How do I look at my blog metrics without obsessing?
- A a beginner blogger, what success metrics should I be tracking?
- What is considered good website traffic?
- How many followers should I have?
- How many subscribers should I have?
- How do I get over the scariness of facing my numbers reality?

Links to references made in the podcast:
- The page about blog metrics beginners should track
- How Berna turned looking at her money numbers into a fun game that helped her to financial success.
- The episode we talked about Berna’s Honda car battery dying
- The How to Get Free Flights and the How to Travel on $20 a Day info that Jema isn’t sad about not forcing on sheep milkers.
- MOZ – one of the website statistic authorities giving website scores – in the form of DA and PA (domain authority and page authority).
- Alexa – another website statistics authority that ranks sites globally and by region
- The packing list that we always talk about
- The free website Jema uses to check broken links
- Episode 13 – where we talked about the yucky aftermath of Berna doing a thing that got us a bunch of Instagram traffic
- Episode 5 – where we’ve talked about dealing with icky marketing
- Places to talk to us online:
- Ticket2Blog.com
- New Blogger Support Crew (also Facebook)
- Jema’s Wim Hof Facebook group you can request to join if you want an accountability partner for the 10-week fundamentals course
- Jema’s Wim Hof Accountability email list… if that’s more your speed.
Timestamp Listening:
- 2:00 . . . the most important thing to know about blog metrics
- 2:52 . . . how to know which blog metrics to track
- 3:16 . . . the four categories of tracking Jema uses
- 4:06 . . . the blog performance metrics that Jema actually likes tracking and where she gets those numbers
- 5:36 . . . things Jema tracks to have power in her industry and identify trends
- 7:03 . . . “important” blog success metrics that Jema tracks… with a heavy dose of skepticism
- 8:30 . . . why you don’t *have* to worry about bounce rates
- 11:13 . . one blog KPI it’s sometimes worth tracking
- 13:11 . . . why Jema thinks domain authority is bullsh*t
- 16:17 . . . what Jema does about broken links
- 17:33 . . . The google things jema cares about in her monthly report
- 18:10 . . . Berna’s empowering realization about what she should track
- 19:08 . . . Jema’s biggest blog metrics tracking mistake
- 22:15 . . . an empowering way to think about your blog success metrics
- 24:01 . . . who you should be measuring yourself against
- 25:18 . . . how not to become a numbers-obsessed, over-stressed robot
- 27:03 . . . the thing in your life that will keep you on the path you want to be on
- 29:37 . . . Berna’s self-assigned homework from the episode
- 30:09 . . . another reason new creators should chill out about blog performance metrics
- 30:44 . . . the thing you should do before you start tracking ANY blog metrics
- 31:57 . . . how to get your Ticket 2 Blog fix between episodes
- 33:42 . . . what Berna is most dreading right now
- 34:59 . . . what Jema is most dreading right now
- 37:59 . . . Bloopers!
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