Title: 
Why and how to track traffic of your website?

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531

Summary:
It is very important to know for you that what your visitors do on your site.how they come on your site etc.. Here is a guide for Tracking traffic for your website.


Keywords:
seo,search,engine,optimization,promotion,marketing


Article Body:
Traffic analysis--why you should analyze traffic of your website?

[1] You can decide what you need to change in your site.
[2] You will able to know how visitors coming on your site
[3] You will Calculate your ROI if you are advertising with any PPC sites 
[4] You will be able to know Path of visitors and most preferred path of 
visitors.
[5] You will decide which Keywords can work better for you and drive more 
targeted traffic for your site
[6] You will be able to know Percentage of visitors country wise 
[7] You will be able to know top referral links 
[8] You will know page load per visitors and Visitor to sales ratio and may 
improve it by changing appropriate changes in your site. changes in 
Title, Description etc..
[9] Most popular pages.
[10] According to feature of every tools you will analyze like Size of file loaded in a day, no of Error pages etc..

How to analyze traffic?

There are various tools available for traffic analysis. various services like 
Stacounter,google-analytics,webstats4u,ritecounter etc...available for free 
to analyze your traffic 

[1]Stacounter:-http://turkiyespot.com/http://turkiyespot.com/statcounter.com/</a></a>

Stacounter is one of the most popular counter. it is invisible! its alexa traffic rank is 122 this itself shows how popular it is. the service is totally free if your page load per month is 3,00,000 other vise you have to improve log size, initially its log size is 100 and you can upgrade your logsize..

[2]Webstats4u:- http://turkiyespot.com/http://turkiyespot.com/webstats4u.com/</a></a>

webstats4u is another popular counter but it is not invisible. everyone can view your stats. however they have added some nice features recently.

[3]Google-analytics:-http://turkiyespot.com/google.com/analytics/</a>
recently Google launched its site tracking service named google-analytics.it is really nice service and free. I have no more experience but people says it is really nice accept its low speed! you have to first register your site with them using your Google account. then you have to paste a code on pages you want to alalyze.there are certain limitation for placing codes like you have to place the code immediately after the metatags and before Body!. Then it will analyze your traffic. it is in Beta(Launched in Last December)

Rite counter:-ritecounter.com/
i have little experience with ritecounter.but I sometime shows 
weird results. Some visits can't track.however they provide large log size.this is biggest binifit for this site

There are other lots of Site tracking services. you can choose. 

Webalizer:-
you can Download it from-http://turkiyespot.com/http://turkiyespot.com/mrunix.net/webalizer</a></a>/ 
you will be able to analyze your log file i am Happy with Their analysis. they says that "over 10,000 records can be processed in one second, through webalizer Please visit their page as i shown above. you Have to create a directory and install this program(source code). Installation Guide is written on their home page.

Awstats:-
Like webalizer awstats is also a log file analyzer which you can install for your traffic analysis,There are some unique features are available which you will find only on Awstats. you can Download it from here>http://turkiyespot.com/awstats.sourceforge.net/</a>
its latest version released just on December 2005.with lots of improved features