Ladies and Gentleman, today you life and your blogging habits, as you know them will change forever! And not necessary to the best as I’m about to show you how to get MORE information about your blog, how your visitors interact with your content and where they are coming from than most bloggers need to know!
“In Fact – Stats Tracking is One Of The Most Addictive And Time Wasting Activities You, As A Blogger Can Participate In!”
You can use “All in One Webmaster” Plugin to add your all tracking code very easily at your finger steps.
You have to exercise the discipline and limit time you dedicate to stat tracking to avoid waste of time and if you manage to do so – you are going to be a MUCH MORE INFORMED blogger. Here is a list of top 5 WordPress Plugins for Tracking.
1) WordPress.com Stats
Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/
Along with Google Analytic’s this plugin might be that is needed for the majority of bloggers as it allows you to re-use same WordPress.com API you are already using for Akismet and presents you with most of the useful statistics you need:
- Top Pages and posts for different time frames with default being today
- Your referrers, to help you see who sends you traffic
- What key phrases lead from Search Engines to your blog posts
- What links were clicked in your blog content
- List of incoming links, mentions of your blog url on other blogs
Because it is a plugin maintained by WordPress core team, it is always timely updated and you can be sure it will continue to be compatible with all the latest upgrades.
2) Google Analytics for WordPress
Link: http://yoast.com/wordpress/google-analytics/
The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.
In the options panel for the plugin, you can determine the prefixes to use for the different kinds of outbound links and downloads it tracks.
3) StatCounter
Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/official-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress/
The Official StatCounter WordPress Plugin brings you all the powerful StatCounter features to your wordpress blog.
4) Feed Stats for WordPress
Link: http://www.speedbreeze.com/feed-stats/
Feed Stats for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to view your FeedBurner feed stats from inside of the WordPress admin interface.
Stats for your feed can be viewed from the “Feed Stats” page in the “Dashboard” section of WordPress.
Currently, this plugin allows you to view the following types of statistics:
- Subscribers
- Hits
- Reach (see the FAQ section for more information about this)
- Item Clickthroughs
- Item Views
5) Visitor Maps and Who’s Online
Link: http://www.642weather.com/weather/scripts-wordpress-visitor-maps.php
Displays Visitor Maps with location pins, city, and country. Includes a Who’s Online Sidebar to show how many users are online. Includes a Who’s Online admin dashboard to view visitor details. The visitor details include: what page the visitor is on, IP address, host lookup, online time, city, state, country, geolocation maps and more. No API key needed. Easy and Quick 4 step install.
- Configure Options from Admin panel.
- Who’s Online Admin dashboard shows visitor details of search bots, members, guests, and you.
- Optional Who’s Online widget for sidebar, or footer. Shows how many guests and members are viewing your blog.
- Enable display of city, state, and country flag.
- Enable geolocation for automatic location pin Visitor Maps.
- Enable “Who Is” lookup.
- Enable host lookups for IP addresses.
- Visitor details are stored in a database table for about 30 days.
- Valid coding for HTML and XHTML.
Conclusion
5 plugins I have just shared with you can make you a lot more informed blogger and help you determine what works and what doesn’t in your promotional efforts but I recommend you use these plugins in moderation! Use whatever you like and Enjoy.. 
If you have any more effective tracking / stats plugin and want to share here then please write us in comment section.
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