Keeping an eye on log files

[Carolina]

Huh? So I wandered over to Google's webmaster central - as advised by Max in another thread - and I go to the blog. Not too far in, it strongly recommends that you "regularly keep an eye on your log files". Ummm...OK. And what are they and how do I find them?

I feel like this whole web site maintenance thing is getting way out of my control.

And crud. I can't even add a link in this post. Sigh. Yesterday I had trouble getting simple code to show up on a listing on the AA site and now this. I need a new career.

[Max]

Lynn,

you can insert Googlel Analytics conde into the footer of your site and will have your stats via Google. You can do that for AA site or for your blog. As for log files... usually shared hosting already have some stats software installed - they should be automatically reading your log files, so you don't have to do anything special with them, beside checking your stats.

[Carolina]

Thanks Max. I have installed GA on our AA site. Never thought to add it to the blog. DOH!