Keeping track of visits to your blog

If you maintain one or more blogs, you may want to track the number of visits, page views, etc on your blogs. Why? Because this is an essential step towards understanding more about your blogs, how well-received they are by the world out there. Or you may be contemplating a keyword/cost-per-click advertising program, so having some statistics will be helpful towards gauging how successful this program may be for you.

I personally find this free tool from ShinyStat a gem and have used it on my blog Cyberfellowship. Check it out to see the stats counter right at the bottom of the page. In addition, you get up to 10 free reports for your use.

To add the counter HTML code to your blog, simply put it in the footer section of your template as shown below.

<br /><!-- Begin #footer --><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div id="footer"><div><br /><br /><div><hr /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><!-- Begin Shinystat Free code --><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://codice.shinystat.com/cgi-bin/getcod.cgi?USER=yourname"></script><br /><br /><noscript><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.shinystat.com" target="_top"><br /><br /><img src="http://www.shinystat.com/cgi-bin/shinystat.cgi?USER=yourname" alt="Free counters" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></noscript><br /><br /><br /><br /><!-- Begin Shinystat Free code --><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><!-- End #footer -->

Enjoy fellow bloggers :)
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