May 2017 marked the first month on the new WordPress site. Because the feed into Triberr stayed the same, the number of viewers did not decrease. In fact, I linked to a few more tribes that feature the romance genre, which gave RLF an expanded reach and views were up all around. Sincere thanks to Dee Owens at Personalized Marketing Inc for her hard work at making this blog look awesome and work so perfectly.

Three of the top four posts were blog related, including our special RLFblog Day One post titled Discover Authors and Books with RLFblog, RLFblog Moving Day, and the monthly RLF Gems. I did not count them among the top bloggers because all those awards would go to me. I’d like to see the credit go to guests. You are why I do this!

The Top Blogger for this month is Saraya St Clair, who wins a month of free advertising on the blog. Top Blogger of 2016 was Susan V Vaughn, who won a year of free advertising for 2017.

Each month, the RLF Gems post ranks in the top ten but is not counted, in order to focus on guests. The winners are judged by cumulative page views, including return and unique visits.

Congratulations to these fine bloggers:
1. Saraya St Clair
2. Kristina Knight
3. Laura Strickland
4. Rainy Kay
5. Yoshiyuki Ly
Honorable mention: Alina K Field, Livia Quinn

Top Blogger Saraya St Clair

Website: http://sayarastclair.com
Blog: http://www.sayarastclair.com/wp/blog-2/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/sayarastclair
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sayarastclairauthor
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/sayarastclair
Goodreads: http://bit.ly/GoodreadsSSC
Amazon Author Page: http://bit.ly/Sayara

Top Chatters for the Month

The person who gets the most comments in a month is not always the person who gets the most page views per month. For that reason, I instituted the Top Chatter Award. This award is for the person who receives the most comments. To win, a guest must have five or more comments. There can be up to three winners.
This month’s winners are:

Jessica Cale
Zrinka Jelic

Not only does RLF post automatically to Triberr with a reach of several million, each post is also featured on the Romance Lives Forever Pinterest board http://www.pinterest.com/kayelleallen/romance-lives-forever-rlfblog/ as well as on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/RomanceLivesForever/
When you like and share the posts it increases the reach. Thank you for sharing with your readers and friends!

Be a Guest Author

Romance Lives Forever uses Signup Genius to schedule guests. The system also reminds authors of their visit. One post is available each day. Once you choose a date, no one else will be able to take it. You can sign up for more than one visit; however, each visit must be in a different month.

May – June
http://bit.ly/rlf2Q2017
July – September
http://bit.ly/rlf3Q2017
October – December
http://bit.ly/rlf4Q2017

My thanks to all who took part this month. You made Romance Lives Forever a great place to discover new books and authors.

Other participants this month in alphabetical order by first name are:
Adele Downs, Anne Kane, Ashley York, Cailin Briste, Dana Littlejohn, Jessie Clever, Jude Knight, Kate Hill, Kayelle Allen, Kris Bock, Liz Adams, Liza O’Connor, Ruth Kaufman, Shari Elder, Stacey E Bryan, Susana Ellis, Tina Donahue, Valerie Ullmer

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Personal request: If you are a guest and you use Blasty to take down pirates, please whitelist this site. Thank you!