Hi quick question. I have a wordpress blog on hostgator and have submitted articles to squidoo, hubpages (both published) and have a link on my facebook. Plus to a few forums but not sure if the are follow on links or not. Anyway definately 3 links from facebook and articles. Thing is on awstats on hostgator it says i only have 2 from a forum? anyone any thoughts here? many thanks, Alan.
2 visits from a forum or 2 links? 2 visits it's ok since forums don't bring a lot of traffic 2 links, well if those are no follow they wont be counted
awstats reports the links when people actually click through to your site, not when the search engines find them or anything like that. Think of the links report of awstats are more of a 'Referring Websites' report. If you want to track backlinks, use Yahoo Site Explorer and look at your Inlinks. That's usually the best way as they tend to show all your backlinks.
If it's a wordpress blog, I would suggest you to use the "Google Analytics" plugin (google for it) I find it better than monitoring my traffic through AWstats.