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Stop refreshing your website stats

July 15th, 2008

Do you spend half of your day refreshing your stats? Are you going in between AdSense, StatCounter, Google Analytics and MyBlogLog all day long? It is important to be aware of your stats and also very important to analyze them but at what cost?

If you are that kind of person, you should really reconsider the amount of time you spend checking your stats. It is a common thing when trying to monetize your website to constantly refresh your AdSense account in the hope of seeing a couple of cents/bucks or refreshing your StatCounter account hoping for some visitors. It is absolutely ok as it’s part of the game, but it can become obsessive. Think about the time you spend online checking your stats for no reason and think about the time you could spend building backlinks or writing content.

What I’m trying to say here is don’t be too obsessed with your stats at first. Concentrate on building some good original traffic and save that stat analysis time for when it’s really going to be needed. Don’t take me wrong here, stats/traffic analysis is important, but it has to be part of a full strategy. If you refresh your AdSense account 100 times a day, you are loosing precious time you could spend elsewhere.

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4 Responses to “Stop refreshing your website stats”

  1. Yup…see the stats and hope there will be a big leap in it without doing any thing…

  2. Ben says:

    Exactly…But unfortunately traffic doesn’t come this easy! ;)

  3. SEO Help says:

    Haha, when I used to refresh my stats constently when I was on the computer.
    I don’t anymore, but I know what is like and what you mean.

    SEO Helps last blog post..Keyword Selection: The Ultimate Guide

  4. estetik says:

    I agree with you. The most important point should be getting more traffic which I think is very important for google SERPS.

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