Do you spend too much of your time checking stats?
I’ve slowed my roll down in this aspect of blogging but when I first started out I was always checking my stats. Several times a day I would head over to statcounter, or adsense, or chitika, or namedrive, just to see if people were stopping by, or if people were “converting.”
I still check once or twice a day now, but not every hour, as I practically was previously. If you still do this maybe you can use a new tool mentioned by Darren over at problogger. It’s an add on for firefox that allows you to view your adsense stats in a browser bar “24/7.”
I’d just like to mention that there’s also one for flock that you can download, and Darren points toward an older adsense status bar for your Google Desktop Sidebar, if you use that.
It’s good to keep track of your stats, and anything you can do to minimize the time spent doing so will help you become a more efficient blogger, especially if your blogging on precious little time. I still check my stats to see where people are coming from and to, but having some of my stats in a status bar while I’m typing this post helps reduce that time considerably.
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