What Do The Numbers Mean
How often do you check your stats? Does it really matter if you only look at your stats weekly.
I have found through my current life changing situation, that no it doesn't matter. I can check my stats once a day or once a week. They don't change no matter how often I check them.
Guess what, stats aren't the only thing that works that way. My one junk website sells stuff every once in a while. Thing is it is my junk site. I use it to test code and build some temporary landing pages. Nothing is optimized, it is just there.
Yet every once in a while it sells something.
What do the numbers mean? The answer lies in what is important to you.
What are you missing by watching the numbers? By trying to make big bucks with internet marketing? Is it worth spending your time trying to make money online?
Only you know the answer.
Best of luck to everyone.
Michael
6 comments:
Hi Mike, nice post. It is so easy to get caught up agonizing over stats, I used to do that with my first blog and I wasted a great deal of time.
Now with my new blog I focus on what is really important to me, I focus on the reasons why I started this blog in the first place and that is sharing what I learn through my writing.
Blesssings.
Carol-K
I think checking your stats all the time is a waste of time. And you're right, they aren't going to change much from day to day or week to week for that matter.
Excellent post, Michael. It got me to thinking.
Krissy :)
Checking the stats may let you think what to improve or doing an experiment. This surely helps you to knows the result.
My blogs sole purpose is not to make money. Yes, I do have ads and an affiliate program or two but I would still blog even if there were no chance of making a dime off of it. But, still I waste untold amounts of time watching the stats. I am trying to get to the point where I check stats once a week. That will give me more productive time online, without stealing from my family time etc. It is hard not to check the stats especially on your first blog or website. I still have struggles with myself over this one. I wanted to drop a note to say your blog is pretty awesome.
I hope you have a wonderful day and a wonderful Labor Day Weekend.
Rgrace
A Penny For Your Thoughts?
Statistics and numbers mean everything, and I have a variety of reports emailed to me each day. Some of these are for my blog, others for my "real" business, other for the work I do freelancing. But they all matter.
The difficulty is in differentiating anomalies from trends and spikes. But even those can mean something. If you run a serious business, then there are no variances that you want to ignore.
A good example would be a web store, where once a week the hits drop off dramatically. While most would mark it off as an anomaly, with a little research you can find that your host was down. And if it happens over and over, that would be a trend. It could cost you thousands, literally, just for a "dip".
But then again I'm a number cruncher and a statistician. So I'm biased.
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