My Newbie
Two Cents Worth
By
Bailey
As I was reconciling the week, my first thoughts were how little time I had spent actually working. Working in the sense of building and submitting. Now, I know better...building and submitting is the key to success in this business, but there is so much to learn and NEVER enough time to do it all.
I’ve bookmarked so many things to do and this week I picked out a few that either have been there the longest or really got my attention.
One of the things to do was to look into a site counter. Server stats provide a lot of information, but I wanted to get more specific information about different pages so I started looking into counters. Not all sponsor stats provide referring urls and my server stats include a number of hits to a folder but includes all sub folders without listing the urls. I wanted to get a better idea of which ads were being clicked on [to the sponsor] and which weren’t as effective. I wanted something quick and simple. While browsing a few different counters-I couldn’t believe how much information they can obtain - I wouldn’t know what to do with it all! I tried a few of them - just to get an idea...they were all simple and easy enough. It’s taking more time to figure out which bits of information are unnecessary, which can I maybe use someday, which ones I want and which are really most useful.
The idea of counters went to the “back burner” when on my “to do list” was to read the archive on blogs. I wasn’t able to make the class the sponsor here on the board gave on blogs but when I saw the post about it on VNWR it really piqued my interest. I’ve been doing some research I’m and I’ve made it my project to conqeur!
