Over the past year, I’ve often felt like this blog has no direction. Sometimes I write about personal happens, sometimes I give network updates, and other times I actually give tips to feelow webmasters. It’s time to give this blog some direction. I’m determined to turn my blog into something.

I’ve seen a lot of bloggers with less experience than me and in a shorter amount of time turn their blogs into money making machines with readerships in the hundreds and thousands. I want all of that for my blog. And honestly, I think my blog has enough potential to get it to where I want.

So what kind of goals am I setting for this blog? Three very simple ones:

  • Make $300 a month by December 31st.
  • RSS Readership in the 200s by December 31st.
  • Daily Traffic in the 400s a day by December 31st.

That’s certain attainable, right?

I plan to do this the right way. One of the first steps I need to take is to put some ads back up on my blog. Can’t make $300/month without ads. I’m also going to increase my availability for paid reviews. ReviewMe and PayPerPost generate a lot of revenue with bloggers. And with a Pagerank of 5, I shouldn’t have a problem landing a few paid reviews. I’ll also increase the exposure of my featured links for sale. At $12/month each, I should be able to generate almost 1/4 of my goal from those links alone.

As far as increasing traffic and RSS subscribers… there’s one solid method of achieving this. Increase value and quality of my posts and increase quantity. Instead of posting pointless crap, I tend to post more topics that readers can use, such as how to’s and guides. I also will incorporate more screenshots when talking about specific methods on my own sites. And for those of you who come here for some personal posts… I have one word for you… pictures. I plan to add more person pictures to my blog.

It’s going to be a lot of work, but I’m up for the task. I plan to track my traffic, blog earnings, and keywords on a biweekly/monthly basis and share it with all my readers.

I want to take this seriously. If you see me slacking off at all, or not posting enough high quality articles, don’t hesitate to shoot me an email or message me on MSN. Don’t let me fall behind. Everyone needs outside motivation.