Video by bothewebguy
Has anyone ever asked you how many hits your website is getting?
This should be the first tip that they do not understand website tracking and statistics.
I used to sell against web companies that did not know the difference between hits and visits. When someone tells you they are gettig thousands of hits a day.. be very cautious!
Ask them how many visitors they are getting? Ask them if they know the difference between a hit and a page visit?
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reefswimmer
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Thanks for this helpful brief bit. And especially thanks for your reply to a comment that clarifies that a hit is a request from the server. Too often people think a hit is the same as a visitor.a lot of sneakiness goes on when someone sets a page up so that one visit generates multiple hits to the server, and then tries to wow ppeole by stating the number of hits.
Animate
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Thank you Bo, I learnt quite a bit. I'm a relative dum-dum when it comes to how the internet works. I checked out your video and your site link. Do you explain anywhere what this means? (copied from your site) "You can always purchase traffic, by buying up keywords, like the advertisers featured on this page." How do you 'buy up' keywords? Are the keywords the names of the advertisers featured on your site and how did you 'buy' them?