BABB Day 21 - Analyze Your Stats

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Statistics can be a useful tool and one that should never be overlooked. The authors of 31 Days to Becoming a Better Blogger agree:

Day 21. Sit down and analyze your stats for the last month. Statistics can tell you a lot about what worked and what didn’t. Analyzing stats over an extended period can reveal visitor trends, popular posts and which of the promotional activities you undertook were worth doing.

I use a Google Analytics plugin to track data on my site. I also check the stats on my cpanel. The information I find there is invaluable to me in deciding topics to blog about based on web searches that bring traffic to my site as well as what days people are reading my blog so that I know what days fresh content are the most important. While I don’t check my site statistics every day, I try to schedule to do it at least once a week. How often do you check your stats?