If you are into business blogging (or Web in general) like I do, I bet you are checking your traffic statics at least a couple of times a day. Mostly it doesn’t any good for the actual business behind – it’s just a way to lose time and do an “self-importance” checkout.
Statistics (amongst other things) help me see what people are looking for on my blog, and then there is Mybloglog – see the blue recent readers rectangle on the right column – that show me what fellow bloggers are visiting my site, and give me a chance to get in contact with them.
But no, that’s not the kind of statistic I like most. There is something even more advanced – easy to spot on the web tracking service (I’m using the free version of Statcounter) and that is visits coming from e-mails. If somebody comes to my site following a link he received in his e-mail, this means that somebody else liked (or hated) my blog so much that he spent the time to share his thoughts and send an e-mail about it. Are you following me? There is somebody in this world that copy-pasted the link and send it by e-mail!
I think there is only one more statistic that could sometimes be better than e-mail linking, and that would be trackbacks from fellow bloggers…Got some of those as well 
