Self Built Empire

Couple Days ago I made a post about how to added Google Analytics to your blogger account. Today I will be talking about why it is important to keep stats for your website.

One of the most important reasons for keeping website stats is to simply determine how your website is performing at any point over a period of time. And lets face it who doesn't like to know how their website is performing.

The stats can answer a couple of very important questions you might have, and help you improve your website. Some of the questions stats can answer are:

Who is looking at my website?
Where is the traffic coming from?
Which pages people are leaving and entering the website?
and what search terms did the visitor use to find my website?

The answers to these simple questions can tell you a lot how your website is performing. And how you could improve the site.

Usually if you have your web page hosted with a web host and you have access to the cpanal there will be already a stats program keeping stats for you.

But if you are hosted on Blogger, Wordpress, or many other blog hosts you will have to have a third party website keeps stats for you. Some of the most popular ones I've seen are Google Analytics, Extreme tracking and Sitemeter.

Seeing if your website doing well will help you also stay motivated and show that your hard work hasn't gone completely to waist. It is also a good tool for goals, I have set up a goal to have at least 100 unique visitors per day to visit this site by the end of the year. Right now I am at barely 10 or so, so this will take time but is completely feasible.