Keeping Track of Your Blog’s Readers, Part 3: StatCounter
A quick note before the good stuff: if you haven’t already, go back and read Parts 1 and 2 of this series: Part 1: Have a Mint, and Part 2: Google Analytics.
Of all the analytics tools we’ve taken a look at so far, it’s safe to say that StatCounter is by far the oldest. It’s been [...]
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Keeping Track of Your Blog’s Readers, Part 2: Google Analytics
In Part 1 of our three-part series, we covered Shaun Inman’s excellent website statistics software Mint, a commercial software package you can install on your own server to record great-looking information about your readers. If you haven’t already, go take a look at that review.
Here in Part 2, we’ll take a look at Google’s free [...]
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Keeping Track of Your Blog’s Readers, Part 1: Have a Mint
If the purpose of your blog is to make money, knowing who is reading your blog is one of your most important responsibilities. You can’t make money unless people are reading your blog, and you won’t be able to effectively market your blog to its target audience. Therefore, it’s important to know everything you can [...]
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Why you should join the “dofollow” crusade
Blogging Addiction has decided to make comments “dofollow,” which will reward our “commentators” for their contributions to the site. Instead of leaving it at that, we’re going to explain the value of allowing “dofollow” comments and encourage our blog addicts to do the same.
Google created the “nofollow” attribute tag as a way to prevent certain [...]
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Five reasons why your blog is failing
I think it’s safe to say that most blogs are junk. Most blog posts are probably not worth your time to read. Obviously, that’s not the kind of blog you want to be running, and you don’t want people thinking that about your blog. Fortunately, if you’re not sure where you’re going wrong, there are [...]
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Clean up your permalinks for better search traffic
Anybody who’s been reading blogs for long has an opinion about permalinks. They may not know that “permalinks” are the official name for it, but they will have an opinion. If they don’t, they probably haven’t seen enough blogs. “Permalink” is a scary-looking word, though, and some people may not be clear on what it [...]
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