Comments on: Becoming Obsessed with Any One Aspect of Your Blog – How to Let Your Blog Go #9

By: kraft

kraft — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:44:26 +0000

I think the content is the king!

By: SEO Company

SEO Company — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:41:01 +0000

Funny musings…repeating your keywords is a good way to boost your search engine ranikings but it may not appeal to your readers.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:15:15 +0000

I spent a couple weeks at the very start before I went live going through as many Wordpress themes as I could humanly find, and all I was after was a simple and clean theme. I wanted to settle on a theme before I started and avoid any major changes to how my site looked.

As for stats I check every morning; doesn’t everyone? It’s exciting to get the latest data and it provides (hopefully) some degree of reassurance that you’re not talking to yourself.

By: Jennae @ Green Your Decor

Jennae @ Green Your Decor — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:59:57 +0000

I’m an admitted stataholic, but I’m trying to do better. I think I’m going to take a cue from Raag Vamdatt and set up specific times to check my stats. I don’t want to end up driving myself crazy. But I think every blogger has suffered from at least one of these at one time or another.

By: Jess

Jess — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:47:02 +0000

Hey winnning startups – I too am a stat-a-holic
but to be honest I have no desire to change.

I am a stat-a-holic and proud.

jess

By: So

So — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:37:20 +0000

by the way, I was meaning to ask you, why does a blogger need to moderate comments? what is the purpose? Do you have a post regard this issue? it would really help me. Thanks!

By: So

So — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:35:24 +0000

We all fall in all categories one time or another. When youre a newbie (Im kind a newbie), you pass for each one!. Im still in all of them! By the way I have your book, I have your book!!! and it is great!

By: Technology Slice

Technology Slice — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:14:09 +0000

Nice post. The picture of the cat is a crack up lol

By: Rajaie AlKorani

Rajaie AlKorani — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:42:08 +0000

Since my blog is still pretty new, I find it normal to obsess about my stats, but I should take your tip and stop from now so I don’t turn into a stat freak.

By: Syed Balkhi

Syed Balkhi — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:42:34 +0000

This is one of the posts that I can see myself doing alot. That would be the designing part. I try to control my obsession, but being a free lance designer doesn’t help. Whenever I am free, I am trying to find bugs in my own site.

By: Katy

Katy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:52:14 +0000

The cleanest blogs are to me the most visually interesting as it says the writer is more concerned about content than marketing gimmicks and ploys. I’m new to blogging — well, I’ve been doing it for about 18 months — and am using my blog as postcards to friends and family to form a larger work about being an American expatriat. Addictions of most sorts are about losing control and wasting time. This article was the first to me about the other side of blogging — since I don’t know about the gimmicks, I have not been sucked into them. My writing purpose has stayed untainted by this. As it should — I write about being in the big wide world. Thanks for the insights.

By: Claudine

Claudine — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:13:59 +0000

I think that the social media bug has bit me. It’s nice to chat it up with others, but it can be an awful time waster, too. It’s a delicate balance! Difficult, especially when I have to travel sometimes to get great content for my blog!

By: Winning Startups

Winning Startups — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:34:29 +0000

The first step on the road to recovery is admitting you have a problem – I’m a stat-o-holic.

By: Kelvin Kao

Kelvin Kao — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:56:30 +0000

I guess Google Analytics helps us out by only updating once a day, eh?

By: Amir Helzer

Amir Helzer — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:48:35 +0000

Great post Darren. I think it pretty much summarizes the situation for everyone who’s self employed over the web these days.

Globalization, along with opening up markets for our services has also exposed us to immense competition.

You wouldn’t be so obsessed about the wellbeing of your business if it went easier. You’d have more time for your family and friends if you knew that your business takes care of itself.

Sadly, it doesn’t. Even if, at some point in time, it rocks, you still need to look out for competition – on a daily basis.

By: Ulla

Ulla — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:35:35 +0000

I think the important thing is to know all the facets of blogging – content, networking, checking statistics. Networking takes pretty much of my time (twitter, following others blogs and writing valuable comments). And having an eye on an even balance. Networking without content is useless – providing content and nobody looks at it is frustrating.

By: ElegantCelebBlogger

ElegantCelebBlogger — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:22:57 +0000

Great post, since I am a relatively new blogger, I have to admit that I have been obsessed with the design of my blog site. I finally settled on something that works, but as my husband remarked last night, “you would change it in a heartbeat if you thought you found something better.” I have also obsessed over stats on my other sites before. All of this makes for one stressed out blogger. I definitely need to establish a schedule and stick to it.

By: Janelle

Janelle — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:11:38 +0000

I am actually getting ready to set up my very first personal blog…However, at the moment, I author several blogs for the company I work for and can definitely attest to the fact that I’ve seen several people go through these various blog scenarios. Hopefully, I won’t fall into it- although I probably will :) Great article!

By: Frugal Dad

Frugal Dad — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:40:21 +0000

Glad to hear I’m not the only one who wakes up and thinks, “Man…I really have to go! Can I hold it long enough to check my stats?!”

My wife likes to check out our stats, too, and frequently emails me at work when FeedBurner updates the chicklet displaying our current subscriber count. It is potentially addicting, but something I imagine fades as you get more acquainted with blogging success.

By: Slevi

Slevi — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:21:19 +0000

Went through several of them, got over them though and got a bit more laid back in it. There are better things to do in life for me than getting obsessed over certain aspects of my blog, it’s something I really do for fun and the pure enjoyment of blogging but nothing more.

Of course readers, some money, etc are great but I’ll probably manage quite well through life without getting obsessed over it as well, hehe.