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Happy New Year Everyone!!! In the spirit of the new year, and because everyone else is doing it, I am setting some goals for romandock dot com and my online self for 2009. Hopefully I will be able to meet or exceed these goals.
Readership
The first goal I’m looking at is to increase my readership in 2009. By the end of the year, I hope to have 250 subscribers (RSS and RSS by email) as reported by Feedburner and be over 150 visits per day. Right now I’m sitting at about 26 subscribers and 17 visits per day (thank you everyone who is included in these numbers) so this will be quite an increase, but I think with a bit more regular posting and some additional promotion/marketing I should be able to hit this goal. If you haven’t subscribed yet, subscribe to my feed and help me reach this goal.
Posts
In 2008 I didn’t post near as much as I would have liked and I’m not sure that other aspects of my life will slow down enough to make much difference in 2009, but I am going to try and post more as well. I only had 109 posts in 2008 and I am going to make it a goal to have 250 posts this year. Also, I am changing my target post frequency from two posts per day to one. This way, when I do have time to churn out 2 or 3 posts on a single day I can schedule them for future days and have less days without posts.
Additional Sites
While this isn’t a goal for this site, it is related in that it is an online goal for myself for the coming year. I do have a couple of site ideas floating around in my head that I have yet to launch, and I want to get those 3 sites up and running, but they will not be sites that I expect to make much (if any) money from. In fact, I probably won’t even be monetizing two of them but I want to develop them anyway for my own personal reasons. In addition to these, I am making it a goal to come up with and develop 3 additional sites that I haven’t thought of yet that will be niche sites developed with the intention of making money. I might have an idea that will work for one of them but that is yet to be seen. Thus, by the end of 2009 my goal is to be running at least 7 or 8 sites including this one.
Money
While I haven’t been too successful making money online so far, ok I haven’t actually made any, I am making it a goal to be making at least $200 per month online by the end of the year. This is a combined total between any and all sites that I am running at that time. Hopefully an increase in readership here will help this site begin earning an income. Also, getting some additional income bearing sites up and running should make this a fairly easy goal to reach.
Well, I know they’re not as indepth as the goals some of you have been posting, but these are my goals for 2009 and hopefully I’ll be able to find the time to fulfill them all! Wish me luck and I hope everyone had a safe and fun time celebrating the new year!
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Happy new year Nick!
It’s always a great idea to make some goals at the beginning of the year, so you know what you’re working towards.
I think you’ve set some challenging, but realistic goals, so all the best trying to achieve them!
Thanks for the kind words and encouragement. I agree that they are going to be quite challenging, but that’s the point right? I think they are mostly realistic and I’ll see what I can do about achieving them!
Happy New Year to you Nick!
Those sound like some great online resolutions. I am also interested in hearing “non online” resolutions. care to share?
Well, I didn’t really think about it too much and ended up not making any “New Year’s Resolutions” the closest I came was developing these online goals :S
Your goal of growing the RSS subscribers just went up by 1 - I signed up!
Also I noticed you saying that you wrote over a 100 posts last year and have about 17 visits a day.
I recommend you take a look about what you write and what kind of information your potential readers should be looking to find your article - it seems to me that you have a large amount of articles but people just can’t find their way to read your stuff. It could be that your articles lack the terms your potential users are searching.
As an example my site www.financialjesus.com has currently 80 posts and they get about 400 unique visits a day - at least 75% of this is traffic coming from google with people searching for specific keywords.
Thanks for the subscription, comment, and stopping by!
I haven’t really paid much attention to keyword density and that sort of thing so therefore my Google traffic is probably lacking from what it should be. Perhaps you are on to something here and I need to be more keyword focused!
Just to clear things up - I never do any keyword research - I hate it
I just take a topic that I feel people could be searching and make a post about that. It’s not a very scientific method but I feel that all the keyword research stuff is too artificial!
It’s also important to check which of your posts have been the most popular (by views, number of comments, etc), and then see how people got to those posts (ie, was it from a google search?).
If appropriate, you can then right more posts on the same subject, in the hope of drawing those visitors back again, as well as drawing in more visitors.
Good advice Martin! I personally have a plugin that also keeps track of what visitors search in my blog - I have managed to get a few topic ideas thanks to this as well.
Happy New Year!
You can easily make a couple of hundred doing Payperpost. Also, I’ve been writing for eHow lately, and the earnings are starting to stack up. I just started a month ago, and already I’m making $60 a month. That’s residual, you should check it out!
I haven’t heard of/checked out eHow, but might look and see what kind of deal they have going there. I’ve considered Pay Per Post in the past and might follow the lead of a certain pink site and create my own niche site of some sort to use it on, but I don’t think I’d want to use it here…
PayPerPost hasn’t really offered very much recently, from what I’ve seen. Perhaps I’ve just been looking at the wrong times but, after that big Google slap early last year, PPP changed their name to Izea and it’s been downhill from there.
Good luck with your goals, Nick. The numbers you’ve set sure as heck won’t be easy but, as with anything, if you put in enough effort it will pan out.
Speaking of which, if you do find a way to get your subscribers up to 250, please share the secret. I’ve yet to break 65 readers at a time
Hey Roman, I hope I am not too late to wish you happy new year now. Wish you all the best in attaining your goals!