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Hopefully, I can have an adsense free day one of these days :-)
How about you guys?
I currently check at least 50 times a day, but that is an improvement on last month, when it would have been twice as often, Then, I used to transfer the stats to my Excel spreadsheet at every viewing, too. Now I do this only 20 or so times a day, so there are signs of an improvement.
I justify my obsessive behavior on the grounds that my present AdSense income is making a vast difference to my lifestyle - more than doubling my disposible income from all other sources - so I think that I need to reassure myself that it is really happening, and it is not just a dream.
I just added the AdSense code to three of my pages late yesterday... watching with interest, and so far - Impressed!
~ Lynn
As the Adsense adverts are on my own site and I have internet access at work I really need to get it down.
Just changed to skyscrapers and colours and just keep checking.
Mind you dont check it as much as webmasterworld ;)
Well we have AdSense running on over 50,000 pages. If you take that number and divide it by 24 (hours) Divide that by 60 (minutes) you get 34.7 times a day!
Thats about dead on for us! ;)
I've got to get off of it, because If I divide my AdSense income by the time I spend checking the stats, it's a lousy wage per hour!
SN
If only you could see the stats for different sites.
On that note, am watching my first three pages carefully - the only real conversion being subscribers & forum members. If they decline sadly, I'll have to make a choice as to whether leading visitors off my site is worth the $$...
I honestly dont feel like this is going to be an issue (for my site specifically), but like I said - watching it closely ;)
For christmas i'd like a desktop ticker that sits there and gets on with counting the pennies....
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{standing at the counter purchasing a Big Screen TV}
"I'm sorry sir, your card was declined"
"No problem {looks at watch}, Try it again"
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hehe :-}
If it were to be slashdot, some of the comments here would have got a +5 funny, especially the last one :)
I justify my obsessive behavior on the grounds that my present AdSense income is making a vast difference to my lifestyle - more than doubling my disposible income from all other sources - so I think that I need to reassure myself that it is really happening, and it is not just a dream.
But when do you have time to have a lifestyle when you're always checking your stats?
Whenever I'm feeling particularly obsessive, I can check back here and realize, no, there is someone... SOMEONE out there who is more obsessive than I am! :)
And I mean that in a good way ;-)
Oh, and Lynn... yes, what the other guy said... your big screen TV post had me really laughing hard... just brilliant! :D
I remember there was a counter that did that - showed number of visitors in the tray.
It was actually a joke I used to make regarding PayPal and their Visa Debit card... during the "info products" craze.
Perhaps we should encourage Google to implement a daily stats email - and/or only update our stats once a day? LOL We'd get a lot more done that way ;)
Do they say anywhere in their disclaimer:
"Not responsible for lost work time, or any other negligent behaviour as a result of AdSense Stats Obsession, such as, but not limited to: forgetting to eat, missing your best friends wedding, skipped appointments with your probation officer...
? ;) ~ Lynn
On a more serious note, though, I do think that a lot of this calms down over time.
I remember when I bought shares in my first mutual fund AND shares of stock in my sister's biotech company for the first time (both a few years ago, during the height of the dot.com boom!)
I was checking Etrade about every five minutes, at work, no less and:
- I sure wasn't the only one!
- Yes, the money was increasing practically every time :D
- No, it didn't last (the money increasing, or my eagerness to check) :(
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