Chapter 8. Tracking Statistics and Bringing In Visitors

Getting More People to Visit Your Blog

Bloggers are obsessed with visits to their WordPress blogs. One of the very best features of WordPress.com blogs is the free, detailed, up-to-date statistics that we take you through in this chapter. (The same statistics are available to WordPress.org blogs as well; just install the WordPress Stats plug-in.)

Apparently, though, the official WordPress stats aren’t nearly enough. Statistics are perhaps the most popular single focus for additional plug-ins as well. See Chapter 13, “The WordPress Toolkit: Plug-Ins,” for details of finding and installing the plug-ins that fit your needs for your WordPress.org blog.

Even that, though, doesn’t ...

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