Monitoring your Website

Most website owners, even those who rely on their websites for business have no idea how many visitors they have to their websites, their most popular pages, where their visitors came from - or very importantly - what search terms visitors used to find them and therefore what search terms they should think about reinforcing. Amongst other things, your stats will tell you:

• Number of visitors
• Number of visitors that visited more than once
• Where they came from
• Most popular and least popular pages
• Which page most visitors entered the site at
• Search words and phrases used to find you
• ... and many more

Websites hosted by Warthog come with a browser based 'Control Panel' that enables website owners to monitor their websites. They can see the website traffic, their disc usage, set up emails. The popular Cpanel comes with dozens of tools and the ability to install many scripts directly from the server.

Website owners should look at their website traffic every couple of months. They should also test their search positioning using commonly used search terms.

If the ranking has dropped, it may be a glitch with the search engine, the host or the competition has wised up. Although there will be a standard fluctuation over time, any serious and prolonged drop needs to be remedied.

Our website hosting plan will alert you to significant changes to your website's ranking.