Ask Pat.

Hey, what's up,

and welcome to episode 543 of Ask Pat.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.

All right, here's today's question from Yasmin.

Hi, Pat.

My name is Yasmin, and I have a blog called The Family Brick at thefamilybrick.com.

I recently added a service to the website that's supposed to bring me more traffic.

However,

I've been looking at my Google Analytics and have noticed that my traffic is actually dropping, starting with the date I started using the service. So my question is this. How long do you guys test out a new service or a new

feature for your website before you bail on it? This has only been a week for me, but I don't want

to risk losing more traffic. However, I don't know if risk losing more traffic.

However, I don't know if a leak is enough for anyone to decide, okay, this features,

obviously definitely not for their readership.

So I'm curious to hear what you have to say about that. Thanks. Hey Asman, what's up? Thank you so much for the question today. I'm sorry you are going through this, but you know, this is very common. You try something new, which is great. And sometimes it doesn't give you the, it doesn't give you the results you expect it or gives you a result that is different than what you had thought it was going to do or there's some sort of byproduct that doesn't work in your favor.

And it's cool of you to notice that.

A lot of people add these new tools and resources on their website without even really keeping track of anything.

And, you know, a lot of times it doesn't work out in their favor but they don't even know so yes

i'm very encouraged uh that you are going through this these growing pains i guess you could say

and that you're asking this question because i think it's really important so hopefully this can

help everybody else out there so if you get access to a tool that you install on your site and

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