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It’s a great feeling to put up your blog, start writing posts or creating content, but to really grow your blog, you need to understand the statistics of your site. You need to know who is visiting, what they are looking for, where they came from and even where they are going.
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Alicia Lyttle & Lorette Lyttle of Monetized Marketing - Top 3 WordPress
Statistics PluginsGoogle Analytics
Google Analytics has been around for a long time. We used Google Analytics for tracking and statistics for our HTML static websites.
Now, plugins have been created to easily incorporate the service into your blog. This service has pretty much all the statistics your need. Stats by the hour, day, month and year and much, much more.
To use Google Analytics on your blog, you have to set up a Google Analytics account (http://www.google.com/analytics/).
Here are plugins to add Google Analytics to your WordPress site.
Google Analytics (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/googleanalytics/) This plugin adds the required javascript for google analytics. Install, then enter your Google Analytics code. Very simple to set up. This is the one we currently use.
Google Analyticator (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analyticator/) Google Analyticator adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging. Also includes widgets for displaying data in the admin area.
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WordPress.com Stats
WordPress.com Stats Plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/)
This is a very simple plugin and gives you a great overall picture of what is happening on your site from a day to day basis. It is great for checking referrals, keywords, as well as the clicks for the day.
To install this plugin on your site you have get a WordPress.com account. After you sign up for an account, login to your account and obtain your API key which is located in your profile.
Once you upload and activate the plugin, they will ask for your API key and thats it! After a few minutes you will be able to see statistics on your site.
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StatPress ReloadedStatPress Reloaded Plugin
(http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/statpress-reloaded/)
This plugin is by far the easiest of the the three. The reason is because you don’t need any external accounts set up anywhere else. You simply upload and activate the plugin and almost instantly you can see real time statistics with your site.
It tracks more information that WordPress.com Stats, but not as much information as Google Analytics, so it falls in the middle.
This one is the best for a quick snapshot and also allows you to “spy” on visitors that are currently on your site. This one is quick, easy and accurate.
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