Last year I did a post on viewing your stats, but newer clients won’t have seen that post. So I thought I’d write about it again, to help you see how your website is viewing.

When your website was listed with us, it would have also been registered with some of the major search engines. However, it’s updating, activity, blog posting (if you have a blog), linking to your website in your email messages and on your stationery and anything else, that is going to help drive traffic. Unless people know you exist, they won’t know to come looking for you.

If you have a lot of knowledge in your field, but your website doesn’t need updating often, why not look at writing articles and submitting them to ezine article sites? You can include a bio which links back to your website and will help increase visitors and therefore, potential sales from your site.

So, don’t miss the opportunity to make sure people know your site is online!

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Did you know that cpanel has stats available for you to view? You can log into your control panel and click on the image in the 4th line of icons. It will look similar to the one below.

WS/FTP Stats

Once in click on Awstats and you’ll see a visual display of the stats for your website. You can view previous months or the current month. It will show you your most visited pages, incoming links from other sites, search words used to find you and even the countries your visitors come from. You may even see spikes through the week for days that attract more visitors.

Very helpful if you’re working at promoting your site and finding out what works.

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