Blog Tipz

Along with the Internet, your blog can grow at a fast pace, and it may be hard to focus on more then one large goal at a time. In a continuation of a mini-series on how to focus on what works, I want to discuss how you should be properly working towards your long-term goals.

Let’s say that you want to increase the traffic feeding into your blog. This may be easy to say, but more difficult to accomplish. While changing your blog’s template, style of content, post updating rate, etc., can all help to increase traffic, you may be spending too much time jumping from one method to another when you haven’t sat down and analyzed your options.

Even though “increasing traffic” is a single goal, you might try tackling it in different ways, which doesn’t work too often. You can’t change your template and begin posting twenty new posts in a single day – new visitors won’t come that quickly and you won’t be able to maintain the same quality of traffic and content when you stretch yourself thin.

So, in order to increase traffic, you would likely first jot down ideas in a list, then get started with the first one, do some testing, and then continue onto the further methods that you have listed. There needs to be some kind of evidence – an increase in revenue, subscribers, revenue, or a decrease in bounce rate, before you can conclude that the changes worked.

Additionally, some bloggers think that everything they do is related. Just because you add more ads to your site, it doesn’t meant that you will see an increase in traffic, clicks, and earnings, but you could see the complete opposite of this. Not all goals and outcomes work hand-in-hand nor can you go along assuming that everything “will work out.” It simply doesn’t.

Here’s a Checklist of Things to Remember:

1. Create a checklist of things that you want to achieve with your blog over a certain period of time.
2. Focus on one, performing one operation/change at a time before you have “completed” the goal and are able to say that you were successful.
3. Move onto the next goal, and continue the process.
4. If you can’t meet a goal, don’t struggle. Move onto the next, and things could work out for you in the long-term.

How do you go about setting goals and trying to test your blog’s limits on a daily basis?