Top Ten Signs You’re Addicted to House Blogging
And now, from the Home Office in Baltimore, MD: The Top Ten Signs You’re Addicted to House Blogging:
#10. You have house blog friends. You like these friends better than your real friends because they aren’t tired of hearing about your blog.
#9. You carry a camera with you everywhere - in case something blog worthy appears.
#8. You delay starting house projects until you’ll have time to write about them. (Why do a project if you don’t have time to blog about it?)
#7. You intentionally stop at key points in your projects to take pictures/videos for the blog. (Better yet, you’ve ever had a friend come over to take pictures/video during a home project for publication — guilty on that one here).
#6. You don’t make major household decisions until your frequent commenters weigh in.
#5. You check your sitemeter (or google analytics, or statcounter) at least twice daily.
#4. You’re a member of the HouseBlogs.net advertisers network and you’re going to retire early because of it.
#3. You stay home on Friday/Saturday night because your viewing audience is relying on you for fresh content next week.
#2. Your family has ever complained about the amount of time you spend houseblogging.
#1. Your homepage is set to www.houseblogs.net.
What do you think? Alright folks … what did I miss??? What’s on your top ten list?
April 11th, 2008 at 8:16 am
guilty x 9!
April 11th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
- Strategically timing posts around GMT or (perceived)peak Houseblogs traffic times - yes, I really did this to see if I would see increased visits. And I did.
O the shame. Maybe need a 10-step program.
April 11th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Hmm how about choosing wall colors based on which ones display better in the most popular video display settings?
Or the one that drives my husband insane when he tries to surprise me by finishing a project without me: “What? Oh no.. I didn’t get any before pictures… Can you take it back down?”
April 11th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
@Lisa — Guilty on that one here as well. And yes, it seems as if you time it right you can get more traffic. Unfortunately sometimes that doesn’t equate to more comments
@Anita — I’ve been meaning to catalog the entire interior and exterior of the house (both for home inventory purposes, but also because then you are guaranteed to have before pictures — something essential for our before and after feature!
April 11th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Love this- it’s too true. Especially #6 and #7!
April 12th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I would be guilty of #10…
April 13th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
The good news is that I can stop obsessing about the house and start obsessing about my blog. Except I’m supposed to be doing my taxes today (the 13th) but maybe I should do one more post first and maybe check out a few more blogs . . .
April 21st, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Great, I’m screwed…
But what happens when the renovations actually finish? Or does that never really happen… (evil laugh)