referral stats
If you’re not using stats on your website, you should be. I use a plugin called ShortStat which shows me unique visitors, last pages viewed on my site, the last keywords that brought people, domains that came, an dother information. It’s an interesting way to see where your visitors are coming from, especially when your site is brand new, like this one.
For instance, my last visitors came from:
blo.gs 5
wc5.worldcrossing.com 4
boards.payperpost.com 4
clicknewz.com 3
bloghijinks.com 1
whois.sc 1
I posted the link to this site on boards.payperpost.com. I have a trackback at clicknewz. And I listed this site in bloghijinks. The worldcrossing link isn’t a site I belong to, but in clicking the link, I was able to view the forum name, and I know people who post there. I didn’t post the site at blo.gs.
Interesting, eh?
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Colleen, I truly do like this site! I’m going to post it on Cass Knits!
I think it only works for Wordpress… but it does look like a good one! Nice new blog by the way. Can’t wait to see more.
Maybe you should have White and Nerdy playing as a theme song.
I finally got it working. I had an older version and thats why I wasn’t seeing anything but now I’m seeing stats. Thanks
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