I'm Already A Stats Addict
As part of starting up a new site, you need to get all your metrics in place early. ProductCritic currently uses stats gathering tools:
Even though the site hasn't officially launched, I'm still checking the metrics quite regularly to see the affects that the implementation of various strategies or link sites have on visits. Since we haven't really even officially launched to friends and family, we can tell that most of the current visits to both ProductCritic and this blog are either from people stumbling onto the sites or are our own clicks.
Besides ensuring that we are being spidered from the big search engines and all posts on this blog are being pinged by Weblogs or Technorati, I saw a new site called Tag A Cloud that allows you to create a tag for your site and some keywords as a link to your site. Almost immediately, I saw referring links from Tag A Cloud. For interests sake, the tag I added to that site for ProductCritic is "stuffyouwanttobuy".
I'm looking forward to seeing how ProductCritic grows over the year. The problem with being addicted to seeing the web stats is that they'll become even more addicting once there's some growth to the visits and (hopefully) to this blog.
One thing we've learned that we'd like to pass on is to get your site on Google's Webmaster Tools as early as possible and upload a sitemap. It takes quite a while for Google to crawl your site when you first start out (ProductCritic hasn't been crawled since October).
Even though the site hasn't officially launched, I'm still checking the metrics quite regularly to see the affects that the implementation of various strategies or link sites have on visits. Since we haven't really even officially launched to friends and family, we can tell that most of the current visits to both ProductCritic and this blog are either from people stumbling onto the sites or are our own clicks.
Besides ensuring that we are being spidered from the big search engines and all posts on this blog are being pinged by Weblogs or Technorati, I saw a new site called Tag A Cloud that allows you to create a tag for your site and some keywords as a link to your site. Almost immediately, I saw referring links from Tag A Cloud. For interests sake, the tag I added to that site for ProductCritic is "stuffyouwanttobuy".
I'm looking forward to seeing how ProductCritic grows over the year. The problem with being addicted to seeing the web stats is that they'll become even more addicting once there's some growth to the visits and (hopefully) to this blog.
One thing we've learned that we'd like to pass on is to get your site on Google's Webmaster Tools as early as possible and upload a sitemap. It takes quite a while for Google to crawl your site when you first start out (ProductCritic hasn't been crawled since October).
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