Blogging Goals for 2008

These evening I sat down and wrote out some goals for Aspire 2 Wealth for the next year. The blog is only about 6 weeks old and hopefully I am just getting warmed up. To get a sense for where I started check out my blog stats from December.

Carnivals and Roundups:
Host a carnival
Get a post selected as Editor's Pick for a carnival
Participate in one or more carnivals per week

Visitor Growth:
Increase my unique visitors by 5% per week

Page View Growth:
Increase my page views by 5% per week
Keep the ratio of page views per visitor over 1.75

New Blog Features
Create a Branding Scheme (colors, header image, logo, etc)
Create a "Welcome" page with Aspire 2 Wealth Intro and Adfecto's Bio

Stats for Mid-year '08
Receive 750+ unique visitors per week
Receive 1300+ page views per week
Raise my Technorati authority to 75+
Increase my Feedburner 7 day subscriber average to 100+
Earn $100 (total) from blogging

Stats for Year End '08
Receive 2800+ unique visitors per week
Receive 4800+ page views per week
Raise my Technorati authority to 150+
Increase my Feedburner 7 day subscriber average to 250+
Earn $100 a month from blogging

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Blog Performance: December

I am going to start a monthly post to record the key statistics from Aspire 2 Wealth. The idea is to chart the performance over time and learn what works best. The period covered by these results is December 2, 2007 - January 1, 2008.

Sitemeter -
Total Visitors: 925
Average Visitors: 29.8 per day
Total Page Views: 1668
Average Page Views: 53.8
Page Views Per Visitor: 1.8

Adsense -
Total Impressions: 1,773
Clicks: 5
Earnings: $2.06

Feedburner Stats -
Total Views: 238
Total Clicks: 224
Average Subscribers: 11
Average Reach: 5
Ending Subscribers: 14
Ending Reach: 12

Traffic Source -
StumbleUpon: 465 (55.29%)
Direct: 114 (13.56%)
Blogger.com: 39 (4.64%)
PFblogs.org: 26 (3.09%)
Search Engine: 10 (1.19%)

* One important note is that I got two huge days of StumbleUpon traffic that may distort these statistics if similar traffic does not repeat next month

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