ok, so here are a few ways to collect stats for your wordpress blog. pretty basic stuff, but very valuable
- google analytics – goes without saying
- google webmaster tools – also, goes without saying
- feedburner – also, goes without saying
once you start using these services then you can collect all sorts of information – you can see how many people come from your rss feed, which items are most popular on your blog, how many people come through search engines, which engines they come from, etc.
once you have this data then you can figure out the posts that are popular, and tweak them to perform better in searches. you can also tweak the posts that arent popular to perform better in search and you can write more stuff like the popular posts!
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