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Access your Site's Statistics with MKStats

	MKStats is "a complete log-analysis solution that will let you answer the questions you want to know about how your site is being utilized. "  It's a very useful utility for webmasters, because you can track where your site traffic is coming from, telling you which promotion efforts are paying off, and which efforts are not. MKStats gives you the information you need about your web site in a way that is readable and understandable. It's highly customizable and easy to use.
			How much does it cost? MKStats is pre-installed on your NewCreations domain level account. If you aren't a NewCreations customer, it's $100 for a single business, $50 for nonprofits, free to individuals, and they also have a "service provider" category for ISPs and IPPs.
			How can I access my site's statistics? To access your statistics, just go to http://www.yourdomain.com/mkstats/ The most valuable section of your Stats package by far is the "Referring Sites" section, which tells how people are finding your pages, (by using search engines, using links, bookmarks, etc.) If you go to this section, and review the "Referrer Log Summary" page, at the top of the page you'll see which search engines are sending you traffic. Below the search engine report is a list of how many hits each individual page on your site has gotten. Click on one of the pages, and you'll see a daily report for that page . This  information is important for several reasons: you can see roughly how many visitors you've had that day by looking at how many times the index.html page was loaded, also you can look at traffic patterns over a period of weeks, and correlate surges in traffic with your promotional efforts. Then just continue to do more of those promotional activities that are working! Here are links to the pages of your MKStats site which are the most relevant, and why: http://yourdomain.com/mkstats/page_summary.html Shows a summary of how many times each page of your site has been accessed. Click on one of the links to see a day-by day chart for each individual page, and where the traffic is coming from if you're receiving traffic from links on other sites. http://yourdomain.com/mkstats/referer.html Shows the number of visitors you are getting from each of the top 5 search engines, and from bookmarks or usenet articles. http://yourdomain.com/mkstats/who_summary.html Shows what countries your visitors are from, and what ISP they use. http://yourdomain.com/mkstats/pages.html is a list of all the search terms people used to find your site through the search engines. It's a very comprehensive stats package. You may have trouble understanding your data in the beginning. If you aren't getting much traffic, you won't see significant stats. Check out the following links to see what yours will eventually look like, once you get going: http://newcreations.net/mkstats/page_summary.html http://newcreations.net/mkstats/who_summary.html http://newcreations.net/mkstats/referer.html http://newcreations.net/mkstats/pages.html
			I'm not a NewCreations customer - where can I get MKStats? You can download MKStats at http://www.mkstats.com/ . You'll also find more helpful information there on installing MKStats, and other frequently asked questions.
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