Menu

Skip to content
  • About|
  • Submit a Guest Post|
  • Sponsor this Blog|
    • Disclosure Policy|
  • Recommended Products|
    • Store|
  • Contact|
  • Login|

Riches Corner |Tech and Money TalkRiches Corner |Tech and Money Talk

Saving, investing and making money with technology.

Secondary menu

Skip to content
  • Personal Finance|
    • Saving|
    • Investing|
    • Employment|
    • Career|
    • Entrepreneurship|
  • Business and Technology|
    • ecommerce|
    • Make Money Online|
    • blogging|
    • Getting Traffic|
    • Social Media|
    • SEO|
  • In the News|
    • Economy|
    • Tech News|
  • Lifestyle|
    • Audiobooks|
    • Gadgets and Gizmos|
    • Education|
  • Store|
You are here: Home / Keeping Track of Your Blog

Keeping Track of Your Blog

Published on September 29, 2010 by Richard
Share this...
Share on Facebook
Facebook
Email this to someone
email
Share on Google+
Google+
Share on Reddit
Reddit
Share on Tumblr
Tumblr
Tweet about this on Twitter
Twitter
Share on LinkedIn
Linkedin


Early on in the creation of your blog, you will realize that it’s helpful to keep track of your site’s traffic. Looking through your blog’s reports can be very helpful in fine tuning your efforts towards making money.

There are many programs out there to help you keep track of your blog’s progress. Many users use programs such as Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a good free web analytics tool. I use it to get a good general picture of how my blog is performing on a weekly basis. However the one downside of Google Analytics is that it doesn’t provide real time statistics. You can only get information up to the previous day. The best use for Google Analytics is tracking your blog’s historical data. For real time tracking, I use program called Clicky Web Analytics.

While it’s good to get historical tracking data, I find it useful to get up to the minute data in real time as well. Using the historical data is good for deciding how to make large sweeping adjustments for your blog. Most of the time, you want to also see the real time data to see how your blog is performing through the course of the day. This precise data allows me to make minor adjustments to my blog and catch problems as they occur. It’s also a thrill to actually see my visitor numbers ticking up through the day. I must admit, it can get somewhat addictive to watch your site’s numbers in real time.

In addition, Clicky provides a couple of extra real time services that you won’t find in other programs. Their Spy and RSS features allow a webmaster to get real time data about their visitors as they are surfing your blog. You can get up to the second information about what information is important to your visitors. This way, you can get a combination of the historic data as well as the live data from your site.

Clicky provides both free and paid plans to select from according to your site’s needs. It’s definitely a good real time alternative to the other competitors out there.

Related posts:

  1. 10 Free Ways to Drive Traffic to your Blog
  2. How to Make Money with Your Blog: The Ultimate Reference Guide for Building, Optimizing, and Monetizing Your Blog (How to Make . . .) [Paperback]
  3. Focusing Your Site
  4. How to Create and Monetize your Blog
  5. Pinging My Blog
Posted in blogging | Tagged analytics, Blogging, Optimizing

Did You Enjoy This Article? Subscribe to our RSS Feed!

If you enjoyed this content, you can get automatic updates by subscribing to our RSS Feed. For those of you familiar with RSS you can follow Riches Corner via our RSS feed. Simply enter your email below and you’ll get one daily email notification of the posts published on Riches Corner that day.

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Article written by Richard

Richard is a full time professional, husband, father and blogger juggling all the responsibilities of life and running a blog. Richard enjoys writing about life and online money matters.

Post navigation

← How To Make Money Blogging Using The Knowledge That’s Already In Your Head: A Simple And Easy Way To Really Blog For Dollars In Your Spare Time – AUDIOBOOK 3 Creative Ways To Increase Your Income →

3 Responses

  1. Alan Mater says:
    October 2, 2010 at 5:12 am

    Hey Rich,

    I agree, tracking your blog/site's statistics is a must. I use Google Analytics, and I haven't heard of Clicky before. I'll definitely take a look at it since it seems to provide some additional tracking that could be beneficial to blog owners.

    Reply
    1. Richard says:
      October 2, 2010 at 8:06 am

      I love using both to keep track of my site. It's actually really addicting to be able to see your sites stats in real time.

      Reply
  2. Rammesh Perumal says:
    October 5, 2010 at 1:55 pm

    Your are absolutely right Richard.Tracking our blog is very important as we know where we stand and use that stats to improve our site. Good post!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

Follow and Share

Advertise with Us

Advertise

  • Audible Picks

    • Get Tina Fey’s Bossypants Audiobook Free
      Sometimes you need to inject some humor into your blogging life.  Tina Fey’s Bossypants audiobook is an awesome way to get a great laugh.  Read by Tina Fey herself, you likely won’t find a
    • Get the Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein Audiobook Free
      Enter JRR Tolkein’s Middle Earth with this awesome fantasy classic.  The Hobbit is the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy and is one of my all time favorite books!  Now it’s available
    • Get 11-22-63 by Stephen King Audiobook Free
      If you love time travel, historical fiction, and master storytelling, then this is the book for you.  11-22-63 is a novel by Stephen King that tells the tale of Jake Epping, a high school
    • Get Stephen King’s The Stand Audiobook Free
      It’s here, complete and uncut!  The Stand is one of Stephen King’s best work.  This is one of my favorite post apocalypse novels and now it’s available in audio format from Audible. Stephen King
    • How to Write a Good LinkedIn Summary
      LinkedIn is the most reputable social media network for professionals nowadays. Anybody looking for a job with major worldwide players (or even small-sized companies) should have a profile there. The thing is that their
  • Did You Enjoy This Article? Subscribe to our RSS Feed!

    If you enjoyed this content, you can get automatic updates by subscribing to our RSS Feed.  For those of you familiar with RSS you can follow Riches Corner via our RSS feed. Simply enter your email below and you’ll get one daily email notification of the posts published on Riches Corner that day.

    Enter your email address:

    Delivered by FeedBurner


    Web Analytics