How to track website visitors
Tracking Your Website Visitors
Checking visitors and website traffic is essential to any marketing plan. Without it you have no way of telling you where your visitors or customers are coming from.
There are ton of free resources to help you figure out where, how and most importantly what keywords your visitors are using to find your website or post. Your web-hosting provider should have good analytical information via the cpanel section of your account. You should be able to see stats such as keywords. Obviously the keyword stats are very important!
Google Analytics is another good stats site that does help you determine where your website visitors are coming from. However the two I’ve mentioned above work well but does it takes somewhat of a learning curve to figure out how they work.
The number one stats website or program online today is statcounter.com it provides me with all the stats I want to know. And it does it in a very user friendly script.
Does your website get enough traffic? If not you better pay attention to the search engines and what keywords your visitors are using to find you, and what keywords potential visitors are using but not finding your website listed for yet. Statcounter.com does all this for free.
Popular pages is another stat you should check on quite often. Knowing which pages are visited most often is a powerful way of monetizing or doing better SEO for your other pages. If some pages are being overlooked it could be a good idea to improve or make the navigation to those pages more obvious.
Here is a list of what statcounter.com will give you:
- Popular Pages
- Entry Pages
- Exit Pages
- Came From
- Keyword Analysis
- Recent Keyword Activity
- Recent Came From
- Search Engine Wars
- Visitor Paths
- Visit Length
- Returning Visits
- Recent Pageload Activity
- Recent Visitor Activity
- Recent Visitor Map
- Country/State/City/ISP
- Browsers
- System Stats
- Lookup IP Address
- Download Logs
Man that is alot of statistical information. If you want to know where and how your visitors are coming to your website or blog I highly suggest you visit their website right now: statcounter.com
I gotta tell you these guys are the real deal, they help you install a small script on your website really easy. All this for nothing, zero, nada, zilch!
Thanks for reading my blog.
Paul Guzman
