Blogger's Goal Sheet - a prototype

[shri]

Goals are like map while hitting the unfamiliar road. They direct you to your destination.

Some Great Quotes About Goals:
The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” –Benjamin Mays

“By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands — your own.” –Mark Victor Hansen

So What is your blogging goal?

If you have a strong positive answer and are pretty sure about it, then ignore this post and move forward to achieving your goals.

But if you don’t have set goals yet….this IS the first step. List down your long-term & short-term goals. Long-term probably for a period of 6-12 months. And short term goals for a month.
(Note: Your goals must be achievable, small, next step goals).

Present Site Statistics as on Date: __________:

• Google page rank _____________
• Alexa Traffic Ranking _________________
• Google Inbound ________________
• Alexa Inbound _______________
• Yahoo Inbound ________________
• Altavista Inbound __________________
• Number of Incoming links ___________
• Google Indexed pages ______________

Present Traffic Statistics as on Date: ____________:

• RSS Feeds Subscribers ______
• Number of site visitors ___________
• Number of page-views ____________
• Average daily visitors ______________
• Average daily page-views ___________
• Opt-in list members _______________
• Number of Guest posts _____________
• Number of Pingbacks ______________
• Comments ____________
• Article score on article directories to _____________

Present Impact on Social Mediasphere as on date: ___________:

• del.icio.us bookmarks _________________
• digg.com submissions ________________
• Twitter Following ____________
• Friendfeed Subscriptions _________________
• Facebook Fans ______________________
• LinkedIn Connections ___________________

Site goals for the month of ______________:

• Increase Google page rank to _____________
• Decreasing Alexa traffic ranking below _________________
• Increase Google Inbound to ________________
• Increase Alexa Inbound to _______________
• Increase yahoo Inbound to ________________
• Increase number of Incoming links ___________

Traffic goals for the month of _______________:

• Increase RSS Feeds Subscribers to ______________
• Increase site visitors to ___________
• Increase number of page-views to ____________
• Average daily visitors to ______________
• Average daily page-views ___________
• Increase opt-in subscribers to ______________
• Increase number of pingbacks to ______________
• Increase comments to ____________
• Increase article score on article directories to ___________

Social Mediasphere goals for the month of ___________:

• del.icio.us bookmarks _________________
• digg.com submissions ________________
• Twitter Following ____________
• Friendfeed Subscriptions _________________
• Facebook Fans ______________________
• LinkedIn Connections ___________________

ONE High Priority Goal Of The Month:
__________________________________________________ __________

There ends the goal sheet.

P.S. If you'd rather a pdf copy, here it is. http://smartadvise.info/uploads/bloggers-goal-sheet.pdf

Would love to hear your thoughts.

[karynsolo]

Wow nice way to organize goals thanks so much!

[Baggs]

How about a goal of -

Will post a new entry every day

I would have that at the top of my list!

[angienewton]

Hi Shri,
I think it's really awesome and I need to sit down and really map out my own blog goals. I have to be honest that many of the things on your goal list are way over my head BUT I'll get there one day I'm sure. Thank you so much for sharing that with all of us. Very kind of you

[Cardinal Point]

Great goal list Shri. Thanks so much for sharing this.

[queenofkaos]

That's a very comprehensive list! Thanks for posting it.

I think a good next step would be to isolate the goals that you want to accomplish first, and then break them down into next actions.

Keep the sheet with your blog goal plan and refer to it every day during the time that you put aside just for this. (or on the days that you have planned to work on it)

How are you doing with it?

[terrapin719]