This is the third post in a series on WordPress Plugins.
The word “statistics” is one of those words and topics that tends to make people’s eyes glaze over or causes a quick change in conversations. However, whether you are blogging for your business or whether blogging is your business, tracking and knowing your visitor statistics is important to helping you optimize your website for greatest profits.
Fortunately, there are ingenious plug-in developers who have made gathering our blog statistics and statistical analysis of our traffic easier for everyone. It’s painless now.
Google Analyticator is a plug-in that integrates WordPress and Google Analytics seamlessly and easily. On a standard HTML page you have to add Google Analytics javascript to your site. Google Analyticator automatically adds this javascript code to your WordPress template. In addition, it provides several widgets that allow you to display your statistics in your WordPress dashboard.
WP-Stats-Dashboard - Graphs are displayed so you can easily detect trends and see how your site is doing. This plug-in will add a graph to your dashboard so you can see your statistical trends immediately upon logging on.
WordPress.com Stats – This plug-in collects daily statistics on visits, page views, most popular posts and more and displays it all on a single page for you in your administration panel. One of the big advantages of this plug-in is that it runs on WordPress.com and therefore does not add any load to your server. It is simple to use and the statistics are easy to understand at a glance.
WordPress Download Monitor – Do you give away a lot of eBooks or have downloadable transcripts on your site? In either case, this plug-in will help you keep track of what has been downloaded. While this plug-in may not be considered “essential” for all bloggers, if you have a giveaway on your site, it is helpful to track clicks and downloads.
FeedStats – Do you know how many subscribers you have? Or which pages they are reading? Or which feedreaders they are using? This little plug-in will give you vital information about your subscribers and again is conveniently viewed on a window on your WordPress dashboard.
Few people are crazy about statistics but they give us important insight about who our visitors are, what they are reading, and what they like and don’t like. With this information we can tailor our content to our market best. That means more profit.
So, what are you using to track your blogging? You know you can’t improve what you don’t track, right? You’ve got to track your results to see what’s working and where you can apply more effort to improve your results from blogging…and drop the junk that’s not.
What’s your favorite tracking plugin? Leave your thoughts in the comments below. And if you haven’t already, go ahead and push that little retweet button at the top, that is if you enjoyed this post.
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