Every time you order a BetterVisitors campaign, we send you a username and password to our stats site. It’s a convenient way to track your visitors and analyze your traffic.
But how many visitors are you actually getting? Does your web counter show more than we show, or less? Occasionally, someone writes to us complaining that their web counter isn’t showing as many visitors as the BetterVisitors tracking area. (No-one ever writes when their counter shows more visitors though!)
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How many visitors are you actually getting?
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October 22nd, 2007
If you can’t count, you can’t make any money. And you won’t have any money to count unless you also know how to count traffic, so listen up. (Even if you think you’re already an expert.)
Some people throw around the words “hits” and “page views”, but usually they wouldn’t know the difference between a hit and a potato pancake.
You know how to tell a $1 from and $100, right? Well, these four essential terms are the currency of traffic. Learn to count them right and you’ll be head and shoulders above everyone else. Or don’t bother, and get used to trading $100s for $1s instead of the other way around.
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Website Traffic: What’s a Hit, A Page View, A Visitor?
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October 2nd, 2007