How to track your blog/website visitors?

As a new blogger(webmaster),it is always interesting to know ttpow many people are visiting your blog/site,pageviews,were they are coming from,which sites are referring,how many are coming via Search Engines(google,yahoo,etc) and what they are typing in the search engines to visit your site.


These stastistics are very handy interms of improving your blog and it is for FREE


If you search the google,you will find hundreds of sites which will track the visitors of your blog/site.But,some sites will provide more information about your visitors than the others.

So,how to do this?

Here are the best tracking sources interms of the feautures they provide.


Note:One thing is common for all the tracking sites.First you need to register,and provide the necessary information about your blog/website.Next,they will give you a tml code and you have to embed it in your blog.

How to do that in blogger?

1.Sign in to your blogger dashboard.

2.Click on the 'Design' link next to your blog name.

3.Click on the "Add a Gadget"

4.Select "html/javascript" and past the code they provide and SAVE THE CHANGES.



From then,your blog will be tracked and you can check your blog stats from time to time after logging in to your registrate's website.



So,here are the good ones:-

Sitemeter.com:This one is one of the Most Popular tracking source.This is as simple as 123. Just create an account,copy the code from your account and paste it in your blog as suggested above.

You have also the option to keep your blog stats PRIVATE.

They will give you the stats on how many pageviews(hits) per day,unique visitors,geolocation of the visitors,how many users online,and much more...As it is simple(not much animation),you site will load as fast as it is before.Stats are updated hourly.

You can setup a Free Account here

Histats.com:Unlike the Sitemeter which is very simple, this site will have very cool and animated counters.

Tracking is updated every 5 minutes.I personally using this site for my blogs.Like Sitemeter, this is also have the option to keep your site stats PRIVATE.

They will provide Animated graphs about your site visitors and fully animative.

You can register with them here

How to register to Google Adsense? How AdSense works?

There are some instructions which help you to register to Google Adsense.

1. Go to https://www.google.com/adsense/ and register an account. After Google does some verification, you will receive a small bit of javascript coding to place on your website. The whole setup process is very easy to do.
2. Place the coding on your design pages of the website, and ads will begin to appear when people visit your website. The Ads will be related to the visitors location, the content of your site, or other factors.
3. You will begin to earn money based on a per-click or per-impression basis depending on the ad. Google has not released the formula they use to determine how much you will make based on the visitor clicking an advertisement. Therefore, it is unknown what you will earn for the ads. This has been a point of contention with Google Adsense.
4. Also, please note that Google will only pay you once you earn $100. For most smaller websites, this will take a very long time. However, if you choose to close your Adsense account, Google will pay out to the account holder if they have more than $10.
5. To help maximize profits, some website owners have discovered ways to trick Adsense. Please visit the Wikipedia page for ideas on this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdSense

How AdSense works?

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdSense#How_AdSense_works

• The webmaster inserts the AdSense JavaScript code into a webpage.
• Each time this page is visited, the JavaScript code uses inlined JSON to display content fetched from Google's servers.
• For contextual advertisements, Google's servers use a cache of the page to determine a set of high-value keywords. If keywords have been cached already, advertisements are served for those keywords based on the AdWords bidding system. (More details are described in the AdSense patent.)
• For site-targeted advertisements, the advertiser chooses the page(s) on which to display advertisements, and pays based on cost per mille (CPM), or the price advertisers choose to pay for every thousand advertisements displayed.^[13][14]
• For referrals, Google adds money to the advertiser's account when visitors either download the referred software or subscribe to the referred service.^[15] The referral program was retired in August 2008.^[16]
• Search advertisements are added to the list of results after the visitor performs a search.
• Because the JavaScript is sent to the Web browser when the page is requested, it is possible for other website owners to copy the JavaScript code into their own webpages. To protect against this type of fraud, AdSense customers can specify the pages on which advertisements should be shown. AdSense then ignores clicks from pages other than those specified.

Blog » Blogging » Blogger

What is a blog?

A blog is an online diary/journal. It is a personal log of thoughts published on a Web page; also called Weblog or a Web log. Blogs can be regarded as personal Web sites, often reflecting the personality of the author.

• Blog = Diary + Log

We record personal opinions and feelings in a diary. We record all the happenings in a log. A blog has both these characteristics. That is the reason bloggers try to keep a blog up to date by writing into it in a systematic or regular manner. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominently.

• Blogging » Blogger

The activity of updating a blog is called blogging. The person doing this act is called a blogger.

• Posting

Blogger is a term used to mean all the activities in relation to a blog. The specific activity of writing or entering content into the blog is called posting. The content of the posts takes different forms like text, images, audio or video.

Structure of a Weblog/Blog

A blog is a single web page. Every time you write something into it, you are said to be making a post or posting something into the blog. Each post forms a small part of the total web page. Generally, the latest postings take the top most position of the web page.

As you keep posting into the blog (i.e. the web page representing the blog), the number of postings making up the blog keep growing. Therefore, postings which are older are archived and are put aside in separate pages from the main blog page.

Blogs » Content_Usage

• What Does/Can a Blog contain?

A blog may contain anything and everything that a user may put up (write) on a web page. It may contain anything that you can think about on a web page. The content and purposes of blogs vary greatly - the personal opinions of the bloggers, updated headlines and news articles of other sites that are of interest to the user, journal entries, commentaries and links, commentary and recommendations about other web sites

compiled by the user, news about a company/person/idea, diaries, photos, poetry, mini-essays, project updates, even fiction.

• What Can we use a Blog for?

Blogs can be used for purposes that are varied. Many blogs are personal, "what's on my mind" type musings. Others are collaborative efforts based on a specific topic or area of mutual interest. Some blogs are for play. Some are for work. Some are both.

Blogs are also excellent team/department/company/family communication tools. They help small groups communicate in a way that is simpler and easier to follow than email or discussion forums.

You can use a private blog on an intranet to allow team members to post related links, files, quotes, or commentary. You can set up a family blog where relatives can share personal news. A blog can help keep everyone in the loop, promote cohesiveness and group culture, and provide an informal "voice" of a project or department to outsiders.

Ready to Blog?

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Blogger.com 

• http://www.blogger.com/ You can access the blogger.com home page by entering blogger.com or www.bloger.com or http://www.blogger.com/ in the address bar of your browser and clicking the GO button to the right of the address bar or pressing the ENTER key on your keyboard. You will be redirected to the URL http://www.blogger.com/start. You can notice this in the browser's address bar. The blogger home page with a login box to the top right corner is displayed. If you have a blogger user account and have not yet converted it to the new google account, click the "Claim you Old Blogger account" link present above the login box. Setting up a blogger blog is very simple, and in order to show you exactly how to do this, I have found a YouTube video that outlines the process step by step. This video is much easier and more effective than me trying to explain the process to you in words. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnploFsS_tY

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