Travis
11-04-2004, 03:49 PM
Failure Recipe: Ignore Your Traffic Stats.
Where does most of your traffic come from? Ask that question of 90% of the webmasters out there, and they will just give you a blank look. They have no idea where their traffic comes from.
This is a serious mistake and one you will have to correct if you have any ambitions for your site at all. Virtually every hosting company you could possibly purchase your site from comes with some type of tracking features. If you don't know what your hosting company currently offers, ask them.
Examine your stats to find out where your traffic is coming from. What search engines do they use to find you? What keywords did they use? Who else is linking to you?
Which pages do they visit first? Which section of your web site do they go to the most after they visit the front page? These are the types of questions your traffic stats should be telling you.
Once you have a chance to look at them, increase promotion in whatever areas are working. If you notice that you are getting a lot of hits from a specific search engine, increase your promotion on that engine. If you receive most of your hits through links on other sites, then work more on creating links.
If you notice your traffic surges every time an ezine publishes one of your articles, then send out more articles for ezines to use. Keep on doing whatever is currently working for you! Cancel the rest.
Work Hard & Have Fun,
Travis
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Where does most of your traffic come from? Ask that question of 90% of the webmasters out there, and they will just give you a blank look. They have no idea where their traffic comes from.
This is a serious mistake and one you will have to correct if you have any ambitions for your site at all. Virtually every hosting company you could possibly purchase your site from comes with some type of tracking features. If you don't know what your hosting company currently offers, ask them.
Examine your stats to find out where your traffic is coming from. What search engines do they use to find you? What keywords did they use? Who else is linking to you?
Which pages do they visit first? Which section of your web site do they go to the most after they visit the front page? These are the types of questions your traffic stats should be telling you.
Once you have a chance to look at them, increase promotion in whatever areas are working. If you notice that you are getting a lot of hits from a specific search engine, increase your promotion on that engine. If you receive most of your hits through links on other sites, then work more on creating links.
If you notice your traffic surges every time an ezine publishes one of your articles, then send out more articles for ezines to use. Keep on doing whatever is currently working for you! Cancel the rest.
Work Hard & Have Fun,
Travis
Free 14 Day Trial of Adminder to track all of your ads.
No Credit Card Needed.
http://www.adminder.com/go.cgi?id=Travis24