by clouda9
A New Twist On Stats Using StatCounter
June 6, 2009 in Featured, Research and Analysis by clouda9
Just learned a trick from my friend poddys about a cool way to keep track of your stats besides what is offered in your dashboard, plus it is free to sign up and offers a more dynamic view of your Squidoo Internet audience. Sign up, name your project, add your lensmaster profile url <http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/your lensmaster name>, choose a category, adjust your time zone, then click on NEXT. At the Configure and Install Code arrow, click it and this is the trick…
- click on the button for ‘invisible counter’
- click NEXT, then NEXT again
- click on Your StatCounter Code, then ctrl C (copies the code)
- Now go to your Squidoo, My Profile tab and in the default bio section click on change.
- At the very top of your bio paste the code by using ctrl V. It is visible to you when you do this, however once you hit SAVE this stat counter code is invisible to your audience, yet collects tons of stats for you to view in your StatCounter account. The bonus, told to me from poddys, when posted at the top of your bio the StatCounter collects information for all your lenses, not just your bio.
The online stats collector can be found at http://www.statcounter.com and it’s super easy to create your account and project. I would love to hear your feedback about this idea by contacting me via my profile page.
May All Good Things Come Your Way,
clouda9 (Correen)
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Now that’s slick! I’ve been using Statcounter but as an individual project on each of my lenses. Would have saved me a lot of time doing it just the once. LOL My favorite piece of info is the visitor length data. It shows the average length of visitors on your lens. If it’s too low, I try to move things around or add more to my lens to see if I can get the average length to increase. Gives you great feedback on what’s working and what isn’t. Nice write up!
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Excellent info! I’ve been using stat counter recently on all my blocks and have been thinking about installing it on my lenses………..time….I need more time!
Thanks for the feature. It’s amazing seeing where your visitors come from, in my case all around the world. Amazing too how many people visit my jokes pages at work!
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This same trick will work with other stats counters, such as SiteMeter and Clicky. I detailed how to do it, and what stats you get in return here: http://www.squidoo.com/lens-analytics
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At times when you really want to gain a very detailed understanding of your Squidoo visitors you could also add the JavaScript code option that Statcounter (and others) offer via our trusty friend Clearspring.
Simply grab the script code and follow the exact same instructions on this lens: How to Add Amazon Widgets to your Lens.
But don’t tell anybody I said this!
I’ve loved the information that you can garner from statcounter! In January 2009, I wrote a Topicability blog post about the wonderful worldwide readership to Squidoo lenses: http://topicability.blogspot.com/2009/01/worldwide-reach-of-squidoo-thanks-to.html. It was thefluffanutta who first gave me the idea of tracking Squidoo lens readership. I’d used statcounter previously for my websites and blog, but then decided to employ it on my lenses. I give it a thumbs up!