How to Read Your Webstats – Part 5 – Search Engine Referrals
My final post in my weeklong blog on using your NetSource hosting webstats. By now you’re probably picking up on how the webstats program works and following through with the logic flow outlined in my earlier posts. The section of the webstats program I want to talk about today is probably the most exciting to me as this is looking at what search engines are referring visitors to your site and what keywords they typed in to find your site. In previous postings I gave you a screenshot...
Read MoreHow to Read Your Webstats – Part 4 – Most Popular Pages
Ok, now that we know how long visitors are staying on your site (see last post here) we will want to determine which pages are getting the most views. Knowing your most popular pages will help you to determine what is of most interest to your viewers as well as what is getting overlooked. The above graph is an example of what your page view stats will look like. Most of the time your most popular page will be your home page. This is obvious, as it is always the first thing someone sees when...
Read MoreHow to Read Your Webstats – Part 3 – Duration of Visit
If your site is hosted with NetSource Technologies, another important webstat to look at for insight is the graph of “Visits duration” in your included statistics program. This graph will tell you how “sticky” your site is – or in other words, how long people are sticking around. The longer the better of course, as it indicates that visitors have found interest in your service or products and are taking the time to browse longer. The above graph is pretty...
Read MoreHow to Read Your Webstats – Part 2 – Are the Search Engines Indexing Your Site
Yesterday’s article addressed the main question everyone wants to know regarding the website stats for their website – how many visitors did I have? Today, let’s look at how many search engine spiders are visiting your site. Yuck, spiders! Actually these are good spiders. The word spider just plays into the “web” terminology for the internet. Search engine spiders go by other names too, such as crawlers and bots. All search engine spiders are is an...
Read MoreHow to Read Your Webstats – Part 1 – Monthly Visitors
If you host your website with us, you have an online statistic program built in as a standard hosting feature. This statistics program allows you to check important data regarding the success of your website. It also allows you to find out if marketing campaigns are working, what pages are the most popular, what search engines are referring visitors to you and what keywords these visitors are using to find you in a search. Checking these statistics on a regular basis will help to monitor...
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