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Update on my Adsense Challenge
March 28, 2006
Here's the update on my latest personal Adsense challenge, which was to stay away from checking my Adsense stats for seven whole days.
First, self-congratulations are in order. I did actually manage to stay disciplined and NOT check my Adsense stats for seven days. It might have even been eight whole days, since I couldn't remember whether the seven days were up last Thursday or Friday. So to play it safe, I waited until the Friday to check (so okay, it helped a little that the Adsense site was actually down for maintenance that Thursday night, but whatever.)
I was very happy to see that my overall total for my Adsense abstinence week was higher than I've had for quite a while. I personally attribute this to the woowoo factor - I released my resistance and the Universe delivered. Your mileage may vary.
The main benefit of my experiment is that I fell out of the habit of checking Adsense every 10 seconds. So far today, for example, I've only checked it twice, and I'm writing this before I go to bed. With no intentions of checking it "one last time" (or so I say as I'm writing this.) I'm finding that I only think about checking my Adsense stats when I'm feeling bored. I'm too sleepy to be bored right now.
Will I do this experiment again? I don't think so. I ended up having to go to the daily report section so I could check out my daily totals, and that was really a huge pain, since I love love love my Adsense channels. But if it weren't for that, then yes, I probably would do it again. The next time I got frustrated with Adsense. Which would probably be next week sometime, give or take a few days.
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That's funny :) Well congratulations - that's one tough challenge!
Posted by: jenn | Mar 28, 2006 7:24:42 PM
I made it about 5 days but honestly it was due more to circumstance than self control ;)
Posted by: Chrissie | Mar 28, 2006 8:15:52 PM
:))) Yeah, I know that feeling very well :))) Im also checking my stats everytime I can :)
Posted by: Igor | Mar 30, 2006 8:31:27 AM
Congratulations BJ! I probably couldn't have gone that long without checking my stats...I start getting cold sweats if I'm away from the computer/stats for more than a day :).
Posted by: Teli Adlam | Mar 30, 2006 4:18:07 PM
