Helping You Rock Out Your Site Like A Rockstar!

For those who already know how to harness the power of their site stats and how to adjust their site focus, this article will be a real breeze. For those who are just getting into blogging and finding their way, this might be handy.

Reading your site stats whether you use your StatPress plugin (for WordPress users), Google Analytics, Quantcast, Lijit or some other tool, your stats will tell you quite a few things:

1. How many people come to your site
2. Where your visitors entered your site
3. What your visitors were looking for
4. How long your visitors stayed on your site
5. Where your visitors left your site
6. What areas your visitors stayed longest on

Of course there are more, but the above are just some of the general ones. The goal is to retain some of those visitors and keep them coming back. Whether you apply nifty plugins like the Thank Me Later plugin (for WordPress users), or invite people to subscribe to your RSS feed, have Subscribe to Comments, subscribe to your site’s newsletter, or have a few featured posts that are eyecatching, you are trying to achieve whatever goal you have set for your website. However, the hard work can be seen in your stats.

You can install as many plugins or try as many tricks, but your control over your content is very essential. The rate at which you publish your articles could harm your site. Although you could pump out many articles per day, it may not be ideal if you are the sole owner of the blog. You might run out of topics and into the proverbial ‘Writer’s Block’ also known as Bloggers Block. On the other hand, if the time between your articles leave your visitors feeling like they are pulling teeth just waiting for your next post, you may be hurting your site.

Your stats can help you come up with the perfect formula for your blog to not just regulate, but improve your site statistics. Here are a few pointers to make sense of your stats.

• Always compare your stats on a day-to-day basis. Even this small of time can help you in the long run as you can plan posts to reach more of your visitors since they are more apt to visit at one time of day versus another time.
• Make sure to check what people are searching for on your website. If you do not have it and it is relevant to your website, perhaps you should consider writing about the topic?
• Check how long your visitors are staying and think about ways you could implement tools to increase that time.
• Check your referral links (where your visitors came from) and determine how effective those links have been. If they are from other bloggers, find out if they are recommending you are be an ambassador to your site by thanking them for giving your site a shout out.

What other suggestions would you have for others to help people make sense of their stats? How often do you check your stats?

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1. How To Analyze Your Site Stats
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