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RSS Statistics: What to Know and What to Ignore

We’ve talked quite a bit about statistics for photographers’ websites, but what about those readers that are subscribed via RSS? Should you care about your RSS subscriber numbers? If you’re not sure what this RSS talk is about, check out RSS in Plain English.
How to Measure RSS Subscriber Numbers
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The Web Stat that Leads to SEO: Search Referrers

Over the past month or so, I’ve posted several articles related to web statistics and what they mean. Let’s take a look at an important referrer-related bit of information: inbound search links. These identify the terms that visitors are putting into search engines and then finding your site. For example, if one [...]

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Web Statistics: Referrers, Exit Pages, and Outbound Links

It’s time for another installment of our series on web statistics and what they can mean to a photographer. We talked about about web statistics goals, looked at web statistics software, and asked what hits, bounce rates, and unique visitors mean. Today we’re going to look at referrers, exit pages, and outbound links.
Referrers
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Basic Web Stats: The Hits Keep Coming

We talked a bit about web statistics goals and looked at web statistics software, so let’s start looking at some statistics themselves. As mentioned in previous posts, what the statistics will mean depends on the purpose of your website. Looking at things from a photography perspective, today we’ll talk about hits, entry pages, [...]

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Three Web/Blog Stats Options

We previously talked about understanding goals before worrying about web statistics. Let’s talk about another bit of infrastructure before we dive into numbers next week. If you’re going to record statistics for your website or blog, you’ll need some sort of software. All web servers record basic information about who is visiting [...]

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Goals Before Numbers

Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be covering a bit about statistics… the results of measuring traffic to a blog or website. Before we get into specifics of what the numbers mean (or even what software should be used to measure them), let’s start at the beginning and define a goal.
Generally having more [...]

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