Anyone keep a journal?

[zulufox]

Looking back on my adsense CSV and WebStats page, every so often I see 3-4 days of massive impressions and clicks, but then it peeters off.

I keep wishing I could take a snapshot of my site everyday and then when the stats comes back... look back and see what was happeneing on the site (new articles, what adsense ads were showing) and use that to my advantage.

Anyone do anything like this? and how?

[lorax]

I don't actually take a 'snap shot' but I do know what content was posted and where it was posted on my Adsense sites. I don't follow it that closely but I did build the back end (MySQL/PHP) such that I could export the data to compare it with my Adsense data. Someday, when I get my head above water, I'll do just that.

[bcc1234]

I keep wishing I could take a snapshot of my site everyday and then when the stats comes back

I keep a CVS repository and commit the changes with descriptions whenever I update something.

So when I graph different statistical data and see a sudden change at some point, I can check the repository logs and see exactly what I've changed at that time.