Where Do They All Come From?
OK, you’ve published a great post, promoted it everywhere you could, and your site usage statistics are now showing a great deal of traffic rolling in. Awesome. But how do you know which promotional channels worked? Was it Reddit or Hacker News that brought in the masses? Perhaps you made it big on StumbleUpon.
And for that matter, how do you even know that all these new visitors are coming for the sake of your latest article and not from an older one that suddenly got popular? (This certainly does happen sometimes.)
Any traffic analytics suite worth its salt is going to be able to answer these two important questions for you. You should monitor where your traffic is coming from (i.e., your traffic sources) and ...
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