Book Blogger Hop is a weekly meme hosted by Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer, where you answer a question and join a “hop”. The purpose is to help bloggers discover and get to know one another.
For this week’s Book Blogger Hop, Elizabeth @ Silver’s Reviews asked:
Do you check how many views your posts have received?
Ugh, I try not to. But I can’t help myself.
I do really like to see what posts are a hit and which are more of a flop, but that sometimes bums me out a bit too much.
I’ve found that this is especially the case now that I have moved to WordPress from Blogger… My daily traffic is WAY down. I’m hoping that over time it will pick back up. So until then, I keep telling myself to be patient and I try not to get too bummed about my traffic dashboard.
Thanks for reading!
How often do you check out your stats?
I was so bad about checking my stats constantly for the longest time. Now, I check once or twice a day (I guess that’s still kind of a lot!). It’s interesting to see how they fluctuate, although it’s never fun when they go down!
Yeah! My stats seem to take a horrible nose dive if I don’t post daily, but oh well! I just can’t keep up!
I haven’t checked over 6 months at least…it’s not really on my mind. I’ve been more preoccupied with other things now that I think I will be winding down on my site.
That’s awesome! Not being totally obsessed with the stats is so good. <3
Yes, a move will always cause some disruption. Hope your views pick up again. I’m sure they will.
Thank you <3
Don’t be affected by the traffic, just enjoy your time blogging and don’t worry about that stfuf! I love your posts so I bet it’s going to go up again soon!
<3 Thank you so much!
I never check how many page views I get. It’s not really a priority for me! I just like answering the comments!
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I’m not sure if you will find this reassuring or disappointing, but I’m pretty sure Blogger counts more visitors than WordPress does—I think Blogger didn’t get rid of bots and such as well. At least that was always my assumption because my Blogger numbers seemed WAY higher than my WordPress numbers even though all my traffic was redirected for a long time. So your actual traffic may not have changed all that much. (But I’m certainly no expert!)
That definitely makes sense! I also think Blogger counted my own views… which was frustrating. Thanks for the info!! 🙂
I just realized that you moved to WP and Congrats on that. And I hope your views picks up soon. I can’t help but checking the views of each post.I am so addicted to it, even when it is heart breaking sometimes.
Thank you! 🙂
I’ve been contemplating the blogger – wordpress jump but I dont think I’d appreciate the improved analytics!
It’s such a scary jump to make! I definitely don’t regret it. I especially love the additional features that WordPress allows. I had help though. I paid someone to move everything over for me. I was too scared I’d totally screw it up!
It’s hard not to get caught up in stats, but ultimately I try to remember that I’m blogging for fun so it really shouldn’t matter all that much as long as you’re having fun doing it!
Agreed!! I tell myself that all the time to help me stay on track with keeping this a stress-free hobby 🙂
I used to check my view count all the time, but now I couldn’t care less 😛 It is hard not to though… I do check my view count a lot more for my channel than my blog for some reason xD
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Blogger does count bot visits and our own blog visits so your genuine page views might not be too different on WP. I’ve noticed that my page counts for Google Adsense are usually way lower on Blogger (even though they’re both ostensibly Google) so I take those as the ‘real’ numbers
Perfect!! Thanks for the info! 🙂
I also recently made the move from Blogger to WordPress (which was indeed a great decision!), and I noticed the same thing, that my stats count dropped- but I agree with Nicole (who is awesome, btw). Blogger allowed a lot of bots to be counted in their stats. I noticed that when I would post to Twitter, my hit count went up by 10-20 views immediately, and that’s not something that happens on WordPress. But I had like three followers for four months over on Blogger, and I have like 87 followers after about two months on WordPress, so I’m absolutely happy with the move! 🙂 Welcome to WordPress! 🙂
That’s all so great to hear! I’ll keep being patient with my stats 🙂 And thank you!
I have to admit that I like seeing where the traffic comes from more than anything.
Yeah! That’s always interesting!!
I don’t obsess, but I can’t help but look. I am always curious as to which posts are of interest to my followers and which are not.
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