Statcounter.com provides excellent and free visitor statistics for my online writing sites that I find very adequate
Yesterday I discussed the importance of using online writing tools like Google’s Webmaster tools to help work with the search engines to improve the quality of your online writing site or blog for Web indexing purposes.
Today, I would like to talk more about monitoring your online writing site so you get a better understanding of your total visitor numbers and also what your online readers are looking for when they come to your site.
Online writers might live in a creative dream world all of their own as far as their friends are concerned but the one thing an online writer can’t be uncertain about is the number of visitors that are coming to read his or her online writing sites or blogs or the visitors keywords used.
Your webspace might come with a statistics package that is adequate or you might prefer to use one of the many free hit counters that are available on the Web. Personally, although I already have access to visitor statistics for most of my sites, I usually prefer in addition the free services of Statcounter.com. It enables me to see the website traffic to all my web sites and blogs on one page and provides very useful information about keywords people are currently typing in to find my sites. Signing up is free and it is usually easy to add the code to each page by including it as part of your blog template.
Of course, once you have started tracking the volume of readers that are visiting your online writing, you will be concerned with the trend which hopefully will be rising as the weeks pass and you put more writing online. Statcounter.com enables you to monitor this closely.
More online writing tips and help for the online writer tomorrow 
Bye for now
Rob
