Blogging Goals for the Blossoming Blogger: What are your 2016 Blogging Goals?

Blogging Goals for 2016

​As a newbie blogger, it’s sometimes rough when you’re comparing yourself to the big kids who’ve already done their time.

It’s productive to celebrate our successes as well as take time to set ourselves up for new ones!

In the vein of keeping it real and accessible, our beloved Problogger provides a goal list for beginning bloggers.  I’ve recently completed most of the list… 

1. Publish 10 Posts (check!)
2. Getting your first comment from someone you don’t know (check!)
3. Get your first link from another blog (working on it!)
4. Build your readership up to more than 20 readers a day (check!)
5. Hit a level of 20 RSS subscribers (???)
6. Getting your blog indexed in Google (check!)
7. Get your blog earning $1 a week :-( 
8. First guest post on another blog (working on it!)
9. Having someone (not you or your mum) tweet about your blog (check!)

I’m working on #3 and #8. I’ve got all other major bases covered right now!
This year I’m upping the goals…

Blossoming Blogger Goals

 I've created these goals for "The Blossoming Bloggers." Building your blog is a process. 

1. Publish 100 posts. I only intend to publish one post per week, which would be about 50 for the year, so I’m not sure where this 100 post business is coming from!
2. Work with brands. I’m doing a product review on Skin Vital and I already shot my video for YouTube and am editing it as we speak. I’d like to do one (holistic) product review per month.
3. Build your readership. I currently have less than 1000 visits a month. I'm working on upping my readership... 
4. Get your blog ranking in Google. I hear from my new friends over in #BlogChat that you don’t typically start ranking until month 6. Time to up my strategy.
5. Get your blog earning. $100s+/week. I imagine that this will take time, and accomplishing my other goals will help me reach this one.
6. Guest post/guest teach/radio once a month. I have two in-person teaching sessions lined up with the Holistic Chamber of Commerce in January and February to teach the fundamentals of blogging and vlogging.
7. Get a massive stumble on Stumbleupon. I’d like to break my plateau of 60 stumbles.
8. Become a master “pinner.”  I’ve started a few boards, I’ve been invited to a few, but I’d like to up both my creator and curator statuses.
9. Publish unique posts to major publications. I have four nearly polished posts and I’m scoping out the right publications for the right pieces. Elephant Journal. Huffington Post? Jezzabel?
10. Attend Conferences. I plan to attend Blogher in August 2016. If Problogger has an LA event, I’ll do that! I’m also linking up with friends to attend events at Youtube Space in LA.
11. Get links from other blogs, businesses, and websites. Backlinks time! I supposed I’ll accomplish this from #2, #6, #9.
12. Network and collaborate with other like-minded and niche bloggers. 

Have you hit your Blossoming Blogger Goals? Share your successes and goals in the comments section.