Your stats and mine have been on my mind lately. It could be because I’ve been spending a little extra time there to see who’s been stopping by from what media source. I was planning to write a post about ways to use stats for blog promotion, but just as I was about to I came across this one.
Great Find: Blog Promotion: What Do Your Stats Tell You? at Random Bytes
Type of article: Blogging basics–a look a stats
Permalink:http://weblensblogs.blogspot.com/2006/03/blog-promotion-what-do-your-stats-tell.html
Target Audience: Anyone who’s interested in the reader response to a new blog started from an existing web site.
Content: Pam Blackstone, professional journalist and speaker, started Random Bytes to expand the interest in her Internet search site Weblens. In this well-written, quick read, she compares the audience of the blog to that of the search site and wonders at the differences, some that new bloggers might not pay attention to–browsers, screen resolution, and operating systems. Pam uses the data to extrapolate profile information about her readers. If you want to see what conclusions she reaches, click the screenshot below.
Thanks, Pam, for a reminder of the wealth of information in those stats.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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I use several different programs to track website stats, a little analysis like Pam does here can be very worthwhile to see who is visiting you (and maybe just as importantly, who isn’t).
I would think that most of your readers will know this, but just in case they haven’t heard Performancing has launched a free blog statistics tracking application (http://performancing.com/metrics). It’s still in beta, but it seems pretty useful . And no, they’re not paying me, I just thought it might be useful to anyone that hasn’t run across it yet.
Hi DavidC,
I wouldn’t think that they’re paying. I know the program is excellent and getting rave reviews. The guys who made it are SEO pros and been in the business for a long time, so they know what folks need and how to do it.
I think stats are fascinating. There’s so much we can learn from them. Every number represents a person and where he or she has been, when that person reads and what he or she doesn’t read. Reading stats is like being a detective. I feel like a little kid every time I look.
Liz
Hi Liz. Thanks for the positive review!
Pam
Hi Pam,
Great conversations and great analysis deserve to be shared. Happy to do that! Thanks for noticing!
Liz