Installing and Using Statcounter & Sitemeter

Photo by Irina Patrascu

This lovely photograph by the truly exceptional photographer, Irina Patrascu, carries the words of Goethe ‘I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving’.  The compass beautifully captures this thought, and yes Irina, we all need to use a compass when we are lost!  In the vast seas and oceans of the internet, it is so easy to be lost and hard to know if we’re headed in the right direction.  Measuring and monitoring the traffic to your site, gives you that necessary compass, that helps you to find your way and know for sure whether what you are doing is achieving the desired results.  So join me now, as I go through the process of how to monitor or measure traffic to your website / blog, and outline what has worked for me…

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In this article we’ll look at How to Remove Meta Robots Tags, the ones which cause search engines not to index your website and is a follow-up article to my previous post on the ‘Importance of META Robots Tag in Search Engine Optimisation‘ where this problem was first explained.

I am indebted to Leland from ThemeLib for the solution (read the discussion comments on the post mentioned), because to tell you the truth, I was wrong in what I thought was happening and the solution to my problem was far simpler than I had envisaged.  So join me as I go through the problems I faced and how I fixed them.

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In this article we’ll cover META Robots Tag and why they are important for you to understand and their implications to your website with a practical example from my own experience of using a Wordpress theme template.

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