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):

1. Technorati Authority
2. Number of Blog Posts
3. Google Connect Followers (doesn’t look like I am going to reach this goal)
4. Email Feed Followers
5. Twitter Followers
6. Networked Blogs
7. Web Grade – www.websitegrader.com
8. Blog Grade – www.bloggrader.com
9. Links In (web grader and blog grader are so different that I just use my Google Analytics on this one)
10. Visitors
11. Alexa Rank
12. Compete Rank
13. Articles posted to Digg
14. 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!