Ideas for you webmasters , everything you wanted to know.

I’m going to try and post something every other day to keep the blog updated. I dont know if anyone actually reads these posts or not , but i’ll see what happens.

How to track traffic on your blog?

It’s important to see whos visiting your site. You might not think that but it is IMPORTANT. First off , you can find out how many hits (visitors) you get a day to your site. Then you can find out where they come from. If they live in India , or they found your site searching google. Even if you wanted to know what browser they where using. All this information can be found out.

Tracking software

Depending on which host your using there may already be software installed. If your using cpanel , awstats should be installed. You can find in under the list of programs at your cpanel. Some hosts may not have it with cpanel , there are a few other stats programs. Just take a look around and you should find something.

Even if you do have these programs , i do recommend you use google analystics. Google has a traffic statics program for webmasters , that give more detailed information. Plus there are more features than awstats for example. The only downside is you have to include a html code in your pages for it to track your traffic. If your using wordpress this can easily be done with a simple plugin. There are plugins for google analystics , just search them in your dashboard.

http://www.google.com/analytics/

I have used google analytics for other websites , i found it does display acturate information. Just today i installed in our guruweb , and will be tracking you!

Next post i will show some more about the program.

          

What is the most important thing to webmasters? Traffic! I thought i would let out some secrets on how to increase traffic to your site. Since they are many many ways to increase your traffic im going to talk about this once a week.

Why increase your traffic?

If your trying to make money from your site you want more traffic to click on those advertisements , or do more of what ever it is you make money from. If your just a blogger for the fun of it , it may not be as important to you. Its always a good idea to increase your traffic just to get more popular. Whats the point of have a site if no one visits it?

How do i increase my traffic?

This week im going to talk about a program called entrecard. Entrecard is a program for bloggers to get traffic to their sites by exchanging drops. You earn credits if your drop someones blog with the entrecard widget on their site. All dropping is clicking the button “Drop” on their entrecard widget. Its like saying i like this blog , or you just gave me a credit.

How does it work?

First your need to sign up at entrecard , make an account and place the widget code on your site. The widget is a small box that include the drop button and a 125×125 ad space you can sell for credits. You can get different widgets if it doesnt fit your needs. Here is what the widget looks like.

After Your site has been approved (make sure to follow their terms) , you can start increasing your traffic. Your goal is to do 300 drops a day. I know it take time , but the more drops the more traffic your likely get.

How do i drop?

When you have logged in to your entrecard account , at the top nagivation you will see Campaign , click on that. It will take you to the categories area. It lists all the blogs by categories. Click on a category and you will see the blogs , go to the blogs. One the blogs site you need to look for the entrecard widget (like the one on the left). Then click on the word drop. Once you have clicked it , it will say Go! Go! or sometimes other responses. Just to let you know that your drop was accepted. Now do this over to as many sites as you can.

How do i get traffic?

After you have dropped a bunch of sites , what happens is that site will see your drop in their inbox area. If they are a reputable blog they will drop back. Not all sites look at their inbox , so this is something you need to play around with. Your goal is to find a bunch of sites that will drop back if you have dropped on their site.

There a many things you can do to improve your effectiveness at entrecard. I recommend you download their toolbar to drop on sites faster. This is very useful tool. It usually take about 45 mins to an hour to do 300 drops. Depending on your internet connection and clicking finger (with toolbar). Also when you drop on someones blog you earn a credit. With those credits you can buy ads on other blogs , or you can use them at the marketplace to buy anything users are selling (ads ,ebooks,information).

If you need help or have a sugguestion post!