In my previous post i wrote about Feedjit which is a free tool for tracking traffic to your blog. Feedjit is not an advance tool as compare to StatCounter. StatCounter provide you more details and information about your visitors. It is very important to track all the traffic to your blog. Some time spammer can post allot of spam comments in your blog. If you have any tracking tool install in your blog then you can easily block his IP address from visiting your blog.
Blogger has no feature to block any IP address, but wordpress has this feature to block any IP address from visiting your blog.
StatCounter provide you all the details about every single visitor. You can find about his country, IP, Browser, Server, Host etc. You can also find Popular Pages, Recent typed Keywords in SE, Came from (Visitor Path), Exit link activity, Pageload activities and much more.
How to Install StatCounter in your blogger or WordPress Blog
The process is very simple. Visit StatCounter and create account with statcounter. Now login to your account and click on Add New Project.
Now enter your Website Title, Website URL, Select your county, select 24 hours from maximum visit length and click on Next button.
After providing all the above information you will get this message “Congratulations! Your Project has been created!” Now click on Configure and Install button to get the code.
Copy the code and paste it in your blogger or wordpress blog.
For Blogger (blogspot)
Go to your Dash Board and click on Layout- HTML and then find </body> in your template code.
Paste the code just before </body> and click on Save Button
For WordPress
Just login to your Dash Board, click on Appearance and then click on Editior. There you will see footor.php
Click on footor.php and find </body> and paste the statcounter code just before </body> and click on save button.
Now every visitor to your blog will be trace, and you will find all the information in your statcounter account.Statcounter is a very good traffic tracking tool. If you found any difficulty, then post comment here. Don’t forget to backup your blogger blog and wordpress data base before making any changes.
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I agree with you, because i also used this tool for my blog, web site since 1year. this is a good tool where to come my visitor, and more. i learn one idea in your post, one visitor come my wordpress blog site and writ spam comment on my site more times a day, now i have block this user. your post is most useful for visitor, thank a lot your post.
For Wordpress, you can use their official StatCounter plugin which makes it more easy. No need to play with code and no worry even if you change theme.
Yes for wordpress users, official statcounter plugin is also good, but a simple code is better then a plugin.
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