You, your blog and your goals

Posted 13 April 2007, by Aaron

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A few days ago, David Airey’s Creative Design blog passed the 1,000 comments mark. A small yet impressive milestone for a relatively young blog. (I was the 1,000th commenter - I’ll claim that free pint one day, David)

David’s achievement, along with Scot Smith of Meridiancrest’s success at smashing his own goals he set for March, has inspired me to set myself a few goals.

miLienzo.com is still only three months old. Therefore it makes sense to set the following targets for it’s six-month birthday, on 2 August 2007:

Reach the Technorati top 100,000 blogs (450% improvement)
Establish 100 RSS subscribers (500% improvement)
Average 100 visits per day during July (300% improvement)
Total 85 blog posts (an increase of 55 posts)
Reach the front page of Google for keywords ‘Aaron Russell’

Do you set yourself goals?

What kind of goals do you set for your blog? Are these kinds of metrics even important to you? If not, what is? And what do you think of my goals - are they too stretching or too easy?

Many thanks for the recent comments from Taleen and David.

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7 fantastic comments

I think you can do it. My goals would probably be similar to most of the ones you mentioned. It’s only 2 months old. Good luck!

Thanks for the mention Aaron. You can do it!

I’ll be rooting for you the whole time! Kind of like a cheerleader without the skirt and stuff… but still.

– Scot

Brown Baron - Thanks for the visit and commenting. I notice you are another of the DoFollow advocates - I think I’ll be joining your ranks before long. Good luck with your site.

Erm… Scot… You’ve put a picture in my head which is not too wholesome at all. But thanks for the support!

Very very cool idea with the goal setting. Sometimes I forget that I really need goals to progress.

Thanks for commenting my post, Aaron.

This sounds smart. It is easier to navigate and make decisions when you know more or less what you’re aiming for. I remember reading some inspiring articles over at StevePavlina.com. You should check them out, if you haven’t been there.

http://www.stevepavlina.com/articles/power-of-clarity.htm

I will be happy if the number of visits I get a day continues to increase and the comments do too. The comments really give you the sense that you are getting to know people and that people are interested in what you write (Um.. I bet thats sounds cheesey?)

Asgeir - Thanks for the Steve Pavlina link. There’s some very sound advise there. I always set myself goals - in my work life and my non-work life. Maybe one day I’ll get there.

Tara - I agree. I’ve absolutely no inclination to become a mega-rich uber-blogger. In fact I don’t want to make any money through blogging, it’s not my aim. But I do want to connect with people, meet people and have conversations. The metrics above are just ways of measuring that.

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