Most of us know the importance of getting traffic to our website or blog but most people also overlooked the importance of tracking that traffic. Some don’t even know that it exists and yet getting all worked up about getting traffic to their website.

As much important traffic is to your website or blog, it is equally important for you to track that traffic that is coming to your website.

How long your traffic stays on your website is an indication of how good and interesting you have made your website or your blog.

It is always good to check the number of visitors coming to your site and how long they have stayed. How do you check this? You will check this by your log files. Most webhost do provide web statistic log in a form of either webalizer or awstats. I like and prefer to use awstats – just my personal preference.

This is done by your c-panel or a similar place depending on what your host has set up for you. Here you can view the different stats about your website.

They will show you:

* Monthly stats-how many visitors came to your site during one month. These will be divided into unique and general (repeat visitors).

* Weekly stats- how many visitors came in 1 week, again they will be divided into unique and general

* Daily stats

* Hourly stats 9 (I don’t care much about hourly stats)

* Number of minutes your visitors stay at your site

* Where the traffic is coming from or referred from

* Which search engine is sending you the most number of traffic

* What search term or keyword your visitors used to find your website or blog (Very Useful)

Most visited pages: These let you know how many visitors have come to certain pages during 1 month. This is where it gets interesting, as you will be able to tell which pages are attracting the most visitors.

The amount of time visitors have spent on your website: This is a good estimate of the quality of your site. Obviously the longer your visitors stay the more chances there are of them buying.

Once you know which pages are attracting visitors you can then work on getting all your pages sticky and compel surfers to visit them.

Google also tracks how long visitors are spending at your site. Again it is a quality check as far as they are concerned. When Googlebots bring information back to the Database about a website being visited and people are staying longer, they can naturally assume the standard of that website is high.

High standard and quality means Google customers (your visitors) are being serviced well and that makes Google happy. This will earn you a higher Page Rank (What most people overlooked when trying to get a higher pagerank)

So we can naturally assume that the longer your visitors stay the better it is. Now how to encourage them to stay? Have you ever read a book that you just could not put down? Well you website must have that same effect on your visitors. They will not want to leave until they have devoured every word of your pre selling content. They should be in the mood to either sign up to be in your opt-in list and become your leads or go on to your sales page and buy your products or services.

Making them stay: Make your site an irresistible, sticky website that draws your visitor in and compels them to stay. Here are some things that I can think of:

* Interesting informative content or even videos.

* Stories and breaking news about your industry. Be the first or among the first to write a ground breaking news in your industry.

* Quizzes relating to your industry-the answers will be found on one of your important pages

* Good user friendly navigation

* Humorous jokes, quotes and stories related to your industry-these are often shared among friends and associates (viral marketing).

* Free tips and tricks always work well in getting your visitors to stay longer.

Use all the resources you have and write that good informative content to pre sell your visitors. Provide them good products and services and see your visitors convert to your loyal customers because you have made your website irresistible to them.

Want more traffic to your blog? Who doesn’t! All of us want to pull all and as much traffic as we can as long as we can. I have put together a list of several sites I use to generate traffic to my blog and these are my best method of getting good flow of traffic to my blog.

After blogging for awhile, I found there are several things users can do to help generate quality traffic to their blogs from other websites and search engines. One of the most important things you can do is to create incoming links to your blogs through various Web 2.0 sites.

This is what I usually do. Organize all the various web 2.0 sites that you have signed up into a folder in your browser. As soon as I have a new post in my blog, I just need to make my way down to the list in the folder and create links to my post from each of the sites.

Below are the sites I often use in getting traffic to my blog.

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Same theory about selling, it’s always easy to sell to the customers that have already bought something from you before, it also applies to the way we are getting traffic.

Here are a few great ways to get repeat traffic to your blog or website.

1. Update the pages and content on your website frequently. Stagnant sites are dropped by some search engines. One way is to put a date counter on the page to show when it was last updated.

2. Allow customers to ‘opt in’ to get discounts and special offers. You can place a link on your site to invite customers to ‘opt in’ to get a monthly newsletter and updates or valuable coupons.

3. Add a ‘Book Mark or Add this site to your Favorites’ link to your primary page with a script

4. Add a link ‘Recommend this site to a Friend’ so that the visitor can email your website link, with a pre-written title, “Thought you might be interested in this”, just by clicking on it.

5. Make sure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they happen to lose the book mark.

Feel free to add more ways in the comment. It will be greatly appreciated.

This is something that I have been asking myself for a very long time. How do we make big money on the internet? I’m not talking about $500 - $2000 per month.

I have been doing some searching and analysing for awhile about all the big sites on the net, for example, myspace, youtube, facebook, and even those tops forums and article directories etc etc.

These are high traffic sites and we all know that. They receive hundreds of thousand and millions of hits everyday.

There’s some similarity in these kind of sites.

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