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Key Points to building a Website

Key 8 Analyze your web traffic

Having a counter on your web page is silly there is no way you can tell if your clicks are yourself your friends or just search engines maybe even phishers. If you are on a home town server this may mean a little more because chances are the search engines will not bother you and neither will scammers. If you are on a server that is on a higher speed connection you will get lots of hits. How beautiful your site looks or how origional the design is does not mean very much if no one visits. with traffic stats like Webalizer or AWstats you can analize your traffic and see where they are coming from whether the page is viewed by the people that you are designing it for or just curious people that happen to be crusing the net. Pages that are never used you may need to change or be removed Pages that are constantly viewed you might use to link on to direct viewers to features you beleive people might like to see. If you can not find click throughs from anyone besides your designer and yourself this should make you wonder if you need it

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