Stats and Rankings
Increase Your Blogs Pageviews
A friend of mine linked to a slide show in my photo gallery and it became semi popular. The topic was a bit spicy too which didn’t hurt its popularity. I picked up many hits from his site, and many of the redirected visitors were viewing the slide show option on gallery which [...]
Clear Cut Blogging’s First Month Birthday
Clear Cut Blogging is set up as a transparent way for people to learn how to set up a WordPress site of their own and watch it grow up into a successful professional blog. We have successfully blogged here for a full month. Now, that isn’t much time but we have made some [...]
Showoff Rankings Problem
I added the widget showoff rankings before because it seemed like a nice way to be transparent to all of my readers. I have found however that it doesn’t always work properly. I will look into changing it or getting rid of it altogether and finding a different way of presenting my Google [...]
Page Views
Page views is a stat that all stat counters give you so you can see which posts or pages are the most popular. It is indexed, and all of your pages may be ranked or have different PageRank accordingly. So, what do you do to create more pageviews.
1) Create an aesthetically pleasing [...]
Alexa Ranking
Basically, Alexa is a tool to see how your website ranks compared with other sites. How do they get this data? People download the Alexa Toolbar. and then when they visit a site, it gets tracked and then all of the site and pagehits by users of the Alexa Toolbar are added up [...]
Showoff Rankings
I found a cool widget that displays rank for Alexa, Compete, Google PR (which you manually add) and Technorati from my hopefully new friend at Average Joe Blogger. Go to the Showoff Rankings Site, add your site, check the format you’d like, then copy some code into your header.php, and then copy some code [...]
