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StatCounter.com is an invisible web tracker that allows you to get detailed reports regarding the traffic to your website. This is a very inexpensive yet impressive tool that will help you make advertising and business decisions based on this information. Are you getting plenty of traffic to your website yet consumers are stopping on a particular webpage and not making a purchase? These reports will show you this information allowing you to take a critical look at specific issues so that you can make changes to improve your sales volume.

From these reports you will learn about the keywords consumers are using to find your website, the most popular web pages you offer, and the links used to reach your site. If you find some links just aren’t working then you may wish to change your advertising there or simply stop advertising in that location. This is the very same information that high dollar web design consultants provide. You will get it from StatCounter.com for free!

edit How does the process work?

You simply add Statcounter.com coding to your website. Consumers don’t even know it is there. It is absolutely invisible and you won’t find any advertising for it appearing on your website. Best of all you can monitor the visits to your website in real time. The software is very reliable and fast to install. The information you will have access to includes log size, a counter option, summaries, entry pages, exit pages, the length of time consumers are spending on your site, information on the geographic location visitors are from, ISP statistics.

edit No Standard fee!

You can get all of this free of charge. There is no catch, it really is free. The service is provided to assist online businesses manage their traffic flow. However, you will need to pay if you choose one of the upgrade options. You will also have to pay if your web page uploads are more than 250,000 per month. The cost is very minimal those as up to 1,500,000 is $9 per month, 7,500,000 is $19 per month and more than that will cost you $29 per month. The objective of StatCounter.com is to break even each month not to make a profit so they keep your costs very minimal.

edit Customer Service

You will find the customer service support team at StatCounter to be very efficient and friendly. You can contact them by phone or email with any questions or concerns you may have. They also encourage you to contact them with any comments or suggestions you have to make their product work better for you. StatCounter.com is continually working to improve the system to make it faster and more efficient.

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Contact Form
+353 1 4100 658 (Ireland)

edit User Forum

The user forum is another wonderful location to get excellent advice and tips for using StatCounter from other e-business owners who are currently using it. Find out first hand how it has helped them turn their business into a very profitable venture. You can read the various customer comments on the website to find out exactly what is so appealing about what StatCounter is offering. If you have more than one website you will have the ability to manage them all under the same account. This is great if you want an easy way to compare data from one site against another.

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Home Page Analysis

The Home Page Analysis helps you understand how a site's home page appears to both search engines and site visitors.


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StatCounter.com Home Page Analysis Summary

Titles & Headings The title and headings on the home page tell people and search engines what a website is about.
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Links & Images Relevant links to other sites are good for people and search engines. Images on a web page should be described for visually impaired visitors and search engines.
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Title

The title of a web page appears in search results as the link to that page. Learn more ...

Purpose

The title of a web page appears as a clickable link in search results and bookmarks. A descriptive, compelling home page title with relevant keywords can increase the number of people visiting the site.

Search Engines

Search engines view the text of the title tag as a strong indication of what the page is about. Accurate keywords in the title tag can help the page rank better in search results.

Length

A title tag should have fewer than 70 characters, including spaces. Major search engines won't display more than that.

Content

The title tag of your home page (and any other page on your site) should not contain the site’s domain name or URL. These will appear near the title in search results, so use your 70 characters to tell people what the page is about. The title tag should not contain any HTML, because it will be displayed incorrectly or not at all.

  • Good: This web page has a title tag.
  • Good: The title tag is a good length.
The title of this site's home page:
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Meta Description

Search engines often use the meta description of a web page to describe it in search results. Learn more ...

Purpose

The meta description tells searchers what a web page is about. It is often displayed below the title in search results, and helps people decide if they want to visit that website.

Length

Search engines will read 200 to 250 characters, but usually display only 150, including spaces. The first 150 characters of the meta description should contain the most important keywords for that web page. Using fewer than 50 characters could mean you’re not saying enough about the page.

Content

The meta description should be engaging, and should include keywords that accurately reflect what visitors will find on the web page. The keywords should be the same ones that a site's potential customers are using to search. Include a site’s location if it is important.

  • Good: The meta description is the right length, between 50 and 150 characters.
The meta description for this site's home page:
A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats.

H1 Headings

The H1 heading is an important sentence or phrase on a web page that quickly and clearly tells people and search engines what they can expect to find there. Learn more ...

Just one H1

In most cases, a web page should have just one H1 heading. Using multiple H1 headings is okay if that is a logical way to organize the page, but they should be used sparingly. That’s because search engines can view multiple H1 headings as an attempt to signal that all the content on a page is equally important, a tactic that’s seen as an attempt to game the search engine algorithms.

Purpose

Search engines look for an H1 heading to determine what a page is about. Human visitors do, too.

Content and placement

The H1 heading appears on the web page itself, unlike the page title, which people will see mostly in search results.

The H1 tag (which contains the H1 heading) is usually listed first among the other heading tags for a page. None of the major search engines, however, will penalize a site for listing H2 through H6 tags ahead of the H1 tag.

The H1 heading for a page should be different from its title. Each can target different important keywords for better SEO.

  • Problem: This web page does not have an H1 heading. It should have one.

StatCounter.com in search results

You can see below how most search engines will display this site's home page in search results. The title is used as the link to the page, and the meta description appears below the title.

StatCounter Free invisible Web tracker, Hit counter and Web stats

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Robots

Your website's robots.txt file can tell search engines to ignore parts of your site. Learn more ...

Purpose

Website owners usually use robots.txt to let search engines know which pages or sections of their site shouldn't be indexed — for example, web contact forms, print versions of web pages and other content that's duplicated elsewhere on the site. Robots.txt can also be used to request that specific robots not index a site. For more information, read How To Use Robots.txt.

Be careful!

If you're going to use robots.txt, be careful not to accidentally exclude search engines from pages you want people to find. To learn more, read Don't Block Search Engine Crawlers.

Search engine robots

You'll need to know the names of specific search engine robots - or "bots" – if you’re going to exclude any or all of them from any part of your site.

  • Google’s bot is called Googlebot. Google is the world’s largest search engine, and is where many people discover new websites.
  • Bing’s bot is called msnbot. Bing also provides search results to people using Yahoo to search the Web. Together, Bing and Yahoo are the second largest search resource, after Google.
  • Baidu’s bot is called Baiduspider. Baidu is a major search engine in China, and the number of people using it is increasing rapidly.
  • AboutUs.org’s bot is called AboutUsBot. To create a Site Report, AboutUs uses crawling technology that’s similar to what search engines use.
  • Good: This website’s robots.txt file is not blocking major search engines from crawling its pages. Your website can appear in any engine’s search results.

Canonical Url

This website can live at www.StatCounter.com or StatCounter.com. It's best for your site's visibility to live at just one URL, or web address. You'll want to create a 301 redirect to the URL you choose from the other URL. Learn more ...

Choose one or the other

Whichever of these URLs you choose, make sure your website lives ONLY at that location, which is called the canonical URL for your site.

Be careful!

If you choose www.MyWebsite.com for your site, make sure people who don't type www can get to your site, too. Create a permanent 301 redirect from MyWebsite.com to www.MyWebsite.com.

If the same web page exists at two different URLs, people can choose to link to one or the other. Links from other sites to your website are valuable — they tell search engines that your site is important to people. By splitting valuable links between two identical pages, you're diluting the power of those links to help a page rank higher in search results.

Learn more about why you should have just one home page: Read Twin Home Pages: Classic SEO Mistake

  • Good: Your website resides at StatCounter.com, and www.StatCounter.com is permanently redirected to it.
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Web Presence

Search Engine Visibility

Check this site's prominence around the web and in major search engines.

Backlinks

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Indexed Pages

value for Google 2,100,000
value for Bing 0

Rank

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value for Alexa 142

Date Last Crawled

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Check this site's presence on news sharing and community sites.

Social Media Visibility

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value for Dmoz 2
value for Google Groups 158,000
value for Yahoo Answers 47
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Redirectory

Below we show domains that redirect to StatCounter.com.

We survey every domain on the Internet ending in .com, .net, or .edu to see if any redirect to this website. Large or famous websites like Amazon.com often have many sites redirecting to them.

Domains that redirect to the home page of StatCounter.com

A website owner can point one domain to the home page of another. Learn more ...

Capture visitors who type the wrong name

It can make a lot of sense to redirect a domain to an existing web page. For example, many people are likely to type wikipedia.com when they are really looking for wikipedia.org. Creating a redirect from wikipedia.com to wikipedia.org helps these people get to the site they want.

5 domains redirect to the home page of StatCounter.com.

Domains that redirect to a page within StatCounter.com

A domain can point to any page within another website. Learn more ...

Get people to a specific web page

Creating a redirect from a simple domain name helps people find an existing web page that has a long, hard-to-remember URL. For example firefox.com redirects to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/.

We have not found any domains that redirect to pages within StatCounter.com.

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