Analyze the Visitors to Your Site
To see how you compare with your competitors, enter your keywords into Google and
then repeat the above check for some of the competing sites. How many links do you
have compared to them? This will give you an indication of how much work you have to
do to beat them to the top position.
I usually have a quick look at my website statistics every day or two. When you see an
increase in the number of visitors to your site it can really improve your day!
Just go to http://yourwebsite.com/stats or login to your WebEPanel and click on the stats
button. On the first page you’ll see some graphs and you can find out the number of daily and
monthly visitors, files, hits, pages and site. The most important stat is Visitors and you
should be aiming to increase this every month. You can see from the diagram above that I had an average of 1007 unique daily visitors in the month of January and 820 daily visitors in the month of December.
If you then click on one of the months in the list you can see a full breakdown of your
stats. Click on the Entry and Exit links to quickly see a list of the different pages that your
visitors arrive on your site at and the last page they visit before leaving.
Click on Referrers to find out which websites referred your visitors. If I look at my
stats, one of my top referrers is Google, showing that the majority of my visitors come
from the Google search engine. I can also see the URLs of article directories that I have
published some of my articles on, showing that my article submission is paying off.
Click on URLs to find out which pages on your site are the most popular. The URL of
each of the visited pages on your site will be listed here along with the number of times
that it has been visited that month. Finally, you can also click on Search to see the keywords that are being used to find your site on search engines.
The Webalizer stats will give you a good overall picture of how you are doing with your
site promotion. You should aim to review your stats at least once a month to see how you
are doing.
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