Using the tips I suggested in my post on how to set your goals. I’m going to share with you my goals for 2009. They are not extremely ambitious, In all honesty I hope to obtain these goals in only six months or less, but we’ll have to see. You need to remember when you are making your resolutions, you can always create higher goals, but you can’t make them smaller without failing. Though for most things my philosophy is to shoot high, in this circumstance I would suggest aiming low, and when you accomplish those things then make them harder. So that was what I had in mind when I created these goals, and here they are, my goals for mastersofseo.com
500 Subscribers
200 Newsletter subscribers/Email Subscribers
2000 Comments
250 Posts
200 Visitors a day (according to Google Analytics)
PR3
First Page Ranking for How to Blog
Make enough money to buy this. With all the cool additions I need 3,703.95$
Run a Blog Contest
Release my first E-Book combining my traffic generation and SEO knowledge
Develop further my Blogging Relationships
Post Every One or Two Days
Get a better Blog Template
Develop some form of consistency in my posting, commenting, researching…
Get an Alexa ranking of under 100K
Get a Technorati Ranking of under 25K
All of these goals are very obtainable, and some might think downright wimpy for my lack of ambition. But hopefully after I do these, I can create new goals, and achieve those as well. This way I’ll be constantly completing my goals, and I’ll never be depressed because I’m always preforming better then I hoped.
So what are your Blogging goals for 2009?
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:45 am
Good luck with your goals for 2009. I will be happy with a steady monthly growth of both income and readers.
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January 2nd, 2009 at 8:20 pm
This is certainly attainable Johnathan and I believe you should be able to hit this target within 6 months. For me, I focus only on 1 goal which is to make $2000/mth constantly on the combined earnings of all my site. Of course there are many supporting steps that I need to take to achieve this and let’s work for our goals.
Cheers
Wei Liang
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January 2nd, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Funny, I want a 17 inch mac book pro as well, but I want two 20 inch mac monitors to go with it and the mac blue tooth keyboard and mouse.
Very sweet system
But I set my goals a bit higher then that for this year…..and I only set one goal…
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January 2nd, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Good luck.Wishing you a prosperous 2009.
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January 3rd, 2009 at 5:37 am
Nice to see the list. With hard work, and dedication, Your goals are achievable. Good Luck!
Hope ‘09 rocks for both of us
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January 3rd, 2009 at 11:40 am
Very obtainable and I wish you luck!
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January 3rd, 2009 at 1:16 pm
I’ve just signed up as a subscriber - so helping you achieve your goals.
Mine are more modest … for this post my goal is to ahve everyone who reads this to visit my site and leave a comment on one of the blogs … and /or pass my address onto others to read.
So, please help this writer to be well read
thanks and kia ora from downunder in New Zealand.
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January 3rd, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Very achievable targets you have there.
Setting incremental goals instead of stretch ones can be a smart move in blogging. For me, I’m aiming for:
-. Under 200k in Alexa
-. Write a newsletter about my niche
-. Redesign my blog template
-. Post at least once every 3 days
Let’s get our milestones done and shoot for net next ones!
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January 3rd, 2009 at 11:29 pm
It is always good to define goals in advance!
My top goal is to post 6 times a week and achieve PR3.
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January 4th, 2009 at 2:51 am
I havent composed all of my blogging goals, but I would like to post at least three times a week and have 1000 subscribers.
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January 4th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Is the target of 200 visitors a day and reaching sub-100k Alexa ranking a realistic goal?
I’ve always thought that to be in the top 100k websites your traffic would have to be in the 30k-50k a month range at the very minimum.
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January 5th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Some nice goals, but I certainly think you could achieve much more than that. You have some great tips on your blog, and everything is very well written. Hope you achieve all your goals and get your Macbook!
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January 5th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Thanks everybody, and no Solreka you don’t have to. Alexa is completely based around visitors with the Alexa ranking. Because of the niche I’m in, all of my traffic count for alexa traffic. Most don’t though, so that’s why I could get it relatively easy. Many sites have way more traffic then me, but don’t have as high rankings. Alexa’s a piece of junk.
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January 6th, 2009 at 3:21 am
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I had no idea Alexa worked like that. Now I know how it works, I might be able to get a better rank. Thanks.
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January 8th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
I would recommend putting a new theme high on the list. While I like the look of your theme overall, I don’t care for the huge RSS logo. I also noticed that the sidebar gets rendered first which isn’t that great either.
My own goals are primarily focused around creating niche marketing sites and blogs and in product creation (software and ebooks).
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January 17th, 2009 at 12:31 am
All the goals are very interesting and All the best for targets in 2009.
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