Website Counter - StatCounter

When we talk about visitor traffics to our blog, apparently blogger will use counter service in order to track every counter on their blog. There are many counter services on internet, some are free and some are not. It's up to you if you want to use which counter is best suit to your requirement. But for me, free counter service is good enough. Oh, i want to be blunt to you, not every free internet services will give 100% free service. Normally, free is just for limited service. But if you want extra service (more setting, options), you must pay.

StatCounter is the good counter service that i want to explain now. Statcounter can provide you with quick access to some counter function on your blog. StatCounter have fulfill just right what i need. Its free. You just need to pay if you want more options (not quit useful for me actually).



More than that, statcounter have more advantage as below:

- you can display your counter or make it hidden. You can display statcounter logo only, maybe to support statcounter or want to tell your visitor that you blog have placed statcounter's cookies.

- you can block counter from certain IP. For example, you can block counter from your static ip if you want to get 100% counter is only from your visitor.

- you can easily monitor your blog's visitor by make observation on your counter statistic. You can make changes on that statistic graph as you want. Maybe you want to track unique visitor only or just want to know at certain days. Just make any changes if you want to.

- you have 500kB free storage for your cookies information for keyword analysis, visitors ip etc. If you want more storage, that's you need to pay.


Not forget to mention, when somebody open your blog/website, his computer will get little cookies from statcounter. I think this is safe cookies and it's just to get information from visitor's computer such as ip address, keyword match, unique/first time/returning visitors, etc. I have placed statcounter's logo in order to let my blog visitors know that my blog will give cookies from statcounter.

If you want to use StatCounter, please register first at StatCounter.com . Click on "add new project" in order to place counter on your blog. Then you will be given some option and setting to make your statcounter script. For example, what is your blog/website address, option to display/hide your counter, etc. I am pretty sure all these settings are very simple for any blogger.

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World's Oldest Blogger Dies

Seorang moyang Maria Amelia Lopez yang memiliki lama blog meninggal dunia ketika berumur 97 tahun di wilayah La Coruna, Sepanyol. Laman blognya ialah amis95.blogspot.com. Melalui blog itu, dia menceritakan pelbagai kisah memori termasuk pengalamannya menyaksikan sendiri Perang Saudara Sepanyol.

Seorang cucunya, Daniel telah memasukkan ayat di bawah ke dalam blognya:

"Cucu saya memberikan saya blog ini ketika saya berumur 95 tahun pada 23 Disember 2006 menyebabkan kehidupan saya berubah."

Sejak itu, blognya mempunyai pelawat sebanyak 1,570,784 pengunjung dari lima benua.

The world's oldest blogger – a 97-year-old Spanish grandmother introduced to the internet by her grandchildren two years ago – has died.

Maria Amelia Lopez’s posts touched on many aspects of her long life, from political memories of the Franco era to intimate musings on her increasingly fragile state of health.

Mrs Lopez blogged from the seaside town of Muxia, where she was born in 1911, or from the farmhouse in Galicia belonging to her grandson, Daniel.

She wrote: "On December 23rd 2006, my grandson gave me a present, this blog when I was 95 years old ... and my life changed ... now, I can communicate and interact with the world."
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Her blog, at amis95.blogspot.com, became a global hit, notching up more than 1.5 million visits. As her fame spread, Mrs Lopez became an unlikely campaigner for digital rights for older people, and even took tea with the Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Spanish Prime Minister.

She wrote frequently of the benefits of the online community she had created.

In one of her last posts, in February this year, she wrote: "When I'm on the internet, I forget about my illness. The distraction is good for you – being able to communicate with people. It wakes up the brain, and gives you great strength."

Mrs Lopez became the world's oldest blogger on the death of 108-year-old Australian Oliver Riley in June 2008. The new holder of this unoffical title is unknown, although the actor Kirk Douglas, 92, who blogs regularly on his MySpace page, could be in the running.

Article Source : technology.timesonline.co.uk

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Kejatuhan Pengunjung Blog SufianPC

"Content is king!" - ya, saya setuju dengan kata-kata ini. Ada betulnya . Kenapa tidak, saya juga telah mengalaminya kesannya..

Saya pernah tidak mengemaskini atau menambah apa-apa artikel disebabkan sesuatu hal yang tidak dapat dielakkan. Kesannya, pengunjung ke blog ini semakin hari semakin kurang. Tetapi setelah saya mula menambah artikel semula, lihatlah contoh di bawah.. (bilangan pengunjung kembali bertambah setelah artikel baru ditambah)



Memang tidak dinafikan, banyak faktor lain yang boleh menaikkan pengunjung ke blog kita, contohnya dengan melawat blog rakan-rakan yang lain, menambah SEO ranking, dan banyak lagi... (sila rujuk pakar blog di luar sana untuk maklumat lebih lanjut). Tetapi content adalah satu ciri utama yang memberi kesan naik turunnya pengunjung blog.

Bayangkanlah, hari ini ada buka blog saya..ada cerita semalam. Esok buka lagi, sama jugak. Lusa buka lagi, sama jugak.. Hari seterusnya?? emm..mestilah dah malas nak buka blog ni lagi kan..

Perlu dingatkan bahawa pembahagian masa juga amat penting bagi pemblog. Pasti kita sedia maklum, setiap hari ada sahaja urusan keluarga/kerja dan lain-lain yang perlu diuruskan. Begitu juga dengan pakar-pakar blog di luar sana, tetapi perlulah bijak menguruskannya, terutama bagi mereka yang menjadikan blog sebagai salah satu sumber pendapatan mereka.

Kesimpulannya, adalah amat penting untuk kita sentiasa mengemaskini/menambah artikel di blog supaya dapat mengekalkan dan menambah pengunjung/rakan di blog masing-masing.


*Untuk makluman, saya mengesan kehadiran unique visitors ke blog saya menggunakan statcounter.

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