Building a Back Door to Your Site for Stats

January 18, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Business Advice

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Building a back door to your site or blog is a great idea if you wish to exclude yourself from type-in and search engine traffic in your stats.

It’s easy to do searches to see how you rank then click the link for the satisfaction of finding yourself through a search engine. The problem is if you do this frequently at the end of the month when looking at the aggregate of your statistics they will be skewed by you who is arguably the websites most heavy user! Same applies for type-in traffic. A great way to guage how your site is doing regarding word of mouth and penetration is how often people are just typing in your site because they remember it and want more. If you type in your site directly to your browser every time you visit…

To build a back door it’s really easy just make a free blog on blogger or any free website and it doesn’t have to be much more then a link to your site. Once in you’re in. You obviously can’t exclude yourself from page views etc but let’s not dwell on that.

Best management practices would be to make the site; then bookmark it and use that to visit. Bookmarking it saves typing it in over and over and over again. Every impression you make on your keyboard is wear and tare on your hands to some extent or another and over the years they all add up.

Make a quick back door to your site or blog now and next month take a look at your true search and direct traffic stats without that one fanatic who lives on the site! (that fanatic is you in case you didn’t catch that!)

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