For a long time I used Google Analytics to provide webstats for me and for my clients - and it worked. Great stats, pretty graphs, nice figures - everything I needed.The problem I had was that I couldn’t get real time stats - I had to wait until the next day, by which time in some cases it was too late to react to surges in traffic.
I needed something that showed me what my visitors were doing and where they were coming from NOW, not yesterday!
Comment tags can be a good and bad thing, but the one thing they should never be used for is hiding keywords.
A comment tag usually looks something like this in the code of your website:
<!– Words in here –>
It can be used legitimately to mark the beginning and end of bits of code, to explain why a developer did what they did and to help someone new pick up some code designed by someone else.
However, a few years ago webmasters started using it more and more for stuffing keywords.
We all know that links into a site is a good thing. We should know by now that one way links are better than reciprocal ones.
It’s tempting to set up a number of sites, all related to the same topic, and link them to each other in order to gain more ‘link popularity’.
And it used to work.
It doesn’t now – don’t do it. Get good quality links from good quality sites (preferably not on the same server as you) and use anchor text wherever possible.
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