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 Is it just me? Did I get less interesting? Am I not providing interesting reading to my readers?

Let me show you a picture to give you an idea of what I’m talking about.

 

That is my FeedBurner stats as of this morning.

Then I read Darren’s Post  and hope that he is right. That this is only a glitch with FeedBurner and I didn’t really lose so many subscribers all in one day. It started to make me think that I should just give up and go back to Tree Work to make a living.

Oh, well. Tomorrow will tell.

November 4th, 2007 at 12:22pm | Posted by Joe | FeedBurner, Stastics | 2 reader remarks | Print This Post

What Statistics Do You Look At First for Your Site?

The Basics?

Ok, After the Summary… We all want to know how many people visit, how may pages they view and how many return visitors we have. Even after the Visitor Paths, there you have to keep scrolling to see who went where and how many times they have returned and it’s really difficult to see Keywords with any real feel for what people are looking for.

Speaking of Keywords…

You should notice that a full 16% of the keywords used to find the Blog are Work from (at) Home and another 15% with variations of Work, Home, Business, Internet, Computer. All of which are in my MetaData Keyword list. I must have done something right. One suprise was how many times that variations of WordPress show up in searches, but it is nice. And this is only one page of 4, all of which give further information on how people are finding the Blog.

This leads us to Landing Pages…

I think the take away from the results of the Landing Pages stats show the importance of Keywords, not only in the URL of the Site, but in Titles of individual posts as well as the content within the posts themselves. The term Work at Home leads to the Main Page as well as numerous individual posts containing the term in the Title, sub-titles and text. It further indicates that Search Engines will pick up a Keyword if it is well placed within Title and text if it is currently important to readers searches (WordPress 2.2).

Just for the Halibut…

I show this because I want you to realize that you aren’t playing to a single country. I am from the U.S but only 50% of my readers are from the country in which I reside. The other 50% are from Everywhere Else. This is the main reason I put the Google Translate right above the Sidebar, I want to make it as easy as possible for people to read what I write.

Granted, this is only a snapshot of one day, but checking what Keywords are working and where people are landing is a good indicator of the audience I am reaching. And isn’t that the point, to reach the right readers? To give them what they are looking for?

What statictics give you the best indication of the health of your Blog?

June 27th, 2007 at 04:54pm | Posted by Joe | Basics, Google, Keywords, Management, Stastics, Work at Home | reader remarks | Print This Post

My Choice for a Total Stats Package

Did I finally find the Stats Package I was looking for?

I may have.

 FeedFlare by FeedBurner.

I have had FeedFlare set up for my FeedBurner feed for quite some time. It provides a way for subscribers to E-mail, tag, share, comment and interact with a site. Now, if you use FeedFlare, you can get statistics for your Blog as well as for your Feed on your FeedBurner account.

I have just had it running for the Blog for a couple of days, so I’ll reserve the right to change my mind. But so far, it seems to be comparable to most other stats packages that I have used on my Blogs. If you are already familiar with FeedBurner stats for feeds, then the Site Stats will be easy enough to follow.

In the FeedFlare Site Stats package you get…

• Dashboard… This gives you some of the basic figures for your site at a glance. The percentages of new readers, from searches, came from (other) sites and landed directly on your site. It also gives Top Pages, Top Incoming Traffic Sources and Top Outgoing Links. 
• Visitors… You get a good deal of info on your readers with this. Again, you get the percentages as before, but you also get a Pie Chart on the Browsers your readers use. You also get Top Cities (you better know the flags of different countries), Top Languages, Top Operating Systems and Top Screen Resolutions.
• Pages… Tells you how many visitors and how many pageviews you have up to the 1/2 hour. It also gives you the Top 10 Pages viewed on your site and how many views of each individual page.
• Incoming… This is broken down into your Traffic Sources by visit which are further broken down into Top Search Engines and Top Referring Domains.
• Outgoing… You get a pretty good idea of where, within your site, or clicking on links you have provided, your readers are going.

To see what the Statistics pages look like for my Blog, continue on after the break…

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February 6th, 2007 at 06:26am | Posted by Joe | FeedBurner, Reviews, Stastics | 1 reader remark | Print This Post