
I have decided that I enjoy the method that Google Analytics tracks my blog data.
Some of you may have varying opinions on the subject, so please comment.
Google AnalyticsThe things that I like about it are that you have a complete analytical dashboard.
This dashboard is interactive and complete with line graphs showing dates and visit numbers for your blog, the number of visitors, a map overlay of the locations of your visitors, a pie chart showing where your visitors are coming from, and a content overview section so that you can evaluate what content to continue writing about based on the number of visits.
Within these areas you can get really detailed reports.
We'll just take one example of the detail reports that I happen to enjoy..."Visitors".
I click on visitors for any of my blogs and it give another dashboard with stats for the site.
I can click on "Visitor Trending" and see anything from "Pageviews" to "Time On Site".
Clicking on "Visitor Loyalty", I can find out how many are return visitors versus how many are new.
If you want to know something about your readers it is on Google Analytics.
Don't forget to use the Ping locations that I mentioned in my December 10th article. Unless you network and ping your site, the traffic is not just going to come knocking automatically.