Your Blogging Goals: What Are They? (Part 1)

AS fellow blogger Amanda DiSilvestro mentioned in a previous post, anyone can start a blog. But without clear-cut goals, your blog will reach a point where it will stagnate.

Whether you’re running a personal or a professional blog, setting action-oriented goals for it will help it grow and reach its maximum potential. If you aren’t sure as to what kind of blogging objectives you need, you can explore the following list of easy guidelines in determining what you want for your blog.

Posting goals:
1. I will post ____articles every week, with a total of ____ posts every 6 months / a year.
2. I will write ____ articles every week.
3. I will read at least ____ references every day.
4. I will read at least ____ books every month.
5. I will submit at least ____ articles for guest posting to other blogs at least once a week / once every 2 weeks, totaling ____ posts every 6 months / a year.

Community-building goals:
1. I will respond to at least ____ comments every week.
2. I will contact at least ____ blogs where I can submit guest posts.
3. I will accept ____ guest posters at least once every two weeks / once a month.
4. I will post at least ____ substantial comments on other blogs every week, totaling ____ comments every 6 months / a year.

The first step in goal-setting is knowing exactly what you want to happen. From there you can figure out how to make it happen.

Blog promotion goals:
1. I will post about my blog on Twitter / Facebook / Digg, etc. at least ____ times a day, totaling ____ times a month / every 6 months / a year.
2. I will follow at least ____ people in my social networking sites every week.
3. I will promote my followers’ posts / blogs in my social networking ____ times a week.
4. I will send out ____ emails about my blog to my mailing list at least ____ a week, totaling ____ times a month.
5. I will promote advertising spots on my site at least ____ times a week.

Monetizing goals:
1. I will raise my blog’s page ranking from x to x by (date).
2. I will aim to get ____ sponsors on my blog by (date).
3. I will join ____ affiliate networks by (date) and monitor my weekly and monthly progress.
4. I will install ____ monetizing apps and plugins in my blog and monitor my weekly and monthly progress.
5. I will aim to earn at least ____ from my blog every month.

Other non-quantitative but equally important objectives to set may be:
1. I will always address my commenters by their first names.
2. I will always practice good blogging manners.
3. I will set a schedule for free writing to jumpstart my creativity every day.
4. I will take steps to stick to my daily blogging schedule.
5. I will compile a set of online and printed research material to support my goal plans.
6. I will conduct extensive research on affiliate programs and other monetizing methods before committing to any of them.

These are just a few goals and objectives that you can set for your blogging process. You don’t need to aspire to achieve all of them in one fell swoop; just choose the target that will meet your needs for now, then focus on attaining it before moving on to the next one.

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CARMELA MARAAN has written on various topics ranging from marketing, advertising, blogging, and creative writing to adult material. She is enthusiastic about expanding her repertoire as she views the world as one huge library. During her free time she is also a voracious reader, an irrepressible singer, and a mom who hardly sleeps.

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victor December 27, 2011 at 10:10 am

Well my blogging goal is to make i reach as many as possible students who are in great need of scholarship information……….thank you

Robert December 27, 2011 at 6:00 pm

Well here’s some of mine:
2 posts on each of my blogs a week
Respond to comments everyday
Comment on other sites – 20 a week
then I mix other promotion techniques together and cram them in when I can

Ricardo Rodriguez - Posiciona Web December 27, 2011 at 9:24 pm

Hello

- My technique is up 2 or 3 articles per week Directory
- Comment on 10 blogs a day
- Create 3 videos a week.

Gautham A S December 28, 2011 at 12:50 am

I am Wondering how to add Commentluv to blogger blog, can someone please help?

BTW my blogging goal is to earn my pocket money!

tushar December 28, 2011 at 6:37 am

Although i have not noted my goals anywhere, i know what to do in next 12 months. I am not expecting much and have made realistic targets to achieve

how to be a plumber December 28, 2011 at 4:10 pm

Agreed. It can get quite lonely writing content for a site over and over. I was cheered up by reading your piece on having clear and defined goals. I think my goal from now on is to have clear defined goals I can meet – as it seems that is the only way to see progress.

spabad December 28, 2011 at 5:53 pm

Do I really need to have a goal for my blog? it can not be that I just want to write to ease my heart?

Carmela January 17, 2012 at 10:09 pm: Hi Spabad,

Blogging to ‘ease your heart,’ as you beautifully put it, is actually one major goal of those who post in personal blogs. So it may not necessarily be quantifiable, but if the act of blogging does get a load off your chest and make you feel better at the end of the day, then you’ve attained that goal.

Cheers, and keep on writing!

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calgary seo December 29, 2011 at 9:38 am

Hello.This article was extremely interesting, especially because I was looking
for thoughts on this matter last Monday.

AnnaLaura Brown December 30, 2011 at 3:15 pm

This is great. I had never even thought about creating blog goals like this. Thanks for such great ideas.

Ashish December 31, 2011 at 10:50 pm

Well Thanks first of all! Now let me tell you my story I had been running a blog since 1 and half year and in the meanwhile i begun another techblog where I worked in the same way as mentioned above and I actually gained lots of traffic but Panda ruined it now waiting to get the same on new domain…

sunil January 2, 2012 at 7:03 am