Site Meter has made life a little easier, since for TypePad account users they have added the ability to install a Site Meter Widget. Just jump onto site meter and at the bottom of the screen Sign Up. The next screen will bring you to some general "What is Site Meter?" information, after reading the summary hit Next. This will bring you to a "Site Meter Policies", after careful study (only kidding) of this screen hit Next. This will bring you to a screen where you need to enter the URL, Site Name, Code Name of the site you wish to record stats on. Enter this information and hit Enter. On the next screen they will ask you to tell us a little about you. The only important item on this screen is your email address. Hit Enter. The next screen will offer you options for more notification services, you can skip over this screen by hitting Next. This screen provides you with the important information about your account. I would recommend printing this screen to have a record of your site and password. After printing the screen, hit Next. This screen offers you gifts, go to the bottom corner and hit No Thanks, continue. This next boxed item provides you with a few options. Either add HTML or change the STYLE of your meter. I would first enter STYLE and choose the site Meter icon of your preface. Then enter on the left hand column HTML CODE. Select Adding Site Meter to a TypePad.com or Blogs.com blog. The enter Install widget of Typepad. Log in to your typepad accoung. This automatically brings you to Add a Sidebar idget with a preview of your Site meter icon. Choose your weblog you wish to add this particular Demetre to then at the bottom hit Add Widget. Presto! Site Meter stats are clicking away on your blog.
So after the first office hours I had thought I did this correctly via adding the HTML code, but only needed to add a link name; however, after going back the link name did not work. Redoing and trying to just insert code to top entry in typepad did not work (code cut off). Thank goodness for the upgrades since the new way is so easy and takes 5 minutes. Now that these "counters" are on the group blog and my personal blog, we then released some additional networking strategies. Guess what? We actually have vistors, even had one from Germany and Canada. Wish the site meter was successful earlier, as I feel that some of the few blogging comments networking may have been lost(MBA/smoke/general blogs). I'll have to try a few others.
P.S. How do you close down site meters that you are not using. I must have a half dozen "test" attempts sending me zero emails.
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