Check Stats
Analytics
Log into http://analytics.google.com to review your stats. Make two lists:
- Which countries are represented by your visitors?
- Which states are represented by your U.S. visitors?
As a class, we'll make a list of all countries and all states visiting our class.
Webmaster Tools
Now look at Google Webmaster Tools at:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
- Anything in "Top search queries"?
- Anyone linking to your blog?
- What are the significant key words for your blog?
- Click "Diagnostics" and "Crawl Stats" and review "Pages Crawled per Day"
Check out webmaster information for Yahoo! or MSN (whichever one you set up for your blog):
Yahoo!: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
MSN/Bing: http://www.bing.com/webmaster
- What can you learn from these tools?
Be prepared to discuss your findings as a class.
