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Blog Stats Addict? You Need Rehab

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 06:23 PM PDT

Oh yes we are bloggers and aside from airing out our happiness and grievances on our blogs, we also make money out of them. I don't know the exact percentage of bloggers who are making money (or trying their hardest to make money) out of their blogs but I'm sure there's a hell lot of 'em (I mean us). And we also know that to make the most from blogging, we need traffic, we need sparkling and fragrant statistics to begin with. Oh yes we need that.

I am sure a lot of bloggers use Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools, Sitemeter, and Statcounter to name a few. WordPress users have built in statistics analyzer in itself. We all have the resources to have our blog's progress reported in beautiful graphs, in fancy line and in stunning percentages. But where does all that end?

Crazy Over Blog Stats, Are You?

Some of us just don't seem to be happy with a weekly report. Some want it done HOURLY! Well of course manually. Are you addicted to your blog statistics just as much as you are to yourself (silly)? Then put yourself in and ask if these symptoms are within your system:
  1. You have nothing else to talk to your friends except that your blog traffic has increased compared to yesterday's.
  2. You wake up everyday putting in your blog analytics site on top priority for browsing. And e-mail is now second choice. Aaaw.
  3. You spend an hour staring at your blog stats. Either glad or dismayed, you're in.
  4. You sign up on all blog stats ever made on the web...
  5. and you check all these sites everyday. Unless you are sick or away.
  6. You get depressed upon seeing your blog stats. Stressed.
  7. You are just addicted to your blog stats like how a fan girl is addicted to Zac Efron. No pun intended.
You May Be Missing On A Lot Of Things

If you just qualified on the 7 symptoms of being blog stats crazy (or even at least half of those), then you are officially a blog stats addict! You ask, is that even wrong? Oh no no I did not say that's wrong. But you may be losing the essence of blogging when you start to care more about blog stats. First of all, blog for yourself and your readers alike. Being too indulged in your blog's statistics will make you miss out on the following:
  1. More interesting ideas for posts - since you would spend more time on analyzing your blog stats
  2. More areas for improvement
  3. Time lost, less gained
Though there are many tidbits to lose when being too much indulged in staring at your blog stats, time is the biggest thing to lose. You could be more productive than that.

Not Too Much Please

Now moderation's the key. It IS good to keep a watchful eye on your blog stats but putting too much effort into it may not be a very good thing unless you have all the time in the world. Sometimes it is a bit annoying to listen to a friend talk about his blog stats all day as if that's all his life has got to do.

Blog stats are just there to guide us in our path to becoming a successful blogger (define successful blogger). Blog stats are not everything and could be wrong. An alternative to blog stats? Ask your readers. Or better yet, ask yourself.

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Posted by computer at 6:59 PM  

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