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What the Sitemeter Counter shows A Sitemeter is a clever counter placed on a website to help to analyse the readership that the site enjoys. It is a free service provided by an American company - see www.sitemeter.com. You can access the sitemeter stats for a site by clicking on the Sitemeter symbol (on Morningside's sites, this is a small multi-coloured square at the bottom of the Top Page of the site). The Sitemeter statistics show the number of visitors and pages read on a site by day/week/month/year as well as providing other analysis tools. For example, if you click on the "Recent Visitors/By Referrals" link you can see details of the last 100 visitors to your site. It shows the "previous address" that is held in the visitors browser - which is the address that the visitor was at immediately before arriving at the site. This allows you to assess the value of links that you may have to your website and the value of the search engines to your site. Another source of "unknown" references are readers who have accessed your site directly through their "favourites" list. Remember this: Where you appear on the search engines; the number of hits on your site; the "beauty" and sophistication of the website; the number of pages on the site (mine's bigger than yours) - these are all only indicators of the potential success of the site and should not be seen as ends in themselves. Indeed, as shown above, the clever "web salesperson" can portray a sow's ear as a silk purse and is an expert at generating high numbers of useless hits on your site. A site's success can only be measured by improvements in your business. Check some Sitemeters Visit our client list, select a site of interest and visit. Then press the multi-coloured square at the very bottom of their Top Page to access their Sitemeters. Alternatively, take one or several of the following links which will take you directly to the Sitemeters for the establishment named: Depot Beach Cottages Sitemeter >20 visitors/day Lakesea Van Park Sitemeter ~20 visitors/day Batemans Bay Manor Sitemeter >10 visitors/day BeachHouse B&B Mollymook Sitemeter >20 visitors/day Callala Bayside Realty Sitemeter >30 visitors/day Couria Creek Farmstay, Tilba Sitemeter 5-10 visitors/day Press the "Recent Visitors/By Referrals" link and examine the details of their last 100 hits. You will find that most of our tourism clients are receiving between 30-95% of all their hits direct from their TravelSouth links. Furthermore, these are the very best "quality" of hits. Our van park hits come from links from TravelSouth's regional van park directories - these are people looking for van parks on the South Coast and not schoolkids looking for a free photo of some lorikeets for their school project. You may find Sitemeters on websites developed by firms other than Morningside. However, these people are starting to see that their Sitemeters do not bear close scrutiny, so they are often password protecting their Sitemeter pages and merely display the number of hits that they claim the site receives (including the "lorikeets" hits).
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