Free Page Rank Checker

Recently, the free service I had been using to check my Google Page Rank went belly up, and I needed to find another one. At Page Rank Checker you can enter any web site or blog URL and find out the rank of your page.

Page Rank Checker also offers three differently sized "chicklets" to place on your site and continuously show the page rank.

Google page rank depends to a great extent upon the number of backlinks to your site. Ranks go from na (essentially zero), to 10, a rank held only by the very busiest sites. For a blog, a Google PR of 3 is very decent, 4 or 5 is exceptional. The ranks are not updated very often.

This, the newest of my blogs still has a low ranking. I was very pleased to see that in the recently updated rankings my three other blogs each have a Google Page Rank of 3.

Page Rank Checker

web ad income Sept 10 (4 blogs, 2 web sites, writing): Adsense $.05 Adgitize $.55 Project Wonderful $.02 Shareapic $.01 Clixsense $.04 Microworkers $.07 ______________________ Total: $.74

Statcounter for Free Counters and Site Stats

I have been using Statcounter for over four years for both showing counters on web pages, and tracking statistics. The counters have never dumped their data, which is more than I can say for some counter programs.

It offers a number of ways to track statistics. I only use a few of them. For a quick view of what is going on, each page with a counter will show on the summary page with views for today, yesterday and all time.

But you can also choose to see much more detailed stats. You can get a graph of pageviews, and unique pageviews for any date range. You can see a map of where visitors came from, the pages they came from, keyword analysis, browsers, visit lengths, and many more.

In short, although I haven't compared item for item, you can get just about the same information as Google Analytics, without the slowness of all the scripts.

The major drawback is that with a free account your logfile only contains the most recent 500 entries. This means that you don't get to see all historical data. I use both Statcounter and Google Analytics. For quick looks at what is going on I use Statcounter. If I feel that I need to see all the data for the entire history of a site, I go to Google.

Statcounter

web ad income July 22 (4 blogs, 2 web sites): Adsense $.01 Adgitize $.57 Project Wonderful $.05 Shareapic $.01 Clixsense $.01 ______________________ Total: $.65

Feedjit Live Stats Widget

I've been using the Feedjit widget for live stats on my other blogs for some time, and I like it a lot. It shows visitors where other visitors have come from. That is fun but the real advantage of Feedjit is that I can log in, off of my blog, and see where the most recent 50 visitors came from, and also if they left by clicking on a link on my blog. It tracks this traffic in real time.



I am adding one to this blog today. This is the image widget (you can also choose the javascript widget for some blog platforms). On the Feedjit "join" page click "Get the Javascript Widget" at the bottom of the column of choices.

There are four choices on this page, but the one I am using is at the far left, "Life Traffic Feed." Click the top line "First Customize It." This is pretty straightforward. If you click on a color square you will be given a palette where you can click on a color, or you can use a hexidecimal code (the pound sign followed by six numbers and or letters) to select the colors. The results will show in the sample widget. So it's easy to match your blog or web page. You can also select the width as long as it's between 160 and 260 pixels. This all relates to what your visitors will see.

Once you are happy with the look of the widget, just grab the code in the little box and paste it into your blog or web site. It will immediately start to track visitors in real time. (There are options for Blogger or Typepad if you don't know how to add the code to your blog)

You can then click the widget where it says "Watch in Real Time" (I like to right-click and open in a new tab) and open a whole page to see those most recent 50 visitors. Of course it starts from when you install it, so it will take a certain amount of time for the queue to fill. From this page you may choose to remove your own IP from the list so that your own location will not keep showing up in the list.



You can see, left to right, whether the line indicates someone coming or leaving, their country's flag, their browser, their operating system, and the logo of the site they came from (if it has an icon). In text their city and state will be shown, the name of the site, and the location on your site where they landed. This might be the general blog page or a permalink. On the right is the running time, and how long ago the visitor came or left. Leaving entries are only recorded if they actually clicked on a link on your site.

It continues to "listen" for traffic, so if someone else comes to your site you will see it appear at the top while all other entries scroll down one line.

web ad income today (4 blogs, 2 web sites): Adsense $.00 Adgitize $.21 Project Wonderful $.06 ______________________ Total: $.27 Total to date in March: $4.62