The G in bloG stand for Goals. Bloggers should establish goals they would like to achieve while blogging. Begin your tracking by establishing your starting point date, dates you would like to reach milestones by and ultimately, and when and what you want your blog to become at it’s fullest potential. There are many different avenues a blogger can take to promote and monetize their blog, increase traffic, and gain readers.
Here are a few different ideas on which goals you should set for your blog:
Posting Schedule
Establish and maintain a regular blog posting schedule. Set a schedule that you can stick to and not break, no matter how busy you are. This may start out with one post per month in the beginning, with a goal of several posts per week. You get out what you put in and you may find you can be a full time blogger!
Subscribers
Each blog has its own subscriber list and it is gold. Subscribers are regularly and voluntarily updated with your new posts, without having to go anywhere to read it. First of all make sure you offer a few different subscription options to satisfy everybodys preferences. Set a subscription number that you want to reach and test out methods for reaching your number. A few different methods can be email subscription in your sidebar, within a blog post, or on pages. Don’t discount rss reader subscriptions too!
Guest Posts
Determine if you want your blog to accept guest post submissions; If so then establish a guest post policy. Perhaps you would just like to be a guest poster on other blogs to drive more traffic to your own blog. Both of these can gain readers from other blogs; However, many bloggers avoid accepting and submitting guest posts all together.
Website Traffic
You should know how you would like to obtain the most traffic: referring sites, natural search results, social media posts, or other methods. Once you determine where you want your traffic to come from, do what you need to on the appropriate sites to achieve your traffic goals. No matter where the traffic comes from, you should also establish a specific number of unique visits per week/month/quarter you would like to have. Continuously monitoring this data will help you reach your desired numbers.
Monetizing
Blogs can bring clients in to utilize your business services or you can make money directly from your blog. If you use your blog to bring in clients then determine specifically what you need to write about to bring in new clientele. If you want your blog to make money on it’s own then determine which means would earn the money you are trying to earn; affiliate ads, search ads, donations, advertising, or product sales. Whichever method, or both methods you choose, set a monthly or yearly dollar amount that you want to reach.
Social Media Network
Some bloggers only care about the number of followers and fans they have. For blog promotion, social media network quality is better than quantity. Be amongst those who you can learn from and those who will learn from you and share your knowledge. You can set a goal of how many fans/followers you would like to reach, but I would suggest setting a goal that will help you, such as number of people or number of times one of your posts is shared or republished.
All of these elements go hand in hand to ultimately reach your blogging goals, some cannot be reached without others. What goals have you set for your blog?
Previous posts include B is for Blog, L is for Listen and O is for Optimize.
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Very informative and valuable post, that’s help us in many times, keep up it. Thanks for sharing.
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Great tips for anyone starting their own blog. Goals are interesting, once we commit to doing something they become the driving force. Thanks for taking to time to share yours.