One important aspect of running a site is to know your visitors. If you know your users, you can find out what they’re looking for, and how they came to your site. You should check your logs regularly to track any changes in the behavior of the people who visit your site, and also to see which areas of the world they’re from. This can help in many ways.

For example, if you write about hockey and focus on Canadian hockey, you may find that most of the people come to your site by typing the word “hockey” in search engines, and that they’re from France. You can then start writing about hockey in France also, to cater to those people too if you wish and thus convert them into loyal readers.

One such tool for mapping out your users visually through their geographic location is gVisit. Gvisit [not owned by Google, by the way] uses Google Maps to plot a diagram of the last 10 people who visited your site, and which part of the world they probably came from. You can then zoom down to their probable exact location, down to their street map and name. The general information of their geographic location [such as their continent] will help you a lot in knowing what types of users your site is attracting.

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