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Website popularity

much words encourage you to become yourself and not imitate others, perhaps in some ways is good to apply, but the suggestion is apparently seldom practiced by the majority owner of the site on the Internet.

Perhaps there is no way of really accurate to calculate the number of active sites on the Internet, but without using tools or surveys, we can already see the with visible that the number of scattered sites on the Internet grew rapidly from day to day, which there will be not enough time to visit it all, even if you’re surfing in cyberspace for 7×24 hours non-stop.

But on the other hand, found an innovative new site rarely encountered most of the new site created by taking ideas from the site ever seen before. The result, we can see how many sites scattered like blogs, portals, wild, game, news, and other classification series.

Therefore, if you have a brilliant idea and launched a site that never occurred to anyone else, then you should be aware that if your site will have a twin soon. Site A similar to site B, site B-like site C, it’s real, not taboo on the Internet since so many Internet users are spread around the world and the breadth of creativity that can be developed on a site, so that even more expanded information accessible by user.

Although there is a plagiarist who copied the total ideas, design, or even specific site content, But as time goes on, the site had to find a fake self identity to survive in the jungle of information called the Internet. With so many free sites accessed by anyone, whether they offer a new creation or a follower, there is one equation that is owned, that is, all these sites to become popular. World Wide Web as a shelf display displaying giant millions of sites vying to be the leader.

Measuring Popularity
“Can you make the site says that if the search engines searching will appear in the top 10 list”, sad the business owner that request a site who do not want to miss to popularize his business on the Internet.

Usually web developers will desperately to explain how difficult it is to expect a site to appear on the leading search engines, and eventually pulled out and said the magic terms, such as search engine optimization, search algorithms, meta tags, keywords, web crawlers, and so on, with hope that the business owners understand if the site will not as popular as expectations.

Actually you can either just say there are about 250,000 new pages are added every day at the Internet and please imagine if it wants to appear on the top search engines.
Do not forget to tell the good news, that there are more than 1 billion Internet users around the world, and the number grows every day. So even if a site is not ranked on the search engines, it does not mean they’re not popular.

Then, how to measure the popularity of a site? One of the frequent references is seen from the frequency of user visits. There are several ways that we will discuss below.

Web Counter
A web counter (also commonly called a hit counter) to count the number of visitors accessing your site, the web counter is usually placed on the front page of the site
and may want to show the owner of the site with the font size if the number of fantastic, and the opposite number with a small font size if a minimum amount (depending on the level of confidence the owners of the site!).

For web designers / developers who do not want to bother doing a web counter programming, there are plenty of sites that offer free services web counter calculations. Simply by adding a line of source code on your website, and will show the number of visitors accessing your site.

Unfortunately, the web counter is not always reliable, for a number of webs counter can be modified by the site owner. Currently web counter the hardly impression means to the viewer, could be because it was too general, or because of lack of confidence in the numbers listed on the web counter.

However, it is also possible that you create a web counter to become more attractive with a little creativity, for example by displaying the number of users who are accessing your site, or displaying a moving web counter live.

Web Statistics

Web statistics generally provides better information than the number shown in the web counter. For example, you can see the number of visits was based on the specific period, or divided according to geographical location, or indicate how much data transfer is used, and other information.

On the web statistics, you can see not only in numbers but also in the form of tables and graphs. Formation such information is very useful to analyze site traffic in more detail.

Web statistics retrieve raw data from all the requests are directed to your site (including a failed request), request is saved to a log file on web server. These logs are then processed by web analytics applications and display a web statistics report informative.

Of the above of course requires the permissions to the log files on the web server. What if we want to calculate statistics for a site but do not have access to the log file on the web server? The trick is to use JavaScript that tells the server or third-party each times, a web page called by the web browser, this method is known as page tagging.

Showing web statistics by the method of reading the log files or page tagging has advantages and disadvantages of each. It is also possible to use a hybrid method that combines two methods above to provide more accurate statistical information.

Some examples of applications are AWStats web analytics, W3Perl, Webalizer, phpMyVisites, and others.

Web Rank
Rankings / rankings are always popular because it easily understood and hitched direct hit on target. Is something that has its own charm as if the display list: the richest people in the world, the best films win the Oscar, and others. How about a list of most popular web?

One provider of such information is Alexa Internet, Inc. (http://www.alexa.com), A sub company of Amazon.com. Alexa ranking taken based on user requests Alexa Toolbar for Internet Explorer and integrated sidebar in Mozilla and Netscape.

Although there is controversy about the accuracy of information shown Alexa, but the information presented well enough to use as a reference the popularity of a site in general.

Of course, if sites included in the list of alexa 500.corn is a site that has no doubt the popularity. Conversely, if your site is still in poor rankings by Alexa, then maybe it is an indication that you need to improve site services or to introduce your site further.

You can view a particular site ranking information by typing in the address to search the site by alexa.com site or a way to install Alexa Toolbar, or use Search Status extension for Mozilla Firefox.

Another method was introduced by Google with PageRank. PageRank measures the weight of a site from the 0-10 scale with a specific algorithm based on analysis of the link, which ultimately shows how high the level of interest (importance) of a site. The higher your PageRank value, then your site is best site, and of course also means more popular.

Because the calculation of PageRank based on links, than came the efforts to multiply the link with the tools and programs text-link ads.

then its causes the accuracy of quality sites that have high PageRank is questionable, so Google is actively begin to provide penalties for sites that sell text-links to maintain the accuracy of the assessment PageRank. PageRank can be viewed via the Google Toolbar or extension SearchStatus on Mozilla Firefox browser.

Make Your Site popular!
It is fun if your site is ranked high and has good statistics, but how to popularize your site?

Before you continue reading this section, we always realize that to get good results, usually do not or rarely be achieved instantaneously and without maximum effort.

Likewise, the popularity of your site needs a process that must be built with real. Some way to build it is:
1. Create a reciprocal relationship of mutual benefit by exchanging links to other sites.
2. Plunged into communities like forums, blogs, mailing lists, and introduce your site in a polite and did not violate ethics community where you are. Even sometimes enough to put a link on the footer (if allowed), you may be getting some new visitors.
3. Emphasize on quality rather than quantity. Better to get 10 visitors who spent his time average over 30 minutes are in your site, compared to 100 visitors who on average only to open your site in seconds! Because it continues to develop your site, learn what is wanted by the visitors and what needs to be improved if any. Assume visitors are customers, and the customer is king!
4. Enter your site to online directories (either a free or paid) as Yellow pages, your alumni site, and others who have a categorization and good structure.
5. Create an article or other paper, add a link to your site in the article, and publish according to the article in place. Imagine if your article to attract the readers, would not that be a little curious to open a link to your site de ¬ with the hope of finding more information.

We do not recommend you do spam with e-mail bomb, the robot program, or in any form of disturbing the comfort of other people just to pursue fame.

Indeed for a site’s popularity can also mean money flows more smoothly. Armed with a high visitor statistics, a site can provide marketing services to the advertising partner ¬ relatively expensive cost.

But before you are tempted by fame and money, we need learn from sites that have been popular and able to survive long, once again, they always build quality first before getting the quantity.

Everything is back to the real purpose of the site. Sites earmarked for others to reap the benefits, and then the visitor is a real jury to determine the quality of your site. In the long term, loyal visitors who need benefit from your site will continue to make your site stand.

Limit coffee to guests
Sites like an open house for the guests who came to visit. But, do not let only priority on the high number of visitors, without further analysis of who is visiting your site. This is because not all of the visitors came to your site to get something useful from the content sites, among so many visitors, it could be your site visitors the most diligent is a software application that starts automatically!

Application known as Internet bots or abbreviated bots which are made with a variety of purposes, There are positive and robotic search engine that helps you registering your site in search engines, but also there is a negative and made for specific purposes, e.g. to collect e-mail address on each web page found, may even be to conduct offensive Denial of Service, of course, “guests” who came in this way need not be given a cup of coffee!

In the end, the reality of what happens is your site will be popular if their content is able to attract many people, thus making the visitors always want to access your site regularly and continuously. So how to make sites that can produce better than chasing visitor numbers alone.
But also, it does not mean the numbers and statistics become important visitors, use statistics and counters for further analysis in developing your site into a better direction again.

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