SEO - and Vanity

It's probably human nature to make your website the starting page for Internet Explorer or Firefox, etc. But that really skews your statistics.

If you go to your home page 5 times a day, that's 150 "visitors" that show up every month in your website's statistics that aren't the kind of visitors you're interested in.

So, as much as you may love looking at your creation, I recommend only visiting your own website when you must. And when you do need to or just want to look at it, try going to Google and searching for it with one of the terms which you think will put you high on the list. It's a great, fast way to see how well you're doing. Or not.