Comments on: A Story about the Importance of Checking your Blog’s Stats

By: 100yen - Are you skewing your own website stats?

100yen - Are you skewing your own website stats? — Sun, 07 May 2006 16:53:35 +0000

[...] Almost everyone who has their own website loves checking their stats to find out how it’s doing, especially those of us who are in the business of blogging. For some it can be a method of boosting ones ego, for others it can offer the idea to set them up with better performing sites. Nearly everyone who operates a website does it. It becomes something of an addiction, and some people will often check their stats a number of times a day. But are you rendering your own stats useless? [...]

By: Bornfamous » Light bulb moment

Bornfamous » Light bulb moment — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 21:48:07 +0000

[...] ProBlogger Darren Rowse has an interesting post about the importance of checking your blog’s stats: I had grand visions of the blog being followed by friends and family wanting to see my photography. I also posted a short review of the camera I was using at the time. [...]

By: Fearless Money » Fixed the feed links

Fearless Money » Fixed the feed links — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:56:16 +0000

[...] The subscription feed for this site was wrong and is corrected now. I had just read a great article at ProBlogger titled “A Story about the importance of Checking your Blog’s Stats”, and immediately checked mine. Argh! 12 requests for a bad feed link. Thank you, ProBlogger. [...]

By: Steven Ables

Steven Ables — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 04:45:33 +0000

Great article !! very informative !

By: The Tlog - a technology blog

The Tlog - a technology blog — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:04:50 +0000

ProBlogger: the importance of checking your blog’s stats

Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger has an article titled A Story About the Importance of Checking Your Blog’s Stats, in which he not only mentions another blogger’s own experience, but tells of his own: he had a photography site in which he o…

By: Pay Attention To Me! » Using Blog Stats to Influence Blogging Decisions

Pay Attention To Me! » Using Blog Stats to Influence Blogging Decisions — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:59:11 +0000

[...] Coinciding with wordpress.com’s new blog stats page was a post from Professional Blogger Darren on the importance of checking your blog stats. “I had grand visions of the blog being followed by friends and family wanting to see my photography. I also posted a short review of the camera I was using at the time. [...]

By: Joerg Petermann

Joerg Petermann — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:15:23 +0000

Thank you very much for all tips and inspiration in 2005.
Happy blogging and a merry xmas!

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:39:23 +0000

Jon .. I was just going to post that tip you made as I was reading down the comments of this post .. that post of yours was great and I added that script to my own blog immediately and even noticed slightly increased traffic as a result .. Even if I didn’t, at least I know its not that I’m losing traffic to the image searches… I highly recommend that others do the same… For testing, you can even see my example to show it works :-)
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=Maxxie+sophie&btnG=Search

Thanks for that, eh? /// PS: HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:27:02 +0000

great but you have just been spamming google with all thoughs review one you write nothing yourself, anyway if google don’t mind i guess thats all the matters go on you for find this trick.

By: jon

jon — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:13:54 +0000

Pink Eyed Jim, I wrote a post on my site about a solution to your problem, there is a simple javascript you can add to your page that will 'break' the frame from Google images or any other site that tries to frame your page. Google Images Tip

By: hafiz

hafiz — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:10:29 +0000

Thanks gary..

Yeah, i did set up a redirection telling them this page doesn’t exist anymore and what other options they can choose. And also, installed a WP google sitemap plugins too.

Maybe i just have to keep on blogging; writing excellently and make sure readers enjoy reading my entries. They can be a great help bringing great traffic to my blog.

I’ll keep y’all updated. thanks again ;)

By: BlogMoney

BlogMoney — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:03:59 +0000

hafiz, I think the best way to get google to crawl your site more often is to get more people to visit. Of course that’s everyone’s goal, so that’s probably not too helpful. You should also check out Google’s “sitemap” feature, where you can submit an xml file telling google what pages are on your site. I found a php file for wordpress that would generate a continuously up to date sitemap. I bet there are similar plugins for other blogging platforms. I think you can also submit an RSS feed, but check on that.

If you’re getting a lot of hits on pages that don’t exist anymore, they’ll probably go away as google tries to recrawl them. If you want to do something useful with these hits, however, you can set up redirects to send visitors to a different page. I recently changed the structure of one of my blogs, but I set up redirects using Apache’s mod_rewrite to send people to the right page if they came in through an old link.

Cheers,
Gary

By: JT

JT — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 23:49:46 +0000

This is key to success in blogging. Find out what is getting you results and cater to that. Trying to be all things to all people in the blogging world is tough.

By: hafiz

hafiz — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 23:30:10 +0000

am having the same problem with Pink Eyed Jim; google images is the one supplying my traffic.

The thing is, most of my traffic goes to my old entries, cached entries from google, entries i did about a year ago, my old blog which doesn’t exist anymore. I really want to discard all that and make sure google crawl to my new blog at the same address as the old ones.

how can i do that?
any suggestion?

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:46:54 +0000

Pink Eyed Jim – yes that’s a problem many have. Not sure what you can do about it.

amtsleiter – hehe – call it the ‘about blog’

Baz L – I’m not having that problem here on Firefox 1.5

By: Baz L

Baz L — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:26:19 +0000

I know this is completely off context and I hope nobody shoots me but does anybody else’s browser crash when going to the “Four Weeks Of Blogging” post?

I’ve narrowed it down to a Javascript error. If I disable Javascript, all is fine, but if I don’t it crashes. Both on IE 6.0 or whatever comes with Windows XP and Firefox 1.5.

Again, sorry for the off context post.

By: amtsleiter

amtsleiter — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:04:19 +0000

Thats funny. My most favorite article is the “about me” page. How many “about pages” can a site sustain ;-)

By: Pink Eyed Jim

Pink Eyed Jim — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:59:42 +0000

What really irks me is Google’s Image search. My web tracker gets the search terms from the referring page, and since Google opens their image results in a frames-based window, I never get to see the actual search terms. Most of my hits come from Google images and I have no way of tracking why my users got the results that they did. I do, however, know that I have both the third and fourth image result for “hitting the bong” on Google Images, and I think I’m fourth or fifth on “Leiden Canal.”

But since most users find my site via google images, I’m losing a lot of potential regular visitors because I have no idea how to give those people what they want.

Any suggestions?

By: thoughton:digitallife

thoughton:digitallife — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:55:08 +0000

JenSense strangely beats ProBlogger … how?

I noticed today that JenSense has won SearchEngineJournal’s 2005 “Search Engine Blogs Awards”, beating out several high profile blogs, including ProBlogger. Now don’t get me wrong, I read and enjoy both ProBlogger and JenSense, but I simply cannot …

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:29:59 +0000

I find from looking at detailed stats that visitors don’t search the way I do. I would never have imagined people actually search on some of the terms I see.