tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post8573298298053888947..comments2023-06-13T08:29:39.914+00:00Comments on MAKING A MARK: How to find out what are the most popular posts on your blogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-11025068848326702962009-01-06T11:48:00.000+00:002009-01-06T11:48:00.000+00:00Adam - I haven't found that yet in Google Analytic...Adam - I haven't found that yet in Google Analytics either so I'm sorry I can't help.<BR/><BR/>However statcounter has one that you can use - you have to accept a blocking cookie<BR/><BR/>You'll never ever get any stats service agreeing what the number of visitors are. Plus there are bigger and techier brains than mine that have been completely unable to work out the explanations for the difference between the numbers counted by different services.<BR/><BR/>My personal view is that numbers are never ever precise and are always going to be distorted to a certain extent by people's practices. That's why it's really important to look at trends because you can see changes over time irrespective of the habits of yourself or your readers.<BR/><BR/>Robin - I'm forever leaving tabs open in error and probably contribute enormously to enhancing the length of blog stay stats on other people's blogs!!! That said, most services stop counting after an hour. Again I only really look at trends and not at absolute numbers.Making A Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13509483023337008890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-45031109175330317972009-01-06T11:34:00.000+00:002009-01-06T11:34:00.000+00:00Fine looking cat - nice to see a smile.Thanks for ...Fine looking cat - nice to see a smile.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for this googlery. Google Analytics is poor at instructions, especially, as you say, for those of us who like to have them all together printed out & not scattered all over the place in web clickable form. (manipulation over communication?)<BR/><BR/>The Dummies Guide to Google? (SEO)waiting to be written.<BR/><BR/>Katherine please could you help? I can't figure out how to install a google analytics self-exclusion filter on a blog. I'm OK for a static www. page but can't figure it out for blogspot, even less find the right help via analytics.<BR/><BR/>(OK a lot people would like to find an adam cope exclusion filter - arggggg! ;-)Adam Copehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00597553517593344369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-75258218477355595502009-01-06T04:43:00.000+00:002009-01-06T04:43:00.000+00:00Hi Katherine,If this post is too long or goes off ...Hi Katherine,<BR/>If this post is too long or goes off topic, feel free to edit (I asumme you can edit comments in Blogger? you can in WP). <BR/>FYI, WordPress.com provides these and a lot more blog statistics without users having to do anything. I love WordPress; their technical support is fabulous; you send a question and get an answer almost immediately and their forums and help files are great. They provide an excellent spam blocker so it's not necessary to make visitors type word verification codes (a pet peeve of mine). Jennifer mentioned WordPress.org which is different, that's for people hosting on their own computers. If you use the WordPress hosted blogging platform at WordPress.com the analytics are all there for you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-39520814266842793722009-01-05T07:07:00.000+00:002009-01-05T07:07:00.000+00:00What a wonderful service you've provided. Great in...What a wonderful service you've provided. Great info here, even for those who don't use blogger for their blogging platform. It appears for Wordpress.org users there are a number of plugins to integrate Google Analytics into your blog. Not sure which plugin will be the most seamless/easy to install one for me, but I'll have to do a little investigating and give it a try!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-34637697082071187932009-01-04T18:42:00.000+00:002009-01-04T18:42:00.000+00:00Interesting information. I wonder how true it actu...Interesting information. I wonder how true it actually is. <BR/>You mention about time spent on a blog post. Many times I open a site and link from that post to many other pages. It keeps the original post up but I am not actually looking at the post. So this might be a misleading number.<BR/>Also I sometimes forget to close a tab, or in fact leave it open to read again later. Again this messes with the stats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-78357328322346220182009-01-04T15:05:00.000+00:002009-01-04T15:05:00.000+00:00Thank you for the time and effort you've put into ...Thank you for the time and effort you've put into this one, Katherine. I get terribly nervous about doing something in html that I can't undo. I'll have to ponder the instructions for a while.Robyn Sinclairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01663604160297996421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-40484374297087783232009-01-04T00:14:00.000+00:002009-01-04T00:14:00.000+00:00Thanks so much, Katherine. I added Google Analyti...Thanks so much, Katherine. I added Google Analytics to my blog a few months ago but could never figure out how to get the analysis so I deleted it. You've made this all very clear so I'll try it once more.Jo Reimerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17381636308808299868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-69849852459936086062009-01-03T14:07:00.000+00:002009-01-03T14:07:00.000+00:00I did in fact look at Google Analytics from a link...I did in fact look at Google Analytics from a link on your blog a few days ago! I'm afraid I just can't get past copy pasting the code into my template, it won't accept it. I tried Blogflux and Sitemeter too - Blogflux has 3 easy steps which lead down the garden path and a website with links that go round in circles. Sitemeter has code that my template rejects but I did receive a speedy breakdown by e-mail showing no-one had visited! After that I Googled and found some blogs are having problems from this code in the template and I don't want to risk it until I know what I'm doing!Felicity Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11145205761346733464noreply@blogger.com