Remember the 1st of January 2017? Did you decide “This is the year I’ll start a blog”? Or maybe you set some new blog goals for 2017, prompted by our community discussion?
Well, guess what? We’re coming up to the last quarter of the year – just 3 more months remain in 2017. Are you where you want to be with your blogging at this stage of the year?
If you haven’t set any goals you may not be sure how you’re tracking. It’s never too late to benchmark where you’re at and prepare for what’s ahead. A good start would be these 17 statistics to monitor on your blog. If it’s your first year of blogging, then check out our tips (and free download) for evaluating your blog’s first year. Even if it wasn’t your first year, the evaluation will still help you work out how you’re traveling with your blog.
If you’ve been blogging a while, you may want to conduct a more thorough review. Whilst it might be a little early to conduct a full annual blogging review, you may glean enough insights to get you through to the end of the year in good shape by evaluating these seven areas of your blog from Darren’s half-yearly review process.
With the final quarter of the year to go, you may also want to start planning ahead for next year. It will be Christmas before we know it, so it’s a good time to set some blog changing goals for the new year.
We’d love to know how you monitor your blog’s progress. Do you set goals – annually, quarterly, monthly even? Do you have a process for reviewing your blog’s performance? Perhaps you can share in the comments which metrics/milestones/achievements are most important to you? And, most importantly – tell us if you’re where you were hoping to be with your blogging as we move into the last quarter of 2017.
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Hi Laney,
I don’t really set goals.
I just hold an intent, and go from there.
As for my growth, things have taken off this past year on Blogging From Paradise. Unlike any other year. Especially over the past 5 months.
Why?
I dove into my fears. I did a few things I feared doing in the past, namely, guest posting frequently and also blog commenting effectively on top blogs, for the long haul.
I saw success in the past but if I was being honest with myself, I was still a bit too attached to outcomes and ditched winning strategies before things really began to roll. Lesson learned.
This past April I put things into overdrive with my blog. Never looked back. Guest posting, blog commenting, Quora, Warrior, all these sites and channels have been good to me because I made it my intent to help folks, to spread love, to be generous, and things are expanding more quickly everyday with my blog and brand.
Thanks for sharing with us.
RYan
I usually just check up on my numbers and play it by ear. It tends to work for me but I know it’s definitely not the most efficient way of gauging blog success. I will dig into it a bit more, thank you!!
We are focused on in-depth articles and really useful blog posts on our blog so it’s quality over quantity here.
We have been doing lots of outreach to promote our blogs so that’s where we usually set our goals – “contact XX number of sites”, or something like that. One of goals in our blog promotion campaigns is getting backlinks on high quality sites so we are monitoring that, as well as mentions on social media and how our domain rating is acting.