I want to start with a very important question for you. Are you ready? It's actually a two-part question. So it's kind of a trick way to ask two questions. Are you tracking your traffic, and do you know where your website traffic is coming from? If you aren't, then you are dramatically slowing your progress and limiting your profits for your business.
I know you know the importance of getting very targeted traffic to your website. You need to do this consistently in order to have a chance of getting any sales. The way most basic instructors teach you to keep track of this traffic is using Google analytics on your webpages. You are told relentlessly how important this is for you to succeed.
You already know that Google Analytics is free. Google created this tool to help its advertisers keep track of where the traffic is coming from when they advertise with Google. The cool thing is you can use it with your advertising with them or not. The difficult part is you have to place the code on every webpage or you will not get reliable results.
This is important to understand. You can have the Analytics code on every one of your webpages and still not be getting completely accurate data. You see, Google isn't getting the information from your server – where real ground truth rests. It's relying on code snippets and pixels to figure out what's happening. This method is pretty good, but it's far from complete. The good news is the trends the data shows is accurate. Just the numbers may not be so accurate.
But wait, there is a backup for you and it's free. If you are a smart marketer, with your website hosted at provider giving you a cPanel interface, then it's right at your fingertips. It's the most accurate data there is because your server is giving it to you. There's no special codes, and not little pixels. Every page is automatically tracked.
There's two free programs your web host can provide. They are Webalizer and AWStats. There are some hosts that provide both, and many that provide one or the other. The programs are already installed in your cPanel, and they provide the best web traffic statistics you can get. It's already there waiting for you.
Just login to your website cPanel and go to the logs section of the menu.in this section you will find an icon for one or the other of the two programs. Simply click on the icon and start looking around and get familiar with the data presented. To get this data, you have to do nothing. No code to install and no tracking pixels to correctly place on your pages. It's there automatically.
That's it, that's all there is to knowing the real truth of your website. You now have another free method of tracking your traffic, and it's hiding right at your fingertips. No more guessing as to where your website traffic is coming from. You didn't have to install a thing.
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