Set Goals or DIE! Part 1: Posting Frequency Goals…

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The first major goal of blogging: Finding and Setting your Post Frequency.

You want to make a living doing this right? You’re in this for the long haul, am I right? You don’t want to be a one-night stand blogger, do you?

Then you must set short-term goals. My first goal was to make $100 per month off my blogs. The goal I’m working on now is to get 50,000 hits per month (currently i’m at 35,000).

Here are a few different types of goals you should be working on, if you really want to become a professional blogger. Traffic Goals, Monetary Goals, Posting Goals. These are just a few, I’m sure there are many more, but these are the generals that I will focus on during this discussion.

First we will take a look at posting goals. Frequency of blog posts play a very important role in how successful your blog becomes. The most successful blogs are the ones that have 5 posts or more per day.

Is that to say you can’t compete by writing less? No, sometimes quantity isn’t an absolute, sometimes it’s quality that really matters. I believe that we need to find a good medium between quality and quantity.

One thing that it took me awhile to recognize is that not every blog post needs to be perfect, sometimes just getting a post out there is good enough. With that said though, sometimes it is pertinent to go above and beyond on a few posts.

A few good examples of going above and beyond are these posts:

• 17 Kicka** Green Businesses to Start Now!
• Gas Prices Love and Hate them – 10 Reasons to Love them, and 9 Ways to Save on Gas.
• Obama: The First President of America 2.0?
• Is your Blog a Dead Beast? 16 Ways Bring it to life!
• 7 Ways to be Best Buds with an A-List Blogger!
• Blogs need to eat too! Feed your blog with 39 ways to build your RSS Subscriber base. So easy a slackjawed yokel could do it!
• Warning: Avoid these 7 Time Traps or your blog Will Fail – Guaranteed!
• 16 Places to get the dish on Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.

These are my personal cream of the crop posts. But that’s out of 180+ posts since I re-launched this blog in March.

I’ve posted 25 posts just this past week (13% of my total blog posts in a single week.) My goal is to be posting as many as 50 posts per week by the end of the year. I would love to surpass the magical 1000th post by my 1 year anniversary of re-launching this blog. (Middle of march).

As you can see, I have a vision of where I want to go with this blog. Without a vision, you will never get any place. You may experience short-lived success, but you must have a vision.

FACT: The more blog posts you have, the more traffic you will get from long-tail search results. These are great traffic sources because they are new to your blog, they will bookmark it if they like it, and many may subscribe.

Let’s discuss: Please tell me about your posting frequency – do you have a certain goal? Have you even thought about setting a goal before?

Read the whole series:

1. Set Goals or Die! Part 1: Posting Frequency Goals…
2. Set Goals or Die! Part 2: Traffic Building Goals..
3. Set Goals or Die! Part 3: Monetization Goals…(forthcoming).

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