It's all about discipline, blogging that is.I've noticed several blogs have been writing about SEO Meter recently. It can tell you how often Google crawls your blog or website.
Yes, you can have your very own Google Crawl Cycle chart but I'm afraid all this did was make me yawn.
"Not more stats to pour over," I thought.
I'm sure statistics, charts and whatever are useful but it's possible to spend so much time looking at them, comparing them, moaning about them that a lot of valuable blogging time is actually wasted.
Most bloggers have only a certain amount of time to devote to their blogs and I bet, in lots of cases, this time isn't always used to it's full potential.
If we go off at a tangent, from what our real aims are, we end up getting - well not as far as we hoped.
I feel that blogging time has to be planned.
I'm not going to say what the plan should be, this is a personal thing and depends on your objectives and why you blog.
You could be just blogging for fun, so what the heck, but if say your priority is to make money then it makes sense to use the allotted time wisely.
Do whatever is most important first.
Pretty obvious, but I know I used to start my blogging session looking at what amount of money I'd made the previous day from each of the programs I was promoting. Then it would be the stats for each blog and other things - and all of this didn't actually benefit me financially.
Now I look at earnings only weekly and try to concentrate on making money and getting more traffic before anything else. They are really virtually the same thing as traffic = money.
I earn most money from my celebrity blogs so therefore they have to get priority. As I keep saying - play to your strengths.
When I've finished this post I know what I'll do next - it's on my plan.
I really do think that one of the secrets of success with blogging is discipline. It's so very easy to get side-tracked.
Stats, Google crawls and the like can be useful to monitor how everything is going but peruse them at the right time - say a special time slot each week.
Discipline, discipline, discipline. Yes, it can be a bit boring, unless it's a particular fetish, but it brings results.
Good luck,
Mike.
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