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How to Read Your Post Views and Traffic in WB Member Blog
How a writer reads the views and traffic for their own posts, with WB Member Blog Pro, step by step. The writer opens My Blog Dashboard, then the Analytics tab (from the Post Analytics and Author Dashboard modules, both on by default). A view is each time someone else opens one of their posts; their own visits are not counted. Four cards show views of all time, today, this week and this month. The Views Over Time chart shows views day by day, and the list at the top picks the period (last 7, 30 or 90 days, or all time), which changes the chart and the traffic sources; the four cards stay the same. Top Performing Posts lists the most viewed posts first, Traffic Sources shows where readers came from, and Export CSV downloads the numbers as a spreadsheet file.
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In this tutorial a writer reads the views and traffic for their own posts. You need WB Member Blog Pro, with its Post Analytics and Author Dashboard modules on, as they are on a new site. It takes about two minutes. There are four steps. Open the Analytics tab. Read your totals. See views over time. Then see your top posts and traffic sources.
Step one. Open the Analytics tab. A writer opens My Blog Dashboard, then the Analytics tab. Blog Analytics shows the numbers for this writer's own posts. Nobody else sees them here.
Step two. Read your totals. A view is each time someone else opens one of your posts. Your own visits are not counted. The four cards show your views of all time, today, this week and this month.
Step three. See views over time. The chart shows your views day by day. The list at the top picks the period: the last seven, thirty or ninety days, or all time. It changes the chart and the traffic sources. The four cards stay the same.
Step four. Top posts and traffic sources. Top Performing Posts lists your posts, the most viewed first. Traffic Sources shows where your readers came from, such as direct visits, search and social links. To keep a copy, click Export CSV. It downloads the numbers as a spreadsheet file.
That is all four. The Analytics tab, your totals, views over time, and your top posts and traffic sources. You can now see how your writing is read. Next in this series: Read views for the whole site.