Sorry to learn of your unwanted visitor. I’ve no idea how it happened, but where online content is concerned, you should always expect unwanted visitors. I learnt the hard way when my domain name was stolen.

Is there anyway she COULD have found me with my profile being disabled?

or does her address show up If I jumped from her page to mine using my bookmarks?

Sorry it’s taken a while to respond. I’m really no expert on Newsgator. In fact I’m hardly familiar with it at all, so I can’t give the answer you’re looking for. I think that anyone you subscribe to will be very glad of your attention, but I can appreciate you wanting to give more (hits).

Swiss Mouse,

Interesting to know. Thanks for commenting.

Dean,

I agree entirely how the info is great for shaping future posts, and you also know that it’s worthwhile advertising, or contributing, in forum threads, due to the higher quality of traffic gained. Thanks for the stats.

I’ve found some of the best referrals in terms of time spent on site are from forums, anything from 8 to 13 minutes on site.

This information will be very useful in helping to shape future posts.

Interestingly, Google and Statcounter were “close” but the numbers for 1and1 Webstats were ….well…very high. Too high.

Hmmm… I guess I had imagined that companies like Newsgator pulled a copy of your feed then served it to requestors … meaning, in effect, many people could read the articles off Newsgator’s single access to your site. I thought that because I sometimes see delays between the appearance of an article on a site and the available of that article via a reader. Maybe I’m over-analyzing, but I was actually trying to figure out if I’m short-changing anyone of hit counts (or of anything else) by reading their articles via Newsgator rather than going directly to their sites. Sounds like you don’t think I am….

Or is this a different subject entirely?

Thanks,

Dale

You know, I think that the Google stats record the visit from your feed reader, only to access the article. You could simply mark all your reader posts as ‘read’ and close your browser, but since your reader pulled the info off my site it counts as a hit / visit (not sure which).

If you think I can help with another question just fire away.

A question for you….

When I read articles from your site using an RSS reader like Newsgator and never actually come to the site, does that show up somewhere in the statistics Google Analytics provides?

Depending on your answer, I may have a second question….

Thanks!

Dale

Of course, you make a great point, that Google uses the data to rank your site accordingly. I think the point of using your Analytics is to see what traffic sources are of most value. Then you can maximise those sources with partnerships / affiliations etc. At least that’s one simple way of using the info.