One of the traps that new bloggers can fall into is becoming a slave to their statistics. You launch your blog and tell your mother and best friend about it. Then you submit a post to a carnival and soon you get the first visit from a person whom you don’t know. Not long after you decide to install some tracking software and an RSS feed. And then it starts… the incessant checking of your statistics: visits, visitors, subscribers to your feed.
I have one word of advice. Stop. Stop right now. Check the sites once a day, if you absolutely must. But paying too much attention to the numbers will only frustrate you needlessly, and take your attention away from where it should really be: writing your content.
How often do you check your stats? Hourly? Daily? Weekly? Do you know off the top of your head how many RSS subscribers you have?
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haha….oh how this is true! i’m getting better at it now – just check a few times a day – but it’s still pretty addicting and exciting even after a year of blogging
I’ve learned to keep doing my thing though no matter what the stats say, so at least that’s good!
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Not hourly. Two, maybe three times a day…at each of my four stat counters! LOL Okay, there are a couple that I only check once a day. And, yes, I know off the top of my head how many subscribers I have.
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I definitely get sucked into watching my stats, but I can usually keep it to checking just once a day. It’s pretty exciting to see new readers!
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I check ‘em once a week, every Wednesday morning. That way I’m sure to have something exciting!
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