2007-05-31

Tracking statistics

You can't possibly know whether your site is successful or not without knowing how to measure its success. How many people visited it today? Where were they mostly from? Who directed them to your website? Which pages were the most interesting to them? Did anyone leave a backlink to you somewhere?

To be able to answer all these questions you've got to embed a tool into your pages that would measure all that data. There are quite a few of them on the Internet and most of them won't charge you even a gulden for having this information at your hand.

The simplest to embed when you power Blogger for your site would be Google Analytics. Simply create an account with them, get a small code snippet, and then go to "Page elements" in your blogger's Template tab and add HTML/Script element that contains the above snippet. Your statistics will start counting that same moment.

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