Who is visiting your website, and how did they get there?
Many people ask me about putting "Hit counters" on their site.
These things are a relic of the early days of the internet, and provide no meaningful information to you.
If you are hosted on WebAngel (or most other web hosts), your hosting control panel will contain a stats package named "AWSTATS".
Follow this link, and you’ll discover all sorts of things about the visitors to your website.
- Graphs of the visitors for the month.
- Graphs of the days and times when people visited
- Where they clicked a link to reach your site (Ideal for tracking effectiveness of your advertising)
- The search terms they used to find your site
- How many uinique visitors you had
- Which search engines have visited your site – and when
- What pages were viewed on your site – and how many times.
If you’ve never done this, have a look at what AWSTATS can tell you.
It’s fascinating, and gives you real, solid feedback on whether your website is working for you or not.
Regards,
Eric G.
I thoroughly reccomend this to anyone with a web site.
Eric showed this to me last yeat and I find it very interesting to watch what happens behind the scene in cyber space.
Unfortunately I do not understand most of it.
But the graphs are straight forward and by reading the index on the left of the screen, you can get a lot of info on who is looking at your site.
I wish I could shoot those BOTS, however.
Paul
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