Occasionally I plan to do a Friday Featurette of blogs or websites that are worth your time. If you are a blogger, this featurette is for you!
At the bottom of my right hand column, there’s a small, unobtrusive box that says “Sitemeter.” I absolutely love Sitemeter! I’m not sure where I initially read a post about Sitemeter other than it was a missionary lady’s blog who was impressed at the handful of readers she had from around the world. I gave it a try and it is really cool when you have a reader in Bristol or Madrid or Hong Kong (yep, I’ve had readers from all those and more).
What is Sitemeter? I’m sure you’ve seen sites that say something like “1,015 visitors since…” Sitemeter does the counting of visitors and a lot more for free. When I log in to my Sitemeter account, I can see how many visitors I’ve had in the past week or month, how many page views (did you look at just the homepage or did you click a link to another page?), what site referred the visitor, and the general geographical location of the visitor (this tends to be the location of the ISP rather than the actual visitor location). Sitemeter shows the information in text format as well as graphically with bar charts, line graphs, and a world map.
Why do I love Sitemeter? Well, it’s incredibly simple to use. I don’t recall it being difficult to integrate. Each week I receive an email with a report of numbers from the previous week. If I want more information, I click a link in the email and it takes me directly to my summary page at Sitemeter. From there I can look at the stats to see what generated the most traffic to my site. For example, if I leave a comment on another blog or participate in a Mr. Linky, I can see how much traffic those actions generated through the referral page. Or I can see what post titles tend to be picked up by Google when someone searches. Or I can check the predictions for how much traffic I will have in the next month if my traffic is the same as now. And I can also see what time frames tend to be popular for viewing (helpful to know when considering posting).
Initially when I first started using Sitemeter, my traffic was quite low – maybe 10 visitors a week – and I really didn’t pay much attention to Sitemeter. Then I started to get the hang of how to promote my blog (e.g. Mr. Linky and comments) as well as BlogRush. Now, I tend to check my stats each week, and with the increase in traffic (approx. 200-300 visitors a week), I knew I was in the position to start placing ads on my blog to generate a minimal income.
If you love stats, graphs, and all things analytical, you’ll love Sitemeter! Check it out and let me know what you think.
At the bottom of my right hand column, there’s a small, unobtrusive box that says “Sitemeter.” I absolutely love Sitemeter! I’m not sure where I initially read a post about Sitemeter other than it was a missionary lady’s blog who was impressed at the handful of readers she had from around the world. I gave it a try and it is really cool when you have a reader in Bristol or Madrid or Hong Kong (yep, I’ve had readers from all those and more).
What is Sitemeter? I’m sure you’ve seen sites that say something like “1,015 visitors since…” Sitemeter does the counting of visitors and a lot more for free. When I log in to my Sitemeter account, I can see how many visitors I’ve had in the past week or month, how many page views (did you look at just the homepage or did you click a link to another page?), what site referred the visitor, and the general geographical location of the visitor (this tends to be the location of the ISP rather than the actual visitor location). Sitemeter shows the information in text format as well as graphically with bar charts, line graphs, and a world map.
Why do I love Sitemeter? Well, it’s incredibly simple to use. I don’t recall it being difficult to integrate. Each week I receive an email with a report of numbers from the previous week. If I want more information, I click a link in the email and it takes me directly to my summary page at Sitemeter. From there I can look at the stats to see what generated the most traffic to my site. For example, if I leave a comment on another blog or participate in a Mr. Linky, I can see how much traffic those actions generated through the referral page. Or I can see what post titles tend to be picked up by Google when someone searches. Or I can check the predictions for how much traffic I will have in the next month if my traffic is the same as now. And I can also see what time frames tend to be popular for viewing (helpful to know when considering posting).
Initially when I first started using Sitemeter, my traffic was quite low – maybe 10 visitors a week – and I really didn’t pay much attention to Sitemeter. Then I started to get the hang of how to promote my blog (e.g. Mr. Linky and comments) as well as BlogRush. Now, I tend to check my stats each week, and with the increase in traffic (approx. 200-300 visitors a week), I knew I was in the position to start placing ads on my blog to generate a minimal income.
If you love stats, graphs, and all things analytical, you’ll love Sitemeter! Check it out and let me know what you think.
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Hi,
Just found your blog on money saving mom. Can you tell me more about blogrush? I’m a new blogger, so I am always on the lookout for new sites that can help me. Thanks
S.B.
http://bethriftylikeus.blogspot.com/
Hi S.B.! Thanks for stopping by and asking about BlogRush
I’ll have to plan a future Friday Featurette on it. But in the meantime BlogRush is really simple to implement. If you click on the link at the bottom of my widget, it will take you to the BlogRush site. Basically, you choose the category your blog fits in, and then BlogRush publishes your post title in other people’s widgets in the same category. For example, my category is “writing” so most of the articles in my widget come from blogs that also talk about writing.
When your post is published in other widgets, it costs you a certain number of credits. You start out with so many credits and you earn more each time someone clicks your post title in a widget. Referrals also earn credits to – if you click the “BlogRush” on my widget and start using BlogRush, I’ll receive credits for your referral as well as so many credits for your widget’s performance (like a tier program). I don’t claim to understand the whole credit thing but it’s something like…The more credits I earn, the more times my post titles are published, the more traffic I get, the more credits I earn etc.
According to Sitemeter, I haven’t seen very much traffic from BlogRush, but that could be related to my category. Good post titles also help, so I should probably work on those to get more traffic.
Hope this helps – I feel like it’s as clear as mud. I’ll definitely have to study BlogRush a little more before featuring it on Friday!