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Stats, Heat Map, Search Volume, EPM, EPC and the list goes on. How many times a day do you find yourself checking these things?

It can be a never ending cycle and it results in a zero income producing activity if you find yourself constantly checking stats. Don’t get me wrong stats are very important and should be monitored, but how often? Today I found a nice surprise as I was cruising through my affiliate networks and it got me stuck on checking stats for well over 3 hours today instead of creating content for my network and starting on two new projects and completely ignoring a consulting project! So now I must play catch up until the wee hours.

The reason I do this is for the money and keeping live updated content in my networks is crucial in keeping SERP rankings in my niches. So spending three hours running through stats just to pat myself on the back was a meaningless activity that produced no income or one step closer to completing a project.

What am I going to do to correct this problem? Schedule stat checking time and stick to it!! That is the only answer I can think of. I have daily goals and plans and will now just incorporate stat checking into the plan instead of the random click over. If you have ever had this problem I would love to hear about it and what you did to get around it!!