Who visits your blog?
Including a stats/tracking system on your blog is fairly easy and will make all the wondering disappear.
There are many reasons why you should include a tracking system to your blog. Here are five reasons to consider.
1. Find out if your advertising techniques are working.
2. Which links are being clicked on?
3. Find what over bloggers visiting your site?
4. Are visitors finding your blog through search engines?
5. What keywords lead visitors to your blog?
Now, which tracking system should you choose? There are a number of them available but I am only going mention three.
Site Meter – this is a fast, free and easy set up meter. I don’t have personal experience with this one but you can view a sample stats page. I did notice that they tell you how long each visitor is on a page. This featured I have not seen in other tracking systems I have used.
MyBlogLog – this is a community based tracking system. You can join communities, add friends, and best of all see (with photos) who is visiting your blog. They don’t offer detailed tracking like Google or Site meter but it is still pretty decent. Their basic account is free or you can upgrade to their pro version with is $3 month or $25 a year.
Google Analytics – this tracking system tells you everything you want to know about your visitors. This script is also great for people using Adwords because you can view your overall keyword conversions. Google Analytics is a serious tracking system and is also a free.
If you have a favorite tracking system please let us know and your reasons why.
Mona Weathers
Blog
November 14th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
I have used site meter for nearly 5 years now on http://www.thesantadance.com and the statistics are very good indeed.
You might also want to consider popstats for wordpress. It is a quick thumbnail look at your blog and it’s usage and you don’t have to belong to a service like google or sitemeter since the blog itself is collecting the data.
You can read more about it here:
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http://www.biggandyy.com/2006/10/06/wordpress-mods-you-cant-live-without/
(Sorry, can’t resist a plug
November 15th, 2006 at 1:23 pm
Thanks for adding that information. Are the stats for wordpress plugin in spanish too?
You have some very useful plugins listed on your blog. Thanks for adding the info.
November 16th, 2006 at 12:50 am
I love Google Analytics: It’s free, there is so much information, and it’s fairly easy to setup.
November 16th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
No, the output from popstats is in english . And thanks for the props on the plugsin. I have tried lots and lots and those rise to the top above the clutter.
November 19th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
I would definitely recommend looking into mint (”have a mint”). The only thing is that it costs $30, but it’s definitely worth it. Lot’s of peppers to add to it, to track even more then just the simple search referrers, hits, etc.
November 20th, 2006 at 10:34 am
Thanks Jordan I will look into that one.
December 4th, 2006 at 3:09 am
I also love google analytics when i started to play around with it just last week but i need to learn alot from experience the hard way.
Does anybody know what the exact value and use of those navigatins of Google analytics? How to use them? or what to use of all the links it has?
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:20 pm
My favorite by far is the onestat.com free service. Great stats for free; everything from web site reffered by, to visitor location information and standard stuff like pageviews, etc. They’re out of Amsterdam, but they rival some of the big corporate web stat products just offering their product for smaller web site use as well.
February 12th, 2007 at 10:36 am
I can recommend FeedBurner’s newly announced “site stats” service, if you are already tracking your news feeds trough their services.