Using Stats

The real fun stuff of Blogging is stats. Stats show you the referring URL, searches audience country, operating systems and posts hits; so for a newbie then these can help shape your blog. Stats are on the dashboard in Blogger. Using stats you can really see how promoting is affecting your blog. My blog is popular in Ireland, USA, England, Canada, Germany, France, Israel, Japan, Russia, and Australia. I use this information to explain cultural references or to even do a post on their country, as I did here.  


While Blogger Stats are a great analytic reporting system for your Blog, you need more. It really depends on what you want from your blog but I wanted MORE so I found my answer, Google Webmaster Tools.


You can get the tools here. Once you've verified your ownership of your site, you'll be able to: see Google data for your site in Webmaster Tools, so you can diagnose potential problems and improve the quality of your site.

For further helpe see this YouTbue as a visual guide:





To add and verify a site:
(Taken from google.com/support)


  1. Sign into Google Webmaster Tools with your Google Account.
  2. Click Add a site, and type the URL of the site you want to add. Make sure you type the entire URL, such as http://www.example.com/
  3. Click Continue. The Site verification page opens.
  4. (Optional) In the Name box, type a name for your site (for example, My Blog).
  5. Select the verification method you want, and follow the instructions.
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In here you must verify your account, so select “Add a meta tag to your site's home page.” You just copy the HTML code then go to your dashboard on your blog. Go to Design, edit HTML, do a search for <head> and you just paste the code in there and save. Once you go back to your webmaster Google account you can click on verify.

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