MOST COMMENTED POST (not counting “About”): Cake of the Irish
MOST VISITED POST: No Chipmunk Cheeks Here (This was posted on Pinterest’s main page and most views of this come from there)
MOST ACTIVE REFERRING SITE: Pinterest (then Google)
MOST COMMONLY USED SEARCH TERM TO GET TO THE BLOG: (three of the top four are some variation of the ranting chef) and “free stuff”
RECIPE SITE PEOPLE HAVE CLICKED A LINK TO GET TO FROM THE BLOG: myrecipies.com
# OF COUNTRIES THAT VISITS CAME FROM (based on IP): 159 (232 countries have been assigned IP addresses as of April 2012)
COUNTRY WITH THE FEWEST IP ADDRESSES WHERE A VISIT HAS COME FROM: St. Lucia which only has 256 IP addresses!!!
TOP 5 COUNTRIES WHO HAVE NOT VISITED (based on # of IP addresses): Iran, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Palestinian Territory, Macau
# OF DIFFERENT GUEST BLOGGERS WHO HAVE WRITTEN POSTS: 15 (If you are interested in writing a guest blog post, send me an email at rantingchef@yahoo.com)
# OF DIFFERENT AWARDS FELLOW BLOGGERS HAVE NOMINATED US FOR: 15
TOTAL # OF NOMINATIONS (multiples per award allowed): 118
Rantings of an Amateur Chef 
Ha! I’m one of the ones who reads the email and rarely visits in person (I’m picky and a lot of the ingredints aren’t to found in Ireland), but I have Cake of the Irish bookmarked! I follow because you are from Cleveland – I I loved it there – how often do you hear that? – and because of ‘Cake’. Glad you are doing so well, you deserve it!
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This is so awesome! Your blog is really successful and it’s shocking that it started just 6 months ago! Wow!! Big congrats!
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I read you from my android and have to go to your page from my email to give you a “like.” That way you know I follow you. Glad you are doing well with your page.
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That’s awesome. Congrats on all the success!
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Congratulations! As they say, the way to a person’s heart is through their stomach đŸ™‚
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You are one of the reasons I decided to keep working on my blog. I can’t tell you how glad I am that I found your blog đŸ™‚
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Whoaaa, that’s really good!! Well done!
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