This is the third article in the series Blogging 101 series.
A blogging strategy is not the key to success, but personal goals that you need to have.
As we have said before, we will not define what your blogging strategy must be, though if you want a bit of free consulting, you can contact us via our Contact page for some assistance. While you are waiting for a response, here are four reasons that you need to come up with your own blogging strategy.
- Honest Evaluation You need defined and measurable goals that are realistic, like getting 20,000 page views this year. This provides you with a measuring stick to know if you are successing or not for what you hope to achieve. A strategy that is vague (Get more comments) or unrealistic (as many page views as Google) is unhelpful and discouraging in the end for evaluation.
- Clear Focus Putting down a good 5-10 goals within your strategy allows you to focus specifically on what is important and give you boundaries for not only writing articles, but marketing and knowing the pace that you are going to be going for. These defined goals allow us to keep on track in the future, instead of developing too many hopes, dreams, and tangents that will ultimately get in the way.
- Specific Motivation A couple months into your first year of blogging, when statistics are not what you want and the passion and dreams begin to become stale, a great blogging strategy can provide inspiration and hope for you. The idea is that this strategy will push you a little further, though you need to be realistic that you will need to bounce back as it cannot carry you for too long.
- Defined Endgame When the year (or we would suggest a 3 month strategy for beginners) is up, measure how you did. If it was a success and you can do more, push yourself. If you did not reach your goals, do not fret but instead find out why and make the appropriate adjustments. If need be, add a new goal that needs to be measured and get rid of one that you now know is just not going ot happen right now.
What will your blogging strategy look like?
Aaron Stetson says
My blogging strategy is to actually start posting on my blog…. haha
seventy8Productions says
Definitely man! And I would love A guest post here of you want. We could get your site a little exposure.
Aaron Stetson says
I love posting, just have little time between electrical work and youth min. I will definitely get to it though.
Chet Cromer says
Good stuff. I’ve found myself with so many sides of life I like to write about that when I sit down to actually write, I don’t know where to start. Some clear, reasonable, and attainable goals, a bit of a schedule, and the patience to jot down and idea now and write about it later would probably help with that roadblock.
seventy8Productions says
Definitely agree. And I have found that guest posting with those extra thoughts elsewhere helps! But know what you can consistently write about and do better blogging.
Do you have a blog web address to share with everyone?