Setting Up And Using Weblogs
WebLogs is an invaluable tool for analyzing the traffic at your website. Before accessing your Weblog data, you must create a magic directory, transfers/log, within your FTP site. Unfortunately, data to your website cannot be logged before the transfers/log file is established. Ideally, you should set up your transfers/log file as soon as your domain is active and your web files have been uploaded.
- Login to your FTP site
- Create a transfers directory
- Within transfers, create a log directory
Cape.Com's web servers deposit the day's weblog data into your
log directory every evening, so you'll have to wait a
day before you can access your stats for the first time. (Note: To collect raw web server access logfiles, create a transfers/web directory. To collect raw ftp server access logfiles create a transfers/ftp directory.
Accessing Weblogs
- Determine the machine name of your FTP site, e.g.,
vsa.cape.com, vsb.cape.com, etc.
- Using your web browser, head to http://www.machine
name/stats - For example:
- If your machine name is vsd.cape.com, head to
http://www.vsd.cape.com/stats
- Enter your username and password
Virtual Hosting
If your site is Virtually Hosted:
- Using your web browser, head to
http://www.your-domain-name/stats - For example:
- If your domain name is bedrock.com, head to
http://www.bedrock.com/stats
- Enter your username and password
How Storage Amounts are Calculated
All of our hosting plans include a certain amount of storage
space. In most cases, users never exceed these totals, however, you're
free to use as much as you like beyond these totals. Storage totals are
tallied by calculating the total amount of disk usage that your site consumes, excluding
Weblog data storage. However, users that have created a transfers/web directory within their site to gather the raw web server access logs should periodically download these files, then remove them from their site. By keeping the amount of storage in this directory
to a minimum, users will minimize any excess storage charges.
Related Pages
A free, web-based, graphical display of traffic to your web site.
How to interpret the information displayed on your Weblogs page.
How to help users find your site by submitting your site to various search engines.
Related Links
Getting users to pick your site out of the sea of cluttered search results
is a matter of how effectively you implement the three precepts of
successful search placement: get crawled, get ranked, and get clicked.
Search Engine Watch is a web site devoted to
how search engines work,
search engine news,
search engine information,
tips on using search engines,
and more about search engines.
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