Tibi Puiu over at Lost Art Of Blogging has just written an article regarding setting goals for your blog and accomplishing them. I think this is a very good idea so I am setting my own goals for this blog. I don't think that I will accomplish goals as high as the Lost Art Of Blogging goals but here are mine anyway:
Technorati Rank: Around 300 000.
Technorati Authority: Around 100.
Technorati Links: 200 or more.
Alexa Rank: Around 500 000.
Traffic: 250 or more unique visits a day.
Posts: At least 100.
Comments: At least 200.
Subscribers: 100 or more.
Google PageRank: 6 or higher.
I am making a good start though, as I have recently submitted my blog to over 100 feed directories as well as follow a few tutorials to help boost my feed subscribers and unique visitors; it took me the good part of 2-3 hours. I have been assured that it should help boost my visitor count, if nothing else.
I will keep you informed on how well I am doing and see whether I can actually complete these before my hosting subscription (of 2 years – which started March of this year) runs out in 2009. Tibi Piui has also written 5 little pointers on how to seek and accomplish your blog's goals, I will try to follow these and see how it goes. I would have thought that in the time span of 2 years I could make these milestones easily, but I doubt it.
Bull3t's Blog is a next generation web log written by me, Philip Hughes (also known as Bull3t), a first-year college student living in England, aged 17. I write this blog for the sake of doing so, posting about anything I see fit. 
So what now?
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September 25th, 2007
#1
Well I hope you achieve your goals. They seem very realistic and highly achievable. Just follow the few pointers i made in that posts and you should have no problem. Thanks for the linback btw :P
September 26th, 2007
#2
Yeah I made my goals comparatively lower than yours because I didn't think that I would accomplish high goals for this blog. I will follow the pointers you have written and will let you know if I accomplish any of them. Thanks.
September 27th, 2007
#3
Just wanted to thank you for displaying your list of plugins – thats a great little feature and I'll be installing that plugin to do the same at my blog. Cheers!
September 27th, 2007
#4
Yeah, that is a very helpful plugin, I think WordPress should have a page somewhere which lists all of the plugins used on the current blog (it doesn't have to be integrated into the blog, but into the backend somewhere) it would be very helpful to see what plugins people are using. I am forever searching keywords to find a feature on a blog that I liked. Meh.
September 28th, 2007
#5
Hi,
I hope you achieve your goals, may be for the AlexaRank, try to make a good number of link exchange, I do it with the mine and i grow up around 300.000, the same thing for traffic, also you can translate your Blog , it's very helpfull to get more unique visitors
September 28th, 2007
#6
Thanks, Dispoweb. I was just thinking about trying to install a translator plugin again (after seeing your blog). The last time I tried, the Global Translator plugin I used did not operate at all. It has been updated since though. I have just installed the plugin and it works perfectly except it doesn't seem to let anyone leave comments on my blog. Damn, that is going to have to stay deactivated for now.
March 17th, 2009
#7
Don't focus on Alexa rankings :) . Start a free directory and you'll see how fast it can get into the top100K even though it receives lower traffic than this site for instance. It's all because of Indians… (nothing personal, nothing bad, of course). Plenty of Indians have installed Alexa toolbars on their computers (because they're paid for surfing and thus increasing Alexa ranking) and this fact means that Alexa ranking is useless. There are even projects where buyers are willing to pay for getting their sites into top100K, top50K or even top10K in Alexa.
The idea behind Alexa ranking is very good and useful in general. But it's powerless because it's easy to manipulate…
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