Tracking Your Blog Statistics

You can blog every day, but if no one is reading, what’s the point?

How do you know if anyone is reading? Let’s take a look at some of the ways you can track what’s happening on your site.

1. Take a look at your statistics through your blog hosting company. Or set up a site statistics tracker to be able to see your results. [If you host with us, you have access to all of your stats - ask me how if you're unsure.] I’m excited to have had over 2400 unique visitors to my blog last month.

2. Check your signup rates. Whether you have an RSS feed signup, or you have a signup for an ezine or free report, watch how many people are signing up each day. We’ve been growing our signups at a rate of 45 percent per month. Your signups for RSS feeds can be through places like Feedburner. Or if you have an ezine system, you should be able to log in and look at your list statistics.

3. Search Engine Optimization - yes you can watch your blog to make sure you are achieving results. This blog currently has a pagerank of 3, and has 216 pages indexed by Google. Not bad for a blog started in April.

If you haven’t tracked your statistics before, give it a try. Just seeing how you’re growing and reaching out to new people can give you the motivation you need to keep blogging.

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One Response to “Tracking Your Blog Statistics”

Rod on August 22nd, 2008 1:14 pm

I agree - tracking your stats is important: it encourages you when things are going well, and kicks you in the butt when they aren’t. I just discovered a great WordPress plugin for pulling FeedBurner and Google Analytics stats right into the dashboard - check it out at my site.

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