I figured out how to read my blog stats and learned that Sr. Lorraine and Barbara Nicolosi are the very very best when it comes to blogs that inspire people to pay me a visit. Thank you, thank you.
I also learned that most visitors stay ... hardly any time at all.
Oh, well.
To those of you who do "come apart with me and rest a while," thanks!
3 comments:
How do you get your blog staTS??? i have been wanting to know that for the longest time!!!! could you tell me how????
I can answer the 1st commenter's question... go to www.sitemeter.com and follow the directions. They send you a summary every week.
Now, do our dear Sister, I just want to say that I have started reading my stats, too...and people click and move on. Like you, I'm thankful for whoever stays and I'm hoping maybe in some way my words can influence even 1 person.
Of course, I have several links I'd like to send people to and I can't figure out how to post the lnks on the side! I clicked on the "edite me" but when I followed the directions I did not see the resemblance in all the html, nothing matching the instructions.
So I see you other bloggers as being experts.
God Bless your blog! :-)
Here are the link instructions I sent another reader. Unfortunately, Blogger things I want it to follow the code instructions, so I will have to type things out:
When you are signed into your blog, click on the tab for the template. There is a window inside the template page that is your actual template. It is all in code. I usually click on the taskbar EDIT then FIND IN WINDOW and tell it to find the word "links" or "edit-me" (I think that is the default). When it highlights that area, you are inside your sidebar code. You might want to change the name "Links" and give it something else. Just insert your term and delete theirs. Text outside of angle brackets is safe to change.
Notice the links they have already added for google news and something else. The crucial code is inside of < > angle brackets. Each set of angle brackets represents a command. A means anchor: it is the beginning command of a link. HREF means, basically, GO TO. Then in quotes it will give the address. You can just replace the addresses they already put in and insert the addresses you want to link to. I also add TARGET=BLANK inside the brackets (outside the quote marks) so it opens in a new window and does not send people away from my blog! Then when the angle bracket closes, you will see a name given for the link. Google News. Replace that out-of-bracket text with the name of the link you are providing, and also a description, if necessary.This name and description MUST be followed by a SLASH and then A (enclosed together in a set of angle brackets (upper or lowercase doesn't matter; I am using upper case here to distinguish it from my comments). The slash mark means "end of" whatever came in the previous set of commands--it could be SLASH I to mean "no more italics" or SLASH B to mean "no more bold," and in this case, SLASH A means "the anchor ends at this point." That makes the unbracketed text between the opening "anchor" and the closing SLASH A your link, or better, the anchor for your link. Without an anchor, there is nothing to click on. Anchors can also wrap around images--you just insert the code for the image in place of the unbracketed text. And you make sure to close the anchor with the SLASH A code in angle brackets.
That's all.
I copied the original code so I could repeat the same formatting for different categories of links. There are still some bugs to work out, though. I can't figure out which code handles the indents--I think it is in the style sheet, and I never really got that far in HTML to do decent style sheets, never mind really understand how to manipulate them. I just copied code for things I liked and tweaked it!
When you have all the links you want, click PUBLISH.
It may take several tries before you actually get the links you want working and in the proper formatting. Sometimes bits of code get deleted by accident and you have to figure out what is missing, etc. If you see code in your blog column, you will know that somewhere along the line and anchor didn't get closed. And you will need to do some sleuthing to find the missing anchor closing.
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