Analyzing Website Statistics

I was looking through AngleBracket's visitor statistics and found some interesting things:

-The average visit length to Anglebracket was less than five seconds. Have to improve on getting people's attention.

-Google provides most of the hits to this blog. One more reason to polish up on your SEO so Google will rank your pages higher, by reading some of AngleBracket's SEO posts.

-91.96% of hits from search engines were from Google.

-Most visitors were from the U.S. Next was Finland. Very strange, I agree.

-More visitors came when AngleBracket was updated more.

-Firefox 2.0 was the prevalent browser. In second place was Firefox 3. In third place was IE7, and in fourth, Firefox 3.01. Firefox rules! (Actually, in fifth place was IE6)

-99.39% of visitors had screen resolutions higher than 1000xSomething.

And finally, some interesting search terms I noticed:

firefox friendly make you website

how to make a form where ppl enter stuff on a website
glossy.css,
ftplive safe

PHP vs ASP??

Yep, there have been many blog posts elsewhere about which one to use. And they all point to... PHP. I agree.

Point 1: You'll find that because PHP is open source, hosts that support PHP are cheaper. And with some hosts, ASP servers usually cost quite a bit more.

Point 2: On hotscripts.com, a website providing an innumerable number (not really) of scripts, there are more than four times as many PHP scripts as there are ASP ones.

If you are talking about functionality, basically anything that works in one language works in another; that is not to say that both are interchangeable, just that they both have equivalent functions.

For those that don't know what these languages are, they are server-side scripting languages that allow people to view pages (containing PHP/ASP and HTML) that have been processed in the server, then only the HTML part is sent to the browser. This makes the webpage much more useful, for simple applications

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Here are informative previous articles:

Traffic and SEO

Ten great ways to get visitors -- free
All the basics about SEO -- in one article
Want a constant source of highly-tageted free traffic?
How to actually start getting PageRank

Tips

Everything an email marketer should do and not do (we tell you the rule to go by)
Should you use PLR?
How to make your website user friendly

Important tips for email marketers

I'm not an email marketer. In fact, I'm far from one.

Needless to say, if you've clicked on the TrafficSwarm or InstantBuzz ads
and have signed up for the average 'free offer,' your email is sure to be barraged with-

"How this guy made 291239.23 in one month from Adsense alone" or
"Mr X will be making a secret call exposing the secrets of Internet Marketing."

-and the like.

When you sign up, they say they "will not rent sell, give way, exchange your email address",
which is good of course, but the emails from them alone are already cluttering every nook of
my inbox. I unsubscribe quickly.

Although I myself am not a email marketer, I do have a few suggestions:

1. Keep the email short.
Most people are BUSY. They will delete your email.
(or worse, unsubscribe)

2. Try very, very hard not to
send emails every day. It kills the effect.
Try to remember: It is annoying.
Instead, try to send emails, every three or four days,
with some free stuff occasionally.

3. Don't stuff your email with affiliate links,
or "recommends" time, after time, after time.
I've subscribed to a list that send me about ten
"recommends" every day; the list was called
"The Best Ezine." (name changed slightly)

4. Make it useful. Think as if you were the average person
reading your email.

The bottom line, and Golden Rule of Email Marketing:
Email unto others what you would have them email unto you.

Free online FTP clients

Online FTP clients can come in handy when working on machines without FTP installed (e.g. the library computer or a friend's computer), or when you just don't feel like opening another window. :-)

I've found these FTP clients to be pretty useful when I find myself in one of the above
situations:

• FTP Live www.ftplive.com (now that's www.ftplive.com. With the www.)
• Web2FTP web2ftp.com
  
• surftp.com

Have fun.

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