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Are Stats the Crack pipe of SEO?
I'm dying here, I am coughing up things that classify as new life forms. A cold can do that, but I still gotta check the stats.

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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from MattC 703 days ago #
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I'm not sure you are supposed to mix the two.

from Lyndon 703 days ago #
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Yeah, but what a way to spend the day.

I joke of course.

from SEOish 703 days ago #
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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.

from Sebastian 703 days ago #
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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.

from Gids 702 days ago #
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It's a tough cold if Guinness won't shift it! A few more pints may cure it and the stats addiction... :)

from Tuf 702 days ago #
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Trying not to look at them more than once or twice a day. Very hard...

from MattC 702 days ago #
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If google wants to sell merch, they might want to think of beer coasters...

from wwip 702 days ago #
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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?

:)

from SEOhack 702 days ago #
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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.

from steaprok 700 days ago #
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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!!!!!

from pittfall 699 days ago #
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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!

from g1smd 662 days ago #
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It is good to be there to see when things start to go wrong and be able to correct it quickly.


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