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If you are going to improve in your efforts to market online you will need to gather, observe and analyze the visits that people make to your pages. I use Statcounter.com. It gives me pretty much everything I need and the best thing is that it is free.

Here is what Statcounter says it can do for you:
What is STATCOUNTER?
A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!

Look at the list of stats you have at your fingertips:
Summary
Popular Pages
Entry Pages
Exit Pages
Came From
Keyword Analysis
Recent Keyword Activity
Recent Came From
Search Engine Wars
Exit Links
Exit Link Activity
Downloads
Download Activity
Visitor Paths
Visit Length
Returning Visits
Recent Pageload Activity
Recent Visitor Activity
Recent Visitor Map
Country/State/City/ISP
Browsers
System Stats
Lookup IP Address
Download Logs

The free version of Statcounter will only give you the last 500 page views of each page you set up but it will allow as many sites as you need. I see no need to get more than the last 500 views because I check it often.

I find the stats I count on most of all are the “visitor paths: and “exit links”. Another useful stat is the amount of time the visitor spends on my webpage. If they just click and leave then I know I have to rework my page to get them to stick around a little longer.

“Recent Keyword Activity” is another of the most important stats for me because it can tell me the terms people are using to find my page and sometimes I can write a new post using those keyword phrases, thus getting much more traffic.

It is real easy to create the code and to put it on your webpage or blog. In Blogger, you go to “layout” and find the “HTML” link and place it there. One note: I use an invisible counter.

You might want to give it a try. Google Analytics is another good one but i always find myself going back to Statcounter.