Goals are like map while hitting the unfamiliar road. They direct you to your destination.
Some Great Quotes About Goals:
The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” –Benjamin Mays
“By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands — your own.” –Mark Victor Hansen
So What is your blogging goal?
If you have a strong positive answer and are pretty sure about it, then ignore this post and move forward to achieving your goals.
But if you don’t have set goals yet….this IS the first step. List down your long-term & short-term goals. Long-term probably for a period of 6-12 months. And short term goals for a month.
(Note: Your goals must be achievable, small, next step goals).
Present Site Statistics as on Date: __________:
• Google page rank _____________
• Alexa Traffic Ranking _________________
• Google Inbound ________________
• Alexa Inbound _______________
• Yahoo Inbound ________________
• Altavista Inbound __________________
• Number of Incoming links ___________
• Google Indexed pages ______________
Present Traffic Statistics as on Date: ____________:
• RSS Feeds Subscribers ______
• Number of site visitors ___________
• Number of page-views ____________
• Average daily visitors ______________
• Average daily page-views ___________
• Opt-in list members _______________
• Number of Guest posts _____________
• Number of Pingbacks ______________
• Comments ____________
• Article score on article directories to _____________
Present Impact on Social Mediasphere as on date: ___________:
• del.icio.us bookmarks _________________
• digg.com submissions ________________
• Twitter Following ____________
• Friendfeed Subscriptions _________________
• Facebook Fans ______________________
• LinkedIn Connections ___________________
Site goals for the month of ______________:
• Increase Google page rank to _____________
• Decreasing Alexa traffic ranking below _________________
• Increase Google Inbound to ________________
• Increase Alexa Inbound to _______________
• Increase yahoo Inbound to ________________
• Increase number of Incoming links ___________
Traffic goals for the month of _______________:
• Increase RSS Feeds Subscribers to ______________
• Increase site visitors to ___________
• Increase number of page-views to ____________
• Average daily visitors to ______________
• Average daily page-views ___________
• Increase opt-in subscribers to ______________
• Increase number of pingbacks to ______________
• Increase comments to ____________
• Increase article score on article directories to ___________
Social Mediasphere goals for the month of ___________:
• del.icio.us bookmarks _________________
• digg.com submissions ________________
• Twitter Following ____________
• Friendfeed Subscriptions _________________
• Facebook Fans ______________________
• LinkedIn Connections ___________________
ONE High Priority Goal Of The Month:
__________________________________________________ __________
There ends the goal sheet.
P.S. If you'd rather a pdf copy, here it is. http://smartadvise.info/uploads/bloggers-goal-sheet.pdf
Would love to hear your thoughts.