Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Week 13 Selecting the best site tracker

Selecting the best site tracker(sitemeter.com vs tracksy.com)

Today i switched from tracksy to sitemeter.com for my website. sitemeter seems to be better than tracksy in several ways.
Here are some of the major points on tracksy vs sitemeter:

Advantages of sitemeter.com over tracksy.com
- Sitemeter indicates length of visit
- Sitemeter just seems to be more accurate
- Sitemeter show stats by entry page and exit page.


Advantages of Tracksy.com over sitemeter
+ Tracksy offers an invisible site tracker for free but with sitemeter you have to pay
+ Tracksy had the advantage of being faster to download on mobile device i.e less graphics, smaller page size and simpler layout
+ Tracksy offers statistics of returning vs old visitors

Conclusion
Both sites have a traffic prediction.Both sitemeter and tracksy.com have visitors by location but sitemeter goes the additional step by providing a world map graphic respresantation.
The difference between the two is very fine but i have decided to select the better site tracker which to me is sitemeter.com

Linkrefferal.com
Another option which became immediately available to me was linkrefferal.com I had to research whether to use this service but i decided against it. Most of the advice against linkrefferal came from .
Linkrefferal is fundamentally of traffic exchange and hence is against adsense TOS.
I decided against it. However some desperate publishers might want to risk it.


This blog says linkrefferal is fine but well thats their own opinion.If only adsense could provide a list of banned sites. Maybe publishers should get together and create a list of sites banned from adsense.

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