Obsessively monitoring blog traffic

Obsessively monitoring blog traffic If I had a dollar for every time I checked the traffic on my blog, I would have a decent income from this thing. The software Im using is Performancing Metrics, and I adore all the ways it can slice and dice my numbers. Last week I had uneven traffic, and my overblown analysis of just five days led me to believe that if I post twice a day, I will double my traffic. So I have been testing my theory this week. The good news is that my traffic doubled. The bad news is that this is very labor intensive. I look at BoingBoing (ka-ching! another link to their site, helping them to hold tight to the number-one spot in Technoratis ranking of all 37 million blogs) and it looks to me like they post 30 times a day. No wonder they are ranked so high. Maybe I could post that many times. But Id go nuts. Im already going nuts spending about four hours a day on the blog. Plus, I am not a big believer in being a workhorse. Its not me. Im a big believer in figuring out shortcuts. But I havent found any. So here is my first of two posts for today. Research published in Nature Neuroscience says when we are hungry we release a hormone that makes our brain a little bit sharper. So I decided that I would try writing blog entries while I am a little bit hungry to see if things go faster. Maybe my shortcut will be hunger.