How to monitor your website

Having access to statistics concerning your site is important because it allows to evaluate the functionality and the distribution/diffusion of your website, contemporarily giving you the opportunity to evaluate results in accordance to changes made. Here’s some suggestions on how to discover data and graphics that hide behind your site.

On the internet you will find plenty of  free  instruments that can aid you with graphics and data, just turn to research engines such as Google and Yahoo.

How can visitors reach your website? Those who already know the  website address can digit it where requested whereas those who do not know exactly what they are looking for will make use of a research engine or follow a link.

External links

You can have a complete overview of the sites that have connected to yours without needing to install statistics or specific programs on your site.

To do this you can use Yahoo Site Explorer. Here’s the address for this instrument:
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

Step by step the card will explain how to use it.

[CARD: DISCOVER WHO LINKS YOU THROUGH YAHOO]

Research engines

Throughout the world Yahoo and Google are the most frequently used research engines (source:  Alexa)

You can easily discover whether you site is already present on Google: visit the search engine and digit:

Site:nameofyourdominion.it

Should at least one result come up on Google this would mean that the research engine recognized your site whereas shouldn’t your name have given results whatsoever then it’s time to change the situation:

[CARD:FIND YOUR SITE ON GOOGLE]

On the upper right hand side you’ll find the number of your  web pages visible on Google and then you’ll find them listed on the research engine. Are they all there? If the answer is no, then please continue reading this guide. In the index you’ll find plenty of suggestions.

More precise statistics

To have an idea concerning the number of people  visiting  your site and how they get to it, the first step is to install a statistics evaluating systems such as Google Analytics.

To subscribe to Google Analaytics please visit page: http://www.google.com/analytics/it-IT/sign_up.html

At the moment of the subscription you will obtain a code that should be glued to all your website pages. As soon as this is done you’ll be seeing data from the day after.

Google Analytics can give you a lot of information which could be extremely useful to your site.

Besides discovering the number of people visiting your site daily,  you will be able to understand what your visitors are interested in, what creates major interest and how visitors reach your site.

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