The New Year is coming fast, and it’s time to get ready by setting your yearly blog goals. Currently i’m doing this for each one of my sites/soon to be sites, for a bunch of reasons, bu the main one is to keep me motivated.
Ok, but why set goals?
1. Goals keep you motivated by challenging you.
If your any thing like me then by setting goals you take them as a challenge which will keep you motivated. As a competitive person I compete against anything or anyone, if you pass me on the highway, you’d better believe i’m gonna catch up to you. So by setting these goals that challenge me, I’m making my self work at achieving them.
2. They give you an idea of what to expect and what to do.
By setting the goals you have a rough idea of what your blog will be like through out the year. Goals also help you set a plan that will guide you to achieving them. Which brings me to my last point.
3. Along with a plan, goals keep you on the right track.
Along with the a plan that help you achieve your goals, goals keep you on track for the year and they keep you moving forward.
Setting your goals.
I like to separate my blog goals into 6 categories. Post goals, traffic goals, rank goals, subscriber goals, and miscellaneous goals but most people like to add an earning goal. I personally like to add my earning goal to my personal goals, not my blogging goals.
Blogict Goals For 2009
Post Goals:
- Average 15 posts per a month.
- Average 40 comments per a post.
Traffic Goals:
- Average 600 hits per a day according to SiteMeter.
- Average 1200 page views per a day according to SiteMeter stats.
Rank Goals:
- PR: 4 6 ( reached a PR of 3 before 2009)
- Alexa rank: 75,000
- Technorati rank: 20,000
- Technorati authority: 200
Subscribers:
- Total RSS subscribers: 1000
- Get 400 newsletter subscribers.
Miscellaneous Goals:
- Write an eBook to give away.
- Get a Wordpress plugin made.
- Create 2 free Wordpress themes.
How this helps all of you, does any one have some ideas they would like to add?
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Nice goal setting. I have set my goals yet. Good luck for 2009. Hope we all make more money online and be more popular. HAHA
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Thanks Hussein, im gonna need all the luck I can get in 09′ got college creeping around the bend
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Good luck to you too!!!
I always believe that having a goal-list will keep us more determined in achieving it. Good luck for your goals in 2009.
Wei Liang
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Something wrong with the outline download? it takes me to your home page…
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@ Wei: Thanks, im gonna need it.
@ Dennis: Thanks for pointing that out dude, I fixed it.
I hope you achieve your goals Ardit. Good luck
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Thanks dude. These are just for this site
I have like 5 other ones
I’ve also setup goals for my projects.. and my life.
2010 is gonna be an important year for me, and thus 2009 has to be taken seriously.
Best of luck with your goals!
And dude, you get really amazing images for your blog posts.
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Hey swastik, Good luck with all your projects. And thanks, it takes me like 30 min. to find a good picture and edit it.
Great man… At least you are very clear on what you want to do.
I would say that de-linking from rank goals would not be a bad strategy. If you talk about 1000 feed subscribers and 600 hits per day, other things would more or less fit into your plans. But I liked your plans on WP like themes, plugins etc.
Btw, I could not download anything from that download link.
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Thanks for the comment Ajith, Thats a good way to think of it, I may just drop those rank goals, except for pagerank as that doesn’t come from traffic.
Good luck. And great reminder… I am currently setting my goals for 2009.
And perhaps this year I’ll make mine reachable. lol. (I still have the Post-Its on my office wall from last year, a sore reminder that I didn’t quite meet my 2008 goals.
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Thanks Shirley, I would actually rather make my goals hard to reach, fail, but know that I tried harder than I would have with lower goals.
Looks great and you will achieve it for sure.. but why 40 comments per post ? Comments are for pleasure and not a commitment to do..
Ah,yea I wish you best of luck and a happy new year
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It’s sorta a personal thing, I love comments and they keep me motivated, maybe more than the amount of traffic I get, Why? Probobly cause it makes me feel like I wrote something good if it gets a buch of people talking.
Thanks bud.
Good goals, I hope you succeed in all of them. Nice to see you’re also considering making wordpress plugins and themes.
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I love reading everyones goals at the moment, it is so motivating!
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I wish you all the best to accomplish these goals !
All the best,
The Moneyac
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Your goals sound really achievable. I also set my goals which are similar to yours but smaller numbers. I feel like you’re a blogger to watch in 2009!
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Thanks for all the comments guys, I need all the luck I can get. And @ Rowell, thanks that made my day.
Great goals. Good luck in working towards them.
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Thanks Salwa, im already pushing pretty hard on them
Great Goals. Good luck . I have a few goals in blogging. I am going to work hard to MMO.
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Thanks,Im definitely gonna need some luck.
Some nice, some ambitious and some, well, “dreamy” goals you got there Ardit
No matter what, goals are goals. The satisfaction of setting goals, working towards them and finally fulfilling them is out of this world.
Blogict is sure to grow at an unprecedented rate due to the quality of articles and friendly atmosphere. Good luck Ardit and wish me luck too. We are all in the same boat heading towards the same destination
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Thanks F1orsaken, I have to admit the goals are tough but im determined sooooo, lol
And your right about the feeling of satisfaction you get, I can’t wait until I can start crossing off my goals here, it’s gonna feel great when I finally do.
I must say, good luck to you, Hope you have a satisfaction filled year
great goal setting and best wishes to achieve that…you have some work to do here
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Thanks dude, at the rate im moving right now im gonna need a ton of luck.
Nice goals there. To get Alexa 75000, you need around 2500 unique visitors per day.
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