Checking your stats & inbound links from the dashboard

If you’d like to check out who’s reading your blog, and how they tracked you down, the incoming links and stats features of your dashboard make it easy. While there are many other plugins that can give you more analytics – these built in features are a great start.

Checking your stats & inbound links from the dashboard

Instructions

You get started by logging in and going to the dashboard.

The Incoming Links section gives you an overview of sites that are linking to your blog. This won’t tell you about every link – just those where somebody used the link as a way to actually get to your page. These can be a great source for sites to add to your blogroll – or sites you want to read!

Stats give you a simple graph that shows how many views your blog has on any given day. Below that you can see which of your posts are most popular and what search terms people used to find out about your blog. You can also see which posts are most active in terms of the number of comments that have been left. If you click View All, you can access to even more detailed stats on your visitors.

Wrap-Up

Information about who is linking to you and the statistics on your visitors can be critical information to give you insights as to how to increase your traffic. Knowing who is interested in your blog and which topics are attracting the most attention can only help show you the way to even more visitors.

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