Time To Set Some Solid Goals For Smarter Wealth
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I change goals more often than I change my underwear. But I have decided that I need to change this and I need to set some solid goals I can work towards for the next month or two and try and see some achievements which I can celebrate with you guys.
Setting goals is an important step towards moving forward in your blog. Setting goals helps you focus and helps drive you blog towards success. Joe wrote a great post recently about Focusing.
If you have no goals then you have nothing to work towards and you just float around wherever the internet sea takes you. So it is important to set goals so you have direction. Also it is important to set goals that are achievable. I heard the saying “Long term goals are a great short term excuse”. It is great to have long term goals but you need to have achievable short term ones too.
So here are the short term goals for the next 2 months on Smarter Wealth
200 pageviews per day - This is twice what I am getting at the moment and at 200 pageviews per day I should be earning at least $1 per day in advertising from this site.
50 RSS subscribers - My RSS subscribers are jumping from 20-30 and have been for the last month. I have the goal of gaining 50 RSS subscribers in the next 2 months.
3,000 Backlinks - Links to your site count as a ‘vote’ towards your site’s awesomeness. Currently I have 1,250 backlinks and I plan to increase that to 3,000 in the next 2 months by various means.
PageRank - I don’t really understand page rank yet and I think that only update every 3 months. But at the next update I want to have a Google Pagerank of at least 1/10 (at the moment it is 0)
Flip 2 Websites/Month - I want to flip around 4 websites in the next 2 months and make about $100 on each
Get 200 email subscribers - Currently I have about 75 email subscribers from giving away my free Flipping Websites Ebook. I plan to give away at least one other report and get at least 200 subscribers in the next 2 months.
Write 1 post per day - That is 61 posts in the next 2 months. I want each and every post to be top quality.
So they are solid goals that I will be working towards over the next little while and you can keep me accountable to them. I will definately update you as each one is achieved.
If you have set goals for your blog then please post them in the comments section below because I want to hear about them
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September 9, 2008 am30 12:56 am
Nice list of goals. I know my goals lack at times and I had to refocus my efforts there too.
I am not on a clear pathand not looking back
Bruno Augers last blog post..Why website promotion works
September 9, 2008 am30 1:01 am
What type of advertising do you mean?
Adsense?
September 9, 2008 am30 2:29 am
Good goals mate. I can’t wait to see how you complete them.
September 9, 2008 am30 5:33 am
Think Bigger. You’re starting to put together a kickass blog, just keep doing what you’re doing and I think you’ll smoke those numbers.
Compounding-Dividendss last blog post..5 Lessons for a Blogging Newbie - From a Blogging Newbie
September 9, 2008 am30 5:38 am
Nice set of goals; by putting a specific timeline to your goals it makes them more achievable or at the very least you’ll have a better idea of where you’re going wrong and how to fix is.
September 9, 2008 am30 7:48 am
Nice goals. I would love to keep reading how you are going to accomplish this.
Good Luck!
Online Dividendss last blog post..Passive Income as of 08/31/2008
September 9, 2008 am30 9:25 am
@ Bruno - How come your goals lack at times? What do you need to do to get on a clear path?
@ Compounding Dividends - Do you really think I can smoke these numbers in the next 2 months?? Anything you think I can do better to make these happen?
September 9, 2008 am30 10:50 am
@Ryan
To improve your chances.
(1) Make sure your ping list is set to ping all the right services.
(2) Participate in industry forums and be sure to you include your domain name in your signature (where possible).
(3)Add comments to blogs and reference your website. Make only sensible and relevant contributions.
(4) Submit a story to Digg that references your site. (Your John Chow guest post)
(5) Tag your blog articles in Technorati
(6)Make sure you assign alt-tags with real descriptions to all your images so they can be found by Google Image Search (e.g your ebook image doesn’t have an alt-tag)
(7) Create some Squidoo and Hubpages
Avg Tested/Proven Result collected from over the web:
Squidoo and HubPages ~ 200 – 600 visitors/mth
One Top Blog comment a day ~ 600 – 1,000 visitors/mth
One Popular Forum post a day ~ 300 – 600 visitors/mth
September 9, 2008 am30 12:36 pm
Ryan - I have no specific ways, you have more experience in the Blogging game than I do. I just pulled up your archives and looked at the comment levels. This month is killing last month. Even if you don’t run a competition next month I’d assume the momentum is going to carry over. October should be bigger than September and November will exceed Octobers results. It’s all about momentum and the compounding effect. Just keep pumping out the killer content. If you build it they will come
Jake@Compounding-Dividends.coms last blog post..Investor vs Trader - 7 Reasons to be an Investor
September 9, 2008 am30 1:05 pm
@ Jonathan - Thanks heaps for all the help man. These tips are really killer. I like how you posted the amount of traffic you can expect from them. Do you really think you can get 600-1,000 traffic for just one comment on a blog?
Also about the ebook picture. It doesn’t have alt tags because it sucks. I am getting a new one made really soon…but then I will put alt tags in definately.
@ Jake - Good to see your name and not just “Compounding Dividends” its nice to relate to a person..not a generic website. Thanks for your confidence in me. This really helps and is pushing me towards becoming even better
September 9, 2008 am30 1:08 pm
@ Pangeran - Yes I mean adsense. I am using both adsense and private advertising (125×125 banners) at the moment.
@ Ethan - Hope you stick around to see them come true ethan
@ Matt - I do actually have a timeline. These goals need to be completely by the last day of october (about 2 months). But thanks for the tips
September 9, 2008 am30 1:58 pm
Yeah, names don’t draw attention but only using a website looks to generic. I’m trying to balance between the two but it’s alittle long. I’ll probably stick with this for the time being
Jake@Compounding-Dividends.coms last blog post..Investor vs Trader - 7 Reasons to be an Investor
September 9, 2008 am30 2:23 pm
I think your name does draw attention if you post enough and especially if you get an avatar..
You should get an avatar.
On most blogs I comment as “Ryan McLean” not “Ryan @ Smarter Wealth”
September 9, 2008 am30 3:35 pm
Great set of goals and very achievable!
Work At Home Mom Taras last blog post..Get To Know The WAHM Tara
September 9, 2008 am30 4:09 pm
Good to see an avatar of you Tara. Thanks for the support!
September 9, 2008 am30 4:53 pm
Thats quite achievable. I did get around 50 RSS subscibers for the first month and hopefully it will add more. For me my goal is to start earning good passive income by selling private ads.
Thanks for sharing your goals.
Sam @ Fix My Personal Finances last blog post..Five Tips in Finding a Scrupulous Insurance Agent:
September 9, 2008 am30 5:59 pm
Pretty realistic goal Ryan.. Well maybe its time for me to set some goals too…
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September 9, 2008 am30 6:57 pm
My avatar shows up on some sites, I’ll have to get that worked out also. For now, the name stays.
Here’s one backlink for you Ryan and possibly some added traffic. I put a new twist on a comment competition
Jake
Jake@Compounding-Dividends.coms last blog post..If You build it, they will come - Giving away over $250 - Competition
September 9, 2008 am30 7:27 pm
@Ryan
It’s add one comment daily on a top site. That is 30 comments monthly. On problogger a well thought out comment drives +/- 27 to 100+ views. Darren did a post on it where he checked link activity and so on.
* * *
Alt and Title tags are minor seo hack.
When it comes to search engines. Alt and title carry more weight than bold and italic. Put your keywords into alt and title.
Alt=”Make Money Online”
Title=”Smarter Wealth Starts Here”
You can add title tags to all your links, this creates a little hover box which gives some additional info to the user and search engine.
Jonathan
September 9, 2008 am30 8:13 pm
PageRank? You just need to have a quality posts and a cool number of link loves to have a better pagerank.
Husseins last blog post..10 Things I Hate In a Blog
September 9, 2008 am30 9:19 pm
@Jonathan: Nice analysis and tips you have it there.
@Ryan: It’s good to have goal to know which direction you are going. I don’t think the goal you are setting is unachievable at the rate you are moving. But $1 day from 200 uniques may be too much of asking from adsense….affiliates would be a better alternative if you ask me…
Yan
September 9, 2008 am30 10:38 pm
@Yan
Yeah, that came from a article I was writing for one of my old websites “1000 extra hits per month - 100 ways to do it”
for a rainy day.
The site is no longer, and the article isn’t completed. I keep everything
Jonathan
September 9, 2008 am30 10:59 pm
Well, looks like shoemoney just post a cool article how to get users to your website.
Jonathan
September 10, 2008 am30 6:24 am
dony know how to know the adsense secret
got around 15k pageviews but very less earnings
September 10, 2008 am30 10:41 am
@ Sam - Earning a good passive income from private advertising is what I am aiming for also. But it takes so long to build that. I know I have to do other things in the mean time like flipping websites and affiliate marketing in order to make enough money to keep going until my advertising earns me enough
@ Melvin - Definately set some goals that are achievable and work towards them
@ Jake - Thanks loads for the backlink. I will give you a backlink as soon as possible also. I am stretched for time but I will do my best. Expect one soon
@ Jonathan - I never knew that you could use alt tags for links. I am not super knowledgable on the coding of stuff. But I will definately try this to increase search engine ranking
@ Hussein - Pagerank is mysterious and getting the link love is easier said than done.
@ Yan - Yeh I think $1 per day from 200 pageviews is a little over what I can expect from adsense. I realise that now. What amount of traffic do you think I will need to be earning $1/day from adsense?
@ Deadly PJ - I don’t really understand your first line. How much are you making with 15,000 pageviews per month??
September 10, 2008 am30 12:57 pm
@Ryan - Hmmm.. You have a point. I know I got a lot of backlinks in some PR sites but still I have PR 0. Google punished me before
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September 10, 2008 am30 8:38 pm
Those are great goals! Should we be worried about how often you change your underwear??
September 11, 2008 am30 5:12 am
Pagerank is determined by the number of quality links you get from higher pageranked sites. For instance, you would need like 100 PR1 sites linked to you to get a PR1 OR like one PR4 site linking one way to your site to get a PR1.
Jay
Jays last blog post..Introducing the “Elite Ninja Flipping Unit” to the Site Flipping World
September 11, 2008 am30 8:41 am
@Ryan
img scr gets alt tag and title tag
For images, ALT is what appears if your image doesn’t load, or so blind individuals can hear what they are supposed to be looking at. As is with TITLE tag which gives the mouse over description of what is being viewed.
links get TITLE tag which gives the mouse over description of what link is.
Demo Link
Jono
September 11, 2008 am30 12:55 pm
@Ryan:
Maybe I’m just lucky. My 2 month old blog already has 1 advertiser which earned me $400 so far. Flipping websites sounds good, I did it only once though. Have you tried text-link-ads or link worth?
Sam
Sams last blog post..Five Tips in Finding a Scrupulous Insurance Agent:
September 11, 2008 am30 1:15 pm
@ Sam - How the heck did you get $400 from 1 advertiser??? Please share more on how you did this
Ryan
September 11, 2008 am30 1:17 pm
To: Sam
Me too…
How do you manage to find advertiser willing to pay for $400?
TLA? I’ve dismissed it from all my blog… One of my PR3 blog have been penalized…
September 11, 2008 am30 1:32 pm
@ Ryan
Last week of August, this guy who works for a publishing company asked me for possible placement of his ad on my blog. And so you would see his 125 by 125 flash/graphic (for 6 months placement) on the right-side bar of my blog. Then 2 weeks later, he asked for text-link (for 2 months placement). Sum them up using my rates on the advertise section of my blog, they would add up to more than $400.
@ Pangeran
This is where I got really lucky. I didn’t do any advertising at all or send those “man I badly need cash, please purchase an ad placement on my blog” kind of email. I’m assuming he got to visit my blog via comments I send to other personal finance blogs. I’m really hoping more private ads will come alone, the thing is, I started sending those “man I badly need cash, please purchase an ad placement on my blog” email just this week but nobody has responded yet!*laughs*
Sams last blog post..Choosing an Insurance Agent Part II
September 12, 2008 am30 8:38 pm
Those are great goals, you’re on your way now on the 200th feed subscriber.
As for PR, they say the next update will be on November
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September 14, 2008 am30 4:00 pm
I have seen some website that their PR has changed.
Husseins last blog post..How to Make a Proxy Site
September 25, 2008 am30 3:58 pm
Lol your first line made me laugh :),
anyway good luck on your goals!
#sam wow man that’s WIN
hope I get an advertiser like yours..
October 3, 2008 am30 2:23 am
Yeah, Ryan!
That’s what I am talking about, GOAL SETTING. It is mission critical to your success.
My favorite goal of yours is writing one article per day.
I was just thinking before I read this post that I need to be writing at least one article per day. I have too many blogs I am working on not to and end up in a situation where I am rushing to get the content to the web or missing my deadline.
All about to change. Thanks for sharing your goals with us!
October 9, 2008 am30 8:07 pm
hey looks like you have achieved your goal of atleast 500 rss subscribes….congratulations
October 9, 2008 am30 8:09 pm
im sorry i added an extra 0 …..my mistake….you achieved target of 50 subscribers
October 16, 2008 am30 3:03 pm
it’s 259 subscribers now wow that’s awesome
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October 18, 2008 am30 7:24 am
great goals and you did it little bit
October 19, 2008 am30 5:35 pm
hey ryan can you give an update about your goals…how many goals have you achieved???
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November 16, 2008 am30 10:11 am
thanks for another idea for a post
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