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When all the sharp master bloggers were talking about MyBlogLog I ignored it. When Yahoo! acquired the service I still paid it no mind.

Honestly, I’m not sure why I finally signed up.

What does the service do? Among other things:

MyBlogLog enables you to track that last little bit of information about your website. You probably already know where your users are coming from and you probably already know what pages they’re looking at while they’re there. However, if you have a blog or any other site where you frequently post new content on the main page, you don’t have a good way of tracking what people find interesting. One way is to track when people click on the links you provide. Up until now, outbound link tracking has been a pain in the butt, requiring CGIs and managed links. MyBlogLog makes this process easy.

And the stats indeed are interesting.

My MyBlogLog page:

Polyfetishist

The estimable Maymay calls on webmasters to learn elemenatary SEO and usability.

It’s pretty common knowledge that only the most persistent users will click through a web site to find what they’re looking for. Most users will click on one or two links and if they haven’t found what they’re looking for, they’ll go back to their search engine of choice and try all over again. Then lather, rinse, repeat. As a web developer, every decision you make impacts your users, so you damn well have a good reason for doing something. If you don’t, you’re doing it wrong.

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