Chapter 7: Overall Site Maintenance

REFERENCE

These sites will provide you with some background on what counters and trackers are and how these work

PC Webopaedia Web Dictionary

Mark Welch's Ad Site
Thorough list of counters and monitors.

Article on Tracking Devices
by Wired's Web Monkey.Com

"Who's linking to you?"
By Wired's Web Monkey.Com

Counters

Counters tell you how many people have visited your page. This is useful for telling prospective advertisers and investors how many average visitors visit your web site per month:

Hitometer
$4.99/month/online service from Web Site Garage

Fast Counter
Free online service from Link Exchange

Free Counter
You can choose style and look.

Tripod Counter
Tripod is a free host service. This is their commercial counter

Better Counter
Free w/real time stats and can monitor whole web site.

Delorie
Counter

Site See
Counter

Free Links
Complete list of counters and trackers/monitors reference under its "log analyzers" site link.

The Counter
Free counter

SITE TRACKERS

Trackers keep detailed visitor stats on your web site. These can tell you how many are visiting, what pages they are visiting, when they are visiting, from where, and how long they are staying. This can be very useful information to gauge the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns.

Site Tracker
Free service

Hit List
Software program tells you who is visiting, when, from where, what banners are being used, how long to download, what search engines, what links, what keywords, stats, graphs, %'s, lists.

Web Trends
Professional Software Program

FxWeb
Free web tracker

Free Links
Complete list of counters and trackers/monitors reference under its "log analyzers" site link.

Stat Trax
Fee based tracking service

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GIF LUBE
By Web Site Garage

MAINTENANCE CHECK UPS:

COUNTERS Site Launch, Major Updates. Counters are a great, and usually inexpensive way to find out simply how many click throughs your pages are getting each month. This is helpful for advertisers and a simple way for you to monitor patterns in site traffic.

SITE TRACKERS Site Launch, Major Updates. Site trackers are an excellent way to monitor your pages. These should be followed regularly in conjunction with your submissions program to see how many people are coming to your site and from where they are coming. Some also tell you the keywords they used to get to your web site.