Knowing the popularity of the site

QUOTE ABOVE recommend you to be yourself and not imitate others, may be in some really good things to be applied, but the quote is apparently most rarely practiced by the owner of the site on the Internet.



Perhaps there is no way of really accurate to calculate the amount of active sites on the Internet, but without using tools or survey, we can see with the eye kasat that the number of sites that are scattered in the Internet grow relatively rapidly from day to day, which will not there are limitless your visit even if you surf in the virtual world for 7x24 hours non-stop. But on the other hand, find innovative new site that rarely found, most of the new site is created by taking ideas from the site ever before. The result, we can see how many scattered blog site, a portal, wiki, games, news, and a cause other klasifi.



Therefore, if you have a brilliant idea and launched a site that never possible by other people, you should menabahkan the hearts of the site later if you have Marton, the intentional or not. A similar sites such as site B, site B similar sites such as C, is not a taboo thing on the Internet, given so many Internet users are spread across the world and the breadth of creativity that can be developed on a site, thus expanding the information that can be accessed users.



Although there may be only a plagiarist mencontek a total of ideas, design, content or even a particular site. But over time running, the site also must find a spurious teak themselves to be able to survive in the jungle of information called the Internet.



From the many free sites that are accessed by anyone, whether that offer new creative or a follower, one of the similarities, namely all these sites want to be popular. World wide web-like window shelves sasa that their millions of sites that want to race race to become the leading.



Measuring Popularity

"Can you make my site if the search in the search engine will appear on the list of top 10", so request a goat skipper who does not want to lag mempopularkan business on the Internet.



Usually, web developer will be furiously explain how difficult it expects a site to appear on the leading search engines, and finally removing the terms magic, such as search engine optimization, search algorithm, meta tags, keyword, web crawler, and so forth, with the hope that the skipper goat understand if the site will not sepopular hopes.



Nay, you simply say there are about 250,000 new pages that grow each day on the Internet and please imagine if all you want to appear on the top search engines.



Do not forget the good news is there are more than 1 billion Internet users around the world, and the number is increasing every day. So even if a site does not rank in the top search engines, does not mean that these sites are not popular.



Then, how to measure the popularity of a site? One that is often used as a reference view of the frequency of visits users. There are several ways that we will study below.



Web Counter

A web counter (also commonly called the hit counter) will count the number of visitors that access your site, web counters are usually placed on the front page situsdan may want shown by the site owner denganfont size if the number of fantastic, and vice versa angkadengan the font size of a small amount if the minimum (tergantungpada level of confidence the owner of the site!).



For a web designer / developer who does not want to make a fuss programming web counters, there are quite a lot of sites that offer the service free web counter calculation. Cukupdengan add a line of code in the program halamansitus you, and will show that the number of visitor access your site.



Unfortunately, the web counter can not always be trusted, for a number counter on the web can be modified by the site owner. When this web counters do not mean to cause the impression that view, because it can already too common, or because of a lack of trust in the number of counters listed on the web.



However, you do not closed the possibility of creating a web counter to become more attractive with a little creativity, for example, by displaying the number of users who are accessing your site, or display a web counter that move by live. One example of such a http://www.chami.com/counter/classic/ are offered on the site.



Web Stats

Web statistics generally provide information that better than the numbers shown on the web counter. For example, you can see the number of visits based on a certain period, or divided according to geographical location, or indicate how the transfer of data used, and other information.



Statistics on the web, you can see not only in the form of numbers, but also in the form of tables and graphs. Information like this is very useful to visit analyzes the site in more detail.



Statistics web taking raw data from all the requests directed to your site (including a request that also failed), requests are stored in a log file on a web server. The log is then processed by the application of web analytics and statistics reports shown to be informative website.



Way above the rights of course, require access to the log file on a web server. What if we want to calculate a statistical site, but does not have access to the log file on the web server? How is using JavaScript to tell the third-party servers each time a page of a site called by a web browser, this method is known by the name Tagging page.



Showing web statistics with the method of reading the log files or page Tagging has the advantages and disadvantages of each. It is also possible to use the Hybrid method that combines the two methods with the hope can provide statistical information that is more accurate.



Some examples of the application is AWStats web analytics, W3Perl, Webalizer displays in depth, phpMyVisites, and so forth.



Web Rank

Ranking list / ranking always fancied as easily understood and directly hit the target. Is something that has a distinctive charm as if displaying a list: people in the world's richest, best film oscar winner, and so on. How the list of Most web?



One of these is the provider of information Alexa Internet, Inc. (http://www.alexa.com). A company subsidiaries from Amazon.com. Rank Alexander taken based on the user visits Alexa Toolbar for Internet Explorer and integrated in the sidebar in Mozilla and Netscape.



Although there is controversy about the accuracy of the information displayed Alexa, but the information displayed is good enough to be used as a reference site popularity in general.



Of course, the sites included in the list of 500 major Button. com is a site that is not doubt popu-laritasnya. Conversely, if your site is still ranked in the less good according to Alexa, then perhaps this is an indication that you need to improve the service site or sites you introduce wider again. You can see the information ranking site by typing the address of a particular site that you want to search through the site alexa.com or by installing Alexa toolbar, or use SearchStatus extension for Mozilla Firefox.



Other methods introduced by PageRank with Google. PageRank measure the weight of a scale of 0-10 from the site with a specific algorithm based on analysis of the link, which shows how high the level of interest (importance) of a site.



The higher the value of your PageRank, the more weight your site and, of course, also means more popular. Because PageRank calculation based on the link, then the relief efforts extend links with the tools and programiklan text-link. This causes the accuracy and quality of sites that have high PageRank question, because Google is actively begin to provide penalties for sites that sell text-link to maintain the accuracy of the assessment PageRank. PageRank can be displayed through the Google Toolbar or SearchStatus extension of the browser Mozilla Firefox.



Popularkan Site!

It's fun if your site ranks high and have good statistics, but how site mempopularkan you?



Before you continue reading this section, previously we always need to realize that to get good results, usually not or rarely can be achieved instantly and without maximum effort.



Similarly with the popularity of your site, which is a process that must be built with seriously. Some do is:



1. Create a reciprocal relationship is mutually beneficial to exchange links on other sites.

2. Falls to the community such as forums, blogs, mailing lists, and introduce your site with a polite and did not violate ethics in the community where you are. Sometimes simply put a link on the footer (if allowed), you may get some new visitors.

3. Emphasize the quality and not quantity on. Better get 10 visitors who spent an average of over 30 minutes in your site, compared to 100 visitors who average only open your site in seconds! Therefore, you continue to develop the site, learn what is desired by the visitors and what needs to be improved if any. Assuming the customer is, and the customer is king!

4. Enter your site on the online directory (either for free or pay), such as yellow pages, your alumni site, and others who have categorization and a good structure.

5. Create articles or other paper, add links to your site in these articles, and publish articles in the appropriate place. Imagine if your articles to attract readers, of course, not a little curious that will open the site links you with the hope to find more information.



It is not recommended you do with spam e-mail bomb, a program robots, or in any form that disrupt the comfort of other people just to pursue popularity.



Indeed, for a site, the popularity also means that money can flow more smoothly. With the provision of high visitor statistics, a site can provide the service with advertising costs relatively expensive. But before tempted by the popularity and money, we need to learn from sites that have been popular and able to survive long, once again, they always build quality before quantity gain. Everything is back on the actual destination site. Site is for others to cite the benefits, but the jury is to determine the actual quality of your site.



In the long term, loyal visitors who benefit from the site that you will continue to make your site to survive.



Limit Coffee for Guests

Sites like a house that is open for guests who come visit. But, do not you just give priority to focus on the high number of visitors, without further analysis about who is visiting your site. This is because not all visitors come to your site to get something useful from the content of the site, among the many visitors, so visitors can be your most diligent is a software application that runs automatically!



The application is known by the name of the Internet, or bots truncated bots, which are made with a variety of purposes. There are positive, such as search engine robots that help to register your site in search engines, but there are also negative and made for specific purposes, for example, to gather e-mail address on each web page found, can even do so for the attack Denial of Service, of course, "guests" who come this way need not be given a cup of coffee!



In the end, there is the reality that your site will be popular if the content is able to attract many people, making the visitors always want to access your site regularly and continuously. So how to prioritize the sites can generate a good number of visitors compared to pursue only.



But also, does not mean that the number of visitors and statistics to be not important, and use statistical analysis to counter further develop in the direction of your site to better again.



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