Moan my IP

28Aug07

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Do you ever find it weird that sometimes when you easily get so bored thinking of what to blog next, does it make you stare at your stats twenty times a day and click them until you get tired of it? C’mon isn’t this something all of us bloggers do on a daily basis? If your claim I-am-not-one-of-them, then you’re wrong. So why would you care putting technorati, who-is, rss, etcetera links in your sidebar? What are those for?

I don’t know for sure if statistics are the measurement of our success. Someone can get really crazy on how many visitors we receive each day, how much money did we make (attn: self-host blogs, I do like to read your entries but sometimes it’s painful in the eye when you have all those ads plastered all over you entry). Considered, I’m the jealous brat, but how many RSS readers do you have? When we start blogging for ourselves, we developed this bad habit of checking our stats dozens upon dozens of times everyday. Do you ever try refreshing your browsers if the number of comments change? Try clicking you blog pages and pretty sure, you’ll get hits (I heard people saying, clicking blog pages do counts). Have you ever thought that it’s a pain in the azz if one day, your readers favourite clicks are usually the sex-related? You might recognize yourself here being one of those.

I suggest, stop doing it now. You’re most likely depressing yourself. The only reason why we would check our stats this often, is that, because nothing is happening entirely in our stat account. I’d like to think that spam comments generate hits since I’ve always got hundreds of them everyday. If you are a beginner who check your stats so frequently, most likely you are desperate to see some action in your blog? How would it affect your blogging habits? What are you going to do about it? First of all, if you’re doing these all the time, nothing much is going to happen anyways so nothing unusual with that, but even so, people are very disappointed when they see nothing, which then eventually leads them to giving up.

If you have come across at Thess blog, one of her regular commenter Meeya, shared her views about why other people take advantage of the so-called Ads.

“link trains” are used by some bloggers who seriously want their sites to have a high standing in feed ranking sites like, for example, Technorati, because the more sites link to a blog, the higher up the blog’s stand is in their list. for popularity-purposes ba. this is especially helpful if the blogger is serious about making lots of money by placing adsites in their blogs. kasi the higher up (or “popular”) you are in feed ranking, the more your site is “desired” by advertisers. the more adsites are placed on a blog, the higher the blogger earns. ganun lang yun, i think. kaya categorized siguro yang meme sa “business” because, after all, they make money from it.

If you want hits without worrying anything to make money out of your blog, why not spend your time building something to a level where you can make TONS of money without checking your stats? The answer? ADSENSE? Not really. But technically, people who are doing good on this game, so far are the techie blogs. It is no contest that technology blogs surely always wins. Say, if you post something related to Apple, periodically, you’ll get a lot of hits, trackbacks and even a lot of money. Apparently not everyone, as opposed to earning something from textads, are happy about these tactics.

Surprisingly enough, sex-related entries are something that you can also sell in your blog. Out of curiosity, I wrote something in the past that people loves clicking every nanoseconds, it remains as one of my Most Click Post. Wonder why? I’m curious now that even on commercials, sex definitely sells. I once saw a billboard of CK denim jeans (pictured), only to deliriously wondered, if that sexy ad can really make me look hotter? Apparently it’s too much for some. In a couple of cases this kind of strategy actually don’t sell at all. Others would think, they’re just a teaser for consumers.

But then again, there are business-minded folks who have found a way to use their blogs to bring in a little extra cash too. So if you’re planning to sell your blog, be sure to give value from your content, and not you as the author. Obviously, my question is, do you blog because you want to show off your blog in the future? Earn money? Do you blog because you love blogging? Or maybe you have your other reasons?

As for my blog, I’m keeping it as is. I do not know when my blogging ends, maybe tomorrow and most probably not today. Besides, I gain friends by visiting blogs and leave comments. Like what The Pussycat Dolls used to sing, if ‘you know how to ‘preciate me, I must stickwitu’.

Anyways, this is for the guys, would you like someone MOANING YOUR IP? In general, I prefer noises of pleasure over numbers.

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Artist: Sophie Ellis-Bextor – is a Multi-Platinum selling english pop singer and songwriter. Her music is a combination of mainstream. Pop, disco and 80s electronic influences. She used to be in a band called “theaudience”, which had a couple of U.K. top 40 hits. Read More.

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