Ok, so how do you get the most out of your blog in forms of getting traffic and loyal subscribers – not to mention a lot of comments in that section? Well, I’ve written many posts about this already, so I suggest you head on there and re-read them or read them if you’ve missed them altogether.

However, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about this subject from another perspective as well.

What if you do everything and it still fails?

Do you keep blogging and ignoring the fact that you’ve spent hours each week on masterpieces on your blog, and hoping for a massive amount of subscribers, comments and booming stats – only to get a fraction of it? Well, that happens to me daily.

I’m not the one to drag on and on about stats on WordPress. I think it’s a boring subject that most often also can become a huge stress factor, not to mention that it can become a bad obsession as well. I’ve only mentioned it from time to time in this specific blogging challenge, that’s now coming to an end.

Personally I’ve chosen to not obsess over my stats, and I think it’s a miracle that I am not caring that much about it either. It’s hard and sometimes heartbreaking though to visit the dashboard, hoping for lots of readers, and be met by stats hanging in the low fruit section.

I know that WordPress.com has been plagued by a stats bug on and off for the past year, from what I’ve heard and read from other bloggers, so most often when my stats have been dipping for no explanatory reason, I believe it’s this weird bug that’s been pestering me as well. Or there’s just some other logical reason for it. People are busy doing other things, just like I am.

For the past weeks, I haven’t been in here that much. I’ve been scheduling posts of course, but I haven’t been spending all my time that I have freely on this blog. I guess that perhaps shows in the stats? Perhaps blogging daily is quite pointless as well, since my stats have not improved, more likely it’s the opposite since I started this challenge of A – Z.

I guess people find it boring to read these posts. The only thing that has helped with the stats is writing multiple times per day. Then they’ve gone back to “normal”, but writing multiple times per day is exhausting and not something I can do, even if I could. My whole blog would consist of blogging challenges and daily prompts, no matter how repetitive they will get, and I prefer to write more from the heart.

Conclusion

Well, I’m just gonna go back to normal, answering the weekly challenges I partake in and writing my inspiring and motivational posts in between and hope the stats will improve yet again.

That seems like the best approach.