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Counters and Stats
A very important part of your website is knowing how many visitors and page
views you have, how they get there, what keywords, search engines and links people use
most often to find your site. There are many services on the internet that give you that
information. The best free services I found so far appear below. I'm only listing the ones
that don't require you to place a banner ad on your site since I wouldn't consider using
them.
Sitemeter
My personal favorite! This counter tracks the number of page views, page visits,
durations, referrals, traffic prediction, browser, entry and exit pages, and more. Several
different counter styles available. You also get an added bonus of being listed in their
users page which gives you another link and a source of additional traffic.
The Counter
You get a lot of information such as the unique visitors, referrals, browsers, operating
systems and countries your visitors are coming from, and more. They even have an option to
make the counter invisible which I personally like.
Extreme Tracking
High quality with many stats and requires a small icon on your site. There is, however no
counter so all your visitors will see is the icon unless they click on it and read your
stats. It tracks visitors, referrals, browser, resolution, operating system, and what
country they are coming from.
Bravenet
One of the many free services that this site offers are free counters. There are several
different designs to choose from, although you don't get a lot of detailed information.
They limit the number of counters you can get, but they do let you register as many
accounts as you like to get more counters.
Nedstat
This has a very detailed stats very similar to Extreme Tracking except they limit the
referral pages to the last 25 visitors. They also require a small icon on your site and
don't have an option to show an actual "counter" to show visitors how many have
visited your site.
FastCounter
A service from LinkExchange that requires a small icon at the bottom of your page that
will tell you how many visitors you have received. You get weekly e-mail reports but
doesn't have the stats the other services have.
Hitbox
They have one of the most comprehensive stats services on the internet. This service logs
uniques, impressions, referrers, browsers, counties, ISP's used, time, operating systems,
java support, resolutions and much more.
Traffic boosting tips
Search Engines
The first place you need to get your website listed is in some of the hundreds of search
engines on the internet. Most everyone uses these, so get yourself listed. I'm still
learning the in's and out's of this one but I found a page on Virtual
Promote, which has some great advice on getting "search engine ready":
Link, link, link!
Exchange links with like sites and put your link on every site with a free-for-all links
page. This also helps improve your position with search engines. 50% of the top ten search
engines factor in the links-to-you when they rank your website. By increasing the number
of links to your web site you can dramatically improve your search engine result
positioning. You'll find the entrance on my links
page, feel free to list yourself there. Webrings are also a good way to get your site
linked.
Offer Free Stuff
Give something away, or put in links to free stuff. Spend a couple bucks on a raffle
prize, and make sure you get their email so you can send them a sample newsletter.
Everyone loves a freebie!