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Alexa's traffic estimates are based on data from our global traffic panel, which is a sample of millions of Internet users using one of over 25,000 different browser extensions. In addition, we gather much of our traffic data from direct sources in the form of sites that have chosen to install the Alexa script on their site and certify their metrics. However, site owners can always choose to keep their certified metrics private.

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Jammy123 Banned 8 years ago

Originally Posted by Roopkumar

for ranking alexa.com is best And they also shows some other stats so try that one

Alexa can not show actual ranking of any site it just show a lump sum strategy about traffic.
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patco

8 years ago

It depends on the specific website.. If you can add Analytics, it would be perfect.. Otherwise as yukon suggested, you can check the traffic logs.. Otherwise I am pretty sure there should be a widget that would allow you to check such statistics!

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Manasarao

8 years ago

i prefer google analytics.

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seosp2

8 years ago

You can try both Alexa and Google Analytics.

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ultimeztech

8 years ago

Google Anaytics is best resource for you.

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counter2015

8 years ago

GA for PBN you got to be kidding me .. use a third party one like I do Gostats.com

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SahaayNisha

8 years ago

You can also track via Google Analytics.

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BAC

8 years ago

I use gogle analytics always as it is giving perfect results that I always need.

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MarkBlack6Adv

8 years ago

Greetings,

I recon that the best method to check your site's traffic is Google Analytics. It is insanely accurate and gives a ton of infos.

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hackyou77

8 years ago

I’m using Google Analytics and MOZ platform and it’s completely enough to get a fresh, relevant and accurate data.

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sonjay

8 years ago

If you are using WordPress as backend, a good free plugin will be NewStatPress.. just use the search function in the Add a New Plugin portion of your backend..

StatCounter.com also has a plugin for WordPress, and you may install this via editing HTML (hard-coding) if you are not using WordPress.

It is a good strategy to use more than 1 tracker.

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dronehawk

8 years ago

I wouldn't recommend Google analytics for a PBN. Use clicky analytics

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nateall

8 years ago

Am I the only person who uses Statcounter.com here? It's the only traffic tracking program that I have seen that let's you drill down individual visitor movement (unlike analytics which only uses trends)

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sany00

8 years ago

Most of the people dont get his point. He has PBN and its not ideal things to set analytic in it. Actually i dont care about the traffic for PBN but still if you want to check it, may be you can use stat counter.

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Attie

Banned 8 years ago

-Most on the persons please don't acquire their place. They have PBN and its particular certainly not perfect circumstances to established analytic inside it. Actually i please don't value this site visitors regarding PBN but nevertheless if you want to check out that, might be you may use stat counter-top.

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goldenone1

8 years ago

I’ll be not the first, but definitely not the last one, who will suggest you GA. Do not involve yourself in adventures with highly priced and doubtful software. Just use Google Analytics and it'll be enough.

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sany00

8 years ago

Originally Posted by goldenone1

I'll be not the first, but definitely not the last one, who will suggest you GA. Do not involve yourself in adventures with highly priced and doubtful software. Just use Google Analytics and it'll be enough.

Read first brother what he wrote on his post

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Join Hobson

8 years ago

Recommended use google analytic.
https://www.google.com/analytics/

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profitlabs

8 years ago

For your PBN definitely stay away from anything related to Google, especially analytics.

The people suggesting that in this thread obviously do not own a private blog network.

I suppose you are looking for a cheap way to track your visitors. Maybe try a more affordable split testing tool like Visual website optimizer or optimizely.

They should allow you to track general sitewide visitors. Although you would probably be sacrificing specific data like organic visitors vs. referrals, etc.

You can also use your web host cpanel visitor stats. While not the most accurate they should be able to give you a general idea of your traffic counts.

Piwik.org is a free open source analytics tool you might want to consider as well.

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Camx96

8 years ago

Google Anayltics. Others will often give you different numbers. I've heard it's best to average from two or three sources but I find it's best to just go with the authority, Google. Nobody will argue with Google's numbers anyways.

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RoellyWinklaar

8 years ago

How about simillarweb? anybody counting that?

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sprucevn 8 years ago

Alexa, Google Analytics and Moz platform all are ways you can use to check you website traffic, you can use them and choose the best one like your enjoyment; but as for me, Google Analytics is probably very good for your choice.
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veryshant12

8 years ago

I have gostats analytics setup for a clients PBN and pretty happy with the reports I get.

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tahoecale

8 years ago

I suggest using Google Analyctics(sorry if that's spelled wrong) or StatCounter. I have used both, never had any issues, and recommend them to others. As for Alexa, I wouldn't use it. I don't think that they will be very accurate in what you are looking for.

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mihaigeorgescu55

8 years ago

I would strongly suggest gostats for PBNs.. @nateall the issue with statcounter is most of the data is availanle in pro version and log files data is not correct.

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Augustinus

8 years ago

alexa or awstat no? these are good sources

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karenwilliams

8 years ago

Google analytics is the best trafficking tools .

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HCFGrizzly

8 years ago

Take your information from multiple places if you want to have a picture of your stats.
I recommend using:
- server stats
- Google Analytics
- SEMrush

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michalatherton 8 years ago

Method 1 of 3: Monitoring Traffic from Your Own Website
1
Access your webpage statistics. If you're using a platform like WordPress, it's very easy to access your site's stats. These features come built into the web platform for easy tracking and maintenance, and will give you an accurate picture of your webpage's traffic.
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Check the number of blog post comments. One easy and free way to get a ballpark idea of how many people visit your site is to check how many people leave comments. Obviously, not everyone who visits your website will leave comments. But on average, about one in every 200 readers leaves a comment, and knowing that statistic can help you to broadly estimate your website traffic
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Go to your homepage's video section. If you embedded YouTube or Vimeo in your website, all you need to do is go to a video and click to play it. Both YouTube and Vimeo will show how many views your video received, but only if the videos are publicly shared. If they aren't, you won't be able to see how much traffic was flowing through the site
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kursat

8 years ago

I use Clicky, Analytics and Alexa ranking. I used several other wordpress plugins but these 3 seems to give the most accurate results for my sites.

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anhvu

8 years ago

Hi!!

I have some ways to check the traffic on your site here:
1. Google analytics
2. Alexa
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sprucevn

8 years ago

You can utilize Google analytics and Alexa to check your website's traffic.

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awesomebuddy 8 years ago

Google Analytic also best for checking your website traffic and resources. I Suggest Google analytic.
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Webgurubng

8 years ago

I use Google Analytic tools is very useful for website tracking and views also

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harris96

8 years ago

No one can give you perfect result as google analytics. Go and sign up a google account.

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deepikajain

8 years ago

Google analytics is the best method to check your site's traffic.

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tomhenry1710

8 years ago

i often use google analytics

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danparks

8 years ago

As others have said, don't use Google Analytics on PBN sites.

If you're using Wordpress for your sites you can add a Text widget to the sidebar and paste your tracking code there. Then it will track every page. Works for StatCounter, should work for most tracking methods. And it won't get overwritten on Wordpress updates.

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arulkaruppannan

8 years ago

You can use google analytics to track your website traffic details. But make sure that your anaytics have no referral spams. You can block spam referrals using filters. Apart from google analytics, third party tools such as woopra and hot jar are also used to track traffic.

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danparks 8 years ago

Originally Posted by arulkaruppannan

You can use google analytics to track your website traffic details.

OP is talking about PBN sites. You don't want to use Google products on PBN sites.
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MiguelSwiger

8 years ago

Through Google Analytics you can easily check traffic for your site.

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sulbha 8 years ago

Google Analytic is best to know traffic on site.
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NasScofield

8 years ago

If you do web system, you can install the jetpack and look at the report, if you do not want to install analytics

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Shreyasingh

8 years ago

If there is Google Analytics then why to choose some other tool to check the website traffic. It is genuine and good to check the complete status of a website and provides accurate result as well.

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Helena R

8 years ago

You can use Alexa Traffic Rank website. It is based on Alexa data, with all its shortcomings. Still, the website knows a lot of the international domains and shows traffic history, and it is free.

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steven1305 8 years ago

To check traffic in your website, you might install Jetpack plugin, set up Google Analytics, and check with Alexa Rank.
If you have money, you also buy Ahref to check traffic and backlinks towarding to your site.
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jihnsiepen

8 years ago

you can use google analytic but for use this you need to add code on you website.some others are semrush , state counter.

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paladinseo

8 years ago

try histats, it shows visitors in real time

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dave_hermansen

8 years ago

Google Analytics and SEMRush - both are very easy.

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takticz101

8 years ago

i use gostats.com myself its pretty good.

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Petson10

8 years ago

With the help of majestic seo or ahefs you will come to about the traffic of private blog networks in short it called PBN.

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Sumon2k7

8 years ago

I use Google Analytic. It's a good tool.

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healthcareinfo

8 years ago

Hello Everyone

Check your site traffic.use for this functionality
- Google Analytics
- State Counter etc.
site traffic check Many web application available in web.

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ejiro

8 years ago

To see much traffic your PBN website gets, you can use:
1. alexa.com if it has their code for tracking you would get the information.
2. feedCompare.com which is similar to alexa.com
3. My preferred is semrush.com

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irawr Banned 8 years ago

Maybe I'm oldschool but, I got used to looking at the raw server logs and using a tool to process them. I never really saw the need for more software to do what the server already does. Plus the log files might indicate potential security issues or other site issues. I always thought the counters / analytic services were just a trick to get you to see their ads. Granted google analytics has some pretty cool features like goals, which is pretty much the only reason I use it on a few sites.

Originally Posted by ejiro

To see much traffic your PBN website gets, you can use:
1. alexa.com if it has their code for tracking you would get the information.

You can't be serious, Alexa is a borderline useless. I don't think you understand how Alexa works.

As far as PBNs go:
If you want to use GA for a PNB you can but I would suggest you have a strict rule of never ever connecting to your PNB site(s) or your GA account(s) without first either switching to a dedicated proxy for that site or at the very least using a VPN and keeping the regions unique to each site.
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vuquangsale

8 years ago

Get ID tracking in the your site,then use Google Analytic check the traffic everyday

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richasharma

8 years ago

Google Analytics. is the best to check traffic i too have a web site on It solutions Raipur and always use google analytics..

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gametalk

8 years ago

If you do web system, you can install the jetpack and look at the report, if you do not want to install analytics

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devesh1

8 years ago

I think Google analytics is best for traffic check.

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Jack2016

8 years ago

you can use Google Anaytics, it is the best resource for you.

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socialmarkbook

8 years ago

I think google analytic will work better for you.

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diegosalinas

8 years ago

anyone knows why the traffic shown in alexa is lower than in google analytics?

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tekruiter

8 years ago

According to my SEO information, you can check out the website traffic with the help of Google Analytics account.

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8 years ago

Google analytic and semrush is good one

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payaljoshi

8 years ago

Gostats is another good option and its free

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oliver55

8 years ago

Google analytics is very good, but there are many other really good.
For example Awstats, is an application server side and is more concise and easier to analytics, in my opinion are both valid.
but there are other legitimate, such as Goingup, Webalizer, Weblogexpert.
You have many choices, examine someone and then decide which is best for your website.

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Leonardo007

8 years ago

Google Analytis is best for checking traffic

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