How to use Wordpress Stats to improve your blog
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I only recently installed the Wordpress Stats plugin to Business Blog Boost and my travel website blog. I thought I was getting enough information from the stats from my web host 1and1.co.uk. I knew how many visitors came to the blog every day and the number of views each of the blog posts were getting. I’m wary of having too many stats as they can either confuse you and/or you can spend far too much time looking at and analysing them.
Statistics are there to help you so you should not be intimidated by them! That’s the beauty of Wordpress stats, no gimmicks, impossible to understand data, just simple numbers. I’ve found many ways to use the additional features of Wordpress stats to improve my blog performance.
1 Search terms - You can see which terms were typed into search engines that led visitors to the blog. If you know which search terms are most popular you can write more entries on these topics and compose the post titles so more visitors can find your blog. I saw that “improve your blog” was a common search term for Business Blog Boost, so I incorporated the phrase into the title of this post.
2 Inward links - You can see which links lead visitors to your blog. If visitors came from a link in a comment you have made at another blog then you can judge which blogs you should visit and comment at regularly. If visitors are coming from a social networking site such as Stumbleupon then you can try to submit posts there more often.
3 Outward links - There are also stats for which links in your post were clicked by visitors. This lets you know which links readers find most interesting and useful. I want to encourage readers of my blog to click through to guides and articles on my travel website, so that some will book accommodation or car hire through the affiliate links on my site. However I think it is also important to include links to any relevant information sources as this makes your blog a more valuable resource to readers. Therefore readers are more likely to subscribe to your blog and read posts regularly because the blog is perceived as more than a promotion vehicle for you business.
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on August 8th, 2007 at 3:39 am
I found your blog through through Ezinearticles and just wanted to let you know that I’ll be including this article on my next update at bloggertalk.net or you are more than welcome to join and submit the three blog related articles that you have written. Thank you for assisting new bloggers.
on August 8th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Rose, I do hope that what I write can help new bloggers. I certainly don’ t claim to be a expert blogger. I write from my experience of creating and maintaining a blog for my travel business/