This is the perfect subject to bring you girls this late in the year! Everyone who wants to make their blog a business should set goals. Short term and long term goals. Lots of people don’t know what to include as goals. Well, I set goals each month and will be taking them a step further this year. But, here are the goals I set (in fact, I made a spreadsheet that I can fill out each month):
- Technorati Authority
- Number of Blog Posts
- Google Connect Followers (doesn’t look like I am going to reach this goal)
- Email Feed Followers
- Twitter Followers
- Networked Blogs
- Web Grade – www.websitegrader.com
- Blog Grade – www.bloggrader.com
- Links In (web grader and blog grader are so different that I just use my Google Analytics on this one)
- Visitors
- Alexa Rank
- Compete Rank
- Articles posted to Digg
- Google Page Rank
Then, I work my rear off trying to reach those goals.
How? By utilizing all the Blogging Basics that I have been bringing each of you. How do I decide how much increase I want? For the first time I recorded my stats then a month later, recorded them again and set goals for the next month. I paid attention to the increase number and made the next month’s goals increase by more. Make sense?
For example if my Twitter Followers were 900 and in a month they increased to 1,000 then for the next month I made my goals to increase them by 110.
You may want some other goals, also like money making goals, guest posters, starting a new thread (aka like I started Blogging Basics), etc. If you make a post about your goals, I would LOVE to see it. Please leave a comment with the direct link.
Good luck making goals and working to reach them!
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3 responses so far ↓
1 Natalie A. // Dec 22, 2009 at 3:52 am
Great post! Thanks!
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2 Tara Hill // Jan 6, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Thank you for all your blogging basics posts! I’m trying to get my blog up and running…and a little more interesting! I’ve bookmarked you to come back to often!
mamahill.blogspot.com
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3 Kelli // Jan 6, 2010 at 2:16 pm
I am so glad you are finding my Blogging Basics useful! :-[) I post a new one each week, sometimes a full post and other times just a quick tip.
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