Are your site metrics getting you down? I mean really getting you down, depressing you each time you look? Are you measuring your worth by the number of ad clicks you got today? It's not surprising, if you're working for yourself online, but it's a slippery slope into a new type of addiction that can and does cause depression.

Being a web worker is such a new profession, and the external factors preventing success so numerous, that few studies have been done regarding how website performance can cause depression. It's unlike a traditional business, where you have a relatively greater amount of control over your forecasting your revenues.

More than a few bloggers have expressed the concern that building a stable, revenue-earning blog takes a serious commitment but can be emotionally draining, and that it's difficult to rely on stable income. You have several factors to be concerned about:

1. Coming up with fresh content.
2. SE (Search Engine) "penalties", or having your blog  be ignored by SE spiders.
3. Having content stolen by scrapers.
4. Ranking lower in an SE than a social media site that uses your content simply because the story submitter used the exact same title.
5. All of the above, simultaneously.

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Man. With pMetrics moving servers today, I'm having terrible withdrawl symptoms. I guess I'm more addicted to Spy than I thought.

I am very sorry for how awful pMetrics has been recently, it's completely unacceptable to me, and to you too, I'm sure. There are many factors contributing to these problems and NONE of them will be an issue on the new server, because it will be dedicated to nothing but pMetrics, which is how it should have been from day one.

We have had a new database server ready for over a month but because of many other things happening at the same time, the move has been delayed more than once. I'm SO excited to report that it will finally happen as of tomorrow (Wednesday). I would prefer to do this on the weekend because there will be some downtime during the move, but the most important thing is to get the service running smoothly again as soon as possible. If that means downtime during the middle of the week, then that is the cost, and at this point, any cost is worth making the service good again.

On a happier note, a new version of the software has been in the works for nearly 2 months now, and it's got a lot of great features. It is planned for release in early January, and I promise you will love it dearly. There will of course be a huge post about it when it's ready so stay tuned...

Please accept our apologies for the pMetrics downtime this week. We had an unexpected but serious database corruption that took a long time to fix, much longer than anyone anticipated. We should have been more vocal about this, as we have in the past, and will try to do so next time. It kept seeming like it was almost fixed, and then something else would happen. Time flies and here we are two days later.

But things are finally back to normal again... well, except for the fact that you have several days of traffic missing. But don't worry, we still have it, it just hasn't been processed yet. Being that pMetrics is more focused on the present than the past, we are giving your new traffic priority. The traffic that's missing should show up in your account within several days.

You may have noticed "The Performancing Top 20" over in the right sidebar. Each day we're ranking the top 20 premium pMetrics blogs according to site visitors and listing them, along with page rank passing links. That's one more great reason to become a pMetrics premium subscriber.

Worried that you won't crack the top 20? Just do a little site promotion, write a few articles for Performancing (along with some links to your blog), and market your blog like a pro. The more you promote, the more you'll see visitors, and the more likely you'll get some link love from Performancing!

By cracking the top 20, your blog will receive a free, one-way PR 7 link. A killer incentive for a killer product;-)

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I need some help. It's been a while since I've logged into performancing.com - and I can't find my metrics page? Is the feature still available? Help!