Track Your Blog Visits n Get Statistics

Whether you are a new blogger or an experienced one you always might wanted to know how many people visits our blog, from where they are coming [ from which site or page they are coming to your blog ], waht are the keywords whic are leading users to your blog, how many people visits your blog again and again and a lot more stuff.

These information are vital in a sense that the helps you to optimize your site keywords, blog based on your visitors prefereces which inturn will increase visits to your blog and also attracts more people.
There are a lot of tools available for free to use in our blogs to track these things. Most of them offer much sophisticated reports also, but some needs you to pay. But alsmost all of these sites offers much more information that a blogger needs. Here are the list of some sites where you can get these tracking informations and othere reports as you need.

In all these sites you have to register and supply necessary information about your blog. Based ont these information you supply the website will generate some HTML / JAVASCRIPT code that you need to place in your blog. Inclorporating this small piece of code can be done pretty easily.

You can place this vistor counter either in one widget or this code can be placed inside you blog template code, where you want the counter to be seen.

Copy the code that is being provided to you by the tracker provider site.Follow these steps to place the counter code in your blog.

I. IN A WIDGET

  1. Go to Blogger Home
  2. Click on Layout
  3. Click on Add Page Element in the sidebar
  4. A new window will appear from which select Add HTML / Java
  5. Click Save
  6. Finished

II. INSIDE YOUR BLOG CODE | IN THE FOOTER

  1. Go to Blogger Home
  2. Click on Layout
  3. Click on Edit HTML
  4. Please take a backup of your current template.
  5. Scroll down to the End where you can find the following code
    <div id=’footer-wrapper’>

    OR

    <div id=’footer’>
  6. Place the code inside this, after the above given code line
  7. Click on SAVE TEMPLATE
  8. Finished
NOTE : You can also place the code in an HTML/JAVASCRIPT widget inside this footer division.

Below given are some of the most widely user tracker sites, whcih gives you much information regarding your blog visitors and other tracking information.

  1. Site Meter : Site Meter’s comprehensive real time website tracking and counter tools give you instant access to vital information and data about your sites audience. With our detailed reporting you’ll have a clear picture of who is visiting your site, how they found you, where they came from, what interests them and much more.Installing a Sitemeter tracker is very simple. Just follow the steps.
    • Create an Account : There are two types of accounts. Free and Premium
    • Copy code from your account : This is special code uniquely generated specifically for your site.
    • Paste code into your Blog
  2. StatCounter: A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!
    • Free, Fast, Responsive, Quick loading and Reliable Service.
    • Invisible Tracking – no ads on your website.
    • Accurate real-time website statistics with detailed visitor tracking and analysis.
  3. Histats: Histats.com is the new professional web counter for web sites / blogs. It is completely FREE
    • -No limits
    • -No ads in the counter code
    • -Hidden or visible counters
    • -Real time updated web stats service.

    Unlike the Sitemeter which is very simple, this site will have very cool and animated counters.

  4. gostats.com : GoStats has been providing a reliable web traffic counter service since 1999.Packed with lots of great features, including information on page views, return visitors, and page popularity, this free hit counter is a quick and easy to use tool for determining how many people visit your website. So if you have a limited or even non-existent web stats budget, than the GoStats free hit counter is ideal for you.
  5. BlogCounter.com : BlogCounter offers you a completely free Counter for your blog. It’s a powerful tool that provides you with all the stats you need.
  6. BlogPatrol.com : BlogPatrol is a FREE blog counter service that answers important questions about who is reading your content. The counter portion of the service provides a free blog counter widget on your blog. The site stats portion of the service provides you with free blog stats reports to keep you up-to-date on every aspect of your readership.
Most of these sites also provide INVISIBLE TRACKERS, whcih will allow you to track the visitors and other activities just by pacing the code in your blog/website, but not visible to anyone. Apart from the couters whcih shows the visitors counts to your blog/site visitors, these code parts just track the visitors and store them in your account. You can see them anytime by loggin into you account with the provider.

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