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Are Stats the Crack pipe of SEO?
Went Hot: August 3, 2007 - 3:22 am
Posted By: Lyndon 703 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Web Analytics
Check the stats. Always about checking the stats.
I don't know what I expect to find, actually I do. It's that nugget, that vein of gold I have been digging for the past weeks, the reason I stayed up working till the sun crested the horizon.
When it happens, I want to be there. I want to be as close as humanly possible to that spike in traffic. It's not rational, I know that. It doesn't improve anything, long term, sure. But short term?
Short term stats are nothing but the crack pipe of an SEO.
Did I tell you I was on anti viral medication and Guinness when I wrote this? ;)
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I'm not sure you are supposed to mix the two.
Yeah, but what a way to spend the day.
I joke of course.
great title, and if you are smoking the stats pipe, you might be focusing on the wrong thing.
I guess what I am saying is that a little crack is good, but too much crack can be deadly.
Having large gangs of smart statisticians on the "other side of the fence" makes addiction to stats quite vital, at least when you need to outsmart them every once in a while.
It's a tough cold if Guinness won't shift it! A few more pints may cure it and the stats addiction... :)
Trying not to look at them more than once or twice a day. Very hard...
If google wants to sell merch, they might want to think of beer coasters...
I am a big believer in knowing your metrics. I can relate to what you are saying though... It is easy to check too often when you are in the middle of a big launch or are trying to find out why your Website's log file is way over a gig for the month.
Do You Have Obsessive Compulsive Statistics Disorder?
:)
I have yet to see a title that totally sums up my feelings on stats. Glad to see I'm not the only burned by the analytics monsters.
Stupid numbers.
I feel you @ times I wake up in the middle of the night to have a cigarette and half asleep I stumble over and log into my analytics accounts, to see my client d'jours stats.. what can I say, I'm a stats fiend!!!!!
Great analogy (at least that is what my friends are saying).
It's almost like having a piggy bank, sure the bits of change have value, but you still can't buy much until you save 'em up!
It is good to be there to see when things start to go wrong and be able to correct it quickly.