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Do you have "must check my blog stats" syndrome?

Are you a new blogger? Have you ever been addicted to checking your blog stats? Was your blog stats the first thing you go to when you open your browser? Did you feel great joy when you see lots of page visitors and page views in your blog stats? If you answered yes to these questions, they you were probably just like me. You, my friend and just like me, have been infected with the "must-check-my-blog-stats" syndrome.

I would like to share with you my experiences with this syndrome...


Checking your stats very often...

...wastes your time

Unless your blog has a big traffic, refreshing the blog stat pages won't miraculously add a new page view or a new visitor. I used to check my blog stats every free time I had and nothing changes, the same numbers and the same graphs.

...will just disappoint you

I have been here a lot. =( This usually happens when your blog is still new and does not have much traffic yet. Imagine getting very excited to see increasing numbers but the moment you see your blog stats, nothing has changed or minimal change.

...will make you even more addicted in checking your stats

Do you know the effects of illegal drugs? The more you intake, the more addicted and dependent you are to it. This can be true in blog stat checking. You will get so addicted that the only satisfaction you get is to see an increase in visitor count or increase in page views.

...will distract you from your purpose in writing a blog

Unless your purpose for starting a blog is to check stats.

...is not as exciting as you think it is

Would you brag about your blog stats? How about meeting a friend and telling him/her, "Hey I got X uniques in my blog today! so cool dude!"

So have you experienced any of these? I did and I can honestly say that its something that is hard to get rid off. I can't claim that I am over the desire to check my blog stats completely, but I have lessened the urge to check. Well, from all the time down to most of the time is a good start.

I will be writing my personal cure for "must-check-my-blog-stats" syndrome in the next post. ^_^

Must have pages for your blog

I came upon a page by Carl Ocab about Important Blog Pages – Blog Pages You Should Have to Look like a Professional.

He wrote a nice tip for people to make their blogs look more professional. He listed four pages that should be found in a blog, (1)"About", (2)"Contact", (3)"Archives", and (4)"Advertising".

I found these tips very helpful and have applied them to this blog. Although I only made three out of the four pages. I did not make anything for advertising yet.

About Page | Contact Page | Archives

These pages are all found in the right sidebar. ^_^

A big thanks to Carl Ocab's tips.

Contact Me

If you feel the need to contact me, feel free to do so by doing any of the following:

• Write a comment on any blog post
• Send me an email at silkenhut (at) gmail (com)
• Drop me an instant message in yahoo messenger. My id is chuchachicho (no joke).
  

I would gladly accept your comments and reply to them as fast as I can.

Thank you.

Why do you want to blog?

Before starting a new blog in the world wide web, you might want to ask yourself, why do you want to blog?

As for myself, I have a couple of reasons why I want to blog...

I blog because I want to share...

In our age today, there are lots of information in the internet that just lying there waiting to be found. As an avid net surfer, I stumble upon different websites everyday and some of these are really nice sites. I want to share these sites to the world so that people will know about them and perhaps be of some use to them.

I blog because I want to have fun...

Blogging can be fun as long as you are interested about the topic you are blogging. I don't know if you are like me but seeing new things that I like and blogging about them gives me great satisfaction and joy. (refer to my other blog, ecchicravings.blogspot.com - im having a lot of fun writing in this blog)

I blog because I want to improve my writing...

I find this reason funny but I'm serious. I have been blogging for a while now and I can say, I've improved my writing skills because of it. Everytime I write on a blog, I tend to review what I write for spelling errors, grammar errors and the readability of what I wrote. Because of this, not only have I improved on my writing online, I have improved on my writing offline also.

I blog because I want to be known...

Have you ever tried searching for you name in google? I used to do that a lot when I was still in high school! I would be searching for the names of my classmates and friends and see the results. Of course, it's better to see that when searching for you name, you see stuffs that really belongs to you or that can identify as you.

I blog because I want to make money...

I am just being honest with myself. After seeing those blogs that have been successful in making money through blogging, I want to be just like them. Who does not want to make money anyways?

How about you? What is your reason for blogging?

Thank You Blogcrowds for the template

I wish to thank blogcrowds.com for this template called "Son of Moto Three column".

I am still in the process of customizing the site so that it would be nice to look at. ^_^

About Me

Hi there,

My name is Allen and I'm currently a student that has a lot of free time on his hands. I have a lot of free time because I am now in my thesis stage so I only go to school when it's time for consultations. Most of the time, I'm just at home being online. This blog will be about my life experience on trying to make money online.

I like reading articles, blogs or anything that can be read online, well except for technical papers since I only have a short attention span for those kinds of stuffs. In one of those days where I was just surfing around websites, I discovered something interesting, earning money online is possible?

I first stumbled upon the idea of making money online about one year ago. I was very gullible then. I did not know about scams and believed any advertisements I saw. Upon spending lots of time in clicking ads then at the end, knowing that it was all in vain, I lost interest. I decided that earning money online is nothing but a lie. Imagine clicking ads for three to four months everyday just to discover at the end that you get nothing but wasted time and effort.

After a few months, I decided to join again these "get-paid-to-click-programs". This time, I was not as gullible as before. I even researched about these programs to see if they really pay or not. A few weeks later, I realized, these "get-paid-to-click-programs" are biased towards US traffic and those people (just like myself) who live outside will get only pennies or cents for their efforts. I mean, is there a difference I click here in the Philippines that the clickers in the USA? Why do they get more when they click? So in the end, I decided that are not worth my time. I could get more money working offline than earn cents by clicking. This marks another failure for me.

I have already failed twice but I did not stop. I continued to browse the web for opportunities on making money online and came upon blogs of these people who earns thousands of dollars per month just by blogging. I was very amazed (and jealous of course haha). I decided to browse their sites and learn from their experiences. As of this time, I can say that I have learned a lot and through this blog, I shall share what I've learned and put into practice what I've learned. This time I'm not going to fail. I'm going to succeed in making money online!