MyBlogLog Reports
I just went to MyBlogLog for the for the first time in quite a while and my appreciation has went up for it ten-fold.
The widgets are much improved since last I checked them out for one thing. I think the Lifestream widget is teh awesome. No more scraping all those pieces of javascript together, now I just add my services into MyBlogLog and let them do it for me. What impressed me most though, and hopefully you too, are the stat reports. Check it out:
Report Results :: Details [Where readers came from]
| Rank | Last Date/Time | Referral Site | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 28, 2008 @ 16:23 | Google Search: “windows xp professional” “belarc advisor current profile” key: | 63 |
| 2 | May 27, 2008 @ 03:43 | Google Search: “windows xp professional” “belarc advisor current profile” key: | 4 |
| 3 | May 24, 2008 @ 21:16 | Google Search: “windows xp professional” “belarc advisor current profile” key: | 3 |
| 4 | May 28, 2008 @ 07:24 | Google Search: belarc advisor current profile | 3 |
| 5 | May 26, 2008 @ 03:43 | Google Search: belarc advisor current profile | 3 |
| 6 | May 26, 2008 @ 07:06 | http: / / www.transformersfans.com/ the- movie/ official- news/ free- download- transformers- the- movie | 3 |
| 7 | May 25, 2008 @ 22:57 | Google Search: retail xp home key + belarc profile - oem | 2 |
| 8 | May 27, 2008 @ 16:24 | Google Search: world_ of_ whorecraft | 2 |
| 9 | May 26, 2008 @ 08:57 | Google Search: belarc advisor xp keys | 2 |
| 10 | May 23, 2008 @ 16:49 | Google Search: belarc advisor current profile | 2 |
| Total | 87 | ||
Report Results :: Details [What readers viewed]
Report Results :: Details [What readers clicked]
| Rank | Title | URL | Clicks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Google AdSense (120×600) | http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com#120×600 | 6 |
| 2 | Login | http://xiled.rss-central.net/blog/wp-login.php | 1 |
| 3 | Submit Query | http://xiled.rss-central.net/blog/wp-comments-post.php | 1 |
| 4 | Google AdSense (728×15) | http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com#728×15 | 1 |
| Total | 9 | ||
And that’s just the free service. If I had the cash I’d sign up for the payed service, but alas, I’m broke. This kind of information is invaluable to any webmaster, but even more so to those who have no access to the Apache referrer logs on the server that is hosting their site. If you fall into that group, or even if you don’t, you really should consider signing up. If the widgets and stats aren’t enough to get your attention then consider this post. The real value of the many social sites available today isn’t in traffic from inbound links. The real value is that they allow you to build a far reaching community. MyBlogLog is no different.
You will notice that all the links you see are to my old site and there are two simple reasons for this, neither of which can be blamed on MyBlogLog:
- This site is new and not well indexed yet, I haven’t even done a formal submission to Google. I figure I’ll let that take care of itself for now and concentrate on writing and community building.
- As I stated at the beginning of this article, today was my first visit to MyBlogLog in quite some time so I hadn’t inserted their tracking snippet into my template.
And no to those who will ask, this is not a paid post. MyBlogLog is a property of Yahoo! and they don’t need my lowly pagerank to increase their signups.
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on May 30th, 2008 at 1:39 am
Definitely an interesting way to get statistics on your “blog”. There are other services that do this as well - typepad for example provides a fairly detailed log of your traffic… however, in the scope of things - free seems like a better option.
What data mining are you interested in from mybloglog?
on May 30th, 2008 at 2:48 am
Well, i dislike the term data mining, even though that is technically what it is. But my primary interest is in what brought viewers here, what they looked at after they arrived and if they exited the site via one of my links, then which one was it. This will help me craft my future articles and get to know my audience better.
on June 4th, 2008 at 1:43 am
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