{"id":87,"date":"2008-11-20T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hostnetea.com\/blog\/hosting\/metrics-and-website-ranking.htm"},"modified":"2013-11-01T19:54:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T16:54:19","slug":"metrics-and-website-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawlast.com\/blog\/metrics-and-website-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Metrics and website ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are several ways you can monitor your website, measure the traffic, conversions (ROI), sites linking to your website and even learn how to create a Google- friendly website. Your website cannot afford to be inaccessible by Google.\u00a0 Google,<\/strong> Yahoo<\/strong> and Alexa.com<\/strong> have comprehensive tools you can use. Yahoo enables you to know which sites are link in to yours, Alexa.com shows your website’s approximate traffic rank in the world and country. Google tools like Webmaster tools <\/strong>and Analytics<\/strong> gives what Yahoo and alexa has, and much more. All the tools are FREE.<\/strong>The only easy way knowing which site is popular per country or in the world is by www.alexa.com. An increase in Alexa rank means you have increased traffic in the period. This ranking can be of help to marketing executives who prefer to market on the most popular websites.
\nYahoo, Google, Youtube, live.com and Facebook remain popular in the world.<\/p>\n

Check the popular sites<\/strong><\/a> in the World according to alexa.com:<\/p>\n

In Kenya the Nation<\/strong>, Standard,<\/strong> and surprise, Haiya.co.ke<\/strong> a new entrant. Rich.co.ke<\/strong> and stockskenya.com<\/strong> follow<\/p>\n

The whole Kenya web site ranking<\/strong> <\/a>by alexa.com<\/p>\n

Do not forget to check how hawlast.com<\/strong> ranks in the world on alexa.com<\/p>\n

Bing Webmaster Tools<\/strong>:
\nWill help you know the number of URLs that link to your website. Remember, the more the quality the links, the higher you will rank in search engines.<\/p>\n

Go to Bing Webmaster tools<\/strong><\/a> here.
\nGoogle Analytics<\/strong>:
\nWill help you know the number of visitors to your site, who is visiting, how many pages per visit, their browsers -IE or Mozilla firefox.,<\/p>\n

Sign up for Google Analytics<\/strong><\/a> here.<\/p>\n

Google Webmaster Tools<\/strong>:
\nThis will give you resources and tools to ensure that you have a Google-friendly website.<\/p>\n

It will alert you if there are error like poor links, number and details on links from other websites and give you the number of pages on your website that are in the Google index.<\/p>\n

Google Webmaster also, “detect any potential issues with content on your pages, including duplicate, missing, or problematic title tags or meta descriptions”. Check Google Webmaster.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Next >>\u00a0 Tutorial on Google Analytics<\/a>,Google Webmaster<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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