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Dragon
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I made a website for fanfiction stuff on geocities (I've used freewebs too but overall I found geocities easier and I like their stats). It just has a page to link story chapters from, three links/recommendations pages, and a guestbook. You can see it here:
http://www.geocities.com/dragonconfused/
It's very simple, but it does the job. I did the HTML using this site http://www.lissaexplains.com/ and then for anything more complex like guestbooks and polls used Bravenet. I have tried using page builder type things before, but I had difficulty making it look like I wanted so I just do it myself now. |
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NancyBrooke
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| Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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Does anyone have a recommendation for a free counter?
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Thuriniel
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| Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Does anyone have a recommendation for a free counter? |
Go here
http://www.bravenet.com/
They have free everything!
Or here ... this one is just for free web counters
http://www.freestatscounter.com
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Dragon
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I found the counters I liked best were sitemeter
http://www.sitemeter.com
and webtracker http://www.extreme-dm.com/tracking/?reg.
Sitemeter is a bit prettier and gives you more choice, webtracker has a better breakdown of viewing habits, search terms and referers. Overall I think I like webtracker a little better. |
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Viv
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Joined: 24 Apr 2003
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Dragon wrote: | I found the counters I liked best were sitemeter
http://www.sitemeter.com
and webtracker http://www.extreme-dm.com/tracking/?reg.
Sitemeter is a bit prettier and gives you more choice, webtracker has a better breakdown of viewing habits, search terms and referers. Overall I think I like webtracker a little better. |
I'm currently using gostats.com, but they don't give total hits per page (or rather, they do, but they break it down strangely). I know sitemeter doesn't either (used to use them), but what about webtracker?
The only really groovy thing about geocities was that they'd list all the pages in your site and show how many hits each page got. That was fun, because I could see which stories were drawing readers and which ones weren't.
It was more useful when I hosted several authors; I enjoyed letting the authors know when their work was getting a lot of hits. Now that I'm just hosting my own bits and bobs, it's less important. But it'd still be fun. |
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Dragon
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| Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 7:55 am Post subject: |
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Ah yes, the geocities site stats can be very interesting (if a little depressing when you see that your first chapter has about 200 hits but only three carry on to the next one). Especially for knowing what kind of things people want to read. But I got other trackers as well because although it gave a good breakdown over time, the linking details were a bit dodgy and I wanted to know where vistors were coming from. Webtracker does do total visitors - and also does nice day and time breakdowns and differentiates between visitors and reloads. I have this lovely smooth curve of visiting times with a minimum of 9am and peaking at 9pm.
I think you can tell I find the stats far too interesting.  |
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NancyBrooke
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| Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 8:46 am Post subject: |
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Thanks! all. I'll check 'em out. I think, probably, nobody visits my site (www.nancybrooke.com) but now I will know!
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Moralanqua
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Location: Scotland
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| Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 8:50 am Post subject: |
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Ive been to nancy.com! 
Was all impressed and scared! So official and posh!
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