After a recent post on “setting your blog’s goals“, I received numerous emails from readers asking all the same question: “What are your blog’s goals?”

Since you all appear to be more concerned with my own goals instead of your own, I figured that I would share them with you.

If you have never run your own blog, assessing the potential outcome of your blog will prove difficult.  In all likelihood, its performance will grossly miss your predictions.  There is a lot to learn in the first six months of your blogging career - lessons you will not properly comprehend until you have blogged yourself.

Having previously undertaken the blogging experience with PlayerBites (see ‘About‘ page), I’m in a slightly better position to evaluate the probable outcome.

With that said, there are a number of things that I would like to do differently the second time around.  Even if I say so myself, my past blogging career consisted of some horrible mistakes.  As a result, gauging the site’s outcome has proved a little harder than some of you may realize.

Short-term Goals (6 months):

1. Acquire 200 RSS Subscribers
2. Receive 300 unique visitors on average per day
3. Attain a PageRank of at least 3/10

Long-term Goals (1 year):

1. Acquire 700+ RSS Subscribers
2. Receive around 900 unique visitors on average per day
3. Attain a PageRank of at least 5/10
4. Monetize the site will maintaining visitor growth.

Remember I talked about ’sticking to your guns’?  Well, I have taken the strategy to heart.  Although I have earned 50 active RSS subscribers (after a mere two weeks of the site’s promotion), I am not about to move the goal posts.

Since there is increased probability that the first of my three short-term goals will be met, I am provided with the opportunity to ensure that the other two requirements are met.