Making a Living Online

If you’ve ever been curious to know who actually views your tumblog and which pages they view or even who is viewing your tumblog in real-time then stick with me! In-order to find out these things we need Tumblr Stats. Tumblr doesn’t offer a Tumblr hit counter or any other insight into who is visiting your tumblog but thanks to this free service, it couldn’t be easier to find out!

It’s called whos.amung.us, a web 2.0 service that allows you to add a snippet of code to your site or tumblog and instantly start tracking visitors. They also have a nice real-time view counter that hugs the side of your blog so it doesn’t interfere with the blog itself. Here are some of the features you get when you add the Tumblr view counter to your blog:

• Real-time “who’s online now”
• Visits to my blog today
• Visits to my blog in the past month
• Where my visitors live(geographic location)
• What page(url) a visitor is on
• professional graph and map for easy usability

Why should you care?

Good question. If your blog is solely for the purpose of writing down your thoughts, maybe to reference later, then you shouldn’t care. If you want to establish yourself as a professional in your field or want to entertain or inform people then being able to know how many people are visiting your site, what time of day and where they are from can help you gain perspective on your blog.