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Becoming a better blogger…Day 2
Yay! I made it to day 2! What could today’s assignment be about? Playing in traffic? Oh, site traffic. 
I have 3 websites I have created and maintain, the oldest of these being 3 years old. I hate to admit that I never bothered to look at my stats…ever. I didn’t see the point. My oldest site is my class website. I created it strictly for classroom use. I knew my kids were using it because I made them…those were my stats. I think I may have also ignored stats on it before because I don’t think my host (Start Logic - Great host!) had very easy to read reports. They have recently done a revamp and the visitor report is awesome and easy to read. I only came to know this because I started a side business and hooked up with a consultant that forced me to look at my stats. So that is kind of what Steve is talking about with site traffic, only in this case specific to this blog. So I’ve got to add some special thingys to it to start getting some data. I guess I figure no one is really reading this except for Lori and Mark when I started it a several months back. So I guess I know I’ve had at least 2 hits! haha
Ok, I’ve got Site Meter all set up now. I will have to check it later to see if I got it going right. Now onto Google Analytics… Oh, that one is scary! haha I signed up for it easily enough, but then it threw this large amount of HTML code at me with some cryptic note about posting that code on every page I wanted to track…. Uh….what? I think I like Site Meter better, was MUCH more user friendly. Guess I will only be going with one tracker for the moment!