I can honestly say that I have a more enjoyable time reviewing the web statistics from this site over the Search Engine Roundtable. This site may get a couple to a few hundred visitors per day, whereas the Search Engine Roundtable gets several thousand visitors per day. I can dig through the stats on this site. I can see I got a single referral from David Naylor or 3 search referrals for the keyword phrase scoleciphobia, one from Google.com, one from Google.ca and the other from Comcast Search yesterday. I would never dig that deep into the Search Engine Roundtable stats, it would take hours and hours to review one day of stats.
So I enjoy being able to review the stats of a small site that I run. Of course, I wouldn't give up the traffic I have at the Search Engine Roundtable for anything.
I use Urchin 5.x, as an FYI.
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Hi Barry,
I use Google Analytics or Urchin. I look at the referring sources everyday. From the sources, I look at organic, then drill down by keyword. The engines are sending people to pages which don't have any articles yet. The stats have helped me determine what kind of articles I need.
It would be very difficult to do with my day job's site, which gets thousands of visitors a day.
Posted by: Jason | October 10, 2006 3:44 PM