Good Job Blogging, Setting Goals

I recently received the question “How Do You Know If You Have Done A Good Job Blogging”. To answer this question I went back in my own past and decide what my turning point was. I mean sure, we get hundreds and thousands of people to our little blog daily, but is it really successful? In my opinion success is based on you, you decide your own destiny and what happens on the journey.

Success comes in so many different ways to name some traffic, subscribers, a pat on the back perhaps. You need to decide what you consider success and work towards that goal. I have said it before; making money should not be your first priority with a blog. Great blogs do well because the writer(s) care about the members and what they think. I believe this is greatly why InfectedByBugs has done so well. I care about each visitor and want to do the best I can to help everyone make money online. I try to answer every email and comment that comes on the site. Running a blog can become a full-time job if you truly care about your visitors.

One way I decided that I was doing a good job was by getting pats on the back, lots of people would email, and comment or pm me on user forums explaining how impressed they were with my blog and the wisdom I freely shared on it. Being told your doing a great job goes to some people’s heads, but for me I take it on as a challenge to bring my level up even more and continue to improve.

Anthony Robbins had an old saying “CANI” it stands for “Constant And Never-ending Improvement” I take this approach to my blog, I try daily to bring something new to the table. I may cover and recover old topics again but I try my best to bring what everyone truly wants from my blog “How To Make Money Online”. If I didn’t provide info on how to actually make money online I would assume my blog would be useless to the world and it would not do anything accept take up my time.

That brings me to the point of this post in that we are going to take a look on how and what type of goals we should set for ourselves as bloggers. (That Has To Be The Longest Intro I Have Ever Written, Seriously!)

Setting Goals, Life Or Death?

When it comes to setting goals for ourselves as bloggers we often forget that our goals make or break us in our own minds. As explained above, success is based on what you believe success is, when we set our goals we should remember this. We don’t want to set an impossible goal which only brings frustration to the table when we don’t meet a goal which was never reachable.

In the early months of your blog it’s important to set goals for yourself, but if you are already and established blogger rethink your goals and be sure to update your list of goals when you complete or exceed each one. You can even set new goals as you continue to learn the blogging industry.

Here are some basic goal ideas that you can set for yourself. Remember blogging is about having fun, however if you do want to be successful you will need to set a goal. Thomas Edison set the goal of making the Light Bulb work, just think if Edison would not have stuck to his goal and made it happen you would not be on a computer today (Yes, Computer Monitors Use Light Bulbs To Work) so be thankful of his goal and set some of your own today!

Monthly Traffic Goal: The first goal I suggest is a monthly traffic goal; while getting traffic can be difficult you can read my blog and learn how to get traffic fairly easily. For some reason I have been very lucky and know how to go from 0 visitors per day to several thousand in just a short time. Be sure to read our 5 easy ways to more traffic article for all the latest traffic tips and techniques I come across.

Subscriber Goals: Another goal which I believe is important to set is a subscriber goal, don’t set a goal like 1,000 subscribers in 6 months. Its just not possible, instead set your goals at something like 50 subscribers per month. Although that number is low once you get more and more subscribers to your site things will pickup and more will join in before you know it!

Monthly Income Goals: As I stated before, making money should not be your main focus for a blog, however it is important to a lot of people. If you want to make a monthly income from your blog then set a goal. Even if it’s a small one something like $50.00 per month to start, once you reach that head for $100.00 per month. Before you know it you may be racking in thousands per month!

There are many more goals that could be set, however if you can stick to just these 3 in the first 6-12 months of your blogging I believe you could be very successful all the way around. Don’t get caught up in the moment when you reach those goals, remember “CANI” improving is always the best thing. Continue to improve and never look back as you will not want to remember those old unsuccessful days!

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