Consider a site meter

My newest technological discovery is this: I added a free site meter to the blog last week. A virtual gadget. My husband loves gadgets. It worked but was so camoflaged, I didn't see it. We've been hashing through some serious situations involving some people we care about lately and my husband expressed concerns about blogging safety, especially blogging about anything child-related. This is something serious to think about for anyone blogging about children. And I don't neccessarily know that having a site meter will help but maybe.

The advantage of a site meter, even a simple one, is that it gives you a limited ability to track your traffic. You can get a general idea of who keeps coming back and from where. Sometimes you can see the referral page they used or the search words they were using. There are places that I wouldn't want readers to back track to.

On the lighter side, a site meter gives you random information like where in the country or in the world your readers come from (even if they don't comment or have a profile) the page they come in on, the page they leave on, stuff like that. I suppose if you wanted to put a meter on each page you'd find out which pages draw the most readers even without comments.

[If you're an artist, by the way, people are looking for Bible coloring pages particularly for less frequently used passages] as I say, random information.