How to Set Blog Goals in Easy Steps

 

Set Specific Blog Goals (+ Real Examples to Use)

What are your specific goals for your blog? What do you really want to improve?

Consider using some of these real blog goal examples:

• How much money do you want to make from your blog?
• What traffic goals do you have?
• How often do you want to publish to your blog?
• How much do you want to grow your social media presence?
• What would you like your email subscriber list to look like?
• What is your SEO strategy? How well are you performing with SEO traffic today?
• How many backlinks do you have coming to your blog?

Instead of just saying “I’d like to make more money,” or “I want more traffic,” be more specific with your blog goals. How much daily or monthly traffic do you want to attract? Are you hoping for 100 people a day? 1,000 people a day? 10,000 people a day?

What are your actual blog income goals? How much do you need to make in order to be a full-time blogger? What is the gap between what you’re earning from your blog now versus what you need or want to make?

How often do you currently publish new blog posts? How often would you like to post new content on your blog?

Let’s use a hypothetic set of specific blog goal examples one might use:

• Publish new blog content once a week
• Grow to getting 25,000 visitors a month
• $40,000 in annual blog income
• 10,000 email subscribers
• Double social media followers
• Improve SEO rankings for all content
• Increase domain authority

These may not be your exact blog goals, but we’ll use them as a reference point throughout this guide, so you can see how SMART blogging goals work in action.